NEW YORK, Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yahoo, part of Verizon Media, today launched its “Make Space for Black Voices” campaign to honor Black History Month. The programming includes a celebratory Yahoo logo in partnership with creative artist Janel Young, as well as new video series and on-air interviews celebrating Black changemakers, and a special livestream event featuring different industry leaders. Through an emphasis on e-commerce, the campaign will also spotlight… Source link

New Content and Initiatives Aimed to Amplify and Empower Black Communities NEW YORK, Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yahoo, part of Verizon Media, today launched its “Make Space for Black Voices” campaign to honor Black History Month. The programming includes a celebratory Yahoo logo in partnership with creative artist Janel Young, as well as new video series and on-air interviews celebrating Black changemakers, and a special livestream event featuring different industry leaders…. Source link

NEW YORK, Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Yahoo, part of Verizon Media, today launched its “Make Space for Black Voices” campaign to honor Black History Month. The programming includes a celebratory Yahoo logo in partnership with creative artist Janel Young, as well as new video series and on-air interviews celebrating Black changemakers, and a special livestream event featuring different industry leaders. Through an emphasis on e-commerce, the campaign will also spotlight… Source link

Tesla’s (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk spontaneously interviewed Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev for 14 minutes late Sunday evening, injecting himself into the fray of the retail investing frenzy that’s sent markets into a tailspin, and put the trading app on the defensive. The billionaire jumped on the invite-only voice chat app Clubhouse to answer questions ranging from colonizing Mars to Bitcoin (BTC-USD) late Sunday night. Yet toward the end, Musk ended up grilling Tenev on behalf of outraged individual… Source link

Stocks rose, recovering some losses after last week’s selloff. The S&P 500 gained nearly 1%, after closing out last week with a 3.3% weekly loss for its worst since October. The information technology and consumer discretionary sectors led advances, while energy and consumer staples lagged. The Nasdaq outperformed as tech shares jumped, and the Dow also rose slightly. Other asset classes performed even more strongly, fueled by a crowd of retail investors piling en masse into names… Source link

The Australian government is in the midst of a bold attempt to have tech companies pay the publishers of content that is shared on their platforms. This is one of the fundamental cases facing tech in the coming years. Large tech companies have enjoyed relatively little regulation and scrutiny given the nature and size of their businesses. While many of these issues will take years to litigate, Alphabet Inc.’s (GOOGL) Google seems to be floating a strategy of search brinkmanship to scare… Source link

New York Times columnist Charles Blow has outlined a new proposition to increase Black political power: a mass migration of Blacks in America to the South to create Black-majority states and cities. Blow calls for a “Second Great Migration,” a reversal of the Great Migration that saw millions of Black Americans flee oppression and a lack of economic opportunity in the South for cities in the North, Midwest, and the West. “I understand why people migrated during the Great Migration,”… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is selling bonds to take advantage of cheap borrowing costs, tapping the market for a third time since May as it looks to return more cash to shareholders. The company is issuing debt in six parts, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The longest portion of the offering, a 40-year security, may yield between 115 and 120 basis points above Treasuries, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the details are private. Until 2020, Apple hadn’t… Source link

Leaders of five historically Black colleges and universities met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday to discuss the company’s relationship with the schools in the wake of anti-HBCU-graduate discrimination allegations made by a former Google employee. On December 21, ex-Google diversity recruiter April Curley tweeted that she had been fired by the company in September after repeatedly raising concerns about how the tech chain evaluates black college graduates. In recent… Source link

Leaders of five historically Black colleges and universities met with Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Friday to discuss the company’s relationship with the schools in the wake of anti-HBCU-graduate discrimination allegations made by a former Google employee. On December 21, ex-Google diversity recruiter April Curley tweeted that she had been fired by the company in September after repeatedly raising concerns about how the tech chain evaluates black college graduates. In recent… Source link