Slashdot Items Tagged "economy"

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Tuesday April 02, 2024 @06:40PM Bitcoin Tumbles $5,000 In 24 Hours As Interest Rates Jump
Wednesday March 27, 2024 @07:15PM Why the US Could Be On the Cusp of a Productivity Boom
Tuesday March 19, 2024 @05:31PM Saudi Arabia Plans $40 Billion Push Into Artificial Intelligence
Wednesday March 13, 2024 @04:47PM Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers In the Race To Get Hired
Monday January 15, 2024 @06:15PM AI To Impact 60% of Advanced Economy Jobs, Says IMF Chief
Tuesday January 09, 2024 @11:25AM Global Economy Set For Its Worst Half Decade of Growth in 30 Years, World Bank Says
Monday January 08, 2024 @04:33PM Biden Administration To Unveil Contractor Rule Set To Upend Gig Economy
Wednesday December 13, 2023 @05:21PM European Union Lawmakers Agree To New Rules That Bolster Gig Worker Rights
Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:53PM How Economists Got It Wrong for 3 Years.
Thursday July 27, 2023 @03:57AM China's Jobless Graduate Army Falls Through Cracks in Economy
Wednesday June 14, 2023 @05:16PM McKinsey Report Finds Generative AI Could Add Up To $4.4 Trillion a Year To the Global Economy
Tuesday May 16, 2023 @05:14PM Gas-Powered Cars Won't Die Off Any Time Soon
Friday May 12, 2023 @04:59PM Societal Cost of 'Forever Chemicals' About $17.5 Trillion Across Global Economy
Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:11PM Mexico Considers the 40-Hour Workweek
Friday March 17, 2023 @01:56AM China Sets Up New Bureau To Mine Data For Economic Growth
Thursday March 16, 2023 @12:28AM South Korea U-Turns On 69-Hour Working Week After Youth Backlash
Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:36AM US Court Rules Uber and Lyft Workers Are Contractors
Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:01PM Massachusetts Bills Would Set a Minimum Wage For Rideshare Drivers
Monday January 16, 2023 @11:18PM China's Population Drops For the First Time In Decades
Tuesday January 10, 2023 @11:05AM Affordable Housing: Achieving Economy Through Design
Friday January 06, 2023 @12:20PM Economy Windscreens is Now Listed on Find-us-here
Friday January 06, 2023 @11:47AM Economy Windscreens is Now Listed on Callupcontact
Friday January 06, 2023 @11:45AM Economy Windscreens is Now Listed on Igotbiz
Friday January 06, 2023 @08:04AM Economy Windscreens is Now Listed on Startups.Snapmunk
Friday January 06, 2023 @07:52AM Economy Windscreens is Now Listed on Trueen
Tuesday December 13, 2022 @12:21PM Delta Basic Economy Vs Main Cabin – What Are the Differences?
Monday December 12, 2022 @03:02PM Best Tires For Fuel Economy
Friday December 09, 2022 @08:27AM Digital Sandbox for the AI Economy
Tuesday December 06, 2022 @05:36PM Remote Work Is Gutting Downtowns, Will Cost Cities $453 Billion
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @06:59AM Difference between Basic Economy and Premium Economy on United Airlines
Wednesday November 30, 2022 @05:30AM The impact of FIFA World Cup 2022 on UAE's economy
Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:59PM A light-powered catalyst could be key for hydrogen economy
Monday November 21, 2022 @07:02PM More Than 50% of Bitcoin Addresses Are Now In Loss
Wednesday November 09, 2022 @07:30PM Amazon Becomes First Company Ever To Lose $1 Trillion In Stock Value
Tuesday October 25, 2022 @05:46PM New Zealand Uber Drivers Win Landmark Case Declaring Them Employees
Monday October 17, 2022 @11:53AM Zimbabwe's Currency Crackdown Spurs Wider Use of US Dollars
Monday October 03, 2022 @02:34PM UN Says Fed, Other Central Banks Risk Pushing Global Economy Into Recession, Requests Halt on Interest-Rate Increases
Tuesday September 27, 2022 @01:07PM A Second Prime Sale Shows Amazon is Nervous About the Economy Too
Monday September 26, 2022 @05:29PM Factory Jobs Are Booming Like It's the 1970s
Wednesday September 14, 2022 @11:11AM America's Successful War on Poverty
Tuesday September 13, 2022 @10:46AM US Inflation Tops Forecasts, Cementing Odds of Big Fed Hike
Wednesday July 13, 2022 @01:26AM Google To Slow Hiring Through 2023
Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:07AM The Fed May Discuss the Biggest Interest Rate Increase Since 1994
Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:07PM Yellen Says Fed Can Bring Down Inflation Without Causing Recession
Friday May 06, 2022 @03:54PM The US Jobs Market Continues Its Strong Comeback From the Pandemic
Wednesday April 13, 2022 @06:06PM Russian Tech Industry Faces 'Brain Drain' As Workers Flee
Thursday April 07, 2022 @04:42PM Black Market SIM Cards Turned a Zimbabwean Border Town Into a Remote Work Hub
Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:07AM Deutsche Bank Predicts the US Will Tumble Into Recession in 2023 as the Fed Hikes Interest Rates Hard
Thursday February 17, 2022 @06:35PM The US Is Now Energy Independent
Thursday January 13, 2022 @05:31PM More Than 1 Million Fewer Students Are In College, the Lowest Numbers In 50 Years
Friday October 01, 2021 @10:41AM Utilities Took Public Money, Gave CEOs Millions, and Then Turned People's Lights Off During the Pandemic
Friday August 13, 2021 @04:29PM Gig Economy Companies Are Having To Spend More Than Ever To Find Hosts and Drivers
Friday July 30, 2021 @04:56PM 38% of Remote Workers Work From Bed
Wednesday July 28, 2021 @02:03PM Fast Internet Everywhere Could Add $160 Billion To US Economy
Thursday May 06, 2021 @04:58PM Opposing PRO Act, Uber and Other Gig Companies Spend Over $1 Million Lobbying
Thursday April 22, 2021 @04:08PM NYC Gig Workers Are Organizing Against Rampant E-Bike Theft and Assault
Wednesday April 14, 2021 @05:02PM Korean Workers Need To Make Space For Robots, Minister Says
Friday January 08, 2021 @05:17PM DoorDash Is Hiking Customer Fees To Pay For a Law It Helped Write
Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:18PM World's Worst Internet Shutdowns Cost India $2.8 Billion in 2020
Friday November 27, 2020 @12:00PM India Enters Recession as Virus Pummels No. 3 Asian Economy
Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:05PM 'Profitboss' Is Saving Restaurants From Heavy Delivery App Fees
Friday November 13, 2020 @10:18PM DoorDash Says Its Own Pay Model Is a Risk To Its Business In Public Filing
Friday October 23, 2020 @04:14PM Uber and Lyft Need To Make Drivers Employees, Appeals Court Rules
Monday September 21, 2020 @04:04PM Gig Economy Company Launches Uber, But For Evicting People
Wednesday September 16, 2020 @05:26PM The Majority of 18- To 29-Year-Olds In the US Are Now Living With Their Parents
Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:47PM Uber CEO On the Flight In California: 'We Can't Go Out and Hire 50,000 People Overnight'
Tuesday July 14, 2020 @04:58PM Is It Time To Kill the Penny?
Thursday June 11, 2020 @03:47PM As Virus Infections Surge, Countries End Lockdowns
Monday June 08, 2020 @02:26PM US Economy is in a Recession
Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:41PM $350M 'Quant Fund' Played the Stock Market Using Real-Time Data -- Then 2020 Happened
Wednesday May 27, 2020 @08:45PM Americans, It Turns Out, Would Rather Visit a Store Than Buy Food Online
Friday May 22, 2020 @04:20PM Dr. Anthony Fauci Says Staying Closed For Too Long Could Cause 'Irreparable Damage'
Wednesday May 20, 2020 @11:16PM New Zealand PM Flags Four-Day Workweek To Boost Its Shuttered Economy After COVID-19
Tuesday May 19, 2020 @03:26PM Carbon Emissions Dropped 17 Percent Globally Amid Coronavirus
Friday May 15, 2020 @04:13PM US Retail Sales Plunged a Record 16 Percent In April As Virus Hit
Tuesday May 12, 2020 @05:23PM Trump Wants California To Let Automaker Tesla Reopen Assembly Plant
Friday May 08, 2020 @01:43AM Gov. Cuomo Taps Bill Gates To 'Reimagine Education' For New York
Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:31PM Who's Behind the 'Reopen' Domain Surge?
Monday April 13, 2020 @05:38PM Governors On East and West Coasts Form Pacts To Decide When To Reopen Economies
Thursday April 09, 2020 @10:22PM Coronavirus: Worst Economic Crisis Since 1930s Depression, IMF Says
Thursday April 02, 2020 @05:06PM The World Just Hit 1 Million Coronavirus Infections
Thursday April 02, 2020 @10:04AM A Record 6.6 Million Americans Filed For Unemployment Last Week
Monday March 30, 2020 @04:44PM Trump Administration, In Biggest Environmental Rollback, To Announce Auto Pollution Rules
Friday March 27, 2020 @12:16PM Not Everyone is Laying Off Workers Because of Coronavirus. These Are the Most in-demand Jobs Right Now.
Wednesday March 25, 2020 @01:15PM 'Don't Bail Out the Cruise Industry'
Monday March 23, 2020 @07:57PM Economic Shutdown Is Estimated To Save 600,000 American Lives
Monday March 23, 2020 @05:55PM If Robots Steal So Many Jobs, Why Aren't They Saving Us Now?
Monday February 24, 2020 @11:48AM Some of the World's Biggest Economies Are on the Brink of Recession
Wednesday February 12, 2020 @06:46PM By 2050, the US Will Lose $83 Billion a Year Because of All the Nature We've Destroyed
Friday February 07, 2020 @05:57PM Chip Industry Had Worst Sales Year Since Dot-Com Bubble Burst
Friday January 24, 2020 @05:13PM EPA Reasoning For Gutting Fuel-Economy Rule Doesn't Hold Up, Senator Finds
Thursday January 02, 2020 @05:34PM Judge Halts California 'Gig Worker' Law From Taking Effect For Truckers
Friday December 27, 2019 @04:54PM Turkey Unveils First Fully Homemade Car In $3.7 Billion Bet On Electric
Monday December 09, 2019 @09:07PM Five Cities Account For Vast Majority of Growth In Tech Jobs, Study Finds
Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:32PM Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Still Rising, UN Report Says
Wednesday October 09, 2019 @03:13PM Worker Pay is Stagnant -- Economists Blame Robots
Friday September 13, 2019 @07:31PM France Took One Look At Facebook's Cryptocurrency and Said, 'Hell, Non'
Friday August 09, 2019 @01:41PM 'Global Economy is Probably in Recession'
Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:03PM The Fed Is Getting Into the Real-Time Payments Business
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:08PM Employee Happiness and Business Success Are Linked, Study Finds
Tuesday July 30, 2019 @04:46PM DoorDash Tip-Skimming Scheme Prompts Class-Action Lawsuit Seeking All Those Tips That Didn't Go To Drivers
Monday July 22, 2019 @06:44PM Delivery Apps Like DoorDash Are Using Your Tips To Pay Workers' Wages
Friday July 19, 2019 @06:42PM A California Bill Could Destroy Uber's Unsustainable Business Model
Friday June 14, 2019 @05:20PM Study Finds That a GPS Outage Would Cost $1 Billion Per Day
Wednesday April 03, 2019 @05:33PM Goldman Sachs Will Open-Source Some Of Its Trading Software
Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:21PM Internal Combustion Vehicle Sales Likely Peaked In 2018, Analysts Say
Friday January 04, 2019 @02:00PM Robots Are Taking Some Jobs, But Not All: World Bank
Thursday December 27, 2018 @03:58PM In Some Bay Area Counties, College Grads Have Higher Unemployment
Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:12PM This Was the Year the Robot Takeover of Service Jobs Began
Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:27PM Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy
Thursday November 29, 2018 @11:47AM Fed Says Millennials Are Just Like Their Parents. Only Poorer
Tuesday November 27, 2018 @12:46PM 'General Motors, Sears and Toys R Us: Layoffs Across America Highlight Our Shredding Financial Safety Net'
Monday November 19, 2018 @09:37PM Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds
Monday November 19, 2018 @04:13PM Southeast Asia's Digital Economy To Triple To $240 Billion By 2025, Says Google Report
Tuesday October 16, 2018 @09:05PM US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade
Tuesday October 02, 2018 @07:19PM Half of US Uber Drivers Make Less Than $10 An Hour After Vehicle Expenses, Study Says
Monday September 24, 2018 @07:37PM Uber Drivers and Other Gig Economy Workers Are Earning Half What They Did Five Years Ago
Monday September 24, 2018 @05:30PM Greece Uses High-Tech Drones To Fight Tax Evasion In Holiday Hotspots
Friday September 14, 2018 @02:57PM Google-Funded Study Finds Cash Beats Typical Development Aid
Monday August 06, 2018 @05:41PM Heat and Humidity Slow Down High-Frequency Trading Due To Microwave Links
Thursday July 26, 2018 @06:26PM Facebook Stock Suffers Largest One-Day Drop In History, Shedding $119 Billion
Sunday July 15, 2018 @12:03AM Unlike Most Millennials, Norway's Are Rich
Friday July 13, 2018 @04:40PM Alaska's Last Two Blockbusters Are Closing, Leaving Just One In the US
Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:31PM In This Economy, Quitters Are Winning
Monday July 02, 2018 @06:06PM Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation
Thursday June 14, 2018 @07:19PM A British Plumber May Show Uber the Future of Employment
Thursday June 07, 2018 @04:20PM There Are More Jobs Than People Out of Work, Something the American Economy Has Never Experienced Before
Thursday May 31, 2018 @01:28AM Microsoft Is Now More Valuable Than Alphabet
Sunday April 15, 2018 @01:42PM How the Quakers Became Unlikely Economic Innovators by Inventing the Price Tag
Friday March 30, 2018 @05:17PM The Gig Economy Keeps Growing, But Worker Benefits Aren't
Monday March 26, 2018 @05:26PM Few Countries Will Benefit From the AI Revolution
Monday March 05, 2018 @07:57PM Europe Plans Special Tax For Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon
Monday February 26, 2018 @12:41AM The American Midwest Is Quickly Becoming a Blue-Collar Version of Silicon Valley
Monday February 05, 2018 @11:28PM US Startups Don't Want To Go Public Anymore
Monday February 05, 2018 @05:33PM Samsung Billionaire Gets Off Easy
Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:28AM Why Tether's Collapse Would Be Bad For Cryptocurrencies
Tuesday January 23, 2018 @06:41PM The US Drops Out of the Top 10 In Innovation Ranking
Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:57PM The Rise Of The Contract Workforce
Wednesday January 17, 2018 @10:27PM Tim Cook Says Power Management Feature In Older iPhones Will Be Able To Be Turned Off In Future Update
Tuesday January 16, 2018 @10:53AM Now Hiring For a Fascinating New Kind of Job That Only a Human Can Do: Babysit a Robot
Thursday January 11, 2018 @05:55PM South Korea Plans To Ban Cryptocurrency Trading
Wednesday January 03, 2018 @05:47PM Spotify Files To Go Public
Friday December 22, 2017 @07:50PM Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings
Tuesday December 12, 2017 @09:01PM The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger
Friday December 08, 2017 @09:59AM November Jobs Report: Economy Adds 228,000 Jobs; Unemployment Steady
Friday December 08, 2017 @09:25AM About 40 Percent of Bitcoin Is Held By 1,000 Users. If a Few of Them Want To Sell, That Could Tank Values
Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:12AM 'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google'
Tuesday December 05, 2017 @05:28PM Tencent Says There Are Only 300,000 AI Engineers Worldwide, But Millions Are Needed
Wednesday November 08, 2017 @08:32PM America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning
Wednesday October 25, 2017 @01:33PM China Shuts Down Tens Of Thousands Of Factories In Widespread Pollution Crackdown
Friday October 20, 2017 @05:16PM The US Government Keeps Spectacularly Underestimating Solar Energy Installation
Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:20PM Driverless Cars Are Giving Engineers a Fuel Economy Headache
Thursday October 12, 2017 @02:26PM We're Too Wise For Robots To Take Our Jobs, Alibaba's Jack Ma Says
Monday September 18, 2017 @04:16PM Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold?
Thursday September 07, 2017 @12:34PM Amazon Tries To Snuff Out a Bunch of Kindle Publishing Scams
Friday September 01, 2017 @01:29PM US Employers Struggle To Match Workers With Open Jobs
Thursday August 17, 2017 @01:16PM A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM
Wednesday July 26, 2017 @03:21PM The Quitting Economy
Monday July 10, 2017 @02:27PM Tesla Sales in Hong Kong Dry Up After Gov't Drops Tax Break
Friday July 07, 2017 @09:05AM 222,000 Jobs Added To US Payrolls In June; Unemployment Rate Rises To 4.4 Percent
Thursday July 06, 2017 @10:42AM 'In the Knowledge Economy, We Need a Netflix of Education'
Monday July 03, 2017 @03:38PM Young Men Are Working Less. Some Economists Think It's Because They're Home Playing Video Games.
Friday June 30, 2017 @06:53PM Uber, Airbnb Lead the Way as Sharing Economy Expands
Thursday June 29, 2017 @05:52PM There Is a Point At Which It Will Make Economical Sense To Defect From the Electrical Grid
Monday June 26, 2017 @05:14PM China, Canada Vow Not To Conduct Cyberattacks On Private Sector
Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:40AM Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week
Monday June 19, 2017 @05:25PM Ethiopia's Coffee Is the Latest Victim of Climate Change
Wednesday May 31, 2017 @08:37AM Self-Driving Cars Will Boost the Job Market, Says Marc Andreessen
Friday May 26, 2017 @02:28PM The Gig Economy Workforce Will Double In Four Years
Thursday May 25, 2017 @06:17PM US Senator Introduces the First Bill To Give Gig Workers Benefits
Tuesday May 23, 2017 @07:29PM Renewable Energy Powers Jobs For Almost 10 Million People
Tuesday May 16, 2017 @06:00PM The Tech Sector Is Leaving the Rest of the US Economy In Its Dust
Tuesday May 16, 2017 @03:42PM All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study
Friday May 05, 2017 @08:57AM April Jobs Report: 211,000 Jobs Added, Unemployment At 4.4 Percent
Thursday May 04, 2017 @08:56PM Digital Economy Act: Illegal Kodi Streams Could Now Land Users In Prison For 10 Years
Thursday April 06, 2017 @04:49PM Uber Contract 'Gibberish', Says MP Investigating Gig Economy
Friday March 24, 2017 @07:35PM Venezuelan Developers Are Using Bitcoin, Rare Pepe Trading Cards To Fight Against a Dismal Economy
Wednesday March 15, 2017 @06:00PM NSA, DOE Say China's Supercomputing Advances Put US At Risk
Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:29PM If American Robots Had Their Own Economy, It'd Be Bigger Than Switzerland
Thursday March 09, 2017 @05:39PM The Promise of Blockchain Is a World Without Middlemen
Thursday February 23, 2017 @09:42PM Life Expectancy Set To Hit 90 In South Korea, Study Predicts
Wednesday February 22, 2017 @02:55PM iPhone Owners in US Spent $40 Each on Apps in 2016
Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:19AM Indian IT Sector Warns Against US Visa Bill
Monday January 23, 2017 @11:31AM When Their Shifts End, Uber Drivers Set Up Camp in Parking Lots Across the US
Friday December 30, 2016 @03:50PM Apple To Cut iPhone Production By 10%: Nikkei
Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:49PM More Than One-Third of Schoolchildren Are Homeless In Shadow of Silicon Valley
Tuesday December 13, 2016 @10:46PM UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds
Friday December 09, 2016 @04:15PM Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report
Friday December 02, 2016 @04:22PM Stephen Hawking: Automation and AI Is Going To Decimate Middle Class Jobs
Friday December 02, 2016 @09:59AM US Economy Added 178,000 Jobs in November; Unemployment Rate Drops To 4.6 Percent
Thursday November 17, 2016 @12:35PM Apple Explores Making iPhones in the US, Finds 'the Cost Will More Than Double': Nikkei
Monday October 31, 2016 @07:21PM Uber Drivers Are Company Employees Not Self-Employed Contractors, Rules British Court
Friday October 28, 2016 @04:46PM Uber Loses Right To Classify UK Drivers as Self-Employed
Thursday October 27, 2016 @01:41AM Hotel CEO Openly Celebrates Higher Prices After Anti-Airbnb Law Passes
Tuesday September 20, 2016 @11:04AM London To Tech Startups: Please Don't Mind the Brexit Gap
Tuesday September 20, 2016 @09:50AM More Gig Economy Workers Can Now Get Paid On Demand
Thursday September 15, 2016 @08:26PM Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined'
Monday July 25, 2016 @03:19PM Millennials Are Obsessed With Side Hustles Because 'They're All' They've Got
Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:54PM EPA's Gasoline Efficiency Tests Provide No Valid Information At All
Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:10PM How The Internet Helps Sex Workers Keep Customers Honest