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Business unit reorganisation, run-rate cost targets and workforce reductions during a turnaround.
Wolfspeed's conditional $1.5 billion Department of War loan would put its first $600 million into refinancing first-lien notes due in 2030. The later $900 million, for gallium nitride and radiation-hardening work, requires Wolfspeed to commit $600 million of a $750 million contribution.
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Heineken's Europe president Glenn Caton says price inflation has hurt beer drinking in Europe, where Brewers of Europe counts a 9.2% fall since 2019. His answer for the brewer's thinnest-margin region is cost cutting, with savings meant partly to slow what drinkers pay.
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Teenage Engineering CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety the company plans to stop making synthesizers, the OP-1 included. With no date or stated next business, its owners and design clients are left planning around one interview.
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FICO will cut about 15% of its staff, roughly 570 jobs, and book $27 million in charges, mostly severance, to fold AI into its products. The cut comes weeks after housing regulators moved to loosen FICO's grip on mortgage scoring, and the timing makes it as much a cost defence as an AI story.
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Nike will start deciding which roles to cut in 2027, joining Meta and GitLab in announcing layoffs before naming who is affected. Voluntary exits during the wait may trim severance, though an employment lawyer warns the leavers can include people the company would have kept.
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Nike now expects fiscal 2027 revenue to fall after $11.21 billion in first-quarter sales missed estimates and Greater China sank 26% currency-neutral. Its Pace overhaul adds about $300 million of charges this fiscal year, with role cuts from 2027 and savings stretching to 2031.
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Apple CEO John Ternus is weighing year-round launches as the hardware unit removes roughly six directors and other program managers, Bloomberg reported. Staff expect the calendar change to take years, so the cost cuts should show up in Apple's numbers first.
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Apple CEO John Ternus has cut hardware program managers, including about six directors, to ship more products more often, Bloomberg reports. The engineers who remain are the likeliest people to absorb the timeline and coordination work those roles did.
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The exchange reports $5.36m of reserves, most of it its own token, against CoinMarketCap volume of $272.6m. The proof-of-reserves report it promised in May is now 90 days late.
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Microsoft cut 268 gaming jobs this week, laid off most of Halo Studios and moved Rare, World's Edge and Obsidian to new parents. Anyone planning around Game Pass or Xbox hardware now has to sort their commitments by what Microsoft has actually decided.
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The 268 roles Xbox eliminated this week take Microsoft roughly three-quarters of the way through a reduction of up to 3,200. The reorganisation around them makes Activision the home of Halo.
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Activision picks up Halo, Rare and World's Edge as this week's 268 eliminations take Microsoft's Xbox reset about three-quarters of the way through, a total that Matt Booty's memo counts the sold studios inside.
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Nonghyup Agribusiness Group's board votes late this month on a Jan. 1 merger that dissolves Hanaro Distribution, a retail unit whose sales fell 8.6% from their 2023 level while its capital erosion rate doubled to 19.1%.
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The existing entity keeps operating as MetaMask with Joe Lubin as chief executive, while the protocols business goes out as a newly formed company aimed at a tokenized market Citi sizes at 5.5 to 8.2 trillion dollars by 2030.
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A rejected $60.50-a-share bid has become a negotiation over price, and the structural antitrust objection points at the two assets integrators care about most: Braintree and Venmo.
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