Mexico’s export boom shows how trade helps workers join the formal labor force
Trade liberalization has helped Mexico become an export superstar. Exports of goods and services as a share of GDP more than doubled to 41 percent
New Smartcard to Speed Up Passenger Use on Dar’s Rapid Bus Transport System
Two years ago, a top logistics company in the central business district of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial capital, disqualified Olivia Massawe for a job
Foxconn Q1 sales edge up, but Q2 outlook poor
Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and major iPhone assembler for Apple Inc, said on Wednesday that revenue in the first quarter rose
Apple to open first company-owned retail store in India
Apple Inc is set to open its first official retail store in India’s financial hub of Mumbai, the iPhone maker said on Wednesday. The Cupertino, California-based
German antitrust regulator opens door for curbs on Apple
Germany’s antitrust regulator has opened the door for measures to curb Apple after deciding that the U.S. tech giant’s market dominance makes it worthy of such
Exclusive: EU likely to clinch deal on Chips Act on April 18 – sources
EU countries and lawmakers are likely to clinch a deal on a multi-billion euro plan to boost the bloc’s semiconductor industry on April 18, sources
GM buyouts cut 5,000 salaried jobs, CFO says
About 5,000 General Motors Co salaried workers took buyouts to leave the company, putting the company well on the way to hitting a $2 billion cost-cutting
FedEx to combine delivery units as part of $4 bln cost-cut push
– FedEx Corp said on Wednesday it will consolidate its separate delivery companies into a single entity, as the group slims its bloated infrastructure to compete
Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images
Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations
Google says its AI supercomputer is faster, greener than Nvidia A100 chip
Alphabet Inc’s Google released on Tuesday new details about the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models, saying the systems are both faster and
