Google settles with labor board in win for new union

Google must allow workers at one of its data centers in South Carolina to talk about their pay and inform them of their rights to organize under a settlement it reached with the National Labor Relations Board. Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.78% GOOG, +0.64% and subcontractor Modis E&T have agreed to post notices telling employees, among other things, that they have the right to form, join or assist a union; discuss pay and working… Source link

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Tom Lydon Talks China Buys And Infrastructure Potential

Joining the “ETF Report” with host Alexis Christoforous on Yahoo Finance, ETF Trends’ CEO, Tom Lydon, was on hand to talk about where the record amount of ETF flows has been heading over the past couple of quarters, in addition to China’s recent tech stock decline, and the potential for infrastructure. Finishing the first quarter of 2021 with close to $240 billion in new assets, Lydon explains how that puts the market on pace for a trillion-dollar year in ETFs, which would be… Source link

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Google to welcome some US employees back to the office in April

Former Google senior director of U.S. public policy Adam Kovacevich weighs in on Congress’ section 230 hearings and what we can expect from them. Google will begin welcoming some of its U.S. employees back to the office on a voluntary basis over the next month. A spokesperson for the company told FOX Business that select offices in the U.S. will begin reopening at limited capacity based on specific criteria, including vaccine availability and downward trends in COVID-19 cases. “Because… Source link

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The MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner: Opening Day

Eric Lindquist brings you his Opening Day MLB DFS picks for Round 1 of the MLB Yahoo Cup Daily Fantasy Baseball | Fernando Tatis Jr. 3/31/21 Happy Opening Day, and welcome to the MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner! This free-to-enter, single-entry contest will consist of 27 rounds where the top 1,075 overall entries and the top 70 entries per round share $10,000, with $1,000 to first and $50 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds, with your seven lowest scores dropped at the… Source link

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QuantumScape Meets Volkswagen Technical Milestone, Clearing Way for $100M Investment

Bloomberg Big Oil’s Secret World of Trading (Bloomberg Markets) — It was a bleak moment for the oil industry. U.S. shale companies were failing by the dozen. Petrostates were on the brink of bankruptcy. Texas roughnecks and Kuwaiti princes alike had watched helplessly for months as the commodity that was their lifeblood tumbled to prices that had until recently seemed unthinkable. Below $50 a barrel, then below $40, then below $30.But inside the central London headquarters of one of the… Source link

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Microsoft could finally be the king of gaming — if it spends $10 billion on Discord

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Buying Discord could make Microsoft the gaming behemoth it’s always wanted to be Microsoft (MSFT) is considering dropping a cool $10 billion on video game chat app Discord, according to recent reports. If the software giant does take the plunge, it could help… Source link

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Five underrated moves that matter in fantasy football

The big wave of free agency has come and gone. By now you’ve already read reaction pieces about how JuJu Smith-Schuster’s return to Pittsburgh impacts all the players involved, or why Will Fuller can raise Miami’s offensive ceiling. We don’t need any more on that. Instead, let’s look at five sneaky moves in free agency that might not seem like big deals at first, but actually matter quite a bit for several fantasy football stars. We always talk about teams “helping their young… Source link

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Supreme Court not impressed with NCAA

Attempting to predict a U.S. Supreme Court decision based on the tone and tenacity of the questions that justices ask attorneys during oral arguments has proven to be a fruitless exercise since, well, about 1789. It’s always best to assume nothing. So who knows what the nine current justices will decide in NCAA v. Alston — a case that boils down to, in the most general of descriptions, whether college athletes can be paid above and beyond their currently allotted scholarship. A decision… Source link

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JJ Redick says Pelicans front office was dishonest

The New Orleans Pelicans traded JJ Redick to the Dallas Mavericks before last week’s deadline, and Redick is unhappy about how it all went down.  On his podcast “Old Man & the Three,” Redick broke down the story of his trade — which actually started back in November — and called out the Pelicans’ front office for poor communication and not being honest with him about their plans. Promises not kept Redick’s story starts in November, before the start of the season, when he says that he… Source link

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Microsoft $22 Billion U.S. Army Deal for HoloLens Advances

(Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp.’s multibillion-dollar deal to build customized versions of its HoloLens goggles for the U.S. Army is moving forward, one year after the Senate considered freezing half the contract. The deal, initially unveiled three years ago, is now worth as much as $21.9 billion over 10 years, according to Microsoft. The agreement runs for an initial five years, with an option to add another five years. The software maker will manufacture the augmented-reality devices in… Source link

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