March 21 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google has settled with six current and former employees who had alleged the company unfairly stifled worker organizing, an abrupt ending to a trial that had been paused for several months, legal filings show. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board had pursued the case on behalf of the workers and brought Google before an administrative law judge last year. Weeks of hearings were then stopped pending resolution of a dispute over whether the NLRB… Source link

New reports have emerged about Urban Meyer’s short time as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and they paint a fuller picture — and it’s all bad. When Meyer was fired in December, no one was surprised. Between the team’s awful record, the controversy swirling around Meyer since he was caught at a bar dancing with a woman who was not his wife, unflattering reports of his coaching style, most people wondered why it didn’t happen earlier. But these new reports from The Athletic make it… Source link

A new study from Tipalti Approve compared the annual net worth of the world’s wealthiest people, predicting how soon they will reach a personal valuation of one trillion dollars. Elon Musk will be the first to reach the milestone — as quickly as 2024, based on analysis of average yearly growth trends. Musk currently boasts a net worth of around $200 billion, the highest of any living human. By mid-January of this year, that figure stood at $263 billion. Musk’s profitable work at Tesla ( Source link

The closure of Western social media networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter by Russia in retaliation for Western sanctions, following the invasion of Ukraine, creates new business opportunities for Russian media and communications companies like Yandex. Russia’s biggest email account provider VK is reportedly considering reviving the ICQ chat program, developed in Israel in the 1990s and eventually finding Russian owners in 2010, in order to provide social network… Source link

After a thrilling opening weekend that saw seven double-digit seeds win first-round games and four of them move on, the men’s Sweet 16 is set. Top seeds Gonzaga, Arizona and Kansas each advanced. So did giant-slaying St. Peter’s, only the third No. 15 seed ever to reach the NCAA tournament’s second weekend. And Duke extended Mike Krzyzewski’s retirement tour for at least five more days by avoiding an early-round upset. Which are the remaining teams with championship potential? And… Source link

BRUSSELS, March 21 (Reuters) – Europe’s second-highest court will rule on Sept. 14 on Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google’s challenge against a record 4.34 billion euros ($4.8 billion) EU antitrust fine levied for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals. The judgment from the Luxembourg-based General Court comes 10 months after the world’s most popular internet search engine lost its fight in the same court against a 2.42-billion-euro penalty in another case. It has filed… Source link

Stocks traded mixed Monday to steady after last week’s gains, while energy prices resumed a march higher. The S&P 500 edged slightly higher, while the Dow and Nasdaq dipped. Trader’s paused after last week’s gains, when the S&P 500 posted its first weekly advance in three weeks and its largest since November 2020. The Treasury yield curve steepened, and the benchmark 10-year yield rose to top 2.2%. Energy and commodity prices spiked amid the latest developments in Russia’s war in Ukraine. As… Source link

Does Google use a quality score similar to the one in Google Ads as part of its organic search ranking algorithm? This has been hotly debated over the years, to the extent there are even articles out there telling you how to optimize for it. But is there actually an organic quality score? And does it impact your rankings? Let’s explore some of the resources and discussion on this whole Google organic quality score concept and see if we can get to the truth. The Claim: Website Quality… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Dethroning the dollar is easier said than done. Most Read from Bloomberg That’s the conclusion of investors after Washington’s freeze of Russia’s dollar holdings created fresh impetus among central bankers to rethink the security of access to foreign-exchange reserves. The move fueled speculation that countries such as China could redouble efforts to unshackle itself from greenback-denominated financial systems and look for alternatives. While Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and… Source link

Splurging on a night out at a restaurant is coming back in fashion for some, according to a new survey from Evercore ISI. The survey found a COVID-era record 74% of people say they are comfortable eating at a restaurant, above the prior high of 70% last summer. “We believe much of this increase is due to the recent 94% reduction in COVID cases in the U.S. Importantly, COVID fatigue also seems to be impacting comfort levels — comfort is higher than at any point in time since the start of the… Source link