Microsoft lays off 3,000, ending latest round of cuts

Microsoft Corp. completed a massive round of layoffs this week after announcing the cuts in July.

The company cut 3,000 jobs Wednesday, finishing off the previously announced 18,000, according to USA Today.

"The reductions happening today are spread across many different business units, and many different countries," a Microsoft spokesman said in an emailed statement to the newspaper.

Nearly 70 percent of layoffs were former Nokia staffers. Microsoft purchased the Finnish company's handset business for $7.5 billion in April.

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