Technology

E-commerce giant Amazon is looking for 55,000 new employees worldwide. That said, the new CEO Andy Jassy in an interview with Reuters. This mainly concerns technological profiles for robotics, engineering or the satellite program Project Kuiper.   The vast majority, about 40,000 jobs, are created in the United States. But the internet giant is also looking for 2,500 people in the United Kingdom. The other jobs mainly concern vacancies in Germany, India and Japan. According to the new CEO, Amazon needs the extra staff to keep up with its growth in retail, cloud computing, and advertising. In addition, there is the ambitious Project Kuiper, a competitor of Starlink (SpaceX, Elon Musk), in which satellites in space should provide better access to broadband internet. “We continue to gr...

Video conferencing service Zoom has booked more than a billion dollars in a quarter for the first time. However, growth is beginning to slow, and investors sent shares in the United States down more than ten percent after hours.   Video meetings became a regular part of the working day for many people during the corona pandemic. That did not harm players like Zoom. Zoom was still able to grow in the second quarter of this year. Turnover was more than half higher than a year ago, at 1.02 billion dollars. Net profit rose more than seventy percent to $316.9 million. Zoom lived up to expectations. But investors mainly looked to the future, as more and more people start going back to work. As a result, zoom came out with a very cautious forecast, a disappointment to some. The company ex...

Jay Y. Lee, vice president of Samsung, will be released on bail on Friday. Politicians, public opinion and businesses alike fear that Samsung will miss out on opportunities if the CEO cannot manage.   Jay Y. Lee is currently serving a prison sentence for, among other things, bribery and embezzlement. He bribed a good friend of the former Korean president. Getting and keeping Lee in jail proves difficult. In August 2017, the man was given a five-year sentence, of which he served one year before the sentence itself was suspended and subsequently reduced. He has been behind bars since January but is now released on bail. The reason for this is remarkable. Lee has repaid the embezzled amounts but can also count on broad public and political support. For example, Reuters says that lobb...

During a so-called earnings call from Tesla, Elon Musk lashed out at Apple. The CEO denounced the closed system of the fruit brand, which he described as a 'walled garden', and criticized Apple's use of cobalt. According to news channel CNBC.   When discussion arose during the call about plans to allow Tesla competitors also to access Tesla's electric vehicle charging network, Musk noted that the company does not want to create a "walled garden" to thwart others, citing the strategy that Apple uses for its App Store: a mandatory commission for those who want to sell their software through the Store, knowing that this is the only (because official and safe) way to install apps on an iPhone or iPad. "We want to emphasize that our (Tesla, ed.) main concern is to support the emergence ...