#company merger

[townpostin]

Tata Steel Workers Secure 'Good Bonus' Despite Profit Decline

Union president hails ‘handsome’ agreement amid challenging market conditions Key Points: • Tata Workers Union negotiates favorable bonus for 2023-24 despite profit drop • 27,454 employees to benefit from ₹303.13 crore bonus agreement • Bonus formula set for revision next year based on company profits JAMSHEDPUR – Tata Steel workers secure a ₹303.13 crore bonus for 2023-24, despite a 55% drop in…

[helinoftroy]

The Ipsy & Boxycharm Merger Shows Promise

If you’ve never had the ‘pleasure” of working with Ipsy customer service in the past, you still probably heard about it. There were all kinds of back logs, long ship times, horrible email communication. Now they have a very intuitive chat that gets you right to the people you need. I was shipped a DESTROYED Huda face pallet as a mystery item for points. I used their little chat thing I think I…

[notbecauseofvictories]

cute thing I have learned during this conference: a couple different players are working in the quantum computing space, and specifically working on encryption protection algorithms to defend against attacks---these algorithms are called "kyber" and "dilithium" respectively.

nerds.

[sukimas]

Kuda-gitsune of Limited Liability

磁癪折目 Jishaku Orime

Species: Kuda-gitsune (tube fox) Ability: Capable of making any deal sound beneficial

A youkai fox from the outside world. During the Meiji period, while other youkai saw the end of their way of life, Orime saw opportunity, and when whispers of the Great Hakurei Barrier's creation began to spread, she took off to the Outside World to live among humans. As Japan modernized, she took advantage of the rapid growth of business, and made a tidy enough living off of her business partners' ill fortune that she managed to remain a youkai for three-quarters of a century. However, after events in the 20th century, Japan's economy was decimated, and Orime looked for opportunity elsewhere... and where better than the much bigger, much more successful country that had just won the war? Orime bounced between industries, leaving questionable decisions in her wake everywhere she went, but eventually found the right mix of credulity and venture capital in the science and technology sector. However, following a certain incident involving the demise of a very old and very storied company in the early-mid 2010s, she found herself pursued by a terrifying creature called the Securities and Exchange Commission, and fled back to Japan, where her lack of industry connections nearly led to her being forgotten entirely. After practically begging an old mathematician friend of hers for entry, she wormed her way into Gensokyo, and has been causing economic chaos and stalled scientific development (the latter of which youkai find very helpful) since.

[monzabee]

just survived my first merger

[obstinaterixatrix]

also I was reading bl and ok. to speak frankly, I enjoy bl with smut infinitely more when the writer adds any degree of personality and weirdness to it because then it gets funny and interesting. the main character was talking about his experience afterwards and the love interest was like. you sound like you’re reviewing a restaurant. are you kidding me that’s hysterical

[fryandleelasbigfling]

new revival wishlist item is, if we get more mom backstory, i wanna see her as a child. i want her to be old money, like “her parents own a space emerald mine” money, still totally unsympathetic from birth, acting like veruca salt except with twenty times as much swearing. maybe she inherited the “mom��� label or maybe, somehow, she was called “mom” as a child. maybe they called her “daughter.” she lashes out at her parents like she lashes out at her sons now. i want her to reprogram all the robot merch to backfire horribly cuz she’s mad she didn’t get a candy bar. that sort of shit. 

[fishyartist]

realizing a lot of guns are in the 100-2k usd range is crazy. Like that’s an amount of money but not that expensive, especially on the lower end that’s scary man.

[hachama]

That feeling when all your least favorite coworkers are the ones hit by layoffs.

[girlwiththegreenhat]

A huge piece of this problem on the animation side of things is because the streaming bubble is bursting and companies are losing billions of dollars for it. Execs are outright saying they don't want to gamble on what they call "original IPs" anymore, they know reboots and remakes of existing IP will sell so that's all they want. Even if you have an idea and you think you can pitch it to a big studio: They don't want it. It's a new idea, new characters, new worlds, that's not a gamble they want to take, they don't know if there's an audience for it or how big it may be. They're desperately trying to make up all the money they're losing on streaming, and they only want to spend money on the most profitable projects possible.

If you have an original idea, indie is currently your only option. Nobody can tell your stories but you. Please don't wait for an opportunity and make it yourself if you have the means to!!!

I am being so serious when I say: if you have the financial and time privilege to get a group of friends together and make an indie project, PLEASE do. Indie games, indie animations, indie comics etc etc

the art industries are kind of in the shitter. It’s not so much because of AI (though that doesn’t help) but because studios just aren’t hiring people and funding projects anymore. People who’ve been in the industry for decades are finding themselves struggling, and once you have a mortgage or kids it’s harder to do something as risky as making something on your own.

completing projects is hard. it takes a lot of time and effort, and most people can’t afford it. so if you CAN afford to make art, even at the risk of no financial gain, I strongly encourage you to be as resilient as you can. We’re at a point where these industries are not going to turn around by themselves, and waiting for jobs to open up again in order to get experience and portfolio work might not be realistic.

people have been making art and telling stories longgggg before we were getting paid for it, and people aren’t going to stop just because no one has hired them to do so.

for everyone else: support indie artists when you can!!!! That person who made that cool indie game or youtube animation or webcomic might be doing this full time! your support might be the only reason they’re able to keep doing it.

and if you have already started an indie project: you’re so brave and I’m very proud of you!!! in fact, drop a link to it in the reblogs if you want! 👇

[dystopiandramaqueen]

Hi, 

I just wanted to state that the inclusivity of [REDACTED] is one of the reasons I work here. 

With the current administration rolling back support of diversity, queer health care, etc- 

I really hope we remain a supportive, diverse, queer friendly company. 

It brings us business. Our PREP management, STI care, and many other visits are a result of our inclusivity. 

The public is boycotting companies that are rolling back their DEI policies. Look at the planned national boycotts of Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Amazon.

It is ethically important to our doctors and our customers- to continue to stand where we stand. 

I have other specific hopes, but this one needed to be written down. 

Thanks for your time! 

[diagnozabam]

Honda vrea să Reia Negocierile cu Nissan, dar Impune o Condiție: Plecarea CEO-ului Makoto Uchida

Într-o mișcare surprinzătoare, Honda a anunțat că dorește să reia negocierile cu Nissan pentru o posibilă fuzionare, dar cu o condiție clară: Makoto Uchida, CEO-ul actual al Nissan, trebuie să plece din funcție. Această declarație vine la doar o săptămână după ce cele două mărci japoneze au încheiat discuțiile privind fuzionarea, fără a ajunge la un acord. De ce vrea Honda ca Uchida să…

[kansainepalnews]

Nissan to Honda: Merger Talks to Cease, Reports Say

The Chief Executive Officer of Nissan Motor Co has announced the decision to cease discussions regarding a potential merger with Honda Motor Co, according to a reliable source. This development marks a significant shift in the automotive industry landscape, as both companies had been reportedly exploring the possibility of joining forces to enhance their competitive positions in the…

[taoofshigeru]

Reblogging again because, uh, yeah.

The tidbit about Funimation digital purchase-to-own options going away reminds me of what happened with Jmanga back in the day.

The site was launched in 2011 as a manga-exclusive streaming service. Like, a way to get interesting manga titles to western audiences. It had a very janky payment model (you had a subscription that gave you points, which you then used to buy books), but it was sponsored by a number of major Japanese publishers and had some titles nerds such as myself might like. As a young fan with a little disposable income, I bought into that hype and paid for more than one title on it. (Poyo Poyo was one of them, Hoshi no Samidare was another.) Sure, the purchases were going into your jmanga library and you couldn't download a pdf, but what's the difference? It wasn't like the site was going away, right?

…You know how this story ends. Site didn't even last 3 years, shuttered in March 2013, and all those digital books you digitally owned? Suddenly you didn't own 'em so much. Not the only time the internet taught me that media only owned via streaming or DRM aren't really owned at all.

I still have a few DVDs and a few books of manga on my shelf that I bought years before Jmanga then, but I got no copies of those books digital or otherwise. I miss 'em, too.

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

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[sszk]

日本製鉄によるU. S. Steel買収に対する大統領命令

現地時間の1月3日、Joe Bidenアメリカ大統領はかねてから協議が進んでいる日本製鉄によるUnited States Steelの買収に対し、これを禁止する大統領命令を発布しました。 ちょっと長くなりますが、ChatGPTにわかりやすく日本語訳してもらったところ、以下のようになります。 この大統領令では、新日本製鉄株式会社（Nippon Steel）および関連企業によるU.S. Steelの買収が禁止された理由として、以下の点が挙げられています： 1. 国家安全保障への脅威 大統領は「信頼できる証拠」に基づき、この買収がアメリカ合衆国の国家安全保障を損なう可能性があると判断しています。 米国鉄鋼会社（U.S.…