Hong Kong CNN Business — A violent workers’ revolt at the world’s largest iPhone factory this week in central China is further scrambling Apple’s strained supply and highlighting how the country’s stringent zero-Covid policy is hurting global technology firms. The troubles started last month when workers left the factory campus in Zhengzhou, the capital of […]
Hong Kong CNN Business — Foxconn has offered to pay newly recruited workers 10,000 yuan ($1,400) to quit and leave the world’s largest iPhone assembly factory, in an attempt to quell protests that saw hundreds clash with security forces at the compound in central China. The Apple supplier made the offer Wednesday following dramatic scenes […]
New York CNN Business — KFC Germany apologized for an “unacceptable” message sent to customers on Wednesday, which appeared to tie a sales promotion to the annual commemoration of Kristallnacht. KFC app users in the country received a message encouraging them to mark the day with crispy chicken and cheese from KFC, according to Twitter […]
New Delhi CNN Business — One of Apple’s largest suppliers is trying to strike a delicate balance in China. Foxconn (HNHPF) has to comply with some of the harshest Covid rules in the world while ensuring that Apple’s (AAPL) shipments are not severely disrupted just before the key holiday season begins. The Taiwanese company, which […]
CNN Business — Even by Facebook’s standards, 2021 was a rough year. A series of damning reports based on leaks from a whistleblower raised uncomfortable questions about Facebook’s impact on society; the company continued reeling from concerns about the use of its platform to organize the January 6 Capitol riot; and privacy changes from Apple […]
CNN — As protesters took to the streets of Iran following the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman apprehended for apparently not wearing her hijab properly, videos of the uprising began to flood the internet. Clips of students tearing up pictures of the Ayatollah in northern Iran. Photos of women removing their […]
New York CNN Business — JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testified on Capitol Hill Thursday for the second straight day. This time, he faced his longtime critic Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Warren began her line of questioning by asking how many instances of fraud had been reported to his bank from customers using Zelle, a popular […]
New York CNN Business — At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman made internet history by stitching together a colon, a hyphen and a close parenthesis. Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted “: – )” on the school’s online bulletin board, a primitive kind of social network accessible only […]
Evening Standard/Hulton Royals Collection/Getty Images King George VI’s coffin is carried through the streets of London before being transported to Windsor Castle for his funeral on February 15, 1952. As the United Kingdom mourns Queen Elizabeth II, only a minority will remember first-hand what life was like the last time the country buried a monarch. […]
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