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From deals and innovations to mass layoffs, 2022 was marked by contrasts

For flyers, this was a turbulent year, with many airlines facing technical snags - from bird hits to smoke inside the plane

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In a year marked by contrasts, the world saw huge deals and innovations; it also saw mass layoffs in the tech and start-up space, and administrative failures that impacted firms.



If one man hogged the headlines in 2022, it was Elon Musk. His Twitter saga and accompanying flip-flops had everyone’s attention. The controversies, agreements, disagreements, and his eventual takeover of the microblogging site triggered one of the worst layoffs of recent times. Firms like Meta and Amazon followed suit, with the scale of firings surpassing the layoffs during the 2008 global slowdown. The year also

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