The European Commission on Thursday welcomed the temporary maintenance of the conditions for awarding subsidies to electric cars in the United States, after the US Treasury Department said in a publication that it had delayed the publication of the final conditions. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – the official name of President Joe Biden’s climate … Read more
China has announced that it has filed a case at the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the United States over its restrictions on semiconductor exports, accusing Washington of endangering global supply chains. In October, the United States became on behalf of “national security” announced new export controls aimed at limiting Beijing’s ability to buy and … Read more
Shortly after these announcements, employees spoke on “the blue bird” to announce the elimination of their position, sometimes using the hashtags #LoveWhereYouWork (Love your workplace) and #OneTeam (Only one team). “All my thoughts, respect, energy and love to the tweeps (nickname of Twitter employees, editor’s note) around the world today. We’ve built the most amazing … Read more
The creator of Tesla and Space X, incidentally the richest man in the world, is the subject of a portrait on RMC Découverte this Monday at 9:05 p.m. Alexander the Great and Genghis Kahn would no doubt have envied him. Because Elon Musk, the richest man in the world with a fortune estimated at 300 … Read more
Several human rights NGOs have joined forces in the hope of preventing Elon Musk from buying Twitter, for fear that the multi-billionaire will allow toxic behavior to explode on the platform. “If we don’t block this operation, he will give a megaphone to demagogues and extremists, who (…) incite hatred, violence and harassment”, Nicole Gill, … Read more
Elon Musk has served ex-Twitter boss Jack Dorsey with an injunction to provide a whole series of documents, as part of the battle he launched to extricate himself from the $ 44 billion takeover deal of the social network. According to documents made public Monday, August 22, Jack Dorsey was ordered to give Elon Musk … Read more
The vote of Twitter shareholders on its acquisition by Elon Musk will take place on September 13, before the start of the lawsuit that the social network has brought against the richest man in the world in October. Twitter summoned its shareholders for a “special meetingby videoconference, according to official documents filed Tuesday with the … Read more
Consumer confidence picked up more than expected in August in the United States, due to the improving outlook on the inflation front, which relieves low- and middle-income households, according to the preliminary estimate published on Friday. by the University of Michigan. The index stood at 55.1 points, up 7% from July, and higher than the … Read more
Productivity in the United States suffered its biggest drop on record in the second quarter, while businesses saw labor costs rise the fastest since 1982, contributing to the high inflation the country is experiencing. From April to June, productivity fell 2.5% compared to the same period last year, according to the preliminary estimate released Tuesday … Read more
The American authorities announced Monday August 8 that they wanted to seize in Kazakhstan the Airbus A319 of the Russian oligarch and parliamentarian Andrei Skotch, targeted by American and European sanctions in the wake of Moscow’s outbreak of the war in Ukraine. American justice obtained a “mandate” for the “seizureof this private Airbus A319-100 belonging … Read more
