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Spotify to cut some 600 staff as tech woes spread
Spotify to cut some 600 staff as tech woes spread
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Swedish music streaming giant Spotify said Monday it was cutting six percent of its roughly 10,000 employees in the latest cost-cutting announcement among technology companies. On Friday, Alphabet announced it would cut 12,000 positions, just a day after Microsoft announced a cut of 10,000.

French government refuses to back down on pension reform
French government refuses to back down on pension reform
Business and Economy
by  AFP

France's government on Monday moved forward with a fiercely contested pensions reform plan that would raise the retirement age to 64, saying balancing the system's books must be top priority. Dussopt said the government would accept amendments that "improve the text without giving up on getting back to balancing the books by 2030, nor the fundamentals of the reform".