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India’s TCS faces US jury over ‘why it fires so many Americans’

Bloomberg India’s IT outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. needs to offer a good explanation for why engineers hired at its American outposts are 13 times as likely to be fired if they’re not South Asian. The company was expected to go on trial on Monday in California over racial discrimination claims by American workers who lost their jobs at ...

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Tencent to check all gamers’ IDs by 2019 in unprecedented move

Bloomberg Tencent Holdings Ltd. will expand its age-verification system to encompass its entire games line-up, an unprecedented undertaking in response to growing criticism it encourages addiction among youths. The Chinese social media and entertainment titan intends to check all gamers’ identities against police databases by 2019, extending a procedure it pioneered for the mobile phenomenon Honour of Kings. It will ...

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Runaway train ‘derailed’ by BHP in Australia

Bloomberg BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s largest mining company, halted all train operations in Western Australia on Monday after it was forced to derail a runaway train in the Pilbara. The driver was inspecting an issue with the train when the locomotive ran away. While rail operations are suspended, mining operations continue, it said. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau said ...

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