‘Labour Violations’ By Apple Supplier Wistron Found In Initial Investigation Of Its Factory Vandalism

A number of violations by Taiwanese firm and Apple supplier Wistron and its vendors were found in a preliminary investigation by an Indian labour office into the violence last weekend at the factory of the company in the Southern Indian city of Bengaluru, India, said reports quoting sources.   Workers at the factory, angry at…

Zoom Virtual Meetings To Have No Cap On Length During The Holiday Season

The video conferencing app that shot to global prominence, market valuation and the number of users during the novel coronavirus pandemic, has decided to present its users a holiday gift. The company said that the 40 minute limit for free subscribers using the video conferencing facility would be lifted for this holiday season which will…

Rate Hikes And e-Commerce Surge Results In Almost Doubling Of FedEx’s Quarterly Profit

A rate hike and a surge in volume helped the United States based delivery firm FedEx Corp to reduce the cost of delivering e-commerce purchases to residential addresses which had increased significantly during the novel coronavirus pandemic, which resulted in the company reporting its profits almost doubling in the latest completed quarter. The share prices…

Despite Covid-19 e-Commerce Growth, Adidas Will Keep Investing In Physical Stores

Despite a surge in e-commerce sales during the novel coronavirus pandemic, Adidas will continue to make investments in brick-and-mortar stores, said the CEO of the German sportswear company, Kasper Rorsted, in a televiosn interview. “There’s no doubt that online has accelerated two to three years into the future … but I actually think if you…

Massive Outage Hits Most Google Services Across The Globe

There was an outage of a number of Google’s services including Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs throughout the world on Monday. However there was reportedly no apparent impact of the technical standoff on the working of Google.com and Chrome. The outage resulted in temporary unavailability of Google Classroom which prevented many students around the world…

Facebook Being Probed In Completion Regulator In Germany Over Its Oculus VR Devices

German investigators are investigating the social media giant Facebook in relation to the company’s virtual reality headset – the Oculus Quest. Facebook has made it mandatory for an owner of the Oculus Quest 2 to have a working account on the social media which has been criticised severely by VR fans and reviewers. According to…