Facebook is appealing the class certifications, which the Menlo Park, California-based company said are "without merit" and conflict with "well-settled" precedent
The layoffs will mainly be in the company's product and engineering functions.
Apple Inc said it had hired over 11,000 women globally in the past year - 65 per cent more than the previous year - to boost employee diversity.
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would cut 7,800 jobs and write down about $7.6 billion related to its Nokia handset business, which it acquired in 2014.
Buffett typically makes his donations in July, reducing the number of shares by 5 percent from the prior year.
Steven Heldt said 95 per cent of Tata's 14,000-person US workforce descend from South Asia.
Loading an app required the watch to pull tremendous amounts of data from iPhones.
Snapdeal said on Wednesday it bought online mobile recharge firm Freecharge for an undisclosed amount.
Greg Abel and Ajit Jain would be prime candidates
Berkshire has owned P&G stock since P&G bought Gillette Co in 2005. Buffett had invested in Gillette since 1989.
Google Inc said on Thursday that Andy Rubin, co-founder of its Android mobile business and head of its nascent robotics effort is leaving the company.
Pfizer Inc and Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd on Friday won dismissal of a U.S. antitrust lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to delay sales of generic versions of the best-selling cholesterol drug Lipitor.
Some analysts view as a microcosm of the US economy.
Employees accused them of limiting competition by colluding not to poach each other's talent.
In a lawsuit filed in US District Court in Manhattan, Precedo Capital Group Inc and Continental Advisors SA accused Twitter of using the aborted sale as a means to give the money-losing company a $10 billion market valuation and higher IPO price.
The Gupta case is SEC v. Gupta, US District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-07566.
Google Inc notched a legal victory in its bid to create the world's largest digital books library, winning the reversal of a court order that had allowed authors challenging the project to sue as a group.
The court rejected Rajaratnam's arguments that wiretap evidence in his case should have been suppressed.
Buffett said the economy is benefiting from improvement in areas that had not previously performed well, particularly homebuilding.
A former Rochdale Securities trader whose unauthorised purchase of about $1 billion of Apple Inc stock caused the demise of the company pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy.
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