IT services giant Wipro has fired 300 employees in recent months who were found to be moonlighting for competitors, a top executive said Wednesday, weighing in on a practice that has gained momentum across the globe as firms incorporate work-from-home norms. Rishad Premji, the chairman of Wipro, which employs over 250,000 employees in over five…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Amazon has unveiled a new line of 8-inch Fire HD tablets — and with it, the broader availability of an accessibility feature that allows customers to access Alexa via touch instead of voice. The next generation of the bestselling Fire HD 8 family includes four new models with strengthened aluminosilicate glass displays and hexa-core processors,…
With the summer sadly coming to an end, it’s a good time to reflect on what’s important and what to focus on for the rest of the year. Security awareness should always be front of your mind, but there’s always time for a refresh of what you need to be alert to, especially as cybercriminals…
The 2022 Mobile Industry Awards (MIAs) will celebrate the people, the organisations, and the innovations that have made it yet another year to remember for the world of mobility. It’s also the event’s twentieth anniversary, and it’s fair to say a lot has changed since 2002. The past two decades have seen the mobile phone…
Germany is trying to secure its energy supply before winter. (Photo by Federico Gambarini/picture alliance via Getty Images) Germany is nationalizing gas importer Uniper as it seeks to secure its energy supply before winter. The government will spend another 8 billion euros on Uniper, having earlier invested 15 billion. As part of the deal, Germany…
The cost of energy has been escalating across Europe since Russia began limiting gas supplies. skynesher/Getty Images Five million people in the UK are going without food to pay household bills, a report says. One in five adults in the UK said they were behind on at least one bill payment. The cost of energy…
The pandemic drove a dramatic increase in time US consumers spend per day with media. Most of those increases will stick in 2021; but traditional TV will lose all its 2020 gains. Do you work in the Marketing, Media & Advertising industry? Get business insights on the latest tech innovations, market trends, and your competitors…
Hi. I’m Aaron Weinman. Josh Harris has been a busy bee of late. He stepped away from day-to-day activities at Apollo Global Management — the private-equity firm he co-founded — in May last year. He has since been building his new shop, 26North Partners, which will launch with more than $5 billion in assets. He…
Falling food prices will drag headline inflation down soon, according to Capital Economics’ Paul Ashworth. Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images A “disinflationary wave is building” in the US, according to Capital Economics’ Paul Ashworth. Falling gasoline and food prices will cause headline inflation figures to fall soon, he said. That would allow the…
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