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Walmart is piloting a pricier 2-hour ‘Express’ grocery delivery service

Record usage of grocery delivery services amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led to delayed orders, fewer open delivery windows, and an inability to even book a delivery time slot, on occasion. Walmart no

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Lyft ends electric scooter operations in Oakland, Austin and San Jose

Lyft, which just had a massive round of layoffs where 982 people lost their jobs and 288 were furloughed, is also pumping the brakes on its scooter operations in a handful of cities.In an email sent t

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30 million Americans have filed for unemployment since virus hit

Shops closed on the Coney Island boardwalk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., April 11, 2020. /Reuters Another 3.84 million U.S. workers filed for unemployment benefits la

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Finance, tech firms on hiring spree amid coronavirus turmoil: LinkedIn

VCG The coronavirus is roiling global job markets, but the picture is not all gloomy. Finance, technology and consumer goods firms are hiring tens of thousands in the United States and other c

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Okta COVID-19 app usage report finds it’s not just collaboration seeing a huge uptick

Okta released a special COVID-19 edition of its app usage report today, and you don’t need a Ph. D. in statistics to guess what they found. Indeed, Zoom surged 110% on the Okta network, leading

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U.S. jobless claims total 3.8 mln last week amid COVID-19 shutdowns

The number of initial jobless claims in the United States totaled 3.8 million last week as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the nation, bringing the six-week to

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Boeing reports Q1 revenue decline, plans to cut workforce, production

Boeing on Wednesday reported a loss of 641 million U.S. dollars in the first quarter, along with plans to cut its workforce and aircraft production amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the 737 MAX groundi

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Chief scientist warns Australians against claims of COVID-19 cures

Australia's chief scientist has advised Australians to be wary of "fake news" regarding cures for COVID-19. "I strongly believe that research is the way out of the epidemic; we need to continue to

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Juul is reportedly laying off 800 to 950 employees

Juul is set to eliminate between 800 to 950 jobs, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Those massive cuts would amount to around a third of the Bay Area vaping giant’s entire workfo

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Boeing to cut workforce by 10% and reduce 787 production

A Boeing logo is seen at the company's facility in Everett after it was announced that its 777X model will make its first test flight later in the week in Everett, Washington, U.S., January 21, 2

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Electronics lift ASEAN to China's top trade partner in Q1

02:23 Universal Scientific Industrial (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (USI), a leading electronics designer and manufacturer, doubled its output in the month of March with growing demand from the

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TripAdvisor will cut almost 25% of its workforce as the travel industry languishes

In a blog post, TripAdvisor CEO and co-founder Stephen Kaufer announced that the company would be reducing its workforce in light of the pandemic, which has wrought particular havoc on the travel indu

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Templafy raises $25M Series C led by Insight partners to deal with enterprise documents

Back in 2018 Templafy — which had come up with a way for enterprises to more easily make templates out of standard documents (yes, it’s a thing) — raised an additional $15 million from existing invest

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Boeing and Embraer abandon a $4.2bln deal in the face of coronavirus

A Boeing 737 MAX 8 takes off during a flight test in Renton, Washington, January 29, 2016. /Reuters Boeing Co on Saturday pulled out of a 4.2 billion U.S. dollars deal to buy Embraer's commerc

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The GOP strategy will turn America into a cauldron of hatred

President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, U.S., April 15, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Tom Fowdy is a British political and inter

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Privacy concerns abound over COVID-19 tracking technologies

00:52 The right to privacy or safeguarding public health – which is more important? And should one be sacrificed for the other? This is one of the biggest questions the world's now fac

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Trudeau promises aid for fish and seafood sector amid food supply concerns

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday announced an aid package of 62.5 million Canadian dollars (about 44 million U.S. dollars) for the country's fish and