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Lees meerPromises to abide by the result, which at the time of writing is a resounding "YES" Elon Musk may be about to fire himself as CEO of Twitter.…
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Lees meerCloud souk reportedly ready to play a little more fairly with its own merchants Amazon will reportedly make changes to its business practices to resolve two European antitrust investigations next week.…
Lees meerYou're holding your staff meetings the wrong way Apple has been accused of creating its own labor organization to prevent workers from forming an employee-run union, according to a complaint filed on Friday.…
Lees meerA day after Openreach engineers overwhelmingly accept new compensation, telco says it will merge Enterprise and Global businesses Just as one source of tension at BT ends, with unionized workers voting to accept the latest pay offer rather than to e…
Lees meerSing it in the key of C-suite, because operations truly doesn't care Whether it's because they have vast real estate investments they can't shift without hemorrhaging cash, or genuinely think their workers perform better in that space, C-suite execs…
Lees meerSurely it must realize regulators aren't going to go for this? With its telecoms and consumer electronics businesses prevented from addressing rich overseas markets, Huawei has set itself on the road to a new industry: electric cars.…
Lees meerCause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose – but not on their mind On-Call The week, and indeed the year, may be ebbing away to their respective conclusions, but The Register continues to toil away at On-Call, our weekly reader-contribu…
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Lees meerWe sure do love those government subsidies says industry cheerleader This year's shaky economy has tripped up a some semiconductor companies, although plenty of them apparently feel excited enough that they are spending hundreds of billions of dolla…
Lees meerFrankly my dear, I do give a DAAML A bipartisan bill introduced in the US Senate could finally bring the cryptocurrency industry to heel by, among other things, extending existing banking regulations to cover digital currencies and designating crypt…
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