KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 16): Lay-offs in the US tech sector have continued into 2023, after more than 100,000 people were laid off from the US tech industry last year.

In a report last Friday (Jan 13), Crunchbase, which tracks trends, investments and news of global companies from start-ups to the Fortune 1000, said more than 21,000 workers in US-based tech companies had been laid off in mass job cuts so far in 2023.