Company news in brief
Nike stores closed in South Africa
Some Nike stores were closed in South Africa on Wednesday after public outcry over a racist comment by a man that local media said had links to the sportswear company.
Nike declined to comment on the store closures, but issued a statement reiterating its “long-standing commitment to diversity, inclusion and respect”, adding that the man seen in a video posted online was not a company employee.
In the video, taken at a beach resort, a white man with a South African accent says: “And not one kaffir in sight. Fucking heaven on earth.”
-Nampa/Reuters
Bombardier names aerospace COO
Bombardier Inc on Wednesday appointed Danny Di Perna as its aerospace unit’s chief operating officer.
Di Perna, who most recently was vice-president of global sourcing at GE Power, will report to chief executive officer Alain Bellemare, Bombardier said.
The announcement comes at a time when Bombardier is in the middle of a five-year turnaround plan through 2020, after investments in its CSeries jetliner led to a cash crunch in 2015.
-Nampa/Reuters
J&J to appeal talc verdict
A Missouri trial court judge has affirmed the massive US$4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a case involving 22 women and their families who alleged the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.
J&J in a statement on Wednesday said it would continue to pursue all available appellate remedies. The company, which denies the allegations and says its talc is safe, previously said it was confident the verdict would be overturned on appeal.
-Nampa/Reuters
Amazon starts selling fashion, sportswear in Brazil
Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it will start selling sportswear and clothing on its Brazilian site, bolstering the list of products that third party vendors offer on its local e-commerce marketplace.
The retailer said in a statement that it will offer more than 300 000 products, ranging from Havaianas flip flops, made by Alpargatas, to Levi’s jeans, as well as some local high-end fashion brands like Brazilian designer Reinaldo Lourenco.
As with consumer electronics and most other goods sold on Amazon’s Brazilian marketplace except for books, the fashion brands and other articles will be delivered by the third parties vendors offering them, rather than Amazon itself.
-Nampa/Reuters
Facebook suspends 400 apps
Facebook said it has investigated thousands of apps and suspended 400 of them since a developer data leak scandal broke in March.
That’s about double the number the company earlier said it had pulled. Facebook made the moves “due to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been used — which we are now investigating in much greater depth,” the company said in a blog post Wednesday.
One such investigation, into an app called myPersonality, resulted in a full ban because the app didn’t cooperate with an audit and “because it’s clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place.”
-Fin24
Some Nike stores were closed in South Africa on Wednesday after public outcry over a racist comment by a man that local media said had links to the sportswear company.
Nike declined to comment on the store closures, but issued a statement reiterating its “long-standing commitment to diversity, inclusion and respect”, adding that the man seen in a video posted online was not a company employee.
In the video, taken at a beach resort, a white man with a South African accent says: “And not one kaffir in sight. Fucking heaven on earth.”
-Nampa/Reuters
Bombardier names aerospace COO
Bombardier Inc on Wednesday appointed Danny Di Perna as its aerospace unit’s chief operating officer.
Di Perna, who most recently was vice-president of global sourcing at GE Power, will report to chief executive officer Alain Bellemare, Bombardier said.
The announcement comes at a time when Bombardier is in the middle of a five-year turnaround plan through 2020, after investments in its CSeries jetliner led to a cash crunch in 2015.
-Nampa/Reuters
J&J to appeal talc verdict
A Missouri trial court judge has affirmed the massive US$4.69 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in a case involving 22 women and their families who alleged the company’s talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.
J&J in a statement on Wednesday said it would continue to pursue all available appellate remedies. The company, which denies the allegations and says its talc is safe, previously said it was confident the verdict would be overturned on appeal.
-Nampa/Reuters
Amazon starts selling fashion, sportswear in Brazil
Amazon.com Inc said on Wednesday it will start selling sportswear and clothing on its Brazilian site, bolstering the list of products that third party vendors offer on its local e-commerce marketplace.
The retailer said in a statement that it will offer more than 300 000 products, ranging from Havaianas flip flops, made by Alpargatas, to Levi’s jeans, as well as some local high-end fashion brands like Brazilian designer Reinaldo Lourenco.
As with consumer electronics and most other goods sold on Amazon’s Brazilian marketplace except for books, the fashion brands and other articles will be delivered by the third parties vendors offering them, rather than Amazon itself.
-Nampa/Reuters
Facebook suspends 400 apps
Facebook said it has investigated thousands of apps and suspended 400 of them since a developer data leak scandal broke in March.
That’s about double the number the company earlier said it had pulled. Facebook made the moves “due to concerns around the developers who built them or how the information people chose to share with the app may have been used — which we are now investigating in much greater depth,” the company said in a blog post Wednesday.
One such investigation, into an app called myPersonality, resulted in a full ban because the app didn’t cooperate with an audit and “because it’s clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place.”
-Fin24
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