Drug tests are no longer required for most jobs in the municipal offices for Isle, Minnesota, a small town tucked on the southeastern corner of the Mille Lacs Lake. The reason? The town’s liquor store needs just one more person so that its owner, Don Graber, can stop working double shifts on the weekend. “There’s a lot of things that are scaring away potential hires and that was one of them,” Graber told Yahoo Finance. Graber successfully lobbied the town to eliminate the drug test, a… Source link
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SUNNYVALE, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Google Cloud and PayPal today announced they are deepening their relationship to further accelerate PayPal’s digital transformation and evolving customer needs. Under this expanded relationship, Google Cloud will provide both infrastructure and analytics capabilities to support PayPal’s growth, helping the company process transactional data at massive scale. Following exponential growth since it became an independent… Source link
Read More »SEB Accelerates Digitization Journey with Google Cloud Partnership
STOCKHOLM, March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SEB and Google Cloud today announced that they have entered into a strategic, long-term partnership to accelerate the bank’s digitization journey. SEB, a leading Nordic financial services company, will use Google Cloud’s innovative cloud technologies, and collaborate to create pioneering new banking services for its customers. SEB’s innovation studio and next-generation banking platform, SEBx, is already benefiting from Google’s Infrastructure and… Source link
Read More »From Elon Musk to Oracle — the coronavirus accelerates California exodus
The coronavirus is accelerating a significant tech exodus out of California, with Oracle (ORCL) announcing Friday that it has moved its headquarters from Redwood City to Austin, Texas. The move came just days after Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk announced he’d be moving from Los Angeles to Austin. Other tech giants that have recently left California include Silicon Valley pioneer Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and newly public software giant Palantir (PLTR). The coronavirus pandemic and the… Source link
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