Bloomberg Just How Big and Important Is Sanjeev Gupta’s Metals Empire? (Bloomberg) — Sanjeev Gupta is fighting to save his sprawling empire after Greensill Capital, its biggest lender, collapsed into administration.While the markets for GFG Alliance’s steel mills and aluminum smelters are buoyant, a court filing revealed on Monday that Gupta’s group had told Greensill in February that it would be insolvent without its funding.That casts a shadow over operations that employ about 35,000… Source link

The Fiscal Times The Tax Hikes Tucked Into Biden’s Covid Relief Plan Democrats inserted three tax hikes on the wealthy and large corporations into their $1.9 trillion Covid rescue plan. Together, the three increases are projected to raise $60 billion, Politico’s Brian Faler writes: “One takes away deductions for publicly traded companies that pay top employees more than $1 million. Another provision cracks down on how multinational corporations do their taxes. A third targets how owners… Source link

The Daily Beast Cold-Case Cops Find New Murder Victim in Ohio Suspect’s Shed Multnomah County Sheriff DepartmentDNA evidence found in a mysterious disappearance and presumed death case in 1999 has been identified as that of a metal worker who had a cut-up corpse in his Portland, Oregon, shed.Police arrested Christopher Lovrien, 53, last May after private genealogy firm Bode Technology matched his DNA to that found in the home of Mark Dribin, who disappeared in 1999. Dribin’s body has never… Source link

Google Career Certificates More Ways to Get Hired Improvements to Job Search Google is launching a number of initiatives aimed at helping job seekers, including opening enrollment for its three career certification courses. The three paid courses, first announced last August, are available on Coursera and allow people to earn the equivalent of a four-year degree in as little as six months. To start, Google is offering programs in the fields of Data Analytics, Project Management, and User… Source link

Google Maps is making some social media-inspired updates to encourage more user-generated content in the app. The app on Thursday introduced several new features aimed at making Google Maps more interactive, including one that makes it easier for users to share photos of locations they visit. The changes are just the latest in a string of updates in recent months, as Google looks to make Maps not just a place to go for directions, but one where people can plan where to go, Source link

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Bengaluru: Google Pay, the payments app of Google has introduced features designed to improve privacy for users, allowing them control over transaction data. The features include a toggle on and off’ button which allows users to prohibit sharing of their transaction data with Google Pay, preventing it making personalised offers. According to Google Pay India, users can also deselect transactions they wouldn’t like Google Pay to use for providing… Source link

Google drew a line in the sand on March 3rd, when it said it wouldn’t build or support cross-site identifiers. But single-site identifiers, specific to an individual publisher, are fair game – and something Google wants to encourage. To that end, Google is dusting off an old/new ID type: the publisher provided identifier (PPID) in Google Ad Manager. The PPID has been around for years, but until now was only used for direct deals. With third-party cookies going away and… Source link

Coupang (CPNG) shares closed at $49.52 each on their first day of trading, well below their opening trade but still above their IPO price, in the largest initial public offering in the US this year. Dubbed the Amazon (AMZN) of South Korea, shares of the e-commerce giant opened at $63.50 after pricing its IPO at $35 a share, raising $4.6 billion. About 10 minutes after the opening trade, the stock was trading at around $59 a share. The IPO surpassed that of dating app Bumble (BMBL), which Source link

Bloomberg China Producer Prices Jump, Adding to Global Inflation Risks (Bloomberg) — China’s producer prices rose at the fastest pace in more than two years in February, joining more expensive oil, computer chip shortages and soaring shipping costs as tailwinds for global inflation pressures.The Chinese producer price index rose 1.7% from a year earlier, official data showed Wednesday, stronger than economists’ forecasts for a 1.5% increase and up from 0.3% in January. Consumer prices… Source link