Nearly three million more American people filed for unemployment benefits in the week ending May 9, according to the U.S. Department of Labor as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to batter the labor
Could COVID-19 spell the end of scenes like this? /Carsten Koall/Getty From self-driving cars to household robots, the automation of daily tasks and increasing artificial intelligence in tech
As we move through life in the pandemic, companies are being forced to review and understand how workflows happen. How do you distribute laptops to your workforce? How do you make sure everyone has th
In an open letter to Jeff Bezos and Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, a coalition of 13 CEOs have jointly called on Amazon to strengthen protections for a strained workforce amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The
Earlier today, Jack Dorsey sent an email to Twitter staff, notifying employees that they will be ale to continue working from home as long as they see fit. The CEO notes that Twitter was an earlier ad
Waymo has added an additional $800 million to the $2.25 billion funding round that it first announced in March, bringing the total size of the financing (its first from investors outside of Alphabet)
Sevetri Wilson founded her first company, a public relations firm catering to non-profit organizations, as soon as she graduated from Louisiana State University back in 2009.Eleven years later, and wi
Lionel Messi has donated half a million euros to help hospitals in his native Argentina fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Buenos Aires-based foundation Casa Garrahan said th
Weeks after two of his roommates were diagnosed with COVID-19, Mohamad Arif Hassan says he’s still waiting to be tested for the coronavirus. Quarantined in his room in
JobHopin, a Vietnam-based startup building an automated job-recruitment platform for Southeast Asia, announced today that it has closed a $2.45 million Series A. This brings JobHopin’s total raised so
FILE PHOTO: People who lost their jobs wait in line to file for unemployment benefits, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Arkansas Workforce Center in Fort Smith, Ark
By APD writer AliceThe Covid-19 pandemic has crippled most businesses, but made video game companies, protective equipment manufacturers and online meeting software pro
by Julia Pierrepont III Hollywood, often at odds with the Trump Administration, was nonetheless swift to praise Congress and the White House last month for enacting the CARE Act, the government re
The coronavirus pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for the aviation industry across Europe. Due to a significant drop in passenger numbers and a cash flow crisis caused by lockdowns and t
Xiaomi, Vivo, Samsung, Oppo and other smartphone companies have received approval from some state governments in India to partially resume manufacturing and assembling of devices amid the ongoing lo
Greyhound Canada announced on Thursday that it will suspend all of its remaining bus routes service in Eastern Canada starting May 13 because of the devastating impact
Deskless workers make up 80% of the global workforce, but to Desmond Lim, that job title is his entire world.Lim grew up in Singapore and saw his father wake up every morning, six days a week, at 5 a.
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