Boeing HQ departing Chicago
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Paul O’Connor, a marketing consultant who in 2001 led the local campaign for Boeing as executive director of World Business Chicago, said the decision hurts the city’s image as a draw for big businesses, particularly amid headlines about spikes in crime. “They were the gilded hood ornament of a global city,” O’Connor said Thursday, allowing that the news gave him “a pang” of sadness...
Boeing Design Process
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When he founded the company that bears his name, Bill Boeing was convinced that his products would constantly benefit from further improvements – a philosophy that still prevails today and is reflected in the Group's culture of continuous improvement. Whether in terms of innovation or change.....
Boeing 737 MAX — Timeline
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The design of the 737 MAX family aircraft benefits from refinements such as the streamlined wingtips "winglets" - an advanced technology developed by Boeing that reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by at least 14% compared to 737 Next Generation (NG). Other changes include LED landing, taxi and runway lights, as well as a newly designed electronics compartment...
SOCIAL NETWORKS
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For two consecutive years, TikTok has dominated the ranking of the most downloaded applications in the world. TikTok is once again the most downloaded application in the world between January and March 2022, according to a Sensor Tower report relayed by Phonandroid. The Chinese social network entered this ranking in 2020, rising to the top in just a few months. This first place was then confirmed in 2021. The site even became the most visited domain name in the world that year, ahead of Google...
Facebook becomes Meta in reference to the metaverse: but what is it?
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The name change of the Facebook company wanted by Mark Zuckerberg is an obvious reference to the pharaonic project launched by its founder. He went so far as to change the name of his company to refer to it. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook announced this Thursday, October 28 that the group he created will no longer bear its original name. And the new identity owes nothing to chance. The group is now called Meta, a direct reference to a pharaonic project....
Web browsers: Edge outperforms Safari on PC
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According to StatCounter, Microsoft's Edge browser has now passed Apple's Safari in March 2022 and is still far ahead of Firefox, which is still not catching up. Google's Chrome is the race well ahead. Google Chrome still ranks first by far with 66.58% of all desktop users. As for Mozilla's Firefox, it holds just 7.87% of the share...