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Instacartā€™s employing spree proceeds as it faces unusual demand
Instacart is joining more support positions to serve its shoppers, consumers and retail associates as the business faces unusual demand for its grocery distribution services due to COVID-19 shelter in place procedures. Instacart announced that it had multiplied its Care team, from 1,200 workers to...
Tesla’s Furlough Calls: Impact on Delivery and Sales
Tesla began on Friday to furlough its sales and delivery workforce ā€” with the least qualified workers bearing the brunt of the action ā€” days later a companywide email stated salary cuts and decreased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several workers, who serve in sales...
Canalys sees PC demand surged in Q1; however, shipments delayed due to supply issues
As employees shifted from office to home and students shifted to being taught online, demand for fresh PCs rose in Q1 of 2020.Ā Still, Canalys noticed that shipments fell 8% despite this, due to COVID-19 associated supply chain difficulties. The Impact Of The DropĀ The...
The COVID-19 pandemic is now reshaping techā€™s misinformation disaster
Considering 2016, social media firms have encountered an unending barrage of critical press and public critique for failing to foresee how their platforms could be utilised for dark ideas at the scale of populations ā€” threatening democracies throughout the world, say, or planting social division...
Insight secures $9.5B fund to support portfolio businesses through the pandemic further
We are now many weeks into what has grown a very huge dip for the global market due to the coronavirus pandemic.Ā Still, among that, we are viewing are some great pockets of financing activity developing that will help form how the future startup scene...
New York City Bans Zoom in Schools Over Security Concerns
As schools lie vacant, students yet have to learn. But administrators in New York City say that schools are not allowed to use Zoom for distant teaching, indicating security concerns with the video conferencing facility. Instead, the city’s Dept. of Education is transitioning classes to...
Indiaā€™s Swiggy allocates $43M to extend to new businesses
Indian food delivery company Swiggy has seized an added $43 million as it sees to extend to new businesses. Current investor Tencent and latest members Ark Impact, Korea Investment Partners, Samsung Ventures and Mirae Asset Capital Markets funded the new tranche, which is a portion...
GM and Honda are co-producing two latest electric vehicles set to come in 2024
GM and Honda will mutually produce two new electric vehicles ready for 2024, the latest move by both the automakers to develop their current partnership. Who Will Create WhatĀ Following the plan, the automakers will concentrate on their particular fields of expertise.Ā Honda will create...
NYU creates face protection design for healthcare employees that can be made in under a minute open to all
New York University is amongst the many educational, private and public universities doing what it can to approach the demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) amid healthcare employees across the world. The school operated immediately to produce an open-source face-shield outline and is presently giving...
Tesla to Reduce On-Site Workers at Nevada Gigafactory by 75% to Reduce On-Site Workers at Nevada Gigafactory by 75%
Tesla is lessening the amount of on-site workers at its Nevada gigafactory by 75% in reply to the increasing spread of COVID-19, according to a research from Storey County, where the large plant is established. The report, which was first published by Bloomberg, was part...
