Amazon.com is hiring 75,000 workers and offering $1,000 signing bonuses in some locations, the latest hiring spree in what has been a year of tremendous growth.63
Apple parted ways with a prominent advertising-technology executive weeks after hiring him, following complaints about sexist and misogynistic passages in a memoir he wrote about his time at Facebook.
SoftBank is pulling back from an investment unit it set up last year whose bets on publicly traded technology stocks were so large they earned the Japanese investor the nickname “Nasdaq whale.”
Walt Disney added 8.7 million Disney+ subscribers in its fiscal second quarter, and its parks segment logged an operating loss as the company faces an economy trying to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic.90
Car makers have cut production of 1.2 million vehicles in North America because of a shortage of computer chips, losing sales amid high demand.341
Company officials have said they are seeing gradual business improvement as people appear more willing to book stays, as well as an uptick in local travel.
The food-delivery service’s loss for the three months through March narrowed but missed analysts’ estimates.
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