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Starbucks to shift strategy to automation and expansion
Still, the coffee giant, which has been facing a wave of unionization efforts inside stores across the United States, was light on specifics around some of the concerns that have been raised by its employees, like scheduling
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Twitter 'chose to mislead' on security flaws: Whistleblower
Peiter Zatko, who was Twitter's top security official before he was fired in January, testified that the FBI had notified the company during his tenure that "there was at least one agent" of China's Ministry of State Security "on the payroll inside Twitter"
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Uber pays $100 million to New Jersey in driver status dispute
Uber paid the US state of New Jersey $100 million in back taxes and fines for labelling nearly 300,000 of its drivers as self-employed and withholding required benefits; however, this is only a fraction of the $1 billion initially demanded by the state
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Europe's battle with Big Tech: Billions in fines and tough laws
In the past few years, the EU has slapped eye-watering fines on Apple and Google in tax and competition cases, and drawn up a landmark law to curb the market dominance of Big Tech
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Inside King Charles III's billion-dollar investment portfolio
King Charles III built his own empire long before he inherited his mother's. Charles has spent half a century turning his royal estate into a billion-dollar portfolio and one of the most lucrative moneymakers in the royal family business
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There's a new cop on the banking beat: Chief climate risk officer
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced Monday that Yue Chen would be the agency's chief climate risk officer. Chen will focus on developing a new system to assess climate-driven risks to banks, and figure out how to monitor and manage them
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Who is Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko: The wild card in Musk's clash with Twitter
The platform's former head of security Zatko's whistleblower complaint of "extreme, egregious deficiencies" in Twitter defenses against hackers and "meager efforts to fight spam" plays into Musk's quest to convince a judge that he was duped when he foisted his unsolicited offer on the company
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Russia war: Ukraine reconstruction to cost $349 billion, says report
The figure which is 1.5 times the size of the Ukrainian economy, is considered a minimum and is expected to grow as the war continues, according to a joint assessment by the Ukraine government along with the European government, and the World Bank
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Musk's latest reason to drop Twitter deal—whistleblower payment
Elon Musk's latest volley of accusations against Twitter is a multi-million dollar severance payment it made in June to the former security chief, now whistleblower, Pieter Zatko
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Ethereum blockchain set for 'monumental' overhaul to reduce energy use
Developers have spent years working on a more energy-efficient version of the ethereum blockchain which burns through more power each year than New Zealand
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The immortal awfulness of open plan workplaces
For decades, research has found that open plan offices are bad for companies, bad for workers, bad for health and bad for morale. And yet they just won't die