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Goldman Sachs trims employees by 'modest' number

The Goldman Sachs company logo is seen in the New York Stock Exchange, New York, U.S. /Reuters Goldman Sachs is undertaking "modest" staff cuts, a company spokesperson said Wednesday, joining

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Pivoting during a pandemic

Like everywhere else, the COVID-19 pandemic created a new “no normal” at Facebook .The seismic shifts and disruptions reverberated across the globe and we had to accept that and adjust, qu

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Datasaur snags $3.9M investment to build intelligent machine learning labeling platform

As machine learning has grown, one of the major bottlenecks remains labeling things so the machine learning application understands the data it’s working with. Datasaur, a member of the Y Combin

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Axis Security raises $32M to help companies stay secure while working from home

Axis Security launched last year with the idea of helping customers to enable contractors and third parties to remotely access a company’s systems in a safe way, but when the pandemic hit, they

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Potato farming brings sustainable income to China's impoverished areas

02:37 Planting is a primary source of income for China's 500 million rural residents, especially in impoverished areas.Harvest in the autumn has become a routine for farmers growing po

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Online course platform Thinkific raises $22M

It’s been a big year for online learning companies — and it sounds like Thinkific is no exception. The Vancouver-based startup is announcing that it has raised $22 million in new funding.Thinkif

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Global Business Daily: Apple battle, London's success, Ford closures

"There's more work ahead – including to make sure that all businesses, including digital ones, pay their fair share of tax where it is rightfully due."That was the European Union's antitrust chief, M

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Tech must radically rethink how it treats independent contractors

Despite a surging stock market and many major tech players having record quarters, we’re still seeing layoffs throughout tech and the rest of corporate America. Salesforce recorded a huge quarter, pas

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Google launches a work-tracking tool and Airtable rival, Tables

Google’s in-house incubator Area 120 is today introducing a new work-tracking tool, Tables, which aims to make tracking projects more efficient by investing in automation. Instead of simply trac

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'Hyperbole or Mental Decline?' Netizens Mock Joe Biden For Saying 200 Million Died From COVID-19

Mixing up Iraq with Iran, confusing former British Prime Minister Theresa May with Margaret Thatcher and promising to put 720 million US women back into workforce when

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Despite slowdowns, pandemic accelerates shifts in hardware manufacturing

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t hit every factory in China at once.The initial impact to China’s electronics industry arrived around the time the nation was celebrating its new year. Two weeks afte

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Salesforce announces 12,000 new jobs in the next year just weeks after laying off 1000

In a case of bizarre timing, Salesforce announced it was laying off 1000 employees at the end of last month just a day after announcing a monster quarter with over $5 b

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IATA suggests testing systems to replace current quarantine policies

VCG Aviation is one of the worst hit industries by the COVID-19 pandemic. Airlines around the globe that have been affected by this unexpected health crisis are surviving on government aids or

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COVID-19 brings early retirement wave

02:41 The coronavirus pandemic has led to big shifts in the way people do their jobs. It's also prompted a wave of early retirements.Since March,analysis showsnearly three million work

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Replace legacy healthcare staffing with a vertical marketplace for workers

Over the last several months, we’ve seen dramatic swings in the demand for healthcare across the country. While hospitals in some cities were overwhelmed by an influx of COVID-19 patients, others sat

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APD | Singapore promising land for ByteDance

By APD writer AliceChinese tech giant ByteDance, which owns video-sharing app TikTok, is planning to invest billions of US dollars in Singapore with a view to turning t

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Chip maker ARM's sale to Nvidia 'risks U.S. curbs on exports to China'

The co-founder of British chip designer ARM says its sale to U.S. firm Nvidia will be a "disaster" for the UK and Europe and could leave companies at the mercy of Washington when it comes to accessin