Estimated reading time: 4-5 minutes SAN FRANCISCO – Alphabet’s Google will pay $700 million and revamp its Play app store to allow more competition as part of an antitrust settlement with U.S. states and consumers, according to the company’s filings in federal court in San Francisco on Monday Documents. Under the settlement, which still requires … [Read more…]
Southwest Airlines flight attendants are rejecting a contract offer made by their union and the airline From The Associated Press December 8, 2023, 7:40 p.m FILE – Southwest Airlines plane prepares to land at Midway International Airport on Feb. 12, 2023, in Chicago. Southwest Airlines flight attendants have rejected a contract offer from airline negotiators … [Read more…]
Nokia plunged to its lowest level in three years after it lost out to rival Ericsson in a major contract with telecommunications giant AT&T to roll out an open radio access network (Open RAN) in the US Stockholm-listed shares of Swedish company Ericsson rose significantly on Tuesday morning after the deal was completed. The companies … [Read more…]
Palantir, the software company founded by billionaire Peter Thiel, won a major contract in Britain on Tuesday to overhaul the country’s national health service’s technology system, allaying concerns that a company known for its military-related work in the United States would secure such a sensitive role in connection with patient data. The National Health Service … [Read more…]
Members of the United Automobile Workers union have backed new contracts with the three major U.S. automakers, agreements that provide steep wage increases and other benefits that had eluded the union for more than 20 years. In the most hotly contested vote, General Motors’ tentative contract agreement won the support of 55 percent of the … [Read more…]
A federal judge ruled Friday that Twitter, now known as The company promised its employees half of their potential bonuses both before and after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the company in 2022, but never paid them out, the lawsuit says. Mark Schobinger, then the company’s senior director of compensation, filed a lawsuit against the … [Read more…]