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Foxconn reports Q2 net profit of $1B on revenue of $48B, up 45% YoY, and says global supply crunch will worsen this quarter (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
on May 14, 2021 at 11:45
Debby Wu / Bloomberg: Foxconn reports Q2 net profit of $1B on revenue of $48B, up 45% YoY, and says global supply crunch will worsen this quarter — - Supply shortages will be more severe in 2Q than 1Q: Liu — Hon Hai shares are down 20% from March high as crunch worsens
Google is leading an effort, supported by many tech giants, to maintain work authorization for tens of thousands of people whose spouses hold H-1B visas (Lauren Feiner/CNBC)
on May 14, 2021 at 11:25
Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Google is leading an effort, supported by many tech giants, to maintain work authorization for tens of thousands of people whose spouses hold H-1B visas — - Google is leading an effort to maintain work authorization for tens of thousands of people whose spouses hold H-1B visas …
Amazon says it will hire 10,000 more people in the UK, taking its total headcount in the country to 55K by the end of 2021 (Thomas Seal/Bloomberg)
on May 14, 2021 at 11:15
Thomas Seal / Bloomberg: Amazon says it will hire 10,000 more people in the UK, taking its total headcount in the country to 55K by the end of 2021 — - Company said Thursday it would hire 75,000 logistics workers — U.K. jobs to be in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Cambridge
The Irish health service shuts down its IT system after a "significant" ransomware attack that is having a severe impact on health and social care services (BBC)
on May 14, 2021 at 11:10
BBC: The Irish health service shuts down its IT system after a “significant” ransomware attack that is having a severe impact on health and social care services — Ireland's health service has temporarily shut down its IT system after what it described as a “significant ransomware attack”.
A peer-reviewed study finds UK's NHS contact-tracing app reduced the second wave by roughly 25%, averting ~594,000 out of 1.89M cases from October-December 2020 (BBC)
on May 14, 2021 at 06:55
BBC: A peer-reviewed study finds UK's NHS contact-tracing app reduced the second wave by roughly 25%, averting ~594,000 out of 1.89M cases from October-December 2020 — The NHS contact-tracing app had a significant impact on lowering the spread of the coronavirus in the UK, a peer-reviewed paper has found.