Whip Bull Evening News: Station B denied deleting or altering attendance and overtime records; Heytea said that the company did not have major layoffs

Editor's note: Whiplash will take stock of the important events that occurred today in the form of evening newspapers, covering the international and domestic science and technology Internet, and delivering industry information to practitioners and users in the technology industry.

—— Domestic Developments ——

1. Station B responds to the sudden death of overtime employees during the Spring Festival late at night: attendance and overtime records have never been deleted or altered

Station B posted last night in response to the sudden death of employees working overtime during the Spring Festival. Station B said that it has never deleted or changed attendance and overtime records. Station B said that the deceased employee joined the Wuhan branch of Station B in May 2020, as the acting leader of the graphic review team, did not return to his hometown for the New Year, and led the group to arrange eight hours a day, do five days off and two Spring Festival rotational layout plans. After the incident, the aftermath of Station B was not handled well, and the aftermath has been communicated with the family. Station B also announced that the company will expand the recruitment of auditors and increase the recruitment of 1,000 people, so as to reduce the per capita work pressure. And starting this month, the entire staff of the content security center will be organized to conduct enhanced physical examinations. In the early hours of this morning, the whistleblower Wang Luobei also revealed that he had received a lawyer's letter entrusted by Station B, but he did not disclose the specific content of the lawyer's letter.

2. Ray Sidney, a Google No. 5 employee, denied that he was Gu Ailing's biological father

Yesterday, some netizens found that Ray Sidney, a Google No. 5 employee, replaced his avatar on his personal social platform with a photo with Gu Ailing when he was a child, which triggered the speculation that Ray Sidney was Gu Ailing's biological father. On February 9, Ray Sidney clarified on his personal social networking site that he had been in a relationship with Gu Ailing's mother, but that was after Gu Ailing was born. Ray Sidney said he has known Gu Ailing for many years and is very proud of her achievements on and off the field.

3. Tencent's public relations director responded to the anger that the management fresh graduates were never hired: Can the news be faked?

Recently, some media reported that the fresh graduates who had previously angered Tencent's management had left their jobs and were marked as never hired, and Tencent's legal department also filed a lawsuit against the employee, on the grounds of "damaging the company's image". In response, Zhang Jun, Tencent's public relations director, responded on social media that it would be marked as never hired and legal counsel filed a lawsuit marked red and marked with the word "rumor" and accompanied by the text, "Can news be faked?" The cost of creating rumors is now too low. A few days ago, a fresh graduate employee of Tencent's enterprise WeChat sent a message to anger the management in a large group within the department due to the high-intensity overtime problem caused by "catching up with the version".

4. Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision: Advertisements must not appear in bad cultural orientation such as niang cannon and beauty

Recently, the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Market Supervision issued the "Guidelines for Compliance with Commercial Advertising Endorsement Activities", mentioning that advertising endorsement activities should adhere to the correct orientation and not have the following orientation problems, including using celebrity artists who have committed illegal crimes, violations of public order and good customs to carry out advertising endorsements; commercial publicity on the basis of serious political issues, spoofing classics, distorting history and other illegal commercial marketing propaganda; promoting money worship, hedonism and extravagance, extravagance and waste, "mother cannon" and "beauty" and other bad cultures; hyping up personal privacy, Soft pornography and other vulgar kitsch phenomena.

5. Veteran actor Chang Feng has passed away and was awarded the Golden Jubilee Film Emperor in 2019

Today, according to Taiwan media reports, Chang Feng's daughter Chang Qing confirmed in an interview that Chang Feng had passed away on February 6, at the age of 98. Chang Feng has been in the film for 70 years, of which the role of Zhang Sanfeng in the 1994 version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon" is well known to the audience. He won the Best Actor Award at the 22nd Shanghai International Film Festival in 2019 for "Homesickness", and became the oldest recipient of the award at the age of 96.

6. Due to online winter Olympic players, 331 Douyin accounts were disposed of

Douyin issued an announcement saying that in its daily inspection, the platform found that some accounts slandered, insulted and attacked The Winter Olympic players through comments or private messages, and spread false rumors, which had a negative impact on the Winter Olympics and the community atmosphere. Recently, the platform has intercepted and cleaned up 6,780 relevant illegal videos and comments through model identification, report acceptance, public opinion monitoring, etc. For 331 accounts that have mutually tearing insults, inciting confrontation, and online violence and slander, depending on the seriousness of the violation, they will be dealt with with such as banning or even banning accounts.

7, Xicha responded to the rumors of large layoffs: the company does not have the so-called big layoffs

Today, in response to the "layoff" rumors, Xicha responded that the relevant rumors are false information, the company does not have the so-called major layoffs, and a small number of personnel adjusted to normal personnel adjustment and optimization based on year-end assessment. At the same time, the year-end bonuses of employees have also been issued to employees normally before the Spring Festival according to their performance. According to reports, previously, after confirming with a number of Xicha employees, the main information includes: the internal layoffs have been initiated a few years ago, and some more layoffs will be made in the next year, involving 30% of employees overall. Some employees said that all employees did not have year-end bonuses, and another said that "deferred payment". The information security department was all laid off, and the store development department was cut by 50%.

8. Airbnb was fined 400,000 yuan for price violations, etc., because it could not prove the truth of the crossed price

Recently, Airbnb affiliate Angel Network (Beijing) Co., Ltd. was fined 400,000 yuan by the Beijing Municipal Market Supervision and Administration Bureau. The reasons for the penalty show that the parties used the crossed price to carry out the promotion, but did not accurately indicate the meaning of the crossed price, and could not prove that the compared price marked was true and based. According to the relevant laws and regulations, the parties concerned were warned and fined 300,000 yuan. In addition, the parties were fined 100,000 yuan for not continuously publishing business-related license information in a prominent position on the home page.

9. Founder of Gaosi Education: The Haidian Huangzhuang teaching point where Gu Ailing attended classes has been closed and will not be hyped with champions

Yesterday evening, The founder of Gaosi Education, Xu Yicheng, sent a message congratulating Gu Ailing on winning the championship, and also responded to the matters related to Gu Ailing's study at Gaosi. Xu Yicheng revealed that when Gu Ailing went to school in the United States, he would always take classes in Gaosi when he came back from vacation. In response to the information and pictures circulating on the Internet about her in Gaosi after Gu Ailing won the championship, Xu Yicheng said that these contents were all a year ago or even nine years ago. Gao Si will not use the championship to do any hype, and the discipline training will not do any advertising. Secondly, the Haidian Huangzhuang teaching site, where Gu Ailing used to take classes, was closed in July 2021.

10. Yum China: Revenue of US$9.85 billion in 2021, an increase of 19% year-on-year

Yum China announces its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2021. According to the data, Yum China's total revenue in 2021 was US$9.853 billion, an increase of 19% year-on-year; full-year operating profit was US$1.39 billion, an increase of 44% year-on-year; adjusted net profit was US$525 million, down 15% from US$615 million in the same period last year. As of December 31, 2021, the total number of The Group's stores reached 11,788, and Yum opened 1,806 new stores in 2021. Among them, KFC has added 1232 stores and Pizza Hut has added 335 stores.

11. Starbucks stores were fined millions for using expired ingredients

Recently, Shanghai Starbucks Coffee Operation Co., Ltd. Wuxi Zhenze Road Store and Wuxi Changxing Building Store were confiscated by the Wuxi Xinwu District Market Supervision and Administration Bureau and fined more than 690,000 yuan and 670,000 yuan respectively for using expired food raw materials and operating expired food products by tampering, replacing and tearing up the shelf life labels of the concocted food raw materials; and wiping the towels on the food contact surfaces failed to achieve special use. Previously, media reporters went undercover in the above two stores to investigate, exposing their expired ingredients to change labels privately, and overnight cakes were on the shelves again.

12. Zhang Yiming withdrew from the legal representative of Shanghai Zijiao

Yesterday, Shanghai Zijiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. underwent a change in industry and commerce, the legal representative was changed from Zhang Yiming to Li Ying, and at the same time, Zhang Yiming no longer served as an executive director. Previously, Zhang Yiming has successively withdrawn from a number of ByteDance affiliated companies.

—— International News ——

SpaceX expects that as many as 40 of its 49 Starlink satellites launched on Feb. 3 will be "scrapped" due to a magnetic storm that could not properly deploy their orbits. SpaceX said the geomagnetic storm created 50 percent more drag than in the past, and although the company tried to take edge detours to avoid as much as possible, it was expected that 40 of them would burn out in the atmosphere.

2. Mercedes-Benz was fined 100 million yuan for falsely publicizing the effect of exhaust emission reduction

South Korea's antitrust regulator, the Fair Trade Commission, said on the 6th of this month that it imposed a fine of 20.2 billion won, or about 100 million yuan, on Mercedes-Benz's Korean subsidiary and German parent company for falsely and exaggerated the effect of exhaust emission reductions, involving 15 diesel models sold in South Korea from 2012 to 2018, totaling about 32,000 vehicles.

3. Toyota Motor's net profit for the third quarter of 2021 was 791.74 billion yen, and the market estimate was 619.24 billion yen

Toyota Motor's net profit for the third quarter of 2021 was 791.74 billion yen, compared to a market estimate of 619.24 billion yen. Full-year net profit is forecast at 2.49 trillion yen, and the market estimate is 2.76 trillion yen. Toyota Motor expects global sales of 10.29 million units in fiscal years 2021 to 2022.

4. Apple announced the launch of tap to Pay, which allows merchants to accept contactless payments

Apple announced Tuesday that it will launch a "Tap to Pay" feature on the iPhone, allowing millions of merchants across the U.S. to seamlessly and securely accept Apple Pay, contactless credit and debit cards, and other digital wallet payments using the iPhone with just a tap of the iPhone, without the need for additional hardware or payment terminals. Once Tap to Pay is officially launched, merchants will be able to accept contactless payments through an iOS app on an iPhone XS or later device.

5. Apple will significantly increase U.S. retail employee benefits in April

Apple is reportedly planning to increase benefits for Apple Store employees across the U.S., including increased sick leave and vacation days, to attract and retain retail employees. These benefits include double paid sick leave, 12 days of paid sick leave, maternity leave of up to 6 weeks, and more annual leave. The benefits will reportedly apply to full-time and part-time employees at the company's 270 U.S. retail outlets. The new Apple Retail Employee Benefits Program went into effect in the United States on Monday, April 4, 2022.

6. TikTok conducts tests: the study is graded based on age

TikTok said the company is conducting a small-scale test to study ways to rate and limit content by age to prevent teenage users from seeing adult content. Drawing on content rating standards already used in movies and games, TikTok said it will test a way for creators on its app to be clear about whether they want their content to be viewed only by adults.

7. Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Care, a telemedicine service, in the United States

Amazon announced that it will launch telemedicine services called Amazon Care nationwide in the United States. Amazon initially launched Amazon Care in 2019, piloting it among employees at its Seattle headquarters and surrounding offices. The program offers virtual consultations, free telemedicine consultations, and paid nurse home testing and vaccination services. Subsequently, Amazon Care has also gradually incorporated more primary health care services. In addition, Amazon is also expanding offline medical services to more cities in the United States.

8. The male and female thieves in the cryptocurrency era were arrested in the case of a $4.5 billion bitcoin theft

According to the U.S. federal government, the "male and female thief" (Bonnie and Clyde) in the cryptocurrency age, Heather Morgan, 31, and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, were arrested by federal law enforcement officers in New York City at 7 a.m. local time on Tuesday. They are accused of getting rich from a stolen bitcoin, which is worth about $4.5 billion today. They were arrested for conspiracy to launder money 119754 bitcoins. Authorities said the digital currency came from a 2016 hack against Bitfinex. Both face the possibility of being sentenced to 20 years in prison.