By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Bitcoin slipped 4% on Friday after Tesla boss Elon Musk was at it again – this time firing off a few tweets that appeared to lament a breakup with the cryptocurrency. Tesla’s big position in bitcoin and Musk’s large personal following often set crypto markets on edge whenever he tweets, and the price fell after he posted “#Bitcoin”, a broken-heart emoji and a picture of a couple discussing a breakup. Musk followed that up by posting a breakup comic strip… Source link
Read More »Google removes diversity exec over 2007 anti-Semitic blog post
Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the second time in a month that a big tech company has been forced to make a staffing change in the wake of public outcry over an executive’s previous writing. The subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, -0.97% GOOG, -0.69% hired Kamau Bobb in 2018 as global lead of diversity strategy and research, a decade after he… Source link
Read More »Google Removes Diversity Executive Over Blog Post About Jews
Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Photo: Cayce Clifford for The Wall Street Journal Updated June 3, 2021 7:43 pm ET Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the… Source link
Read More »Yahoo News reporter asks Psaki for ‘update’ on White House cat at briefing
Media top headlines June 3 The press gushing over Dr. Fauci’s leaked emails, Chris Mathews’ accuser getting hate mail and journalist Andy Ngo saying he was beaten up by Antifa last week round out today’s top media headlines One of the pressing questions that was asked at the White House briefing on Thursday was an “update” on whether or not a cat would be joining President Biden’s family. After the Biden team previously teased that a feline would be joining the Biden family’s German… Source link
Read More »Stock futures drift higher ahead of May jobs report
Stock futures opened slightly higher Thursday evening, ticking up as investors awaited a key print on the U.S. labor market. Contracts on each of the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq rose after declining during the regular trading day. Traders are awaiting the May jobs report out Friday morning, which will offer another look at the strength of the labor market recovery and whether the economy has recovered enough to warrant a pivot in monetary policy stance from the Federal Reserve. Consensus… Source link
Read More »New daily COVID-19 cases drop to below 10,000 in the U.S. Is the end finally in sight?
WASHINGTON — Last September, with COVID-19 vaccines still some three months from being made publicly available, the nation was recording about 40,000 new cases per day. In an interview with MSNBC, Dr. Anthony Fauci called that number “unacceptably high,” especially since people were bound to travel over the forthcoming Labor Day weekend. Shortly after that, cold weather would drive people indoors, where the virus would spread much more easily than it did in the open air. “I’d like to… Source link
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SULLIVAN, IN. (WTWO/WAWV) — On this Memorial Day, it’s appropriate to share the story about a hometown hero. Don Bezy of Sullivan passed away a few months ago. Bezy, as he was known, is remembered as a successful businessman and a beloved family man. But during World War II he was a gunner on a B-25 serving in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, China, Burma, & India, and he flew 56 combat missions. Source link
Read More »New York Fed President John Williams speaks with Yahoo Finance [Transcript]
John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, spoke with Yahoo Finance to discuss the labor market and the next steps for Fed policy. Below is a transcript of his appearance on June 3, 2021. — BRIAN CHEUNG: Joining us here in a Yahoo Finance exclusive interview is New York Fed President John Williams. Thank you so much for joining us here on the platform this afternoon. Obviously I want to kick things off with the economic data. A lot of eyes on the jobs report covering… Source link
Read More »New York Fed President John Williams speaks with Yahoo Finance [Transcript]
John Williams, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, spoke with Yahoo Finance to discuss the labor market and the next steps for Fed policy. Below is a transcript of his appearance on June 3, 2021. — BRIAN CHEUNG: Joining us here in a Yahoo Finance exclusive interview is New York Fed President John Williams. Thank you so much for joining us here on the platform this afternoon. Obviously I want to kick things off with the economic data. A lot of eyes on the jobs report covering… Source link
Read More »Slack sees 39% user growth as it beats Q1 expectations
Slack has been under pressure for not growing as fast as other work-from-home stocks. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Slack (WORK), the online chat tool that has become the main way many people have communicated with their coworkers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, reported its fiscal Q1 2022 earnings after the bell on Thursday, beating expectations on the top and bottom line. Here are the most important numbers from the report compared with what analysts were expecting as compiled by Bloomberg.
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