The Federal Court in Los Angeles received a claim from residents of the State of California, accusing Nestle in use sea products from Thailand, which was caught with slave labor. This was reported Bloomberg. Several buyers of cat food Fancy Feast filed a lawsuit against the company. In their statement, they say that they would not buy this food if they knew about the use of slave labor in the...

During the first month of free access to Windows 10, users have downloaded the system into over 75 million computers and tablets in 192 countries. According to analysts, the Windows 10 is now installed on the 5.7% of the computers and tablets around the world. Last night, vice president of Microsoft's marketing Yusuf Mehdi said in his corporate blog that Windows 10 operating system has been...

Boeing Corporation before the end of 2015 may lay off "several hundred employees" of its satellite division due to the uncertainty of the US military spending and delays in orders for commercial satellite launches, Reuters reported, citing a source in the company. This is due to past failures of space launches, as well as uncertainty in the financing of projects by the US Eximbank. A spokesman...

Major technology companies, for instance Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, Yelp, Twitter, exist only thanks to their users. Company HowMuch.net counted price of each user for every company, dividing the market capitalization by the number of active users. Capitalization: $ 198 billion Active users: 270 million The cost of a user: $ 733

The French airline Air France-KLM intends to expand its low cost carriers business to improve the competitive position in the field of cheap flights in Europe, the head of Transavia, a branch of the company, Matthijs ten Brink, says in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. In order to expand the budget division in Europe, Air France-KLM intends to invest in the purchase of 20 aircraft. The...

Samsung Electronics launched its own payment system called Samsung Pay. Currently the service is available only to residents of South Korea, but Samsung promises to soon come up with the novelty on the world market. To pay for goods, it is enough for Samsung Pay users to apply their smart phones to the reader at the store checkout. Among the gadgets that have support systems appear Galaxy S6,...

American manufacturer of communications Motorola Solutions plans to acquire the British service provider Airwave Solutions. The deal amounted to 1 billion pounds, or $ 1.6 billion. The information that companies are at the stage of negotiations was reported by Reuters news agency, citing an anonymous source familiar with the situation. Negotiations between Motorola and Airwave are on a high...

Employees of the British branch of the internet store Amazon complained that their working conditions lead to physical fatigue and burnout. It is reported by The Guardian. According to the leader of the British trade union Elly Baker, workers are under constant pressure. The announcement came after the article titled “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace”, published August...

Contract electronics manufacturer Foxconn, also known as Hon Hai Precision Industry, reported slowing earnings growth amid falling sales of iPhone. Buyers are waiting for the fall to see new products from Apple. In II quarter of 2015, net income of Foxconn rose by 27% compared to year ago and reached a figure of 25.69 billion Taiwan dollars ($ 798.1 million). In I quarter, the vendor showed an...