As reported at Ars Technica, 3D printer manufacturer MakerBot is laying off staff:
On Friday, Motherboard reported that 3D printing company MakerBot laid off 20 percent of its staff today, estimating that approximately 100 people from the 500-person company had their positions cut.
Make magazine also has coverage. MakerBot is closing all of its retail locations (in Manhattan, Boston, and Greenwich, Connecticut). The layoffs have been attributed to consolidation with Stratasys, which bought MakerBot for $403 million in 2013, and Stratasys' recent $100 million write-down on MakerBot's valuation.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 19 2015, @11:00PM
https://i.imgur.com/TbRGBPo.jpg [imgur.com]
https://i.imgur.com/ktVyAwi.jpg [imgur.com]
Well... at least they were up front about it!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Monday April 20 2015, @01:31AM
Couldn't happen to nicer sellout. I feel bad for the workers, but not for makerbot.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by aristarchus on Monday April 20 2015, @01:48AM
Surely they will just 3-D print some more employees. Perhaps they will be short and yellow, and have indeterminate numbers of eyes. Happens when you go the "evil genius" path.
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Monday April 20 2015, @05:34PM
http://www.pantone.com/pci/minion-yellow [pantone.com]
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday April 20 2015, @08:07AM
Well, when they recover, they can just print new ones...