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Google boss Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom

As boss of both Google and its parent company Alphabet, he is the ultimate leader of companies or products as varied as Waze, FitBit and DeepMind, the artificial intelligence pioneers. At Google alone he oversees Gmail, Google Chrome, Google Maps, Google Earth, Google Docs, Google Photos, the Android operating system and many other products. Source link

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Former Education Department boss argues against student loan forgiveness and free community college

An Education Department (ED) secretary during the George W. Bush administration said she was opposed to student debt cancellation and free community college because those policies would distort the value and price of post-secondary education credentials. “We need to empower consumers with better information about how much they spend and what the value of it is in the marketplace,” former Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “We need to reward… Source link

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Google Search boss Prabhakar Raghavan earned $55 million in 2020

Prabhakar Raghavan, of Google Inc., speaks during the company’s Cloud Next ’18 event in San Francisco, California, July 24, 2018. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google‘s recently promoted Search boss Prabhakar Raghavan earned cash and stock $55.25 million last year, according to the company’s annual proxy filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. That amount takes into account his 2020 fiscal year salary of $655,000, stock awards amounting to $54.58 million that… Source link

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Australian leader has ‘constructive’ talk with Google boss

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he had a constructive meeting with the head of Google after the tech giant threatened to remove its search engine from Australia over plans to make digital platforms pay for news. Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, initiated the online meeting with Morrison to discuss the draft laws. A Google executive told a… Source link

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Australian leader has ‘constructive’ talk with Google boss | World

Morrison said he was clear with Pichai that “Australia sets the rules for how these things operate.” “We discussed some of the specifics of elements of the code and they raised those matters, I think, very respectfully,” Morrison said. “But I think we’ve been able to get that into a much more positive space about the ability to continue to provide services here in Australia.” Google declined to comment on the meeting. While Google and Facebook have condemned the legislation as… Source link

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Australian leader has ‘constructive’ talk with Google boss | World

Morrison said he was clear with Pichai that “Australia sets the rules for how these things operate.” “We discussed some of the specifics of elements of the code and they raised those matters, I think, very respectfully,” Morrison said. “But I think we’ve been able to get that into a much more positive space about the ability to continue to provide services here in Australia.” Google declined to comment on the meeting. While Google and Facebook have condemned the legislation as… Source link

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Australian leader has ‘constructive’ talk with Google boss | World

Morrison said he was clear with Pichai that “Australia sets the rules for how these things operate.” “We discussed some of the specifics of elements of the code and they raised those matters, I think, very respectfully,” Morrison said. “But I think we’ve been able to get that into a much more positive space about the ability to continue to provide services here in Australia.” Google declined to comment on the meeting. While Google and Facebook have condemned the legislation as… Source link

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Australian leader has ‘constructive’ talk with Google boss | World

Morrison said he was clear with Pichai that “Australia sets the rules for how these things operate.” “We discussed some of the specifics of elements of the code and they raised those matters, I think, very respectfully,” Morrison said. “But I think we’ve been able to get that into a much more positive space about the ability to continue to provide services here in Australia.” Google declined to comment on the meeting. While Google and Facebook have condemned the legislation as… Source link

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Australian leader has ‘constructive’ talk with Google boss | World

Morrison said he was clear with Pichai that “Australia sets the rules for how these things operate.” “We discussed some of the specifics of elements of the code and they raised those matters, I think, very respectfully,” Morrison said. “But I think we’ve been able to get that into a much more positive space about the ability to continue to provide services here in Australia.” Google declined to comment on the meeting. While Google and Facebook have condemned the legislation as… Source link

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