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By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Google is investing $8 million to support Israeli tech firms and Palestinian businesses, the Alphabet-owned group said on Wednesday, citing the need for small companies to secure financing during the Israel-Hamas war. Google said its $4 million support fund would be provided to AI startups in Israel and another $4 million would go to early-stage Palestinian startups and businesses to help them continue operating. The grant to Israeli AI startups will be in… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex receives bids for stakes in Russia-based businesses  Reuters Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex introduces paid e-mail services for businesses  Telecompaper EN Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Officially Partners with Respond.io, Bringing Google Business Messages to More than 10,000 Businesses Globally  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Microsoft and Google Unveil AI Tools for Businesses  The New York Times Source link

This post was originally published on TKer.co Stocks rallied, with the S&P 500 climbing 2.5% last week. The index is now up 13.8% from its October 12 closing low of 3,577.03 and down 15.1% from its January 3, 2022 closing high of 4,796.56. While the U.S. economy has been cooling off for months, the hard economic data shows growth has been pretty resilient. On Thursday, we learned GDP in Q4 rose at a 2.9% rate. However, if you’ve only been reading sentiment-oriented business surveys (i.e., the… Source link

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

Google has launched a beta of its client-side encryption for Gmail, letting businesses apply to test out the feature meant to make “sensitive data” and attachments unreadable even to Google. The company announced the beta, which Workspace administrators can sign up for until January 20th, in a blog post on Friday. Once the feature is enabled and set up for a workspace’s users, they’ll have an additional option when using the web version of Gmail. Clicking on a padlock will let them… Source link

After Moscow invaded Ukraine, ‘Russia’s Google’ has decided it can’t stay in Russia. Moscow-headquartered Yandex, the country’s dominant search engine founded by two Russian entrepreneurs, is hoping to transfer its most promising new technologies overseas and ditch most of its Russian business to avoid the effects of Western sanctions imposed after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia to Ukraine. Under the plan, which the Financial Times reported on Thursday, Yandex… Source link