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Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff (www.cnbc.com)

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Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff::Amazon and iRobot said regulatory concerns made it impossible for the deal to move forward, sending the Roomba makers' shares plummeting.

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[–] tenextrathrills@lemmynsfw.com 115 points 10 months ago (9 children)

If it’s any consolation those people would have been laid off no matter what happened. That’s how we do things now apparently

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 9 months ago

They fired their whole education wing when my startup was just starting to work with them (15 or something years ago). No warning just a month after starting a new project (early stem outreach type program), fired them all.

So I don’t feel bad for iRobot. Sucks for the employees though.

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