• Another Week, Another 18,885 Layoffs

    Saturday, November 1st, 2008

    Erick Schonfeld is a technology journalist and the former Editor in Chief of TechCrunch. At TechCrunch, he oversaw the editorial content of the site, helped to program the Disrupt conferences and CrunchUps, produced TCTV shows, and wrote daily for the blog. He joined TechCrunch as Co-Editor in 2007, and helped take it from a popular blog to a thriving... → Learn More

    Since our last update a week ago, we’ve added 18,885 job eliminations at tech and media companies to our Layoff Tracker. That brings the total to 38,538 layoffs across 108 companies over the past two months.

    Some of the bigger reductions this week came from Motorola (3,000), Qwest (1,200), and Electronic Arts (600).  Among startups, there were job cuts at Revision3 (10), Emusic (10), Sugar Publishing (9), Aliph/Jawbone (25), matchmine (42, deadpool), and Gizmos (10).  We’ve also started adding media companies facing disruption from the Internet, including Gannett (3,000), Time Inc. (600), and Conde Nast (32), whose Portfolio magazine laid off nearly all of its Website staff.

    If you know of any layoffs at a tech company, please submit a tip with the name of the company and number of layoffs. If it’s been covered, also send a link to the blog post or news article.  (For those more interested in who is hiring, check out our job board).

    Here is the full list of layoffs from the past week:

    Amdocs October 27, 2009 St Louis, MO 500 3% The Globes
    Conde Nast (Portfolio) October 31, 2008 New York, NY 32 20% WSJ
    Symantec October 31, 2008 Nationwide 880 5% Insider
    YouSendit October 31, 2008 Campbell, CA 14 20% VentureBeat
    Aliph (Jawbone) October 31, 2008 San Francisco, CA 25 30% Cnet
    Sugar Publishing October 30, 2008 San Francisco, CA 9 11% TechCrunch
    60Frames October 30, 2008 Los Angeles, CA 6 40% NewTeeVee
    Motorola October 30, 2008 3,000 WSJ
    Electronic Arts October 30, 2008 600 6% Kotaku
    Sonic Solutions October 30, 2008 Novato, California 100 silicontap.com
    Microsoft/Razorfish October 30, 2008 New York 40 2% TechFlash
    Emusic October 30, 2008 10 10% Media Memo
    Avelle October 29, 2008 Seattle 10 20% TechFlash
    Qwest October 29, 2008 1,200 3% Bloomberg
    NewACT October 29, 2008 Israel 15 33% TheMarker
    Intrepid Learning October 29, 2008 Seattle 10 5% TechFlash
    SupportSpace October 29, 2008 Israel 12 50% TheMarker
    Time Inc. October 28, 2008 Nationwide 600 6% New York Times
    Gannett October 28, 2008 Mclean, VA 3,000 10% Reuters
    Avalanche Studios October 28, 2008 Sweden 77 48% GamesIndustry.biz
    W2 (Racepoint Group and Digital Influence Group) October 28, 2008 San Francisco, Boston, Washington, D.C., London 30 20% Mass High Tech
    Delver October 28, 2008 Israel 5 20% TheMarker
    Smashface October 27, 2008 Los Angeles, CA 3 33% Company blog
    Olista October 27, 2008 Israel 15 30% TheMarker
    matchmine October 27, 2008 Needham MA 42 99% TechCrunch
    Revision3 October 27, 2008 San Francisco, CA 10 30% TechCrunch
    Discretix October 27, 2008 Israel 10 10% TheMarker
    Extricom October 27, 2008 Israel 20 20% TheMarker
    yoomba October 27, 2008 Israel 10 50% TheMarker
    Exanet October 27, 2008 Israel 30 20% TheMarker
    Starhome October 27, 2008 Israel 10 4% TheMarker
    Puding Media October 27, 2008 Israel 5 16% TheMarker
    Gizmoz October 26, 2008 Israel 10 30% TheMarker

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