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Expedia Layoffs To Affect 9% Of Workforce In a Bid To Refocus Resources

HR Digest

With a goal to drive efficiency forward this year, Expedia layoffs are moving ahead with a target of 9 percent job cuts in the upcoming weeks. Their full-year GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles) saw a 127 percent growth compared to 2022, one of their highest growth numbers to date.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. While all of these are contributing factors, the major factor, in our view, is the deflationary effect of technology, which our measurement systems fail to account for.

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