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• Amazon.com Inc’s Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn leaves the company

  By admin1 on February 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In an internal note, Amazon.com Inc’s Senior Vice President Jeff Blackburn said, he is leaving the company after having spent 22 years in the company. Blackburn used to oversee Amazon’s mergers and acquisitions division; he has been on a sabbatical… Read More ›

• SEC suspends KPMG auditors Jennifer Stewart and Christopher Stanley for improper professional conduct

  By admin1 on February 24, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In a statement, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said, it has suspended two former KPMG auditors from practicing before the regulator after it found that they had failing to properly conduct an audit of the now-defunct, not-for-profit college that… Read More ›

• Damage to fan blade of United Airlines Boeing 777-200 consistent with metal fatigue: NTSB chairman

  By admin1 on February 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In a statement, Robert Sumwalt, the chairman of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) stated, according to a preliminary assessments, the damage to the fan blade in the Pratt & Whitney engine which failed in the United Airlines Boeing… Read More ›

• Discovery sees 12M paid streaming subscribers by February 2021

  By admin1 on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Discovery Inc said on Monday it expects to have 12 million global paid streaming subscribers by the end of this month, as coronavirus-led restrictions kept people home and fueled streaming subscriber growth. Launched in January, discovery+ houses 55,000 episodes from… Read More ›

• Britain calls for urgent unfettered access to Xinjiang which houses modern concentration camps

  By admin1 on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  On Monday, Britain is set to call on the United Nations to ask China to give “urgent and unfettered” access to Xinjiang to investigate reports of abuses in the Chinese region. The development is also set to mark Britain’s return… Read More ›

• Chinese state funds invests in China’s BGI Genomics Co, capitalizes on COVID-19 pandemic

  By admin1 on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In a development that marks China capitalizing on the coronavirus-driven COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government has made an investment in BGI Genomics Co, a Chinese listed company that supplies millions of COVID-19 tests globally. BGI is seeking to fund exponential… Read More ›

• United Airlines only airlines which operates Pratt & Whitney PW4000 engines

  By admin1 on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has issued an emergency airworthiness directive following an engine failure on a United Boeing 777 in Denver, requiring immediate or heightened inspections of similar planes. In a statement late on Sunday, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson… Read More ›

• China appeals to reset U.S.-China relations

  By admin1 on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In a significant development that underscores the fact that the previous Administration efforts aimed at countering China’s exploitive trade practices have indeed hit their targets, senior Chinese diplomat Wang Yi has called on the Biden Administration to reopen dialogue with… Read More ›

• Activist investors want Kohl’s to optimize inventory levels, and asset holdings, nominate 9 directors to board

  By admin1 on February 22, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, a group of activist investors who have a stake of around 9.5% in Kohl’s Corp is attempting to take control of the department store chain’s board. The activist investors include Ancora… Read More ›

• Corporate taxes will be gradually raised to 23% in coming years: British Finance Minister

  By admin1 on February 21, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  In a significant development, the Sunday Times reported, British finance minister in the upcoming budget in March, Rishi Sunak is likely to raise taxes on businesses to pay for the Government’s COVID-19 support schemes. During his March 3, 2020 speech,… Read More ›