{"id":152673,"date":"2026-06-09T08:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152673"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:58:43","slug":"microsoft-cuts-hundreds-of-cloud-jobs-on-mainland-as-china-us-tighten-data-laws-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152673","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft cuts hundreds of cloud jobs on mainland, as China, US tighten data laws: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostMicrosoft is laying off hundreds of employees at its Azure cloud unit in China as the US technology giant navigates tightening data regulations in both Washington and Beijing, according to several of its employees.<br \/>\nThe move marks at least the third round of downsizing in the country by the company in two years.<br \/>\nFive people affected by the move said that some Azure staff in Beijing and Shanghai received an email last week informing them their roles would be terminated. The people requested&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3356501\/microsoft-cuts-hundreds-cloud-jobs-mainland-china-us-tighten-data-laws-sources?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostMicrosoft is laying off hundreds of employees at its Azure cloud unit in China as the US technology giant navigates tightening data regulations in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152673"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}