People wear protective masks while watching a movie in a cinema in Peshawar, Pakistan, August 10, 2020. /Reuters Editor's note: Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, chair in Global Child Health at The Hospital
Tesla’s top leadership positions skew white and male with just 4% of those roles going to Black employees, according to the company’s first diversity and inclusion report released Friday.T
We learn more about Slack’s future, Revolut adds new payment features and DoorDash pushes its IPO range upward. This is your Daily Crunch for December 4, 2020.The big story: Slack and Salesforc
The U.S. passenger and cargo airline industry saw total employment fall by nearly 29,000 workers through the month ending in mid-October as government restrictions on laying off staff expired.The
Federal Reserve officials saw "little or no growth" in four of their 12 regional districts and only modest growth in the others in recent weeks as a rapidly spreading health crisis and ongoing rec
With a pandemic raging across many parts of the world, many companies have customer service agents spread out as well, creating a workforce management nightmare. It wasn’t easy to manage and rou
A mere two weeks remain until we kick off TC Sessions: Space (December 16 17), our first conference focused on the technology designed to push galactic boundaries and the people making it happen. Buil
Self-driving trucks startup TuSimple has closed a $350 million funding round from a diverse consortium of strategic investors that include major U.S. corporations in rail, retail and freight, accordin
Jitsu, a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2020 cohort, is developing an open source data integration platform that helps developers send data to a data warehouse. Today, the startup announced a $2
Walt Disney Co said on Wednesday it would lay off about 32,000 workers, primarily at its theme parks, an increase from the 28,000 it announced in September, as the company struggles with limited c
Canada-based Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, the world's leading circus show producer, announced on Tuesday the successful closing of a sale transaction with its secured lenders and its emer
Michèle Flournoy, a top contender to be President-elect Joe Biden's secretary of defense, got a round of public endorsements on Wednesday from progressive-minded lawmak
Robots are no longer the high-tech tools reserved for university labs, e-commerce giants and buzzy Silicon Valley startups. The local grocer now has access too.Tortoise, the one-year-old Silicon Vall
Metromile, the pay-per-mile auto insurer that earlier this year laid off a third of its staff due to economic uncertainties caused by COVID-19, is taking the SPAC path to the public markets.The compan
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning.Blinken, 58
Uber has been refused permission to dismiss 11 people at its EMEA headquarters in Amsterdam by the Dutch Employee Insurance Agency (UWV), the ride hailing company has confirmed.The affected individua
File photo of Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank speaking on September 10, 2020. /CFP European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said on Friday that the pan
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