In an effort to stop the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus, Samsung Electronics said, it will be adopt electronic voting for the first time ever in its annual general meeting (AGM) on March 18. Samsung’s AGM will take place at a convention center in Suwon, around 18 miles (30 km) south of Seoul. On Monday,…
Hackers and cons are trying to take advantage of the copronavirus pandemic with an increase in email scams that is unprecedented according to security experts. According to experts, individuals as well as companies in industries such as aerospace, transport, manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare and insurance are being targeted by cyber-criminals. The criminals are using a range…
A facility for the testing of a treatment for the fast spreading coronavirus pandemic is being planned to be started within the next few months by Eli Lilly, the company’s CEO David Ricks announced during a television interview. Making the announcement, Ricks said that it has joined hands for this purpose with the privately held…
Australia’s Qantas airlines is currently in the process of paying back millions of dollars to hundreds of the company’s workers because the firm had previously underpaid them for as long as eight years, the country’s Fair Work Ombudsman has said. The ombudsman said on Friday that so far, a total of $7.1 million to 638…
Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates will no longer serve on the company’s board starting Friday, the software tech giant said on Friday. Gate will also be stepping down from the governing body of Berkshire Hathaway. “I have made the decision to step down from both of the public boards on which I serve – Microsoft…
According to court filings by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on Thursday, the DoD is asking permission from the court to reconsider certain aspects of its decision to award a $10 billion cloud computing contract to Microsoft Corp. Last month, a U.S. judge had granted Amazon.com Inc’s request to temporarily halt the DoD from…
On Friday, Apple Inc’s spokesman said, it is reopening all of its 42 branded stores in China after more than a month since they have been shut due to China’s coronavirus. The iPhone maker’s Chinese website listed the opening time for all stores, which varies from 10:00 am to 11:00 am local time. In early…
United States based global retailer Amazon.com has announced that all of its employees will be allowed to take unlimited sick days this month. However sick pay will be given to those employees who have been confirmed to be infected with the virus that causes the disease called Covid19. Employees in many of the company’s warehouses…
A new technology that evidently helps computers to better understand human communication will be commercialized by IBM. With the improvement of artificial intelligence systems in their abilities to process and learn from large quantities of data, they have become more important for businesses. However artificial intelligence systems have not been able to completely understand the…
Japan’s Sharp Corp has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against U.S. TV brand Vizio Inc and two others in an attempt to seek an injunction to ban one of Vizio’s TV products in the United States. In a statement, Sharp, a unit of Taiwan’s Foxconn, said Vizio’s 70-inch TV product uses liquid crystal display (LCD)…
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