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7 Actions Manufacturers Need to Take Now

7 Actions Manufacturers Need to Take Now

This new industry playbook gives you the seven actions manufacturers need to take to move their companies in the right direction.

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$50M Payment Settles Drug Purity Probe

The plant makes cancer drugs distributed in the U.S.

Microsoft Bringing Workers Back to Headquarters

More than 50,000 people work at the campus in suburban Seattle.

The Amazon Fresh grocery store opens in London, Thursday March 4, 2021, where a sign explains for shoppers to pick up items and walk out of the store, contactless, without the need for a till. Customers will scan a QR code on their way into the store, with cameras and technology identifying the items that shoppers take from the shelves and their account automatically paid.

Amazon Opens First UK Checkout-free Grocery Store

It's the first in a wave of shops in London that will use its automated checkout technology.

Workers wearing face masks polish bicycle wheel rims at a factory in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province on Feb. 19, 2021. China's manufacturing recovery weakened for a third month in February as exports and new orders declined, according to two surveys released on Monday, March 1, 2021.

China Manufacturing Weakens for Third Month

The economic outlook and renewed disease outbreaks abroad that have prompted governments to reimpose business and travel curbs.

This Oct. 27, 2010 file photo, shows a Boeing 737 being delivered to flydubai in Seattle, Washington. The United Arab Emirates, a key international travel hub, announced on Wednesday it has lifted its ban on Boeing's 737 Max, allowing the plane to return to its skies after being grounded for nearly two years following a pair of deadly crashes.

UAE Clears Boeing Max Jet

The 737 Max returned to American skies last December.

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Wis. Firm Sues Foxconn Over Breach of Contract

They say the electronics giant violated the terms of the agreement while local governments spent millions.

In this Oct. 1, 2019, file photo the symbol for Intel appears on a screen at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. Intel is replacing its CEO after two years. The computer company said Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021, that Pat Gelsinger will become its new CEO, effective Feb. 15. He takes over for Bob Swan, who became CEO in January 2019.

Intel Replaces CEO

It's been a rough two years for the chipmaker.

In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google is formally pushing back on antitrust claims brought against it by the Justice Department two months ago. In a legal filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Google generally denied the legal claims against it and said that people use its search engine “because they choose to, not because they are forced to or because they cannot easily find alternative ways to search for information on the Internet.”

Google Rejects DOJ Antitrust Claims in Court Filing

Google denied or partially rejected almost 200 specific complaints against it.

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New Auditing Rule Could Boot Chinese Companies from U.S. Stock Exchanges

The law is a response to complaints Chinese companies were failing to comply with stricter U.S. government oversight.

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Apple Partners on Coding Centers at Historically Black Colleges

Apple and Tennessee State have been working together for the last two years to expand the initiative.

In this Nov. 23, 2020, photo, a street sign is displayed at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. S&P DJ Indices is removing 21 Chinese companies from its indexes, or groups of stocks and bonds used to track financial market movements, after Americans were barred from investing in them as part of a feud with Beijing over technology and security.

S&P DJ Removing Chinese Companies from Index after US Order

The Chinese government criticized Wednesday's move as politically motivated.