#company

anonymiss@despora.de

#Ford just reported a massive loss on every electric vehicle it sold

Source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ford-just-reported-a-massive-loss-on-every-electric-vehicle-it-sold/ar-AA1nBsrC

Ford’s electric vehicle unit reported that losses soared in the first quarter to $1.3 billion, or $132,000 for each of the 10,000 vehicles it sold in the first three months of the year, helping to drag down earnings for the #company overall.

#economy #car #fail #finance #problem #electricity #news #usa

anonymiss@despora.de

#TruthSocial faces harsh reality as a public #company

source: https://www.axios.com/2024/03/27/truth-social-stock-facebook-twitter-ipo

Truth Social — the #Trump - owned social #media platform that started trading yesterday — currently has far fewer users and less income than any social #network that has gone public before.

For now, Truth is trading like a #meme #stock, meaning its market value is completely divorced from its financial reality.

#politics #news #economy #internet #finance #usa

bliter@diaspora-fr.org
anonymiss@despora.de

US Supreme #Court rejects #Twitter Corp's #surveillance #disclosure #challenge

source: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-rejects-x-corps-surveillance-disclosure-challenge-2024-01-08/

The justices declined to hear X's appeal of a lower court's ruling holding that the #FBI's restrictions on what the #company could say publicly about the investigations did not violate its free speech rights under the U.S. #Constitution's First Amendment.

#Freedom #USA #law #news #economy #police #internet

anonymiss@despora.de

#NVIDIA sued for stealing #trade secrets after screensharing blunder showed rival #company's #code

source: https://www.engadget.com/nvidia-sued-for-stealing-trade-secrets-after-screensharing-blunder-showed-rival-companys-code-063009605.html

NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company #Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees. According to Valeo's complaint, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an engineer for NVIDIA who used to work for its company, had mistakenly showed its #source code files on his computer as he was sharing his screen during a meeting with both firms in 2022. Valeo's employees quickly recognized the code and took #screenshots before #Moniruzzaman was notified of his mistake.

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#crime #fail #economy #justice #software

anonymiss@despora.de

#SamAltman to return as #CEO of #OpenAI

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/22/sam-altman-openai-ceo-return-board-chatgpt

The San Francisco-based #company made the announcement after days of corporate drama in the wake of Altman’s surprise sacking on Friday. Nearly all of OpenAI’s 750-strong #workforce had threatened to quit unless the board overseeing the #business brought back #Altman and then quit immediately afterwards.

#news #ai #economy #management

anonymiss@despora.de

The Workers Behind #AI Rarely See Its Rewards. This Indian #Startup Wants to Fix That

source: https://time.com/6297403/the-workers-behind-ai-rarely-see-its-rewards-this-indian-startup-wants-to-fix-that/

Chopra isn’t the first tech founder to rhapsodize about the potential of #AI data #work to benefit the world’s poorest. Sama, an #outsourcing company that has handled contracts for #OpenAI’s #ChatGPT and #Meta’s #Facebook, also marketed itself as an “ethical” way for tech companies to lift people in the Global South out of #poverty. But as I reported in January, many of its ChatGPT workers in Kenya—some earning less than $2 per hour—told me they were exposed to training data that left them traumatized. The #company also performed similar content moderation work for Facebook; one worker on that project told me he was fired when he campaigned for better working conditions. When asked by the BBC about low wages in 2018, Sama’s late founder argued that paying workers higher #could disrupt local economies, causing more harm than good. Many of the data workers I’ve spoken to while reporting on this industry for the past 18 months have bristled at this logic, saying it’s a convenient narrative for companies that are getting rich off the proceeds of their labor.

Our prosperity is based on merciless exploitation. No new knowledge and new technologies do not change this.

#technology #economy #problem #health #news #capitalism #future

anonymiss@despora.de

#Dropbox Kills #Unlimited #Cloud #Space

source: https://www.techtimes.com/articles/295550/20230824/more-dropbox-unlimited-cloud-storage-highest-offered-plan-now-capped.htm

Originally, the storage plan was designed to cater to the needs of businesses. However, it appears that some people are just using it for cloud reselling, cryptocurrency mining, and other activities.

According to Dropbox, these "frequently consume thousands of times more storage than our genuine business customers, which risks creating an unreliable experience for all of our customers."

Companies should simply stop spreading such obvious #advertising lies. Everything has to be economical and no #company can afford unlimited. Why always lie so innocently and then when the #customer really uses the unlimitedness let loose such a drivel. Be honest and offer what you are willing to offer.

#business #economy #internet #finance #problem #lie #advertisement #news #fail #marketing

anonymiss@despora.de

Is your #workplace ready for flexible #work? A survey offers clues.

Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/real-estate/our-insights/is-your-workplace-ready-for-flexible-work-a-survey-offers-clues

"Though organizations acknowledge that hybrid work is the new normal, most have not yet adopted true hybrid principles, which include creating policies, workflows, and documentation to help employees understand the most effective ways of #hybrid working."

...

"Many #company leaders today are preoccupied with the ongoing debate about days in the office rather than the capabilities and strategies being deployed to create a sustainable, responsive, and magnetic workplace experience."

#news #economy #society #politics #management #leader #problem #office #employee #labour #ceo #capitalism

anonymiss@despora.de

Dutch #government to hold #3M liable for 'forever #chemicals' #damage

source: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/dutch-government-hold-3m-liable-forever-chemicals-damage-2023-05-23/

Higher than acceptable pollutant levels have resulted in financial damages for the fishing fleet and the government, the Netherlands said.

"I think polluters should pay (...). Holding 3M liable is in line with that basic position," Dutch Infrastructure and Water Management Minister Mark Harbers said in a statement.

#poison #PFAS #pollution #economy #news #justice #company #environment #nature #politics

christophs@diaspora.glasswings.com

Why Corporate America Is Obsessed With "Company Culture" - YouTube

Mandatory fun!
#work #culture #company

Corporate America has become obsessed with company culture but those Friday afternoon drinks and team building days are papering over a terrible trend which is making your workplace miserable and stalling your career. Company culture is one of the biggest trends in corporate management.

Small companies with as few as twenty employees are hiring culture managers whose full-time job is to promote a collaborative and positive work environment. These are full time employee that from a bottom-line business perspective do nothing but make the other nineteen employees more engaged with their work. According to a survey of job seekers and hiring managers conducted by Robert Half a workforce analytics firm, ninety one percent of managers said that a candidates fit with the organizational culture was more important than their skills and experience.

Hilariously a PWC survey on company culture found that sixty nine percent of companies believed their culture gave them a competitive edge… presumably over the thirty one percent of companies that realized that an office doesn’t need a ping pong table and kombucha on tap to be a nice place to work. Managing corporate culture is expensive, corporate culture managers are earning an average salary package of one hundred and ten thousand dollars a year according to GlassDoor. Direct salary expenses also don’t capture the additional costs of running culture events, and the lost manhours in the name of team building.

It’s a big investment and one that is not paying off.

If corporate culture is starting to sound less like an annoying business buzzword and more like a horrifying trend that was only the first reason out of four.

So, it’s time to learn How Money Wo ...

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It was going to be another #sunny day here...

HEAVY chemtrailing going on.

Looks like a #barium rich kind of #chemtrailing today, given the bright glare.

Anyone know where to go to #lookup who's doing the #chemtrails, and what type, when? Got a #map?

Do we have to ask each #geoengineering #company separately? Do the #cloudseeding #companies even #divulge that?

Maybe if I bought stocks? Or hired them myself and inquired if already doing?

I lost track of how many companies offer such "service", over a decade before even discovering it was more than just evergreen avionics (promoted in the early noughties).

Various #financial " #news " outlets do puff-pieces on the cloudseeding corporations, advertising stocks in them, and then you can find "news" pieces from "disinformation specialists" presenting the idea of chemtrailing as " #ConspiracyTheory " peddled by " #ConspiracyTheorists "... like there's one narrative for the rich investor class, and another divisive agnogenerative narrative for "the little people". Some day, people will look up.

#byebyebluesky

anonymiss@despora.de

#Levi's will use #AI #models for their online shops

Source: https://www.levistrauss.com/2023/03/22/lsco-partners-with-lalaland-ai/

Diversity, equity and inclusion is a top priority for us at LS&Co., and it’s important to note we do not see AI-generated models as a sole solution.

Speaking about "inclusion" after exclusion of real human models - what a mad word...

#fashion #technology #closes #diversity #inclusion #newspeak #advertisement #propaganda #company #press #fail #politics #news

anonymiss@despora.de

Thousands lose #money to #iEarn #Bot #crypto #scam

source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64939146

iEarn Bot presents itself as a US-based #company with excellent credentials, but when the BBC fact-checked some information on its website, it raised some red flags.

The man whom the site names as the company's founder told us he had never heard of them. He said he has made a complaint to the police.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alongside companies such as Huawei and Qualcomm, are all named as "strategic partners" of iEarn Bot, but they too said they have no knowledge of the company and they are not working with it.

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#crime #finance #fail #news