Happy Friday, readers! I'm your chilly host, Jordan Parker Erb. Before I pour some eggnog and slip away into a weekend of general merriment, we've got some tech news to go over.
First: Remember "pink-slip parties"? Admittedly, I don't, because when they were happening — during the dot-com bust — I couldn't even read yet, let alone understand the concept of mass layoffs.
Anyways, the parties started as a way for laid-off workers to commiserate and meet with others in the same position, as...