Deutsche Telekom Continues Job Cuts to Save Costs

Deutsche Telekom wants to save costs and cut jobs

BONN – Deutsche Telekom wants to continue cutting jobs. How many jobs in total will be affected is still unclear, a Telekom spokesman said on Saturday when asked. The “Handelsblatt” had previously reported. At the internal IT service provider Telekom IT, 1,300 of the 5,400 jobs located in Germany are to be eliminated, as the company confirmed. In addition, around 350 employees will be leaving the company for early retirement or partial retirement in the coming months.

Letter delivery at two speeds: Post makes suggestions

BERLIN/BONN – The company has made its ideas more concrete when it comes to the possibility of delivering letters at two speeds, which Deutsche Post has long wanted. “There could be a priority letter that reaches the addressee the day after the letter is posted and a standard letter that only arrives after three days,” said postal manager Nikola Hagleitner to “Welt am Sonntag”. Hagleitner is responsible for the mail and parcel business on the postal board’s board.

VW and Umicore are building a battery cathode factory in Poland

SALZGITTER/NYSA – Cheap battery components for VW electric cars are to be produced in Poland. The new joint venture Ionway, which Volkswagen founded with the Belgian group Umicore, will build its first production facility in the city of Nysa (Neiße) in the south of the country, VW battery subsidiary PowerCo announced on Saturday. The aim is cheaper production that “makes electric cars affordable for everyone,” said Ionway boss Thomas Jansseune, according to the statement.

Tesla is cutting prices again in the USA

AUSTIN – Tesla has again cut prices for its key models in the United States after a decline in deliveries last quarter. The starting price for the Model 3 on Friday was $38,990 – that was $1,250 less than before. A few days earlier, the electric car manufacturer had put a cheaper version of the Model Y compact SUV back on offer.

Crazy game: fourth BVB win, seventh Union defeat

DORTMUND – Fourth league win in a row for Borussia Dortmund, seventh competitive defeat in a row for Union Berlin: In a crazy game with two leadership changes and a lot of video chaos, the end result was 4:2 (1:2) for BVB. This not only continues the current form series of the two Champions League participants, but also the history of both clubs: Dortmund has now won all five home games against Union, something BVB previously only managed against 1. FC Saarbrücken.

Lufthansa ‘reduces’ flights to Israel – no departures on Saturday

FRANKFURT/TEL AVIV – After major attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip, Lufthansa is reducing its flights to the country. “Against the background of the current security situation in Tel Aviv, Lufthansa Group Airlines is reducing its flight program to/from Tel Aviv this Saturday for operational reasons,” the company said on Saturday at the request of the German Press Agency.

Eurowings wants damages from Last Generation after BER blockade

BERLIN – The Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings is demanding compensation from last generation climate activists after blockades at several German airports. “Eurowings will claim material damages for the airlines of the Lufthansa Group that were caused by the actions of activists at the airports in Berlin, Düsseldorf and Hamburg,” said a Lufthansa spokesman on Sunday when asked. “Bild am Sonntag” had previously reported.

Test satellites for Amazon’s Startlink competition in space

SEATTLE – Amazon has launched the first test satellites for its planned system to provide Internet from space. The satellite network called Kuiper is intended to compete with the similarly functioning Starlink service from Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX. Amazon announced at the weekend that the KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 satellites had established a connection to the ground station as planned after launching in Florida.

Intel CEO: Subsidies for the Magdeburg plant justified

MAGDEBURG – The head of the US chip manufacturer Intel, Pat Gelsinger, has justified the ten billion euros in German subsidies for the construction of a chip factory in Magdeburg. Gelsinger told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (Monday) that the subsidies were necessary in order to be able to produce competitively. China, Korea and Taiwan have massively supported the semiconductor industry in the past decades.

A number of Motel One customer data published on the darknet

MUNICH – Hackers have stolen data containing private information from guests on a large scale from the Motel One hotel chain and published it on the dark web. “According to preliminary findings, the stolen data amounting to six terabytes relates in particular to address and billing data of customers and only very occasionally credit card information of our hotel guests,” said a spokeswoman for the company on Saturday when asked in Munich. The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” had previously reported that the data had already been published on the darknet on Wednesday.

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