Atomic Games has laid off an undisclosed number of staffers, after difficulties finding a publisher for a controversial video game it is developing. The firm employed 75 before the layoffs. The game, Six Days In Fallujah, recreates the events of the Second Battle of Fallujah on March 31st, 2004, in which Iraqi insurgents ambushed a convoy containing [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, August 6, 2009
RealNetworks has eliminated 12 more jobs, or 9% of its music division. Employees of both RealNetworks and Rhapsody America were targeted. The firm cut 130 jobs last year. RealNetworks is a provider of Internet media delivery software and services based in Seattle, Washington. The company is best known for the creation of RealAudio, a compressed audio format; [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Internet TV service Joost is cutting jobs, eliminating customer service, and demoting its CEO. Joost has not announced the number of layoffs; it employs 100 people in New York, London and the Netherlands. The firm will move away from its identity as a consumer website due to competition from Hulu, and will concentrate on selling its video [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 7, 2009
Fox Interactive Media, home of popular social networking website MySpace, will cut jobs and cancel its move into swankier West Los Angeles offices. Fox head Rupert Murdoch has brought on a former AOL CEO to overhaul MySpace, and canned two of the site’s founders. The firm is reviewing positions across the company, at MySpace and at other [...]
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
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