As part of its $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers, Google will start paying for some paywalled content for its News Showcase program. News Showcase, a new addition to Google News that launched in October, displays story panels curated by publishers — but its not available in the US yet. News Showcase will “start offering people access to paywalled content in partnership with select news publishers,” says a Google blog post. Google will pay partners for… Source link

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FILE PHOTO: A Google sign is shown at one of the company’s office complexes in Irvine, California, U.S., July 27, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal judge hearing the U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google urged the government on Wednesday to narrow the definition of “highly sensitive” information as he considered arguments on which of Google’s lawyers would be able to see evidence produced by other companies. U.S. District… Source link

Google is planning to acquire cloud-focused data protection technology developer Actifio in a move to better protect enterprise workloads both on-premises and in the cloud. Google, which Wednesday unveiled the planned acquisition in a blog post by Brad Calder, the tech giant’s vice president of engineering, said Actifio will be an important part of protecting data on Google Cloud. “As organizations across industries sharpen their disaster preparedness strategies and infrastructure… Source link

​Alexandria, VA, December 2, 2020—Today, Google and the SHRM Foundation announced a partnership committed to connecting diverse tech talent with opportunities at major companies across the United States. Through promotion of Google’s Career Certificates for jobseekers, and it’s hiring consortium of employers, SHRM and Google hope to empower HR professionals with technology and programs that create economic opportunity, promote inclusive hiring practices, and narrow the digital skills… Source link

Google violated US labor laws by spying on workers who were organizing employee protests, then firing two of them, according to a complaint to be filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) today. The complaint names two employees, Laurence Berland and Kathryn Spiers, both of whom were fired by the company in late 2019 in connection with employee activism. Berland was organizing against Google’s decision to work with IRI Consultants, a firm widely known for its anti-union… Source link

In The Know is committed to finding you the best products at the best prices. The product written about here is offered in affiliation with In The Know’s parent company, Verizon Media. Yahoo Mobile remains one of the most affordable and comprehensive phone plans on the market. So when the Yahoo Mobile Phone launched in October 2020, bringing the entire Yahoo Mobile ecosystem to the service’s customers, it was pretty much a game changer. Just in time for the holidays, the recently released Source link

CBC Josh Dueck, 2014 gold medallist, named Canada’s chef de mission for ’22 Paralympics Paralympic champion Josh Dueck was named Canada’s chef de mission for the 2022 Beijing Games on Wednesday. The Canadian Paralympic Hall of Famer from Kimberley, B.C., competed at two Games, winning gold in super combined alpine skiing and silver in downhill in 2014 after also taking silver in sitting slalom in 2010. The 39-year-old served as the closing ceremony flag-bearer in Sochi. “When I got the… Source link

In The Know is committed to finding you the best products at the best prices. The product written about here is offered in affiliation with In The Know’s parent company, Verizon Media. Yahoo Mobile remains one of the most affordable and comprehensive phone plans on the market. So when the Yahoo Mobile Phone launched in October 2020, bringing the entire Yahoo Mobile ecosystem to the service’s customers, it was pretty much a game changer. Just in time for the holidays, the recently released Source link

In the same week that Amazon is holding its big AWS confab, Google is also announcing a move to raise its own enterprise game with Google Cloud. Today the company announced that it is acquiring Actifio, a data management company that helps companies with data continuity to be better prepared in the event of a security breach or other need for disaster recovery. The deal squares Google up as a competitor against the likes of Rubrik, another big player in data continuity. The terms of the… Source link