Spotify CEO Daniel Ek has informed the music streaming company's staff that 1,500 of them, or 17% of the company's 9,200 employees, will be losing their jobs as part of "organisational changes" designed to "rightsise" costs.

"Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business — one designed to achieve our goal of being the world’s leading audio company and one that will consistently drive profitability and growth into the f...

"When I decided to join Microsoft, it was clear that was the best path for me and the team. With the new board and with Satya’s (Nadella) support, I’m looking forward to returning to OpenAI, and building on our partnership with Microsoft."By Sam Altman, explaining on X why he is back at the helm of OpenAI three days after being sacked by the board, hired by Microsoft, receiving the support of 700 out of 770 Open AI employees, and re-hired as CEO of the company. Even ChatGPT would not have been ...

$2.8 trillion

That's the market capitalisation of Microsoft, following the announcement that the tech company had hired Sam Altman a day after he was fired by the board of OpenAI. Microsoft's market cap is now worth over $1 trillion more than that of Google.

$40 billion

That's how much Spotify has paid in royalties to rights holders since its launch in 2008, according to a blogpost from the music streaming company.

26.1 billion

That's the total number of streams accumulated by Ta...