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Could coronavirus help Amazon workers unionize?
By Nandita Bose and Krystal Hu WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Warehouse employees last month staged a walkout in Michigan to demand safer working conditions at their facility. So did workers in New York, Illi...
May 21, 2020
Exterminate! UV robot sent to Singapore mall to zap coronavirus
By Joseph Campbell SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A shopping mall in Singapore is deploying a newly developed smart robot to fight the novel coronavirus, not with chemicals - but with light. While spraying has...
May 21, 2020
India’s Swiggy, Zomato start booze deliveries during COVID-19 lockdown
BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's top two food-delivery startups, Swiggy and Zomato, will begin delivering alcohol in some cities starting from Thursday, as they cash in on the high demand for booze durin...
May 21, 2020
Gap rushes in more robots to warehouses to solve virus disruption
By Jeffrey Dastin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. apparel chain Gap Inc is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus ...
May 21, 2020
In SoftBank slides, tofu, a goose and unicorns underpin sales pitch
By Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - A chastened Masayoshi Son summed up SoftBank Group Corp's record $13 billion operating loss on stage this week with a striking image: unicorns tumbling into the "valley...
May 21, 2020
Japan’s Panasonic to cut 800 jobs in Thailand, move some production to Vietnam next year
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Japanese appliance-maker Panasonic Corp on Thursday said that next year it will move its Thai-based production of refrigerators and washing machines to Vietnam, laying off some 800...
May 21, 2020
Softbank says it will sell 5% of domestic telco
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp said it plans to sell 5% of its domestic telco SoftBank Corp as part of its plan to raise $41 billion through asset sales. The sale of 240 million shares will lea...
May 21, 2020
UK says dealing with technical issues of track and trace app – minister
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is dealing with technical issues of its track and trace app that it hopes will help it keep the novel coronavirus outbreak under control, but will use traditional tracking m...
May 21, 2020
Samsung Electronics breaks ground for sixth domestic contract chip manufacturing line
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Thursday said it has broken ground for its sixth domestic contract chip production line, which will make logic chips as part of efforts to...
May 20, 2020
U.S. regulators open door to possible tightening of Huawei chip curb
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are open to making changes to close what some see as a loophole in a new rule aimed at curbing global chip sales to blacklisted Chinese telecoms equipment maker ...
May 20, 2020
