U.S. online retailer Amazon.com Inc has laid off dozens of R&D and manufacturing staff from its delivery drone project, Amazon Prime Air, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
It's 10 p.m. in the world's largest electronics market, and lines of delivery workers who once hauled computer components and knock-off phones now push carts overflowing with Mac lipsticks, Bioderma cleansers and other foreign beauty brands.
Global regulators have held off approving the Boeing 737 MAX despite a decision by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to end a 20-month grounding, highlighting changes in the global regulatory pecking order caused by two crashes of the jet.
SINGAPORE: More employees lodged claims for owed salaries in 2019 compared to the year before, according to the latest Employment Standards Report released on Thursday (Nov 19). Overall salary claims rose from 2.42 claims per 1,000 employees in 2018 to 2.68 claims in 2019. It later fell to an...
SINGAPORE: The work pass privileges of about 70 employers were suspended in the first half of this year for discriminatory hiring practices. This is a "significant increase" from the figure of 35 in the whole of 2019, according to the latest Employment Standards Report. About 43 per cent of them...
Wirecard's former boss Markus Braun is due to appear before a German parliamentary committee on Thursday, temporarily leaving jail to testify over the collapse of what was once hailed as Germany's leading financial technology firm.
President Xi Jinping pegged China as the pivot point for global free trade Thursday, vowing to keep his "super-sized" economy open and warning against protectionism in a global economy eviscerated by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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FIREBLOCKS, a digital asset security company, has raised US$30 million in Series B funding, led by crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm.
FIREBLOCKS, an all-in-one platform to store, transfer, and issue digital assets, has raised US$30 million in Series B funding, led by crypto-focused investment firm Paradigm.
