Skift Take

Kiwi has been losing money, and like other tech and travel firms, trimmed its staff.

Czech Republic-based Kiwi, which has taken a confrontational approach toward many airlines over the years as it scraped their websites without permission, laid off 18% of its staff, according to a published report.

The job cuts affect more than 200 of Kiwi's 1,200 employees in four countries, e15 reported.

Kiwi CEO Oliver Dlouhy announced the layoffs on LinkedIn Tuesday, but didn't provide job cut numbers.

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