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  Ford reportedly plans to relocate some of its Europe-based product development to the U.S and cut 2500 R&D jobs in Germany. It has 3800 people working in R&D center in Germany.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  HP is streamlining its digital printing activities in Israel by making Scitex part of the HP Indigo Division. As part of the process, 60 people will lose their jobs, mainly in development.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  U.S. chipmaker Marvell cutting some R&D roles in China. In China, it will focus on R&D investments on local customers and the China market. Several of its business units and functions are announcing changes to their global location strategy that will resu

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  HP is streamlining its digital printing activities in Israel by making Scitex part of the HP Indigo Division. As part of the process, 60 people will lose their jobs, mainly in development.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  U.S. chipmaker Marvell cutting some R&D roles in China. In China, it will focus on R&D investments on local customers and the China market. Several of its business units and functions are announcing changes to their global location strategy that will resu

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Avon to close New York Research & Development centre. The company will instead focus on R&D operations in Brazil and Poland.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Cybersecurity Unicorn Varonis is laying off 5% of its workforce, amounting to a total of around 110 employees. Half of those being laid off are employed in the company?s R&D center in Israel.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Intel is planning to cut 20% of its staff

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Lyft announced a cost-reduction plan, including the layoff of 13% of the workforce, or 683 employees.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

• 10

  Mass layoffs at Twitter.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Pony.ai, a leading autonomous driving company which operates both in China and the U.S., is adjusting its internal structures, which includes laying off employees in China and US

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Stripe said it would layofff 14% of its staff.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Amazon to layoff 10,000 people. Devices team impacted.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  HP will eliminate 6,000 jobs about 10% o its workforce over the next three years amid declining demand for personal computers

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

• 15

  Airspan a 5G O-RAN vendor is laying of 10% of its R&D workforce in Israel.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Alibaba closes R&D center in Israel.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Bright Machines lays off 30 employees in Israel R&D center. The American company develops software-defined autonomous manufacturing lines for industry 4.0.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Parallel Wireless set to lay off a quarter of its employees in Israel. The company announced earlier this year that it intended to expand its Israel headquarters and recruit an additional 100 employees.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  AID Genomics has announced that it is stopping its R&D activity in Israel and halting future investments in the country, resulting in the layoff of 400 employees.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Asurion shutting down Israel R&D center Soluto, lays off all 120 employees

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Facing government action, Huawei will scale down its Indian R&D operations. It has 3,500 employees in the Indian R&D center.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Ola to lay off at least 500 employees across software teams. Many of these employees are believed to have been working on different aspects of the Ola app.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Shopee will cut about 3 percent of its employees in Indonesia as part of the restructuring, which involves marketing, operations and technology teams.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Rumors alleged that chip manufacturer Texas Instruments has dismissed its Shanghai-based research and development team responsible for microcontroller (MCU), a small computer system, and moved the business to India.

  Q2(Apr-May-Jun), 2022

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  Amazon Reallocates Staff From Paris Drone R&D Center To Covid Testing Software.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2021

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  Boeing is closing down its Seattle R&D center for cost control. This center does research on composites. A decade back it had planned for 900 employees which reduced to 29 now. One trend to watch is whether Boeing will look for cost takeout of its R&D centers with the help of engineering service providers? Boeing has 11 R&D centers in Australia, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Russia and the USA.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

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  DJI to downsize Silicon Valley R&D hub.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

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  McAfee Shutting Down Its Israeli Development Center, 60 Laid Off.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

Other News

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  Amdocs has decided to cut its workforce by 3%, laying off a total of 700 employees,

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Coinbase is laying off 950 employees, or 20% of its staff.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Israeli-founded cybersecurity company Forescout Technologies is laying off around 100 of its 170 employees at its Israel R&D center, accounting for 10% of its total workforce.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Pegasystems is laying off 4 per cent of its over 6,000-strong workforce, as recession fears loom in 2023

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Capital One scraps 1,100 tech positions. It dismantles its agile group.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Microsoft plans to lay off 10,000 employees as part of broader cost-cutting measure

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Software firm Scale AI lays off 20% of workforce.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Fintech giant Finastra is laying off dozens of the 370 people it employs in Israel R&D center.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Philips would scrap 6,000 jobs to restore its profitability following a recall of respiratory devices that knocked off 70 per cent of its market value.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Software giant SAP announces layoffs to focus on 'core business', 3,000 employees to be fired

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  eBay is laying off 500 employees around the world, which comes to about 4% of its workforce.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Ford plans to resize its European engineering footprint, resulting in 2,800 fewer jobs. 1700 engineering jobs will cut in Germany and 1000 in UK. Going forward Ford will maintain an engineering organization of approximately 3,400 roles in Europe. These changes are driven by the transition to fully electric powertrains.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Nike shuts down Israel R&D center, lays off entire team.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Embark Trucks lays off workers, explores liquidation of self-driving truck assets

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Atlassian to cut around 5% of its workforce, equivalent to about 500 employees.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Novo Nordisk laying off 86 workers as part of lab shutdown in Seattle

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2023

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  Intel-owned Israeli artificial intelligence chip developer Habana Labs announced that it was laying off around 100 employees.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Meta laying off more than 11,000 employees

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Microsoft continues layoffs, sacks nearly 1,000

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Salesforce cuts to affect 2,500 jobs in major round of layoffs

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Self driving trucking company TuSimple plans to potentially cut half of its workforce.

  Q4(Oct-Nov-Dec), 2022

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  Shopify will lay off 10% of workers. It made the wrong bet on the pandemic-fueled boom in e-commerce growth lasting. Now consumers are returning to retail stores.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Vimeo slashes workforce by 6%, including in Israel R&D center.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Snap sacks dozens of employees in Israel, to close Herzliya R&D center.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  More layoffs at Meta. It is reportedly putting some workers onto a '30-day list' that gives them a month to find a new role at the company ? or leave.

  Q3(Jul-Aug-Sep), 2022

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  Cybereason laying off 100 employees in Israel, U.S. and Europe.

  Q2(Apr-May-Jun), 2022

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  Virgin Hyperloop lays off 111 staffers as it abandons plans for passenger transport. The simpler world of cargo shifting is its new priority.

  Q1(Jan-Feb-Mar), 2022

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  Nokia likely to cut 2,000 jobs in India. The company has its global network operating center (NOC) in Noida, an R&D center in Bengaluru, a manufacturing unit in Chennai, and the India head office in Gurgaon. As per estimates, the company has over 16,000 employees in the country.

  Q1(Jan-feb-Mar), 2021

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