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Anti-Covid device comes too late for airlines as flyers shrug off virus

  Bloomberg A Covid-era invention that protects plane passengers from the virus with a curtain of fast-flowing air is proving redundant, underscoring how little travellers care about the risk of infection in the rush back to the skies. Washington-based Pexco Aerospace Inc. has spent the pandemic designing and manufacturing a device that clips onto air vents inside the aircraft. The ...

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Burberry sees lackluster sales growth, hurt by China slump

  Bloomberg Burberry Group Plc showed lackluster sales growth last quarter as customers in China were kept at home first by strict pandemic controls and then, at the very end of the year, by a viral surge as the government loosened restrictions. Comparable store sales rose 1% in the quarter ended December 31, 2022, below the 1.4% gain analysts anticipated. ...

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Amazon kills ‘smile’ charity program

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc. is halting “AmazonSmile,” a decade-old charitable program that let customers pick a charity to receive a donation from the company equal to 0.5% of their purchases. The announcement, which coincided with a fresh round of layoffs that will affect 18,000 Amazon employees, showed how tech industry cost-cutting could ripple through the nonprofit world. The company, which ...

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