Supply chain software startup Flexport lays off 20% of its global workforce, or roughly 640 employees; the company was valued at $8B in February 2022 (Riley de León/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Equity management service Carta cuts 10% of its staff, possibly impacting ~200 workers, as it sues a former CTO; the company was valued at $7.4B in August 2021 (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Memo: Microsoft to give US salaried staff unlimited "Discretionary Time Off", plus 10 corporate holidays, leaves of absence, mental health time off, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Cloud Software Group, the parent company of Citrix and Tibco, begin layoffs impacting thousands of employees (Wade Tyler Millward/CRN) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Nothing Phone (1) rolls out in the US via a $299 "beta membership" offered through June 2023, but the company says the phone "may not work with all US carriers" (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Sources: Microsoft ditched a dual-screen design for the Surface Duo 3 and pivoted to a foldable screen design with 180-degree hinge and external cover display (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:42 Rating: 5

A look at Intel's struggles with launching Sapphire Rapids, originally slated for mid-2022, which Intel says has led to changes in product design and testing (Don Clark/New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:42 Rating: 5

Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store are flooded with apps using "ChatGPT" in titles and branding; OpenAI has no public API for ChatGPT, let alone an app (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Intel debuts new Sapphire Rapids CPUs across 52 models ranging from $415 to $17K with up to 60 cores and support for PCIe 5.0 and DDR5, to rival AMD Genoa chips (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:42 Rating: 5

Sources: e-commerce spending on ByteDance's Douyin in China reached $208B in 2022, up 76% YoY; shoppers in Southeast Asia spent $4.4B on TikTok in 2022 (Juro Osawa/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:41 Rating: 5