Amazon isn’t the first tech giant to seek to bring employees back into the office and depart from the homeworking trend that buzzed past the pandemic a few years ago.

Disney has already done this, and this recent Zoom order also ended the home office era.

Amazon’s decision to have employees in the office at least three days a week went into effect back in May, but it still seems to be a tough one to achieve.

According to the BBC, the email sent by the company makes it clear that this refers to employees who have come into the office less than three days a week for five or more of the last eight weeks or for three or more of the last four weeks.

It appears to have exacerbated existing tensions within the company, as some staff have said they received the email in error.

The subdivision, which was set up under former VW chief executive Herbert Diess, went over budget and failed to meet its targets, contributing to Diess’ departure, with Oliver Blume taking his post in September last year.

Cariad’s supervisory board is expected to adopt the decision on the cuts at a meeting next week. It is possible that only the head of the personnel department, Rainer Zugehor, will keep his job.

A company spokesperson said it was analyzing Cariad and its projects.

No personnel decisions have been made yet. And problems at Cariad have delayed work on the latest Porsche e-Macan and Audi Q6 e-tron car models.

Spotify Premium Mini allows you to download 30 songs and unlimited ad-free music tracks on 1 mobile device for P1 per day or P26 per week. This is also what differentiates it from Premium plans that start at P149 per month.

But there is one condition to benefit from the services of the new partnership. The messaging platform said the offer is available to users of its app who are 18 years of age or older and are new or existing Spotify users who have never previously used Spotify’s offers or been a subscriber to any of Spotify’s Premium offerings.

Rakuten Viber CEO Ofir Eyal said they partnered with Spotify to provide Viber users with “fun features that are effortless to use.”

Activating the new option is done through various promo posts on Viber and with the latest version of the chat app.

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“Topics”, as this is the name of the new option, is about to use some kind of software which is built in your Chrome browser. It will track your browsing history and, based on what you have been searching for, it will suggest some topics which you are interested in.

However, you need to know that those topics are being stored for only three weeks. You will be provided with only three topics – one chosen topic for a week. After that, the old ones will be automatically deleted.

The announcement also says that now users will be given an opportunity to see and control how their data is being shared. Also, online businesses will also no longer be able to interact with tracking techniques such as fingerprinting in order to continue serving relevant ads.

Netblocks said Internet disruption in Kazakhstan continued on a nationwide scale as of Friday morning, with national connectivity observed at just 5 percent of ordinary levels.

The sudden raised energy price is the reason for the ongoing disruptions and widening protests  in the western town of Zhanaozen.

Kazakhstan’s government has tried to tighten rules on mining in recent months in an effort to decarbonise the economy. The country recently implemented a law to introduce extra taxes from crypto mining that will take effect this year.

In a post on Twitter, Kazakh miner Didar Bekbau said:

“Yes, no internet, so no mining…Hopefully next week everything will be ok”.

Some miners are optimistic the political storm will blow over.

The roster of headline speakers at the event includes Tim Draper, Emin Gün Sirer,  James Wo, CEO and Founder of Digital Finance Group; Sébastien Borget, COO and Co-Founder of Sandbox and President of the Blockchain Game Alliance; Matt West, Yearn Developer and Democratic Candidate for Oregon’s 6th US House District and Emmanuel Fenet, CEO at Paris Blockchain Week Summit commented:

“I am pleased to announce that PBWS will return as a physical event in Paris in 2022. As a common meeting place for industry leaders, we will help navigate the market, the players and the applications, whether they are close to maturity, such as DeFi, or emerging new models, such as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations.”

PBWS 2022 will take place at Station F. Alongside the in-person event, attendees will be able to attend and network virtually.

The main tracks, center of the event are: Enterprise Blockchain focused on the enterprise innovation, the supply chain, and traceability; Tech Builders focused on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), governance, privacy, and technical use cases; Open Finance focused on decentralized finance (DeFi), digital asset liquidity, crypto lending, and exchanges; and Public Policies focused on regulatory developments, transparency initiatives, and anti-money laundering (AML).

More than 250 international speakers from varied sectors including politics, technology, business, and finance will present at PBWS 2022.

The plunge follows a volatile week for financial markets. Global equities and benchmark US bond yields tumbled on Friday after data showed US job growth slowed in November and the Omicron variant of the coronavirus kept investors on edge.

Bitcoin was 12 per cent down at 9.20 GMT at $47,495 (€41,980.83). It fell as low as $41,967.50 (€37,095.07) during the session, taking total losses for the day to 22 per cent.

By 22.01 GMT, it had rebounded slightly to $48,752.15 (€43,092.03) having lost $4,991.54 (€4,412.02) from its previous close.

The broad selloff in cryptocurrencies also saw Ether, the coin linked to the Ethereum blockchain network, plunge more than 10 per cent.

It rebounded to losses of 3.61 per cent to $4,070.52 (€3,597.93), losing $152.28 (€134.60) from its previous close.

Musk has sold a total of $9.85 billion in Tesla stock this month, including the $6.9 billion he sold the week of Nov. 10 and another $1.9 billion he sold on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16. 

Musk and his trust still hold more than 169 million shares in the company.

Tesla’s shares fell 15.4% the week ended Nov. 12, marking the worst week for Tesla stock in 20 months after Musk began selling shares. Shares of Tesla were up about 1% on Wednesday afternoon.