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Zoom To Lay Off 1,300 Employees, Or About 15% of Its Workforce
Zoom on Tuesday announced plans to cut about 1,300 workers, or 15% of its workforce, according to a blog post on the company’s website. CNBC reports: CEO Eric Yuan wrote in the blog post that as the world continues to adjust to life after the Covid pan…
UK train tickets could be priced like airline seats in rail shake-up
Return tickets could be scrapped in demand-based system as part of wider reforms to ‘broken model’, says transport secretaryTrain tickets in Britain could be priced like airline seats under a demand-based system being trialled by the government as part…
McDonald’s signs legal pledge amid UK sexual harassment concerns
Agreement with Equality and Human Rights Commission commits firm to number of measures to protect workersMcDonald’s has signed a legally-binding pledge with the equality watchdog amid concerns over how it has handled sexual harassment complaints made b…
Ex-Coinbase Manager Pleads Guilty in Crypto-Related First Insider Trading Case
A former Coinbase product manager pleaded guilty on Tuesday in what U.S. prosecutors have called the first insider trading case involving cryptocurrency, his defense lawyer said in a court hearing. From a report: Ishan Wahi, 32, pleaded guilty to two c…
Mozambique’s extremist rebels kill aid worker in north
Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian si…
Rishi Sunak’s Whitehall carve up merely rearranges the deckchairs
The prime minister hopes this reorganisation will bring faster growth, but he will be disappointed Rishi Sunak has become the latest occupant of Downing Street to shuffle the Whitehall pack in the hope that a reorganisation of the machinery of governme…
German court rejects climate lawsuit against automaker BMW
A German court has rejected a lawsuit by environmental campaigners seeking to force automaker BMW to stop selling combustion engine vehicles by 2030.
SoftBank Virtually Halts New Funding as It Contends With Persistent Losses
SoftBank Group’s investment vehicles posted a loss of nearly $6 billion in the quarter that ended in December as the Japanese tech investor continues to bleed through the market downturn and significantly pares back new backings. From a report: This is…
Germany appoints central bank IT chief to head cybersecurity
The German government has announced that it is appointing the European Central Bank’s head of IT systems to lead Germany’s national cybersecurity agency.