The Scoops are tasty this week, people.

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Let’s dive in to this week’s highlights:

1. Layoffs Abound
   One other week, one other spherical of layoffs from main firms. This week’s record contains Wells Fargo, Oracle, Microsoft, and loanDepot. The tally of disclosed headcount misplaced is sort of 7,000. Oracle hasn’t launched a quantity however is seeking to minimize $1B in price, possible totaling 1000’s of jobs misplaced. Then again, Twitter continues to restructure their operations, however say they’ll keep away from mass layoffs.
2. The place’s the cash?

Within the two weeks since our final Scoops article was printed:

• 182 firms have gone by means of a sequence A-H funding spherical
• 2,670 firms have introduced an government transfer
• 828 firms have introduced facility relocations or expansions
• 936 firms have introduced plans to be acquired or purchase one other firm

3. Starbucks new technique
   Starbucks is closing 16 shops throughout a number of main cities, together with Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Seattle, as a consequence of security considerations for employees and prospects. After firm executives learn by means of incident reviews filed by workers, they despatched a memo to their employees concerning ongoing points of their native communities and adjustments they’d be making to operations.
    
4. It’s a giant — I imply Uber — deal
   Uber is going through a civil lawsuit filed on behalf of survivors of kidnapping and sexual assault from Uber drivers, accusing the corporate of inaction on enhancing rider security. This comes one month after Uber launched its second U.S. Security Report, wherein it acknowledged that there have been simply shy of 1000 sexual assault incidents, together with 141 rape reviews, in 2020 alone.

   The lawsuit claims that Uber had prioritized development over buyer security, and didn’t vet all drivers with correct background checks. It additionally calls out Uber’s coverage that they won’t report any prison exercise – even assaults and rape – to law-enforcement authorities.

5. Sayonara, Salad-Slinging Sally
   DoorDash has introduced plans to halt operations and shut down its subsidiaries, Chowbotics, on August 31, 2022. DoorDash acquired the robotics firm — finest identified for Sally the salad-slinging robotic — in February 2021.

   This resolution comes on the again of the creation of DoorDash Labs, an AI and automation division, so it’s possible a play to scale back redundancies inside the firm. Sally additionally failed to fulfill inside high quality requirements, so it could be finest to push her away from the salad bar ahead of later. 

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