More than 139,000 technology workers around the world have lost their jobs since the beginning of 2023, according to data compiled by Layoffs.fyi.
The figure has more than tripled since mid-January.
The data suggest that the number of tech-sector layoffs at the end of this year will far exceed the figure for 2022. So, since the beginning of the year, 498 tech companies have cut 139,033 thousand people. Last year, 1,024,000 companies laid off 154,34,000 employees, Layoffs.fyi reports.
Including this week, Meta Platforms Inc. (said it intends to lay off another 10,000 people as part of a cost-cutting program. The company has already cut more than 11,000 employees in November.
Tech companies that have announced layoffs this year include U.S. Palantir Technologies, Twilio Inc., DocuSign Inc., Salesforce Inc., Zoom Video Communications, eBay, Dell Technologies, PayPal Holdings, International Business Machines, Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Alphabet Inc. as well as Germany’s SAP and Sweden’s Spotify Technology.
The number of homes under construction in the U.S. in February rose 9.8 percent from the previous month to 1.45 million at an annualized rate, a five-month high, according to the country’s Commerce Department.
According to the revised data, the number of new buildings in January was 1.321 million, rather than the 1.309 million previously announced. Despite the revision, the January figure was the lowest since June 2020.
Experts had predicted an increase in the number of new buildings in February to 1.31 million from the previously announced January level, according to Trading Economics.
The number of new buildings was down 18.4 percent from February 2022.
The number of new home construction permits issued in the U.S. in February increased 13.8% to 1.524 million on an annualized basis from 1.339 million a month earlier. Analysts’ consensus forecast suggested that the number of permits in February would be 1.34 million.
Construction of single-family homes rose 1.1% last month, to 830,000. Permits for such homes rose 7.6%, to 777,000.
In the case of apartment buildings (including apartments and condominiums), a more volatile market segment, there was a 24.1% increase, to 608,000. The number of permits for construction of apartment buildings increased 21.1%, to 747,000.
The Falcon 9 rocket on Friday successfully injected into orbit another batch of 52 mini-satellites to replenish the orbital constellation of the Starlink global Internet coverage network, the developer SpaceX said.
“The launch of the 52 Starlink satellites has been confirmed,” the statement said.
The launch took place from the SLC-4E launch pad at U.S. Space Force Base Vandenberg in California at 12:26 p.m. U.S. Pacific Coast Time.
It was the 78th launch of Internet satellites since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project and the ninth since the beginning of this year. Including the current launch, SpaceX has already put more than 4,100 such satellites into orbit. Some of them have failed or fallen out of orbit. More than 3.8 thousand devices remain in orbit in working condition.
As part of the launch, the first reusable stage launch vehicle Falcon 9, which was used for the eighth time, about nine minutes after launch, made a controlled vertical landing on a floating drone platform Of Course I Still Love You, which was located in the Pacific Ocean, 670 km from the base.
The company is currently the largest satellite operator in the world. The Starlink Internet network is available to users in 50 countries, including North America, Europe, the Far East and Australia. According to the Pentagon, the services of these satellites are also actively used by the U.S. military.
In the future SpaceX plans to deploy an orbital constellation of 12 thousand spacecraft (and in the future – from 30 thousand) to create a full-scale network, which will provide residents of the earth broadband Internet access anywhere in the world. The total amount of investments in implementation of the project is estimated at $10 billion.
The Servant of the People political party faction at a meeting on Saturday, March 18, discussed personnel changes in the government that are planned for next week, Prime Minister Denis Shmygal said.
“The dismissal of the Minister of Education and Science Sergei Shkarlet, the appointment of Oksen Lisovy as Minister of Education and Science, the dismissal of Pavel Ryabikin as Minister of Strategic Industries, the appointment of Alexander Kamyshyn as Minister of Strategic Industries,” Shmygal wrote in the telegram channel.
In addition, according to the prime minister, Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Fedorov will deal with a number of areas besides digitalization. His future position – Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine.
Oksen Lisovyi is a former lecturer at Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium and also held one of the executive positions in the directorate of Ukrtelecom. In June 2010 he became head of the National Center “Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. With the beginning of a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, he volunteered to the front as a member of the 95th Separate Airborne Assault Brigade. At the same time, he remotely continued to serve as director of the IAS of Ukraine.
Alexander Kamyshyn – former chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia (April 1, 2022 – February 27, 2023), since August 11, 2021 was acting chairman of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia. Before heading Ukrzaliznytsia, he was a manager at Dragon Capital and SCM. Also in 2021, Kamyshyn worked as an adviser to Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov. In February 2023, he resigned as chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia, stating his plans to head Ukrzaliznytsia’s European integration office in Europe. On March 3, 2023, he was appointed advisor to the President of Ukraine (out of staff).
“Nova Posta enters the Lithuanian market and opens its first branch in Vilnius and plans to open a second branch in Kaunas, Lithuania’s second-largest city, co-founder of Nova Posta said in a few months. Vyacheslav Klimov, co-founder of Novaya Posta.
“We plan to open two branches in Lithuania: a cargo branch in Vilnius this month and a post office in Kaunas in a few months,” Klimov told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on the sidelines of the Forbes Ukraine Exporters Summit in Kiev.
According to him, this year it is also planned to open offices in the Czech Republic, Romania and Germany and to expand the network in Poland to all the provinces.
At the same time, the company is not considering opening post offices in Poland and Lithuania. “Both Poland and Lithuania are quite densely covered by post offices of different companies, so it is more reliable now feel the strategy to come with our offices and our address delivery,” Klimov explained.
Co-owner of “New Mail” confirmed plans to open branches in Germany this year and noted that the company is attracted by the capacity of the markets, because the number of parcels per capita in Poland is 2-3 times, and in Germany – 3-4 times more than in Ukraine.
Sources of funding the expansion to foreign markets are the company’s own funds, Klimov said. In Ukraine, the company plans to continue to open new offices, install postal terminals, and also in the fall will complete the construction of two new sorting centers Kiev-East and Odessa.
Founded in 2001 Nova Posta Group is the biggest participant of Ukrainian logistics market: its network consists of about 10 ths offices and 13 ths postal terminals throughout Ukraine. The number of shipments in 2021 exceeded 372 million. Besides, a non-banking financial institution NovaPay provides services for money transfers and e-money transactions. There were 388 million transactions in 2021.
Detailed results of GC in 2022 have not yet been announced, but Klimov stated that the number of shipments at the end of the year will be restored to 95% of the pre-war level.
The group also includes Nova Posta Global, which is developing an international partner network to provide customers with express delivery services not only in Ukraine but also abroad. The company performs regular flights to the U.S., Europe and China and delivered 9.3 million international shipments in 2021.
Ukrainian military in six months opened in the state-owned PrivatBank (Kiev) special deposits “Glory to heroes” for 2 billion UAH, and in Oschadbank deposits “My defender” – for 12.9 billion UAH, according to press services of the banks.
According to the head of Oshchadbank Sergei Naumov, since the beginning of the year the amount of deposits on special deposits increased by 30%.
Oschadbank offers increased interest rates on this deposit in the amount of 13% per annum (for deposits for a period of three months) and 14% per annum (for a period of six months).
Monthly payment of interest, replenishment, rollover and changing the date of deposit return before the end of the contract without loss of accrued interest is provided on the deposit. The minimum deposit amount is 5000 UAH.
Except for servicemen, volunteers of Armed Forces of Ukraine and Territorial Defense members of their families (spouse, husband, parents or children) can open a deposit in the branches of Oschadbank on presentation of supporting documents.
The deposit “Glory to Heroes” from PrivatBank gives the opportunity to get 14% per annum for servicemen, who receive target payments from the state through PrivatBank.
