Supermarkets and retailers in the United Kingdom are now hiring thousands because a sudden increase in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic. After sudden and huge increase in demand resulted in empty shelves, announcement hiring thousands of staff to cope with the demand was made by UK supermarkets and retailers Tesco, Asda, Aldi, and Lidl.…
A check on Apple’s website on Friday revealed, Cupertino is limiting customer purchases of iPhones over its online stores to two handsets per person. The measure is applicable to many countries including the United States and China. The development comes in the wake of the Apple closing all of its brick-and-mortar stores outside China, even…
In a statement Tesla Inc said, starting from March 24 it will suspend production at its California vehicle factory so as to comply with local orders aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. Tesla’s New York factory will also temporarily suspend production, while operations at its Nevada plant will continue. “Despite taking all known health…
Anthony Levandowski, who has been closely associated with advancing self-driving car technology in the last decade, has agreed to plead guilty for taking sensitive documents from Google, his former employer, before he joined rival Uber Technologies Inc. As part of the plea deal with federal prosecutors, he will serve no more than 30 months in…
In a statement, German airline Group Lufthansa said, if the Wuhan coronavirus which has gone pandemic lasts for a long time, it would be very difficult for the airline industry to survive without state help. Lufthansa, which has slashed flight capacity, suspended its dividend and has introduced short-time working, said it was impossible to forecast…
With companies temporarily closing their offices and with more people working from home with company data because of the Wuhan coronavirus, hackers are likely to take advantage of the situation, said cyber security experts. Government officials from the United States and Britain along with others have warned on the cyber security dangers of working remotely…
Amazon.com has temporarily stopped stocking of some specific items in its warehouses in order to cater to the overwhelming demand for household essentials as more and more people rush to stock them up as more cities worldwide are put under lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. This decision of the company could result in some…
The spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic across Europe is forcing Volkswagen to suspend production across the continent. Production work at its plants in Spain, Setubal in Portugal and Bratislava in Slovakia will be suspended before the current weekend, said the German carmaking giant on Tuesday. Production will also be halted at the company’s factories…
The fast good global giant McDonald’s has said that it could make offer to some franchises to defer their rents because of the significant drop in footfall or because of closures because of the ongoing uncertainty that has been brought about to its business by the coronavirus pandemic, the company said on Tuesday. Right now…
On Tuesday, in a statement Airbus said, it is stopping production and assembly activities at its plants in France and in Spain for the next four days. Both governments are implementing new measures to restrict the movements and fight the coronavirus outbreak, said Airbus. “This will allow sufficient time to implement stringent health and safety…
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