Photo: NOAH BERGER / AFP (Getty Images) Google’s new Bay View building, the first campus built by the search giant, was touted as a green, technologically advanced “canvas of creating new ways to be together” when it opened in 2022. However, employees working in the Mountain View, California building wish one of those “ways to be together” was a decent Wi-Fi connection. No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Google employees say the new… Source link

Another closely followed index is set to make a new record close. The S&P 500 equal-weight index (^SP500EW) is on track for its first record-high close since January 2022. While the traditional S&P 500 (^GSPC) is market-cap weighted, meaning a few large stocks have an outsized impact on the index’s performance, the equal-weight index values all 500 stocks in the index equally. As Goldman Sachs equity strategy team highlighted in Yahoo Finance’s Charbook back in January, this led to outsized… Source link

Yandex N.V. announces results of Shareholder Meetings and provides update on proposed divestment AMSTERDAM, the Netherlands — March 7, 2024 — Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ: YNDX) (the “Company” or “YNV”), the Dutch parent company of the Yandex Group, today announced that all resolutions proposed at the Meeting of Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares (the “Class A Meeting”) and the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders of the Company (the “EGM”), both held on March 7,… Source link

March 7 (Reuters) – Shareholders of Dutch-registered Yandex NV approved the sale of “Russia’s Google,” the country’s most valuable technology asset, to a management-led consortium of Russian investors, the company said on Thursday. Yandex last month struck a 475-billion-rouble ($5.27 billion) deal after months of negotiations to sell its assets in Russia at a heavily discounted price due to Kremlin demands on foreign asset sales. (Reporting by Alexander Marrow and… Source link

Marketers face increasing complexity in measuring the full value of their cross-channel media strategies, driven largely by fragmented media consumption and ongoing privacy changes. As advertisers search for comprehensive and privacy-durable measurement solutions, Marketing Mix Models (MMMs) are experiencing a renaissance. MMMs are statistical analyses that help companies measure the holistic impact of cross-channel marketing on key outcomes like sales. According to a study with Kantar, 60%… Source link

Photo: Dado Ruvic (Reuters) Google has opened its first Asia-Pacific cyberdefense hub in Tokyo as worries grow over cyber threats posed by hostile actors including China, according to Nikkei. Is Nvidia in a bubble that’s about to burst? The new hub will promote research and information sharing between the government, companies, and universities in Japan, as well as serve as a base of cybersecurity experts in the region, Nikkei reported. According to the outlet, Google will invite engineers… Source link

‘I was crying my eyes out’: Ex-Google employee retired at age 40 on a Friday but regretted it by Monday. Why an early retirement might not be for you Nupur Dave decided to retire at age 40 on a Friday after a decade of working for Google and other startups. She had it all planned out, too — Dave wanted to spend her free time writing her third book, meeting up with old coworkers and networking with founders and artists. Don’t miss But the reality of achieving financial independence and retiring… Source link

If you use Google Maps every day, you probably also use its Street View feature. Street View uses recent street photos, taken by those conspicuous Google cars you’ve probably seen out on the roads, to let you virtually visit locations all over the world, like landmarks and national parks. It’s really useful if you want to check out the outside of a restaurant or bar before you go there, or for identifying a unit in a building that you’ve never been to before. If you’re driving to someone’s… Source link

Saudi Tourism Authority has partnered with Yandex Travel, a prominent Russian online travel agency and aggregator, to capture the outbound Russian tourist market, the company announced on March 6. This collaboration aims to position Saudi Arabia as a prime destination for leisure travel and target… Source link

This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: Jay Powell always has a tough job — looking out for the US economy while avoiding partisan potholes along the way. Tough might be the kindest version of the task. And this position rarely looks more tenuous than when Powell is being grilled by members of Congress, as he was on Wednesday and will be again later this morning. “It’s a super difficult situation,” Seth… Source link