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Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now When the COVID-19 shutdown began in March throughout the United States, my team at Adobe had to face a stark reality: Business as usual was no longer an option. Suddenly, over just a single weekend, we had to shift our …

COVID-19 has badly affected shopping mall Mustafa Centre. In April, the mall was identified as a COVID-19 cluster and was forced to shut down. Its supermarket section reopened a month later in May, but it has yet to resume its regular 24-hour operating hours due to high operational costs and …

“We’re not just a cloud kitchen. We’re a social kitchen,” says Alvin Yapp, co-founder of The Social Kitchen. Launched last Saturday (August 1), the social enterprise opened its flagship kitchen at the Y cafe in YMCA at Orchard Road. They are dubbed Singapore’s first social enterprise cloud kitchen, which provides …

VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 14 – 17 Register Today (Reuters) — Amazon plans to create at least $ 100 million in stock awards to retain the 900-plus employees of Zoox, the self-driving car startup it offered to buy last month, and can walk away …

Here’s what you need to know: Outlook worsens in parts of the U.S. as July begins with a crush of cases. Federal workers in the U.S. are returning to their offices. The fullest look yet at the racial inequity of the virus in the U.S. The Louvre reopens, with considerably …

Indonesia-based ride-hailing firm Gojek announced on Tuesday night (June 23) that it will be trimming off 9 per cent of its workforce. According to Gojek, 430 workers will be affected — most of them will be from its Indonesia office, and the impact on its Singapore team will be minimal. …

(REUTERS) — U.S. President Donald Trump will suspend the entry of certain foreign workers, a senior administration official said on Monday, a move the official said would help the economy, but which business groups strongly oppose. Trump will block the entry of foreign workers on H-1B visas for skilled workers …

On Thursday nights, Britons bang pots and pans and let out hearty cheers of support for doctors and nurses who care for coronavirus patients and for other essential workers amid the pandemic. But the organizer behind the weekly ritual says it’s time for it to end, pointing to concerns that …

A Canadian Air Force jet crashed, killing one of the military personnel on board, in Kamloops, British Columbia, on Sunday during a flyover that was intended as a tribute to Canadians, especially those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, the authorities said. Capt. Jenn Casey, who was a …