WASHINGTON: Flight attendant Kristine Lambiris kept working after her husband lost his job when the coronavirus shut businesses across the United States, but as of Thursday (Oct 1) evening she has now been furloughed herself. "We're both pretty scared," said Lambiris, a United Airlines employee ...
TOKYO: Japan's unemployment rate rose to 3 per cent in August, the highest figure since mid-2017, official data showed on Friday (Oct 2), illustrating the pandemic's effect on the country's tight labour market. The figure, up 0.1 percentage points from July, is the first time since May 2017 that...
Facebook Inc said on Thursday it would start promoting content from public Facebook Groups in users' news feeds and in search engine results, defying calls by watchdog groups to limit algorithmic recommendations ahead of U.S. elections next month.
NEW YORK: U.S. prosecutors on Thursday filed criminal charges accusing four founders and executives of BitMEX, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, of evading rules designed to stop money laundering. The Department of Justice charged Arthur Hayes, Samuel Reed and ...
REUTERS: Online role-playing game "World of Warcraft: Shadowlands" will be released later this year, Blizzard Entertainment said on Thursday, as employees working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed some processes. Blizzard, a unit of videogame publisher Activision Blizzard Inc, did ...
The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved a US$2.2 trillion Democratic plan for fresh relief from the coronavirus pandemic, though objections from the White House and top Republicans are likely to doom it in the Senate.
Asian markets were set for a mixed opening on Friday, as a U.S. stimulus deal remained out of reach and investors await fresh U.S. employment data for a read on the economic toll from the coronavirus pandemic.
Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said more than 19,000 of its U.S. frontline workers contracted the coronavirus this year, or 1.44per cent of the total, a disclosure long sought by labor advocates that had criticized its pandemic response.
Ahead of what's likely to be the world's largest initial public offering, China's Ant Group Co Ltd is asking lead bankers to personally sign confidentiality pacts and pressing some investors to explain why they should be allowed to attend marketing meetings, sources familiar with the matter said.
Two key House of Representatives Democrats on Thursday urged the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to release all documents related to the government's 18-month review of the grounded Boeing 737 MAX.
