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Wired.com lays off 12 percent of staff
For the second time in five months, Wired.com, the Internet arm of Wired magazine, has trimmed its staff.
According to a Twitter post from Evan Hansen, the Web site's editor in chief, the company laid off 3 out of 25 full-time staffers or 12 percent of its workforce.
"Reports of Wired.com 'gutting' greatly exaggerated," Hansen wrote on Twitter, presumably referring to published reports about Wired.com's layoffs. "We cut three staff, five contractors, (and) still have 45 people working for us overall."
Among those who lost their jobs was Eliot Van Buskirk, … Read more
