On Monday, in a statement Amazon.com Inc said, it is ramping up its recruitment drive and will be hiring 100,000 more workers – its fourth hiring spree, to keep pace with surging e-commerce demand. The hiring positions will be full time and part time and will be based in its home country as well as…
According to data from auto consultancy firm LMC Automotive, Tesla Inc’s China car registrations have shot up by 450% in March to touch 12,709 units in March, up from 2,314 in February. This is in contrast to the overall auto sales in China which has plunged by 43.4% in March, with the coronavirus pandemic continuing…
The coronavirus outbreak in China poses a potential threat to the mobile phone industry, said Qualcomm Inc while adding that it is likely to impact its manufacturing and sales. These comments by Qualcomm, the world’s biggest supplier of “modem” chips has resulted in the tumbling of chip stocks despite signs that an industry downturn was…
On Friday, LG Display Co Ltd, an Apple Inc supplier offered an optimistic outlook for the year on the back of higher demand for its organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panels sending its shares higher by 4%. The optmistic forecast comes in the wake of the South Korean company seeing prolonged decline in liquid crystal display…
Toyota’s move is aimed at tapping soaring demand for cars in Myanmar. On Thursday, Toyota Motor Corp stated it would open a manufacturing facility in Myanmar which will produce Hilux pick-up trucks from 2021. The automaker plans on assembling the trucks locally following soaring demand for cars in the emerging nation. The newly built plant…
The news is likely to add to investor worries as it comes in the wake of Apple reducing its sales forecast for its smartphones. Slowing demand in China has had a significant impact on Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, with the South Korean conglomerate set to post its first drop in quarterly operating profits in two…
The amount that is being raised falls short of the $25 billion mark that was raised by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd in its 2014 IPO. As per a regulatory filing, in what is slated as Japan’s biggest-ever IPO, SoftBank Corp has priced its initial public offering (IPO) at 1,500 yen per share; it will be…
SK Hynix, the world’s second biggest memory chip producer, will boost NAND memory chip production by more than 30% in the second half of this year. NAND memory chips are easier to assemble than DRAM chips. On Thursday, South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix Inc posted a record second quarter profit which underpins a continuation in…
TCMC, the world’s biggest contract chipmakers plans on sinking in $1.3 billion in R&D to research future technologies. On Friday, a spokesman for the world’s largest contract chipmaker, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, stated it is planning to plough in $13.50 billion (T$400 billion) to help expand its research and development capacity for future technologies. Clarifying…
Roland Berger, a consultancy firm, says, the adoption of AI by utilities are heralding a new age of leaner, more efficient distribution and load bearing systems. According to Roland Berger, a consultancy firm, if utilities were to adopt artificial intelligence, which could predict demand swings on the usage of power, for example, they could significantly…
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