If you have to work from home, why not move here?
With a 12.8% unemployment rate and a lengthy stretch of economic uncertainty looming, Sacramento is struggling through the COVID-19 pandemic about as poorly as most other metro areas. But the region’s business leaders believe the coronavirus also carries…
Australia to Put Tech Giants on Tighter Leash, Make Them Pay for News
Australia is getting closer to moving ahead with controversial legislation that will make the U.S. tech giants pay local companies for news. Other measures to contain their influence are also on the cards. The “Draft Mandatory Code of Conduct Governing…
Apple Blockbuster Quarter Boosted by Strong Sales in China
(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. pulled off a strong quarter in China by switching up retail tactics and pushing a cheaper iPhone, becoming one of the few U.S. tech giants to ride the country’s post-pandemic recovery despite Washington-Beijing tensions.…
Hajj goes virtual for families of lucky pilgrims
Khobar (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) – Faridah Bakti Yahra travelled alone to Mecca when she won the lottery of a lifetime to join this year’s hajj, the smallest in living memory, but her family is relishing the experience virtually. Thanks to her…
Tech Leads Stock Rebound From Lows Amid Earnings: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — A rally in big technology companies lifted stocks from Thursday’s lows, tempering concern over a bumpy economic rebound. Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. jumped in extended trading as results crushed Wall…
Exclusive: TikTok owner ByteDance considers listing China business in Hong Kong or Shanghai
By Yingzhi Yang and Julie Zhu BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese tech giant ByteDance is considering listing its domestic business in Hong Kong or Shanghai, people familiar with the matter told Reuters, against a backdrop of rising Sino-U.S.…
Big Tech Still Winning in Economic Crisis
Millions might have consented to stay at home this spring in the interest of social distancing, but they certainly didn’t log off. Even though economic activity fell at a heart-stopping annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter, which started in…
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Europe Is Building the Next Tesla. Who Knew?
(Bloomberg Opinion) — When Nikola Corp. started trading on Nasdaq in June, the Phoenix-based clean transportation company raced quickly to a valuation of almost $30 billion. Its market worth has since fallen to a more reasonable $10.5 billion, but…
Australia to make Facebook, Google pay for news in world first
By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia will force U.S. tech giants Facebook Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay Australian media outlets for news content in a landmark move to protect independent journalism that will be watched around the…