Brian Griese leaving ESPN to become 49ers QBs coach

Brian Griese is headed back to the league. The former “Monday Night Football” analyst is leaving ESPN and will become the next quarterbacks coach with the San Francisco 49ers, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Griese will replace Rich Scangarello in San Francisco, who left to become Kentucky’s offensive coordinator. It will mark his first coaching job in the NFL. Griese has been at ESPN since he retired in 2009. He spent a decade in the league, starting with the Denver Broncos after… Source link

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SBA’s Guzman on Biden’s small biz plans, and why ‘it’s not too late’ to tackle fraud

During his State of Union address Tuesday night, President Joe Biden touted his plans for the economy, as well as his plans to combat fraud and identity theft rife in pandemic relief programs like the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The COVID pandemic relief programs disbursed more than $800 billion over two years by the government to help small businesses stay afloat. The loans, which helped owners use that money to pay for payroll and other eligible expenses, also led to widespread… Source link

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Google Fiber workers begin voting on whether to unionize

Voting is open for workers for a Google Fiber subcontractor in Missouri, who are deciding whether to unionize as part of the Alphabet Workers Union (AWU), a division of the Communication Workers of America. If successful, the 12 workers, who are employed by staffing agency BDS Connected Solutions as workers at Google Fiber stores, would be the AWU’s first bargaining unit to be recognized by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The workers have to mail their ballots back to the… Source link

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Google gave the media its new work-from-home policy before telling all employees

Google made big news this week with an announcement that employees will come back to the office three days a week in the Bay Area and other locations. Unfortunately, some of that news broke before employees got the company email informing them their work lives were changing. The hybrid work announcement, made Wednesday, applies to the Bay Area and several other U.S. locations. Under the new plan, “most employees will spend approximately three days in the office and two days… Source link

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Good news nobody cares about

One thing is going right for President Biden. The job market remains hot, with businesses hiring just about anybody they can find. Employers added 678,000 jobs in February, far more than economists expected. The February report was uniformly solid, with gains in nearly every sector. Upward revisions to job growth in the two prior months show that the surge of the Omicron COVID variant had little to no effect on hiring. This may not benefit Biden at all, politically. Americans are now… Source link

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Google Ads Has A New Way To Measure Offline Leads

As a marketer, understanding how your leads convert is crucial. It’s easy to have a disconnect between capturing a user’s information online as a lead, and the end result of converting them to a customer. Whether you’re in B2B or B2C, you’ve probably been met with this struggle before. Last year, Google introduced Enhanced Conversions for web, which benefitted a lot of online stores and ecommerce transaction. Now, Google has a solution for lead generation businesses. Google is… Source link

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Russia’s Yandex ‘pauses’ autonomous vehicle testing in the US

Russian technology company Yandex said that it was “pausing” its autonomous vehicle and sidewalk robot testing in the US. The news was first reported by Automotive News. The company said it was shutting down its robotaxi fleet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as a delivery service with Grubhub powered by its six-wheeled sidewalk robots. “We hope to resume the operations in the future,” a spokesperson said. The news comes as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued to send… Source link

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‘We want to know what TikTok knew’ about its effects on kids: California AG

In a new interview with Yahoo Finance, California Attorney General Rob Bonta explained why he and eight other attorneys general are investigating the effects of short-form video site TikTok on young users. “There is mounting evidence, as we’ve seen — that of the devastating toll that social media has on our children’s mental health and their well being,” Bonta told Yahoo Finance Live on Thursday. “And we want to know what TikTok knew about those harms to children, when they knew it,… Source link

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Russian self-driving company Yandex halts U.S. operations amid Ukraine invasion

Russian self-driving tech company Yandex has placed its operations in the U.S. on hold. The company said Friday it has paused testing of its robotaxi fleet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is no longer making restaurant deliveries with its six-wheeled sidewalk Rover bots on college campuses across the country. “Our AV test fleet in Ann Arbor is grounded at the moment, but we hope to resume operations in the future,” a spokesperson told Automotive News. Yandex stopped its operations as Russia’s… Source link

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Google Suspends Advertising in Russia

Google late Thursday suspended all advertising in Russia, a move that came shortly after the country’s communications censor accused the company’s YouTube video service of spreading misinformation and stoking protests. The new mandate covers YouTube, search and display marketing in Russia, said Google, which earlier this week blocked access to Russian state-owned media outlets RT and Sputnik across Europe in compliance with a European Union sanctions order. “In light of the… Source link

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