GrubHub ends partnership with Russia’s Yandex, pulls food delivery robots

Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Grubhub said Thursday that it is ending its partnership with Russian tech company Yandex and pulling 100 Yandex-made food-delivery robots from the campuses of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Chicago-based Grubhub said it is working with both campuses to find alternatives. Grubhub had been… Source link

Read More »

Yandex Says Not Targeted by Sanctions, Analyzing Export Controls

By Josh Beckerman Yandex NV said the company and its subsidiaries aren’t a target of sanctions against Russia, nor are any members of its board, management or principal shareholders. The search engine and ride-hailing company, in an “update on the impact of current geopolitical developments,” said it is analyzing new export controls and working closely with vendors. Yandex is one of several U.S.-listed Russian stocks that have been halted after Russia’s invasion of… Source link

Read More »

Google tests an even darker ‘dark mode’ for its Android app

Google’s testing a darker dark mode for its Android search app (via Android Police), according to 9to5Google. This new shade still isn’t the same as the one presented in Google’s test of a pitch-black dark mode on desktops last month. Rather, the one spotted in the mobile app is darker than the usual dark gray but still lighter than pitch black. I momentarily had the pitch-black search page on desktop, but shortly after, it switched back to dark gray. The new dark mode in Google’s… Source link

Read More »

Stock futures rise ahead of jobs report

Stock futures opened higher Thursday evening as investors awaited a key update on the labor market’s recovery and continued to monitor for global economic fallout from Russia’s war in Ukraine. Contracts on the S&P 500 edged higher. The index fell 0.5% during the regular trading day as technology and growth stocks came under renewed pressure, and the Nasdaq Composite dropped nearly 1.6%. Treasury yields steadied after sliding earlier this week, and the benchmark 10-year yield hovered above… Source link

Read More »

Delivery robots with Russian ties pulled from 2 US campuses

Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Grubhub said Thursday that it is ending its partnership with Russian tech company Yandex and pulling 100 Yandex-made food-delivery robots from the campuses of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Chicago-based Grubhub said it is working with both campuses to find alternatives. Grubhub had been using the robots to… Source link

Read More »

Delivery robots with Russian ties pulled from 2 US campuses

Grubhub had been using the robots to deliver food on campus at Ohio State since August. The company launched robot delivery at the University of Arizona last November. The company says it was doing 1,000 deliveries a day between the two campuses. Yandex is Russia’s largest internet search and ride-hailing company. Toby Snuggs, head of sales for the Yandex Self-Driving Group, confirmed the split with Grubhub and said the robots will be sent to other locations outside the… Source link

Read More »

Delivery robots with Russian ties pulled from 2 US campuses | News

Two U.S. university campuses are losing their food-delivery robots for now because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Grubhub said Thursday that it is ending its partnership with Russian tech company Yandex and pulling 100 Yandex-made food-delivery robots from the campuses of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona…. Source link

Read More »

It’s time for Democrats to go small

In his State of the Union speech, President Biden called for Congress to pass a $15 minimum wage. Eyes rolled everywhere. Democrats, who have narrow majorities in both houses of Congress, tried to pass a $15 minimum wage last year. They didn’t have the votes. They could have gotten the votes for raising the wage floor to $10 or $11, from the current $7.25. But that wasn’t good enough for Sen. Bernie Sanders and other party liberals. So Democrats haven’t raised the minimum wage at all,… Source link

Read More »

Yandex Provides Update on Impact of Current Developments

MOSCOW, RUSSIA and AMSTERDAM, the NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / March 3, 2022 / Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX)(MOEX:YNDX), a Netherlands-registered company and one of Europe’s largest internet businesses as well as the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today provided an update on the impact of current geopolitical developments on the Company. In recent days, a number of governments, including those of the United States, United Kingdom and European Union, have adopted new sanctions on… Source link

Read More »

‘We should have moved earlier’

The Federal Reserve’s top figure said Thursday that the central bank should have acted sooner to pull back on its pandemic-era stimulus and get ahead of rising inflation. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell told the Senate Banking Committee that with prices increasing at the fastest clip since 1982, easy money policies from the Fed — combined with longer-than-expected supply chain snags — appear to be behind inflation. “Hindsight says we should have moved earlier,” Powell said Thursday,… Source link

Read More »