A number of companies say it disenfranchises some voters. Some, such as Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola, are based in Georgia, where state lawmakers have the power to raise state taxes. Delta chief executive Ed Bastian said in a public memo that his decision to speak out was informed by discussions with leaders and employees in the Black community.
The companies criticising the law so far represent a sliver of the US business landscape. Yet they are part of a growing group of companies shedding their reluctance to speak out on politically controversial social issues that matter to many of their employees and customers globally, business leaders interviewed by
Over the past two years, Microsoft has worked with the US Army on the prototyping phase of what is called the Integrated Visual Augmentation System, or IVAS. The company said the US Army had moved into the production phase of the project.
In a blog post, Microsoft technical fellow Alex Kipman said the headsets are designed to deliver enhanced situational awareness, enabling information sharing and decision-making in a variety of scenarios .
The headsets will be manufactured in the US, according to the Microsoft spokesman.
This is not the first time Microsoft has worked with military to develop AR capabilities.
In 2019, the British Army began trialling HoloLens 2 headsets with 1,500 military personnel to help frontline medics carry out operations in war zones. The devices are programmed to send instructions to those providing emergency medical treatment on the ground from specialists anywhere in the world.
Volkswagen, whose shares rose as much as 3.8 per cent, did not specifically say how much the plan will cost. It said in December that it planned to spend €35 billion ($41.7bn) on e-mobility as a whole by 2025.
The group had been a laggard on electrification until it admitted in 2015 to cheating on US diesel emissions tests and had to deal with new Chinese quotas for electric vehicles. It now has one of the most ambitious programmes in the industry.
Volkswagen said the European factories will have a joint production capacity of up to 240 gigawatt hours (GWh) a year, adding the first 40 GWh would come from Sweden s Northvolt, with production starting in 2023.
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Kuwaiti logistics company Agility s claim to recover more than $380 million it said it lost in Iraq has been rejected by an international tribunal, a document seen by Reuters showed.
Agility, one of the largest Gulf logistics companies, was also ordered to pay Iraq more than $5m for costs related to the case.
The company filed for arbitration in 2017 with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which is part of the World Bank Group and handles disputes between international investors.
Agility has said Iraq indirectly confiscated its investment, which was worth over $380m, and violated a 2015 bilateral protocol between Kuwait and Iraq on encouraging the movement of capital and investment between the two countries.
Epic Games founder and chief executive Tim Sweeney said Apple s control of its platform had tilted the level playing field. The 30 per cent they charge as their app tax, they can make it 50 per cent or 90 per cent or 100 per cent. Under their theory of how these markets are structured, they have every right to do that, he told reporters. Epic is not asking any court or regulator to change this 30 per cent to some other number, only to restore competition on IOS, he said, referring to Apple s mobile operating system.
The company also accused Apple of barring rivals from launching their own gaming subscription service on its platform by preventing them from bundling several games together, even though its own Apple Arcade service does that.