三星电子对其高级管理团队进行重组

The world this week -- Business

本周国际要闻——商业

Samsung Electronics overhauled its senior management team and is to merge its smartphone business with its hitherto separate and wider consumer-electronics division.

三星电子对其高级管理团队进行了重组，并即将把智能手机业务与此前一直独立的业务更加广泛的消费电子部门合并。

Combining the two will boost Samsung’s ability to provide customers with joined-up services across devices, similar to Apple.

这两个部门的合并将提高三星为客户提供跨设备连接服务的能力，类似于苹果。

Concern grew about the Russian state’s intentions for social media when a complex set of deals involving subsidiaries linked to Gazprom gave the state-owned gas company voting control of VKontakte, Russia’s largest social network.

俄罗斯天然气工业股份公司关联子公司参与了一系列复杂交易，使这家国有天然气公司获得了俄罗斯最大社交网络VKontakte的投票权，这让人们对俄罗斯政府意图掌控社交媒体的担忧与日俱增。

Its chief executive stepped down.

VKontakte的首席执行官已下台。

Russian media speculated that his replacement might be a senior executive at the state telecoms group, who is also the son of Vladimir Putin’s deputy chief of staff.

俄罗斯媒体猜测，接替他的可能是这家国有电信集团的一名高管，此人也是弗拉基米尔·普京副幕僚长的儿子。

Faced with an annual inflation rate running close to 11%, Brazil’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate for the seventh time in 2021, by a hefty 1.5 percentage points to 9.25%, and indicated there will be more to come in 2022.

面对接近11%的年通胀率，巴西央行在2021年第七次上调基准利率，大幅上调1.5个百分点，至9.25%，并表示2022年还会进一步上调。

Productivity among American workers in the third quarter declined by 5.2% from the previous quarter (on an annualised basis), the steepest such fall since 1960.

第三季度美国工人的生产率比上一季度下降了5.2%（按年率计算），这是自1960年以来的最大降幅。

The number of hours worked rose by 7.4%, far outpacing a 1.8% jump in output.

工作时间增加了7.4%，远远超过了1.8%的产出增幅。

The supply-chain crunch may have been a factor.

供应链短缺可能是一个因素。

The takeover of Arm, a British chip designer, by Nvidia, an American company which designs and sells computer chips, came closer to collapse.

设计和销售计算机芯片的美国公司Nvidia对英国芯片设计公司ARM的收购濒临瓦解。

America’s Federal Trade Commission sued to block the deal, arguing that it will harm competition.

美国联邦贸易委员会提起诉讼，要求阻止这笔交易，理由是这将会损害竞争。

British and EU regulators are also investigating the takeover, though the EU has paused its inquiry.

英国和欧盟监管机构也在调查这项收购，尽管欧盟已经暂停了调查。

The takeover was announced more than a year ago.

这项收购是在一年多前宣布的。

Uber’s business in London took another knock when the High Court ruled that it cannot act as the agent between the passenger and driver, meaning Uber, and not the driver, is liable for any mishaps affecting car journeys.

当高等法院裁定优步不能充当乘客和司机之间的代理人时，优步在伦敦的业务再次受到打击，这意味着要对任何影响汽车行驶的事故负责的是优步，而不是司机。

Uber had sought a clarification of the law after the British Supreme Court decided in February that its drivers are workers, not contractors.

在英国最高法院2月份裁定优步司机是员工，而不是承包商后，优步曾寻求对这一法律的详细解释说明。

This week’s ruling will apply to all private-hire car firms in the capital.

本周的裁决将适用于首都所有的私人租车公司。

London is one of Uber’s biggest urban markets.

伦敦是优步最大的城市市场之一。

A report from Inrix, a trans port analytics firm, found that London had become the world’s most congested city, with motorists spending an average of 148 hours in traffic jams during 2021.

交通分析公司Inrix的一份报告发现，伦敦已成为世界上最拥堵的城市，2021年驾驶员平均花费148小时在交通堵塞上。

The report (which omits cities such as Cairo and Lagos where Inrix lacks data) said that congestion in London was almost back to pre-pandemic levels, even though trips to central London were still down on those of 2019.

这份报告（不包括开罗和拉各斯等Inrix缺乏数据的城市）显示，伦敦的拥堵状况几乎回到了疫情前的水平，尽管前往伦敦市中心的行程数量仍低于2019年的水平。

In New York the overall number of hours lost to traffic delays was 27% below those of 2019 and in Los Angeles, 40%.

在纽约，因交通延误而造成的时间损失比2019年减少了27%，洛杉矶减少了40%。

In Paris it was 15%.

在巴黎，这一数字为15%。