Monthly Archives: January 2023

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said he doesn’t like seeing ‘managers managing managers,’ fueling speculation of more layoffs

Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said he doesn’t like seeing ‘managers managing managers,’ fueling speculation of more layoffs

Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t think managers managing managers is an ideal corporate structure.Drew Angerer/Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg reportedly said managers should not be rewarded for creating larger teams. Zuckerberg reportedly said he doesn’t think a structure of “just managers managing managers” is ideal. Meta’s chief product officer Chris Cox has discussed the need to “flatten” the management structure, Command Line said. Managers managing managers managing managers managing… Source link

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Portland aiming to extend Jerami Grant but open to moving others in trade market

Portland aiming to extend Jerami Grant but open to moving others in trade market

Jerami Grant became eligible for a contract extension with the Trail Blazers earlier this month, and Portland has offered the athletic forward his maximum possible deal of four years, $112 million, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Grant has not accepted the offer, sources said, largely because the Blazers can extend him a larger contract with an additional fifth year once free agency begins June 30. At that point, Grant, who turns 29 in March, could receive $233 million over a five-year… Source link

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Portland aiming to extend Jerami Grant but open to moving others in trade market

Portland aiming to extend Jerami Grant but open to moving others in trade market

Jerami Grant became eligible for a contract extension with the Trail Blazers earlier this month, and Portland has offered the athletic forward his maximum possible deal of four years, $112 million, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Grant has not accepted the offer, sources said, largely because the Blazers can extend him a larger contract with an additional fifth year once free agency begins June 30. At that point, Grant, who turns 29 in March, could receive $233 million over a five-year… Source link

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Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors

Yandex ‘leak’ reveals 1,922 search ranking factors

A former employee allegedly leaked a Yandex source code repository, part of which contained more than 1,900 factors the search engines uses for ranking search results. Why we care. This leak has revealed 1,922 ranking factors Yandex used in its search algorithm, at least as of July 2022. Perhaps Martin MacDonald put it best on Twitter today: “The Yandex hack is probably the most interesting thing to have happened in SEO in years.” Yandex is… Source link

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Yahoo Selects AWS Public Cloud for Ad Division

Yahoo Selects AWS Public Cloud for Ad Division

Yahoo is working with AWS as a preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. All Yahoo advertising technology workloads — including its media-buying and supply-side platforms, analytics, and identity solutions and products — are being switched from Yahoo on-premises data centers to AWS as part of an ongoing digital transformation strategy,  according to AWS last month. The goal is to reduce IT infrastructure costs, transform advertising… Source link

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‘We are committed to the dividend’

‘We are committed to the dividend’

Intel (INTC) CEO Pat Gelsinger pushed back on the notion that his company’s turnaround struggles would spell the end of its coveted dividend payout. “We are committed to the dividend and to a very healthy and competitive dividend,” Gelsinger said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We’re also making big long-term strategic investments, so we’re putting all of that together and looking very carefully at the capital allocation priorities for the company overall, even as we remain committed to… Source link

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Racial slurs discovered in leaked Yandex source code

Racial slurs discovered in leaked Yandex source code

Russian tech giant Yandex apologized on Friday for racial slurs uncovered in the company’s source code. The apology came in response to the discovery of multiple references to the N-word in the company’s code base after it leaked online. “We deeply regret that this word ever appeared in our internal codes,” the Yandex press office told CyberScoop in an email Friday. A researcher who goes by the name “Wacky Fruit” on Twitter posted screenshots Thursday showing the use… Source link

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How to format text in Google Docs

How to format text in Google Docs

Google Docs has become a very useful word processing tool — a lot better than it was only a few years ago — but some of its more useful features may not be immediately obvious. For example, you would think that all the ways available to provide specialized text, such as underlining, italicizing, and strikethroughs, should be easy to find among the icons on the top of the page. While the icons to bold, italicize, underline, and highlight text are right on top of your document and very… Source link

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