Twitter has rolling out announced a new feature that will allow accounts to identify themselves as bots by adding a label on their profile. Twitter stated that the update was based upon research that revealed that its users wanted greater context on non-human accounts. The company also provided several examples of “good robots”, including accounts…
Kroger Co, the US supermarket chain, reported a drop in its main measure of profitability on Friday. It blamed discounts, wastage, and the significant squeeze on global supply chains as being the causes of the drop in profitability. This plunge sent Kroger’s shares plummeting by 6.4 per cent. US retailers spent more this year on…
Ford Motor Company was one of the first carmakers to enter India’s market after liberalization in 1991. And now it is the latest one to leave the market in terms of local production. According to the American company, it had suffered losses exceeding $ 2 billion over the past 10 years and that approximately 4,000…
Ericsson is now completely focused on getting back market share in China which the Swedish firm lost since Chinese suppliers were blocked by Sweden from the 5G roll-out in the country, the company’s top executive has said. The exclusion of Chinese companies angered Beijing and has impacted the business in China of the telecom equipment…
The global shortage of semiconductor chips for cars has hit General Motors Co which has announced it will cut down production of vehicles at most of its North American assembly plants this month. This is expected to hit the production of the highly profitable truck and sport utility vehicles, the company said on Thursday. Production…
Social media company Facebook participated in an effort to help 175 Afghan citizens to leave the country following te Taliban taking over the country, the company has informed BBC. Some employees of the company were also on the flight to Mexico City, the company said. That claim was later confirmed by the Mexican government,…
TikTok owner ByteDance has acquired a virtual reality start-up called Pico marking the Chinese company’s first move virtual reality space. The size or worth of the deal was not revealed by byteDance, headquartered in Beijing, China, but said in a statement that the “comprehensive suite of software and hardware technologies of Pico, as well as…
Despite a devastating second wave of Covid-19 pandemic in the country, it is likely that the India’s economy rebounded in the April-June quarter form the huge dip it experienced last year. The driver for the rebound is expected to be the improved manufacturing output. With an annual contraction of 7.3 per cent in the fiscal…
Afghanistan banks have been pushed into a possible crisis and a very uncertain future as they face the threat of over a range of issues – from liquidity to employment of female staff, since the takeover of the country by Taliban, even though the country’s banking system is considered ot be critical for any possible…
Multinational companies are exiting from the crisis-stricken OPEC nation of Venezuela and the latest company to do so is the Japanese oil company Inpex Corp which sold off two of its oil and gas assets in the country to Caracas based Sucre Energy Group, said reports quoting sources. 70 per cent stake in Inpex’s Gas…
