SpaceX paid $250,000 to settle a sexual misconduct claim against Elon Musk after a flight attendant on the company’s corporate jet accused the CEO of exposing himself to her mid-flight, Insider reports. According to Insider, the incident happened in 2016 and the company settled with the unnamed flight attendant in 2018, according to a friend of the flight attendant who was told contemporaneously about the incident but is not bound by any non-disclosure agreements with the company. Musk… Source link
Read More »Google ‘private browsing’ mode not really private, Texas lawsuit says
WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a “private browsing” mode, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed on Thursday, filing an amended privacy lawsuit against the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit. Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia filed separate suits against Google in January in state courts over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy.
Read More »Google reports increased Black and Latinx representation in the US
Google has released its annual diversity report, and the company says it made some positive progress over the past year. The company saw its “largest increases in representation of Black and Latinx Googlers in the US ever” at 20 percent and 8 percent respectively year over year, according to chief diversity officer Melonie Parker. Google also reported improved leadership representation of Black, Latinx and Native American employees by 27 percent, Parker says. But some data shows there… Source link
Read More »Google launches video health tools to help publisher monetization
Maximizing the return on video inventory is a problem likely to be found at the top of most publishers’ lists. Help is on the way for those using Ad Manager thanks to new video specific tools from Google. The new features are part of the Programmatic Video Health Tools and real-time video reporting, both with goals of using automation to surface insights and information quickly. Programmatic video signals This card will create views that show performance across the various video platforms… Source link
Read More »Tiger Woods starts hot, cools off
There was a moment, a brief moment, when Tiger Woods was one stroke off the lead in a major in 2022. It didn’t last. Through his first five holes Thursday morning in the PGA Championship at Southern Hills, Woods was 2-under par and looking strong and confident, not at all like he was still recovering from a February 2021 car wreck. Then the drives started drifting, the approaches started fluttering and the putts stopped falling, and Woods plummeted down the leaderboard to end the day at +4 in… Source link
Read More »‘The consumer has substantially built their savings’ to weather some inflation: Merrill Lynch exec
The reaction to retail earnings this week may be too bearish on the state of the consumer, says one investing expert. “Candidly, I think some of the read on the retailers is more pessimistic on the state of the consumer than what our data shows,” Andy Sieg, president of Merrill Wealth Management, told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. “When we look at checking and savings accounts across Bank of America, we see our client base, which is 67 million households across the U.S. in strong… Source link
Read More »GOP senators’ private meeting with Google turns tense over email bias claims
“The lunch was spirited,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), one of the more vocal attendees. “Google deflected, refused to provide any data, repeatedly refused to answer direct questions.” The senators’ furor is part of the broader conservative crusade against the major tech companies, who they claim routinely stifle right-wing speech. The companies, including Facebook and Google, have denied these allegations, while researchers have found that there is no evidence that the social… Source link
Read More »How can I stop the pain and make money in this nightmarish market? BofA says this is the ‘best hope’ for bulls in 2022
The market is in full panic mode. The S&P 500 is down 18% year to date. The Nasdaq is down a staggering 27%. And even the Dow Jones — made up of the 30 most prominent publicly-traded companies — is in correction territory. According to Bank of America, there’s one thing that might save the stock market in 2022: money that corporations can return to shareholders. “The best hope for 2022 bulls lies in the ability of investors to dislodge the $7.1 trillion in idle U.S. corporate cash,”… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk’s Twitter Deal Is Proceeding, Not ‘On Hold,’ Executives Tell Staff
(Bloomberg) — Twitter Inc. executives told employees on Thursday that the $44 billion deal to sell the company to billionaire Elon Musk is moving forward as planned, and that they won’t renegotiate the agreed-upon price of $54.20 per share. Most Read from Bloomberg Vijaya Gadde, Twitter’s top lawyer and head of policy, also told workers at an all-hands meeting that there is “no such thing as a deal being on hold,” according to people who attended the meeting. She was pushing back on… Source link
Read More »Yahoo NBA DFS Breakdown: Wednesday, May 19
Jayson Tatum and the Celtics look to bounce back in Miami for Game 2 of the East Finals. After a Game 1 masterpiece from Miami — in which they trailed by double digits but used a third-quarter run to dominate — it was never really close after that. The Heat got a gem of a game from Jimmy Butler in that victory, and he’ll obviously be featured in this article! With that in mind, let’s start by looking at the injury report. Create the optimal lineup using our NBA DFS lineup optimizer… Source link
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