2023-10-08 18:37:05
Deutsche Telekom wants to cut costs and cut jobs
BONN – Deutsche Telekom wants to continue cutting jobs. The total number of jobs affected is not yet clear, a Deutsche Telekom spokesperson said on Saturday. The “Handelsblatt” had previously reported. The company confirmed that 1,300 of the 5,400 positions at in-house IT service provider Telekom IT would be cut in Germany. In addition, around 350 employees would leave the company in the coming months to take early or partial retirement.
Two-speed mail distribution: La Poste makes proposals
BERLIN/BONN – Deutsche Post has turned its ideas into reality regarding the possibility of two-speed mail delivery, which it has wanted for a long time. “There might be a priority letter that arrives at the addressee the day following the letter is posted and a standard letter that only arrives following three days,” postal manager Nikola Hagleitner told the newspaper “Welt am Sonntag “. Within the Swiss Post management board, Hagleitner is responsible for mail and parcel activities.
VW and Umicore build battery cathode factory in Poland
SALZGITTER/NYSA – Low-cost battery components for VW electric cars are expected to see the light of day in Poland. The new Ionway joint venture, created by Volkswagen with the Belgian group Umicore, will build its first production site in the town of Nysa (Neisse), in the south of the country, PowerCo, the VW subsidiary specializing in batteries, announced on Saturday. The goal is cheaper production that will “make electric cars affordable for everyone,” Ionway President Thomas Jansseune said, according to the release.
Tesla lowers its prices once more in the United States
AUSTIN – After a drop in deliveries during the last quarter, Tesla once once more lowered the prices of its main models in the United States. So the Model 3’s entry-level price on Friday was $38,990 – $1,250 less than before. A few days earlier, the electric car manufacturer had already reintroduced a cheaper version of the Model Y compact SUV into its offering.
A crazy match: fourth victory for BVB, seventh defeat for the Union
DORTMUND – Fourth consecutive victory in the league for Borussia Dortmund, seventh defeat in a row in an official match for Union Berlin: in a crazy match with two changes of leader and a good amount of video chaos, BVB finally won 4:2 ( 1:2). The two participants in the Champions League thus continued their winning streak, but also the history of the two clubs: Dortmund have now won their five home matches once morest Union, something BVB had only managed to do once morest FC Saarbrücken.
Lufthansa ‘reduces’ flights to Israel – no Saturday departures
FRANKFURT/TEL AVIV – Following large-scale attacks in Israel from the Gaza Strip, Lufthansa is reducing its flights to the country. “In the context of the current security situation in Tel Aviv, Lufthansa Group Airlines is reducing its flight schedule to/from Tel Aviv this Saturday for operational reasons,” the company said on Saturday at the request of the News Agency German.
Eurowings wants next-generation damages following BER blockage
BERLIN – Eurowings, a subsidiary of Lufthansa, is seeking damages from Last Generation climate activists following blockades at several German airports. “Eurowings will represent for the airlines of the Lufthansa group the material damage caused by the actions of activists at the airports of Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg,” a Lufthansa spokesperson said on Sunday when asked regarding this. Previously, the newspaper Bild am Sonntag reported.
Test satellites in space for competition with Amazon’s Startlink
SEATTLE – Amazon has launched the first test satellites for its proposed system to provide Internet access from space. The network of satellites, called Kuiper, must compete with the Starlink service from SpaceX, Elon Musk’s space company, which operates similarly. After their launch in Florida, the KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 satellites established the link with the earth station as planned, Amazon announced this weekend.
The boss of the Intel group: subsidies for the Magdeburg factory are justified
MAGDEBURG – The boss of the American chip manufacturer Intel, Pat Gelsinger, justified the ten billion euros in German subsidies for the construction of a chip factory in Magdeburg. Gelsinger told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (Monday) that the subsidies were necessary to be able to produce competitively. China, Korea and Taiwan have massively supported the semiconductor sector in recent decades.
Numerous Motel One customer data published on the Darknet
MUNICH – Hackers have stolen data containing private information of guests of the Motel One hotel chain on a large scale and published it on the Darknet. “According to initial findings, the stolen data, with a volume of six terabytes, concerns in particular the addresses and billing data of customers and only some information on the credit cards of our customers,” said Saturday a company spokesperson, interviewed in Munich. Previously, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported that the data was published on the Darknet on Wednesday.
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Other news
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-a federation expects job cuts in the metallurgy and electrical industries
-Plans to ban smoking in cars are canceled – Criticism from the anti-drugs delegate
-Press/international media rights: the DFL expects an increase in its turnover
-ROUNDUP: Spain celebrates the flight of a launch rocket – Europe must catch up
-Swiss airline suspends flights to Israel
-CDC: more adolescents are using e-cigarettes
-Switzerland advises once morest travel to Israel
-Juventus Turin records losses of several hundred million euros
-ROUNDUP/TV audience rate: Great interest in special programs on the Middle East crisis.
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