In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Google-parent Alphabet announces 12,000 jobs have been cut; South Africa implements mandatory warnings on crypto ads; and the UK government awards the Digital Growth Grant to Barclays Eagle Labs.Fresh wave of job cuts at AlphabetGoogle-parent Alphabet has said it will cut 6% of staff. The move follows a wave of layoffs across the tech sector as companies contend with an economic downturn.Alphabet chief executive Sundar Pichai wrote to employees, “Over the past two years we’ve seen periods of dramatic growth. To match and fuel that growth, we hired for a different economic reality than the…
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Rush Limbaugh before introducing Donald Trump, November 5, 2018. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) Radio’s Greatest of All Time is a new book credited to conservative radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, who began compiling it from transcripts of his program before his death from lung cancer in 2021. The final published version, which lists his widow, Kathryn, and his younger brother, David, as coauthors, serves as the definitive collectible tribute to the man described in the book’s publicity material as “a modern-day Founding Father—the George Washington of Radio.” BOOKS IN REVIEW Those kinds of superlatives appear throughout the book, a…
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Sergey Lavrov. To call it a new ‘scramble for Africa’, as some like to do, is clearly hyperbolic. Nonetheless, it can’t be denied that the Big Powers are energetically wooing Africa as relations among themselves deteriorate. China’s new Foreign Minister Qin Gang got off to an early start, visiting Ethiopia, Gabon, Angola, Benin and Egypt last week. United States (US) Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is on a tour to Senegal, Zambia and South Africa. And next Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is scheduled to visit South Africa at the start of a planned second African tour since Russia invaded…
Chairperson of the Egyptian Commercial Service (ECS) Yahya Elwathik Bellah discussed on Saturday with Head of Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunication (CIT) Khaled Ibrahim an ambitious plan to overcome obstacles that impede the development and promotion of Egyptian exports of software and information technology to African countries.In a press statement on Saturday, the ECS said that this meeting comes within the framework of the existing cooperation between the ECS and the various state agencies to support Egyptian exports in accessing foreign markets and create new opportunities for exporters to help them reach new global markets, especially African markets, in…
Union County is being sued by the estate of Eusebio Castillo Rodriguez, who died at 42 after a stint in the county jail. According to a lawsuit filed on Friday, Rodriguez, who was survived by three children and his partner, their mother, did not receive sufficient medical care after falling ill at the jail, resulting in his death. Named as defendants in the suit are Union County; the Association of Arkansas Counties Risk Management Fund; Turn Key Health Clinics, LLC and Turn Key Health Medical Arkansas, PLLC, the health care providers for the Union County jail; Community Health Systems Professional…
By Ashley AntleWhat has enough concrete to fill eight Olympic-sized swimming pools, ductwork that equals the weight of 32 male African Elephants and 160 miles of wiring that could circle a football field more than 600 times?It is the newest addition to the Cook Children’s Medical Center campus, which adds 240,000 square feet and six new services to the existing Dodson Specialty Clinics building. The expansion, opening in March 2023, is designed to make visits to one of the more than 35 specialty clinics housed in what will ultimately be a fully integrated facility easier and more convenient for patients…
To submit Business Bulletin announcements, click on image. Jobs for those from every walk of life are on display this Thursday with recruiters on hand to hire staff. MakeIT Haverhill’s latest job fair brings in a wide range of employers, including Community Action, L’Arche Boston North, Stericycle, A Better Life Homecare, Amazon, Monogram Foods, Opportunity Works, Haverhill Pavilion Hospital, U.S. Postal Service and Department of Developmental Services. Specific positions include teaching, family advocate, direct care staff, route drivers, warehouse associates, transportation supervisor, personal care attendants, general production laborers, maintenance technicians, warehouse material handlers, machine operators, van drivers and monitors, housekeeping,…
Nancy Robinson Ferris Robinson Previous Next One particular holiday decoration always makes me smile – even as I’m busy putting things away for next year. No matter how hectic things are with manhandling the Christmas tree and dealing with busted lights and picking up leftover tinsel from last year’s tree that made a trail down the stairs and through the bedroom and across the living room, everything stills as I unwrap the little red plastic poinsettia in its little red plastic pot and set it on the windowsill. Activated by light, the little flower…
In order to counter China in Africa, which has made inroads with investments and trade, the US sought to expand its influence by bolstering trade ties in the continent, writes Arianna Skibell in Politico. Biden administration is planning investments in the supply chain for electric car batteries in Africa.The US want to wrest control of the supply chain for electric car batteries from China in Africa, where reports of child abuse and forced labour are rampant, writes Politico’s E&E News reporter David Iaconangelo. Notably, China is playing out in African mines. Zambia and Congo are major sources of cobalt…