More than 2,000 workers at seven Amazon (AMZN.O) sites across Germany have gone on strike over pay for at least two days, labor union Verdi said on Monday.
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Amazon announced it will spend $700 million over the next six years to help retrain a third of its US workforce to adapt to an economy increasingly disrupted by automation and new technology.more
Victims of a modern slavery ring who trafficked an estimated 450 Poles to the UK were put to work on farms supplying major supermarkets, it emerged yesterday.more
Two key Democratic lawmakers are calling on Amazon.com Inc. to take stronger action to prevent fake reviews of products sold online from spreading on its platform.more
Microsoft is opening its first European store on Oxford Street, in London, featuring a McLaren Senna car customised as an Xbox driving simulator, a gaming lounge and a community education centre where children can learn to code.more
Europeans consume much more fish and seafood than can be provided by local seas and farms. Over half of the annual demand comes from imports, mainly from developing countries.more
William Hill is about to close around 700 betting shops, putting 4,500 jobs at risk. The bookmakers blamed the closures on the government's clamp down on fixed-odds betting machines.more
Jaguar Land Rover is expected to announce plans on Friday to build full-electric cars at its Castle Bromwich factory in England, the Sunday Times reported.more
Ford said it will cut 12,000 jobs in Europe by the end of next year to try to return the business to profit, part of a wave of cost reductions in an auto industry facing stagnant demand and huge investments to build low emission cars.more
The UK's largest grocery chain Tesco is planning to introduce cashierless stores in the country in a move that would cut costs and make it the leader in self-checkout food retail.more
A study comparing the ingredients of food products across the EU on Monday (24 June) found there was no evidence that citizens in eastern EU member states are being sold products of inferior quality - despite officials as senior as EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker championing the issue.more
Health and beauty chain Boots has started to replace plastic bags with brown paper bags in an attempt to cut down on the use of single-use plastic.more
Apple is exploring moving between 15 and 30 percent of its hardware production out of China, according to a new report by Nikkei. The company reportedly has a growing team looking into moving production, and has asked key manufacturing partners like Foxconn, Pegatron, and Wistron to evaluate the available options.more
Adidas has been unsuccessful in an attempt to expand its trademark three-stripe design in the EU after a court ruled it was not "distinctive" enough. The company did not "prove that that mark has acquired, throughout the territory of the EU, distinctive character following the use which had been made of it", the general court of the EU said on Wednesday.more
Morrisons and Amazon say they will expand their same-day delivery service for groceries to Glasgow, Newcastle, Liverpool, Sheffield and Portsmouth.more