by Beth Holmes | Aug 1, 2022 | Companies, News, Technology
T-Mobile has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit about a massive data breach, to the tune of $350 million. In August 2021, T-Mobile disclosed that approximately 50 million people, mostly not their customers, had been affected by a data breach. Most of the records...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 25, 2022 | Companies, News
Delta placing an order for 100 new airplanes, as travel demand surges in the wake of pandemic restrictions. The Boeing 737 Max 10 is Boeing’s largest aircraft, with some notoriety after two of them crashed in 2018 and 2019. Both crashes were due to faulty...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 18, 2022 | Companies, News
Gun manufacturers may be liable to the victims of gun violence, according to a bill signed in California on Tuesday. California governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1594 into law on Tuesday after it passed successfully through the state assembly. The new law...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 11, 2022 | News
Revenue from the Suez Canal hits an all time peak of $7 billion this financial year, according to the Canal Authority. The Suez Canal in Egypt, which was dug in the mid-1800s by a French company using Egyptian labor, connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea via...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 4, 2022 | Companies, News, Social Media
The $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News over election laws will go forward, after a judge rules that the case has merit. Dominion Voting Systems is a company that produces electronic voting machines and scanning machines to count paper ballots....
by Beth Holmes | Jun 27, 2022 | Companies, News
Kellogg company, the cereal giant founded in 1906, has announced that they’ll be splitting into three separate foods companies by the end of 2024. The Kellogg company, originally named as Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company and usually know as just...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 20, 2022 | Companies, News, Profiles, Technology
Neutrality for Microsoft in the unionization of Activision Blizzard, even though the tech giant is in the process of buying the video game company. On Monday, officials at Microsoft announced the company has signed a labor neutrality agreement with Communication...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Technology
The Fair Repair Act has passed in New York, the U.S.’s first “right-to-repair” bill broadly concerning user electronics. Right-to-repair has been a topic of keen interest in the technology sector for a while, most often mentioned in conjunction with Apple and...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 6, 2022 | News
Hiring signs are everywhere, as job openings fall from record peak but still remain very high, according to the U.S. Labor Department. In March, employers advertised 11.9 million job openings, the highest level in over twenty years. For every unemployed person, that...
by Beth Holmes | May 30, 2022 | Companies, News
Shareholders at Amazon don’t want working conditions in the megacompany’s warehouses to be audited for safety and labor conditions. Wednesday’s meeting of shareholders at Amazon was largely focused on worker’s rights and company transparency,...
