ATLANTA, Georgia: Delta Air Lines Inc and its pilots union said on Sunday (May 31) they are working to avoid furloughs of roughly 2,300 pilots following a reshuffling process meant to match staffing to summer 2021 flying. Delta said this month that it would have more pilots than needed as […]
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SYDNEY: Google has rejected demands it pay hundreds of millions of dollars per year in compensation to Australian news media under a government-imposed revenue-sharing deal. The company’s top executive in Australia said Google made barely A$10 million (US$6.7 million) per year from news-linked advertising, a fraction of a government watchdog’s […]
NEW YORK: Retail giant Target shuttered stores across the US as retailers already reeling from closures due to the coronavirus pandemic shut stores amid protests that included looting in many US cities on Sunday (May 31). Protests turned violent in places including New York and Chicago in the wake of […]
SAN FRANCISCO: In addition to disputing misleading claims made by US President Donald Trump about mail-in ballots this week, Twitter has added fact-checking labels to thousands of other tweets since introducing the alerts earlier this month, mostly on posts about the coronavirus. The company does not expect to need additional […]
BEIJING: Factory activity in China expanded at a slower pace in May as the country attempts to get back on track after the coronavirus, official data showed Sunday (May 31), with the global economic slump making the sector’s recovery difficult. China’s factories have stirred back to life after the lifting […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.: SpaceX, the private rocket company of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, launched two Americans into orbit from Florida on Saturday in a landmark mission marking the first spaceflight of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil in nine years. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space […]
BANGKOK: Shuffling around their tiny slum home which is too small to stand up in, Thanapat Noidee and his wife Papassorn share donated noodles with their sons and worry about bills, as the coronavirus pushes Thailand’s poor deeper into penury. The wood and breeze-block hut which is their home stands […]
WASHINGTON: Four US senators, including a China hawk, urged the Federal Trade Commission on Friday (May 29) to investigate allegations that the popular video app TikTok violated a consent decree protecting children’s privacy. In their letter, lawmakers noted a report by the Center for Digital Democracy, Campaign for a Commercial-Free […]
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump signed an order on Thursday (May 28) seeking to strip social media giants like Twitter of legal immunity for content on their platforms in a move slammed by his critics as a legally dubious act of political revenge. The executive order calls on government regulators to […]
SINGAPORE: Hyflux’s high-profile debt restructuring seems to be hanging in the balance again after it said on Friday (May 29) that its S$400 million rescue deal with Middle Eastern suitor Utico has “ceased2 with the lapsing of the long-stop date earlier this week. The embattled water treatment firm said it […]