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...The commerce ministry last week banned several Raytheon and Lockheed Martin executives from entering the country and prohibited Chinese groups from selling to the two US defence contractors....
...The deal will greatly expand Home Depot’s reach among contractors and builders....
...Hull had previously argued Apple’s policies were inconsistently applied and that the company appeared not to know whether its contractors were asked to sign arbitration, non-disclosure or non-disparagement...
...Inc., a footwear company based in California, agreed to settle charges for failing to disclose payments for the benefit of its executives and their immediate family members....
...Strong deals in Europe have added to the mood, with listings for the likes of German defence contractor Renk and Athens International Airport rising after their market debuts....
...recombination of ideas (those constant software updates), learning by doing and international trade (has anyone ever produced a high tech product at a scale matching Apple and its stable of global sub-contractors...
...The delivery company said on Tuesday the headcount reductions would target its 85,000 workers in management, along with some contractors, with three-quarters of the lay-offs expected to occur in the first...
...Avid Bioservices, a small-cap company that helps develop and manufacture drugs for pharmaceutical companies, filed this with the SEC yesterday: On February 29, 2024, Avid Bioservices, Inc....
...Hacking Inc....
...its minimum wage of $15 per hour was below reasonable estimates of the “living wage” in some parts of the country, and that it was avoiding obligations to workers by treating many of them as “independent contractors...
...Uber had argued that it was exempt from VAT because its drivers were self-employed contractors. However, the Supreme Court ruled that its drivers should be considered workers....
...Some of the larger contractors are also looking at partnerships....
...Mitsubishi Heavy, the contractor for the H3, says the rocket is intended to match the Falcon 9 at least in terms of cost, if not in frequency of use. and the company envisages six launches a year....
...Social networks including Meta, TikTok and YouTube hire external contractors to conduct this work....
...In the 1990s, 51 prime contractors worked for the Pentagon. This has shrunk to five highly diversified companies: Lockheed, Raytheon Technologies, Boeing, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman....
...Global investors and companies have huge dollar-denominated liabilities, and so have little choice but to buy dollars into a default....
...And the kinds of projects contractors are working on “are changing from large-scale remodels to smaller projects”....
...The US defence contractor is buying missile engine maker Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.7bn, including debt....
...And in this case, we found that it was another company sitting on top called Infiniweb. Infiniweb Technology, Inc. seemed like a ghost....
...independent contractors....
...“The attacker then repeatedly tried to log in to the contractor’s Uber account,” the company said....
...The difficulties facing Apple and its contractor manufacturer Foxconn are just the start of industrial ill-effects from China’s drastic zero-Covid policy....
...as the global ride-hailing group on Tuesday said it had this week “resolved all outstanding HMRC VAT claims” related to the change in classification of its UK ride-hailing drivers as workers rather than contractors...
...But having made sweeping cuts during the depths of the pandemic in mid-2020, in which about 2,000 full-time employees and about 1,000 contractors were let go, Chesky said he had no concerns about Airbnb’...
...Karl Schamotta, FX strategist at Corpay, offers one more reason to be sceptical that the yen is behind the growth uptick: Japan Inc became a multinational while no one was looking....
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