Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Exclusive: Baidu considers leaving the Nasdaq to boost its valuation – sources
By Julie Zhu and Zhang Yan HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc is considering delisting from the U.S. Nasdaq and moving to an exchange closer to home to boost its valua...
May 21, 2020
Amazon taps into food delivery services in India
BENGALURU (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is rolling out services to deliver food in India, pitting it against established players Swiggy and Zomato in a market that has seen explosive growth in the last f...
May 21, 2020
Tech firms deploy Bluetooth chips for coronavirus contact tracing in office
By Paresh Dave OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Technology companies are developing their own contact tracing systems to help prevent coronavirus outbreaks in their offices as countries begin to ease lockd...
May 21, 2020
Could coronavirus help Amazon workers unionize?
By Nandita Bose and Krystal Hu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Warehouse employees last month staged a walkout in Michigan to demand safer working conditions at their facility. So did workers in New York, Illi...
May 21, 2020
Exterminate! UV robot sent to Singapore mall to zap coronavirus
By Joseph Campbell SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A shopping mall in Singapore is deploying a newly developed smart robot to fight the novel coronavirus, not with chemicals - but with light. While spraying has...
May 21, 2020
India’s Swiggy, Zomato start booze deliveries during COVID-19 lockdown
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's top two food-delivery startups, Swiggy and Zomato, will begin delivering alcohol in some cities starting from Thursday, as they cash in on the high demand for booze durin...
May 21, 2020
Gap rushes in more robots to warehouses to solve virus disruption
By Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. apparel chain Gap Inc is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus ...
May 21, 2020
In SoftBank slides, tofu, a goose and unicorns underpin sales pitch
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - A chastened Masayoshi Son summed up SoftBank Group Corp's record $13 billion operating loss on stage this week with a striking image: unicorns tumbling into the "valley...
May 21, 2020
Japan’s Panasonic to cut 800 jobs in Thailand, move some production to Vietnam next year
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Japanese appliance-maker Panasonic Corp on Thursday said that next year it will move its Thai-based production of refrigerators and washing machines to Vietnam, laying off some 800...
May 21, 2020
Softbank says it will sell 5% of domestic telco
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said it plans to sell 5% of its domestic telco SoftBank Corp as part of its plan to raise $41 billion through asset sales. The sale of 240 million shares will lea...
May 21, 2020
