US government action against Xiaomi suspended
The Chinese smartphone provider Xiaomi has won a stage victory in the fight against US sanctions still imposed by the Donald Trump administration. A judge in Washington suspended the punitive measures, according to court documents released over the weekend. This includes the ban on American investors from buying Xiaomi...
MAN plant in Steyr: takeover or closure
In the negotiations around the MAN location in Steyr, the clock is ticking, the headquarters in Munich are apparently accelerating: While the workforce is hoping for an offer from the last group of bidders around Linz entrepreneur Karl Egger (KeKelit), people around them say from MAN that there are...
Australian Cormann is the new head of the OECD
Former Australian Finance Minister Mathias Cormann has been elected as the new Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). As he explained on Friday, he wants to focus on the economic recovery after the corona crisis as well as on promoting ambitious measures against climate...
Tesla boss Musk sued by investor over tweets
His tweets cause Tesla boss Elon Musk again legal trouble. An investor in the US electric car maker has sued him for “erratic” Twitter messages. They would expose the company to high legal risks and billions in price losses. Further unbridled tweets could have serious consequences for funding opportunities,...
Concern about the lockdown of entrepreneurship
Open and close – many companies have been in stand-by mode for a year. Only with them will a restart of the economy succeed. Marketplace Richard Vienna March 16, 2020 was a day on which the unimaginable happened in Austria. Large parts of social life were shut down by...
Corona also left traces in the mountains of rubbish
The waste management sector has also been hit hard by the corona crisis: The amount of waste and the composition of the garbage have fluctuated greatly and the disposal companies often had to adjust to very short-term changes. Nevertheless, most companies in the industry came through the crisis well...