FILE – American Airlines President Robert Isom speaks at a news conference about the company’s new partnership with Alaska Airlines, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, in Seattle. American Airlines ...
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Spirit Airlines Is Getting Squeezed From All Sides—By JetBlue, Frontier And New Regional Pilot Contracts
Spirit introduced new check-in technology at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport in December … [+] 2021. ASSOCIATED PRESS Spirit Airlines is being squeezed on all sides, by two carriers that...
American Airlines regional carriers hike pilot pay as shortage persists
American Airlines Embraer ERJ-145 regional jet aircraft as seen on final approach landing at New York JFK international airport in NY, on February 13, 2020. Nicolas Economou | Nurphoto | Getty Images ...
Salesforce Unveils Pilot Program for NFT Cloud
Salesforce hopes its NFT Cloud will combat the challenges facing OpenSea and other marketplaces. Software company Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has launched NFT Cloud for brands to mint and sell non-fungible...
Salesforce Launches a Pilot NFT Platform, Won’t Support PoW Blockchains
On Wednesday, American software firm Salesforce announced the launch of a pilot NFT platform – NFT Cloud – on which users can mint and trade such digital assets. However, the company has not revealed ...
Solid Power begins pilot production of solid-state EV battery
Solid Power’s 22-layer, 20Ah all solid-state lithium metal cell compared to the company’s first-generation 10-layer, 2Ah cell. Solid Power Solid Power, a Colorado-based battery start-up ba...
Chongqing Launches Tax Payment Pilot for Digital Yuan
The Chongqing district in China is to conduct a new pilot for the digital yuan central bank digital currency (CBDC). The pilot will allow taxpayers to make payments in digital yuan. The digital yuan t...
Oman backs US-based Crusoe Energy 2022 bitcoin mining pilot project
Crusoe, a bitcoin mining firm based in Denver, is installing equipment to collect flared gases in Muscat, Oman. An unexpected collaboration between a Denver-based mining firm and the government of Oma...
Ethereum Merge Gets Closer As Ropsten Testnet Executes First Pilot
The long-awaited Ethereum Merge is much closer than anticipated. The Ropsten testnet will implement its unique Merge to offer app developers a taste of what the future looks like with the Layer 2 Ethe...
Thai Central Bank Governor on CBDC Pilot Delay
Again, it gets back to that point that was raised during the panel that we want to be clear about what problem we’re trying to solve and think about the benefits of it. The existing system works...
United Airlines plans $100 million expansion of pilot training center
A United Airlines passenger aircraft prepares to leave its gate and taxi to the runway at San Francisco International Airport in San Francisco, California. Robert Alexander | Getty Images United Airli...
JPMorgan Dips Into DeFi With Singapore Pilot on Asset Tokenization
American investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co is piloting the tokenization of DeFi on the blockchain, part of a project to explore the economic potential and value-adding use cases of cryptocurrenc...
Singapore to Explore Digital Asset Use Cases in New Pilot Program
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced Tuesday the launch of a pilot program dubbed “Project Guardian” to explore use cases for digital assets in asset tokenization and decentralized fina...
Stellar Foundation Joins Effort To Create Digital Currency Pilot Project in Brazil
The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) is partnering with a leading crypto exchange as part of a wide-ranging test program seeking to expand Brazil’s blockchain industry. In a new press release, Ste...
Ukraine Has Shot Down A Top Russian Fighter Pilot
Russian Sukhoi Su-25 jet takes part in a joint military exercise with the Belarussian army on Oct. … [+] 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits) ASSOCIATED PRESS Ukrainian air defenses have claimed an...
Commonwealth Bank pauses in-app crypto pilot amid market downturn
Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) head and crypto advocate Christopher Giancarlo has taken a seat as the chairman of crypto prediction platform Polymarket’s advisory board. The platfo...
Australian Banking Giant Halts Crypto Trading Pilot Amid Regulatory Uncertainty
Commonwealth Bank (CommBank), the largest bank in Australia, has reportedly suspended its planned in-app cryptocurrency trading pilot without setting a new timeframe for when it would resume the servi...
Commonwealth bank halts crypto pilot program 1
The Commonwealth Bank has announced the suspension of the crypto-based testing currently going on inside its app. According to the statement, the Australian bank was in the process of a second pilot t...
Australia’s Largest Bank Halts Crypto Trading Pilot, Says More Regulation Needed
Commonwealth Bank (CommBank), Australia’s largest bank, is putting a brake on the launch of its crypto trading service, with no firm timeframe to resume the project, The Guardian reported on Thursday....
Walmart to pilot program aimed at putting new college grads on the path to a $210,000 salary
Walmart Inc. WMT, +0.11% said Monday that it is piloting the College2Career program this summer, which will focus on putting new college grads on a career path with the retail giant. College graduates...
CBDC activity heats up, but few projects move beyond pilot stage
Government-issued electronic currency seems to be an idea whose time has come. “More than half of the world’s central banks are now developing digital currencies or running concrete experiments on th...
U.S. pilot shortage forces airlines to cut flights, scramble for solutions
Airline pilots walk through the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on December 27, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images The United States is facing its worst pilot shorta...
FTX US Opens Chicago HQ, Will Sponsor Supplemental Income Pilot
In brief FTX US launched a supplemental income pilot program in partnership with the City of Chicago and local organization Equity and Transformation. The cryptocurrency exchange announced the news at...
Central Bank Of Philippines to Pilot Test CBDC in Q4
The governor of the Philippine central bank said in an interview that they are negotiating with various banks and financial institutions to conduct a pilot test of a central bank digital currency (CBD...
Gucci Announces Crypto Pilot Program; Will Pool BTC Price in Real-Time
On Wednesday, luxury fashion house Gucci announced a pilot crypto program that will begin at the end of this month. The program will initially begin in five of Gucci’s U.S. stores, according to a repo...
Philippines Central Bank to Pilot Wholesale CBDC Project
The project will provide a chance for the entire finance industry to comprehend the prospects and risks associated with wholesale CBDCs. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has announced its decisio...
Bank of Russia to Pilot Digital Ruble Settlements in 2023 – Finance Bitcoin News
Russia’s monetary authority intends to conduct the first settlements with the digital ruble next year, its governor announced this week. Speaking to Russian lawmakers, the official highlighted the imp...
Russia’s central bank to run real-world pilot of digital ruble in 2023: report
Russia is planning to run “pilot transactions” as early as next year using a digital ruble that could be used for international payments, according to a new report. Elvira Nabiullina, governor of the...
Payments Giant Stripe to Pilot Crypto Payouts With Twitter
Stripe’s latest announcement may make it easier for creators worldwide to hold dollars. It’s a small step, but the payment giant is launching a new crypto pilot on Twitter. The move is part of an exp...
Stripe Launches Crypto Payments Pilot with Twitter
Stripe, an online payment processing platform, is set to pilot cryptocurrency payouts for select users of Twitter’s content monetization products. The companies made the announcement on Friday, accord...
Payments Giant Stripe Rolls Out Crypto Payments Pilot on Twitter
Payments processing firm Stripe is testing out a new pilot program to allow users to make payments using crypto assets on Twitter. According to a new company blog post and accompanying tweet, Stripe i...