Report: Amazon Fire flop has repercussions

Seattle – The flop of Amazon’s Fire smartphone device last year continues to have repercussions.



According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon has laid off dozens of employees who worked on developing Fire at its Lab126 innovation center in Silicon Valley.



The layoffs are the first in the 11-year history of Lab126, which employs about 3,000 people. The reorganization also includes halting development of a large-screen tablet and combining two hardware development units into one. Jon McCormick, former CTO of devices for Lab126, left the company earlier this month for a post at Google.