The Supervisory Board of Volkswagen has advanced its deliberations on the reorganization of the Management Board by one day. According to SPIEGEL information, purchasing manager Garcia Sanz now has to fear for his job. VW plant in Wolfsburg Thursday, 12.04.2018 14:43 clock If everything goes as the corporate strategists want in the background, VW brand… Continue reading VW Supervisory Board prefers deliberations – Sanz ‘post wobbles
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Demonstrated by the US Justice
In the VW scandal staging the US investigators as reconnaissance. They can because the German judiciary acts so restrained: The prosecutor hesitates too long with a charge of fraud. Bongarts / Getty Images Ex-VW boss Martin Winterkorn Friday, 04.05.2018 19:41 clock The diesel affair surrounding manipulated Volkswagen cars stinks many people in Germany. Millions of… Continue reading Demonstrated by the US Justice
VW will not release its cars for longer than expected
D The car maker Volkswagen expects due to the new emissions test with an even longer dry spell than previously known. “This topic will occupy us for a few months until we come back to a normal driving style in the plants,” wrote CEO Herbert Diess to the employees. Because of the from 1 September… Continue reading VW will not release its cars for longer than expected
Salaries in Dax companies diverges
D The salary gap in Germany’s top corporations has increased in the past year. The executives of the 30 Dax companies earned an average of 52 times as much as their employees, as a study published on Thursday in Frankfurt by the German Association for the Protection of Securities ( DSW ) and the Technical… Continue reading Salaries in Dax companies diverges
Stefan Sommer becomes Volkswagen Board Member
D he after a power struggle with the supplier ZF Retired former CEO Stefan Sommer changes to the world’s largest carmaker. There, he takes over a VW release on Monday evening according to the procurement department. Sommer follows the long-term purchasing director Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz, who left the group at his own request. Volkswagen… Continue reading Stefan Sommer becomes Volkswagen Board Member
Apple developer is spied on for Chinese company to have
e former Apple employees have been arrested in the United States on suspicion of trade secrets to a Chinese company. Xiaolang Zhang is due during his parental leave Apple He has downloaded carefully-guarded information about a self-driving car onto his laptop and shared it with start-up Xiaopeng Motors, according to the FBI’s indictment. In addition,… Continue reading Apple developer is spied on for Chinese company
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The uncertainty for the Neue Halberg casting continues
D The striking employees of the automotive supplier Neue Halberg Guss have chosen big words on Thursday to support the further negotiations on a social wage agreement for their company with protests. When around 600 employees from Saarbrücken and Leipzig gathered at the Opernturm in Frankfurt at noon, they carried several banners: “Where justice becomes… Continue reading The uncertainty for the Neue Halberg casting continues
Club Merkelterranée?
B In a word “transit” falls to us (generation ford First, this dove-blue delivery van with which the butcher brought the Wiener sausages and the rolls, which the caretaker then sold in the big break for one twenty, when we still had German small change and not already French. At that time there were still… Continue reading Club Merkelterranée?
Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 4004 Microprocessor
Photo: Intel Intel 4004 Manufacturer: Intel Category: Processors Year: 1971 The Intel 4004 was the world’s first microprocessor—a complete general-purpose CPU on a single chip. Released in March 1971, and using cutting-edge silicon-gate technology, the 4004 marked the beginning of Intel’s rise to global dominance in the processor industry. So you might imagine that the full… Continue reading Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 4004 Microprocessor
Forget Jet Packs—Why Don’t We Have Stair-Climbing Wheelchairs?
Photo: MIT Museum Ernesto Blanco invented his stair-climbing wheelchair in 1962 and entered it in a design challenge from the National Inventors Council, a U.S. agency that sought out technologies of potential military use. Blanco even created a one-quarter scale model [above] to show that the design actually worked. Stairs are of course tricky to… Continue reading Forget Jet Packs—Why Don’t We Have Stair-Climbing Wheelchairs?