Apr 23, 2020 | Blockchain, Business, Justice
At a sewing workshop in the South Indian town of Chittapur, a seamstress named Halima has spent much of her day cutting a new blouse pattern out of dyed cotton fabrics, embroidering the sleeves by hand, and then stitching the seams together before shipping the entire...
Apr 23, 2020 | Business, Car Sharing
Another business is being impacted by COVID-19. General Motor’s Maven car-sharing service is being shuttered. This follows the for-now, temporary suspension of autonomous vehicle trials around the country. The app-based Maven service, started in early 2016 as a ZipCar...
Apr 16, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles, Investment
Electric vehicle pioneer Tesla got a big boost of confidence from Wall Street Wednesday. Goldman Sachs says buy shares now. “We expect 2020 [industry] fundamentals to be very challenging cyclically,” wrote analyst Mark Delaney in a Wednesday research report....
Apr 9, 2020 | Business, Electric Vehicles
Rivian was expected to make the first customer deliveries of its electric truck later this year. The company slowed down work at its factory in Normal, Illinois, in mid-March, and then shut down operations there on March 20. The Pantagraph, a local newspaper in the...
Apr 9, 2020 | Blockchain, Business, Communications
As people around the world started following shelter-in-place orders, popular video conferencing platform Zoom quickly gained new users, noting in a recent blog post that it had reached more than 200 million daily users last month, up from 10 million in December. From...
Apr 9, 2020 | Business, Featured, Robots & Drones
Local grocers and big chains alike are deploying robots to clean floors, stock shelves and deliver groceries to shoppers during the coronavirus. Grocers are searching for ways to reduce pressure on store workers and increase efficiency amid a surge of shoppers...
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