Shell has closed the promotion and salary adjustment window, and the layoff ratio of COO line and CTO line is 40%-50%
On May 18th, according to Tech Planet, Shell’s layoffs have been going on for more than half a year. In the latest major layoffs, the ratio of layoffs in the COO line and the CTO line was between 40% and 50%. The overall ratio of layoffs in the AIT (Artificial Intelligence Technology Center) team led by Ye Jieping is not as high as the 70% reported on the Internet, but some departments have 50%. A number of Shell employees said that the original twice-yearly promotion opportunities and salary adjustment windows have been closed. Since June last year, Shell has been laying off staff one after another. In the previous COO line, there were two rounds of cuts. The proportion of each city was different, and the cut was basically based on the degree of decline in the transaction order.
The contraction in business affects the organization. In the past, there were 12 centers under the COO line: quality management center, business strategy center, comprehensive management center, transaction service center, financial management center, legal affairs center, industrial cooperation division, new house operation support center, strategic business center, new agency business Center, Customer Empowerment Center, and Broker Growth Center. Now they and the Industrial Business Cooperation Department have been reorganized into 5 centers: Quality and Strategy Center, Transaction Service Center, New Home Business Center, Customer Empowerment Center, and Legal Risk Control Center.
The integration of departments often means the streamlining of personnel. A COO line employee said that after the merger, many positions may have to compete for employment, and those who cannot stay may be downgraded or laid off.
It is reported that Shell is mainly divided into three business groups: real estate brokerage, self-contained large home and Huiju. According to the 2021 financial report, real estate brokerage is the main source of income and the line of business with the most employees. The COO line is the largest department within Shell, which includes a huge brokerage business and other business-related functional posts.
China Unicom has launched a major personnel adjustment, involving at least 46 provincial company executives above the deputy general level
According to China Unicom Group’s internal news, the group will once again initiate a new round of middle and high-level personnel adjustment, and the number of leaders adjusted this time is likely to be the largest in the history of the group’s adjustment in recent years. This time almost involves the adjustment of the appointment and dismissal of middle and high-level cadres in many institutions such as group departments, professional subsidiaries of the group, provincial companies, and prefecture-level branches, involving a total of 46 people, which is quite large.
Among them, the group department mainly involves the group office, the party and mass department, the Winter Olympics office, the product center, the full customer operation center, the customer service department, the science and technology innovation department, the government and enterprise BG, the data operation and financial service sharing center, the human resources department, and the digital department. , Cloud Network Center, etc.; the directly affiliated institutions and professional subsidiaries involved include China Unicom Party School, China Academy of Information Technology, China Unicom Software Research Institute, China Unicom Asset Operation Company, China Unicom Online Company, China Unicom Digital System Integration Company, China Unicom Yunqi Wisdom Company, etc.;
In addition, the number of people involved in leveling/transferring and promotion in this adjustment is about the same. Among them, the number of people who are leveling/transferring is the leader of the group department, the leader of the provincial company, and the leader of the professional subsidiary, and more are the deputy positions of the group department. , the adjustment between the deputy positions of the provincial company and the deputy positions of the subsidiary companies; promotions include promotion to the top leader of the provincial company, the deputy position of the provincial company, the deputy position of the group department, etc. Among them, the promotion of the deputy position of the provincial company by the department-level cadres accounts for the majority. In addition, there are also a small number of provincial companies where deputy positions are transferred to directors and supervisors, and they are transferred to professional sequences. (Operator Finance Network)
iFLYTEK: Wang Bing resigns as director of the company
According to the announcement of iFLYTEK, Wang Bing resigned as a director of the company due to work adjustment, and resigned from his position in the special committee of the company’s board of directors accordingly. Wang Bing will not hold any position in the company after his resignation. (36 krypton)
It is reported that Xiaomi and Philips have reconciled, but the issue of double billing of HEVC patents remains to be resolved
Jiwei.com learned from overseas channels that the invalidation procedure initiated by Xiaomi against Philips’ HEVC-related patents in Germany has been withdrawn. This means that the HEVC patent dispute between Xiaomi and Philips has most likely been settled.
The HEVC dispute between Xiaomi and Philips is part of the Access Advance (“AA”) patent pool partial licensor v. Xiaomi, Vestel. The incident was one of the most influential in the dispute over the AA’s much-discussed double-billing issue.
In August 2020, the patent licensors of the AA patent pool – GE Video, IP Bridge, Philips, and Mitsubishi sued Xiaomi, while GE Video, IP Bridge, Philips, and Dolby sued the Turkish set-top box manufacturer Vestel. Since then, disputes between AA and patent implementers such as Xiaomi and Vestel have been made public. (set micronet)
Yunda Co., Ltd.: The single-ticket revenue of express service in April was 2.53 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.02%
Yesterday evening, Yunda Co., Ltd. issued an announcement, disclosing the express report on the main operating indicators of express delivery services in April 2022. According to the announcement, Yunda’s express service business revenue in April 2022 was 2.859 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 0.03%; the completed business volume was 1.132 billion tickets, a year-on-year decrease of 19.37%; the express service single ticket revenue was 2.53 yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.02%.
As a comparison, Yunda Co., Ltd. achieved express service business income of 4.102 billion yuan in March, a year-on-year increase of 23.37%; completed business volume of 1.582 billion tickets, a year-on-year increase of 4.35%; express service single-ticket revenue of 2.59 yuan, an increase of 18.26% year-on-year. In addition, Yunda achieved revenue of 11.55 billion yuan in the first quarter of 2022, a year-on-year increase of 38.66%; net profit was 347 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 52.01%.
Evergrande Auto: Market news about “Evergrande Auto postpones electric vehicle pre-sale indefinitely” is seriously untrue
In response to the market rumors that Evergrande will postpone the reservation of electric vehicles indefinitely, Evergrande Motor responded that today, the market news circulating on the Internet that “Evergrande Motors will postpone the pre-sale of electric vehicles indefinitely” is seriously untrue. Affected by the epidemic, the mass production time of Hengchi 5 originally scheduled for June 22, 2022 was adjusted to September 20, 2022, and the pre-sale work is progressing normally.
Cisco’s third-quarter revenue fell short of expectations after the market fell more than 12%
In the early morning of May 19th, Beijing time, Cisco released the company’s financial report for the third quarter of fiscal year 2022. Up to now, Cisco’s stock price has fallen by more than 12% in after-hours trading. During the normal trading stage of US stocks, Cisco’s stock price closed down 4.43% to $48.36.
According to the financial report, Cisco’s third-quarter net revenue was US$12.8 billion, which was flat compared with US$12.8 billion in the same period last year; net profit was US$3 billion, an increase of 6% compared with US$2.9 billion in the same period last year; On a GAAP basis, Cisco’s third-quarter adjusted net income was $3.6 billion, up 3 percent from $3.5 billion a year earlier. (Sina Technology)
Yuncong Technology: The final winning rate of IPO online issuance is 0.04830090%
Yuncong Technology announced on May 18 that the company plans to issue 112 million shares in an initial public offering and list it on the Science and Technology Innovation Board at a price of 15.37 yuan per share. 30.00% of the quantity.
After the callback mechanism was activated, 62.961 million shares were initially issued offline, accounting for 80.00% of the issued amount after deducting the final strategic allotment; After the callback mechanism was activated, the final winning rate of online issuance was 0.04830090%. The lottery time for online application is May 19. (Interface News)
international News
Musk praises WeChat: powerful, no spam yet
On May 18th, Musk recently expressed his appreciation for the WeChat model in an interview with the “All-In Summit” podcast. Musk said that if you are in China, you can basically live in WeChat, it can do everything, it is a bit like Twitter plus PayPal, plus a whole lot of other things, these products are integrated, and the interface is also very good. Great, this is a really good app.
Musk said that there is no such thing as Tencent outside of China, and I think such an app is very useful, it has no spam, you can post comments, you can post videos. Importantly, content creators get a share of the revenue. This doesn’t need to be done via Twitter, it can be created from scratch, it can be a new product.
He also said that there needs to be something that converts Twitter into this all-encompassing app that includes a digital town square where important points are discussed and also includes maximum trust and once you get it With a high level of trust, it makes sense to introduce payments, be it cryptocurrency or fiat.
The United States holds UFO hearing for the first time in 50 years, admitting that “many phenomena are beyond the ability of the US government to explain”
On the 17th local time, the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee held a hearing on the topic of UFOs. Reuters reported that this is the first public hearing on UFOs in the U.S. Congress in more than 50 years. Two senior Defense Department intelligence officials who attended the hearing said the Pentagon was working to identify the source of the so-called unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP), but acknowledged that many were beyond the U.S. government’s ability to explain.
According to a report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last June, U.S. pilots observed more than 140 UAP incidents between 2004 and 2021. The nine-page “preliminary assessment” report said 80 percent of the UAP incidents reviewed were detected by multiple sensors. Some congressmen believe that these UFOs may be drones used by foreign countries for surveillance. If the situation is true, the United States needs to take measures to stop them.
Deputy Chief of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray released two UAP-related videos during the hearing. A video shows a flashing spherical object passing at high speed next to a military aircraft, the phenomenon remains unexplained. Bray also said that the UFOs in the 2021 report are also “unsolved” incidents, and that the speed and sensitivity of these mysterious objects have exceeded known aviation technology.
Google’s Russian branch files for bankruptcy, official response says “bank account confiscated by Russia”
The Russian Satellite News Agency reported on the 18th that the Russian branch of the American Google company started its own bankruptcy. In response, a Google spokesman told Reuters that Russian authorities had seized Google’s Russian bank accounts, rendering its Russian branch inoperable. “Google Russia has issued a notice of intent to file for bankruptcy,” a Google spokesman said.
Data from the Federal Register of Economic Activity Subjects in the Russian Federation on Wednesday showed that the Russian branch of IT giant Google had initiated its own bankruptcy proceedings for failing to meet its financial obligations, according to previous reports. According to the claims filed by the Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor, as of now, Google needs to pay more than 7.2 billion rubles (about 756 million yuan) in turnover fines. (IT House)
Sony Unveils New Corporate Strategy: Preparing for a Leading Role in the Metaverse
Sony Group said it is ready to play its leading role in the metaverse or virtual world, Reuters reported on May 18. “The Metaverse is simultaneously a social space and a real-time cyberspace, where games, music, movies and anime meet,” said Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida at a strategy briefing on the 18th.
Sony’s games, music and movie businesses contributed two-thirds of its operating income in the last fiscal year, in part a sign of Sony’s readiness to transform from a consumer electronics maker into a metaverse entertainment company. In addition to the Metaverse, Yoshida also identified Sony’s development proposition in the automotive sector, with the Sony Group working with Honda Motor Co. to develop an electric vehicle. He said: “Our goal is to turn the mobile space into a new entertainment space. We believe that mobility will be the next big development trend.” (Interface News)
After being fined 11 billion, Microsoft opens Windows system to deal with cloud monopoly allegations
Microsoft will revise its licensing terms to allow cloud providers to better compete in response to rival complaints, Microsoft Corp President Brad Smith announced Wednesday. Previously, Microsoft had been fined 1.6 billion euros (about 11.4 billion yuan) by EU antitrust regulators. Those changes include allowing cloud service providers to offer Windows as a full desktop operating system to customers, offering long-term price protection, and revising licensing terms, Smith said. (Phoenix Network Technology)
Hon Hai’s construction of a semiconductor factory in India has entered the stage of site selection
According to Indian media reports, Hon Hai Group has discussed the stage of incentive measures with several state governments in India. Hon Hai announced in mid-February this year that it would join hands with India’s Vedanta Group to set up a joint venture, planning to invest in manufacturing semiconductors locally; Hon Hai holds a 40% stake in the joint venture through its subsidiary Big Innovation Holdings Limited.
Earlier, Nikkei Asia reported that the two companies had agreed to form a joint venture for the project, in which Hon Hai would invest $118.7 million and hold a 40 percent stake. Anil Agarwal, chairman of Vedanta, will serve as chairman of the joint venture. The joint venture aims to meet the huge demand in the local electronics industry.
At present, the joint venture between Hon Hai and Vedanta has entered the stage of site selection, but before deciding on the location of the factory, it is discussing and evaluating incentive policies and subsidy content with various governments; and according to the plan, the joint venture will produce 28-65nm process. It produces chips, but Hon Hai said it would not comment on foreign media reports. (set micronet)
Amazon sued by New York State for discriminating against pregnant workers and disabled workers
On the evening of May 18, according to reports, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced today that the state’s Department of Human Rights (DHR) has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, alleging that Amazon discriminates against pregnant and disabled workers.
Amazon allegedly forced pregnant and disabled employees to take unpaid leave, the indictment said. In one incident, a pregnant worker was given permission to refrain from lifting packages over 25 pounds; a manager’s refusal to comply with that rule meant the worker had been carrying heavy loads. After the worker was injured, Amazon was asked to take “indefinite unpaid leave.”
Investigators say Amazon’s actions violated the state’s human rights law, which prohibits discrimination against pregnant and disabled workers in the workplace. DHR is calling on Amazon to pay New York State civil penalties and cease its discriminatory practices, introduce non-discriminatory policies and practices, and other remedies. (Sina Technology)
Leifeng Network Leifeng Network Leifeng Network
This article is reproduced from: https://www.leiphone.com/category/industrynews/KWUo7KQXR9tRBkCa.html
This site is for inclusion only, and the copyright belongs to the original author.