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Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. FABRICE COFFRINI | AFP | Getty Images Google employees are pressing executives to bring back a part of the company’s culture that, in the past, made it a desirable place to work: candor. At a year-end all-hands meeting, held virtually earlier this month, CEO Sundar Pichai read aloud one of the most popular questions from employees, based on the company’s internal… Source link

Former United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz is sticking with his long-time peers in the airline industry that safety is a top priority during the pandemic, even if that means you have to wear a mask on a plane or employees must be vaccinated.  Shared Munoz on Yahoo Finance Live, “This is an industry where no good deed goes unpunished. There are so many viewpoints that it is hard to sort of measure everything. At United — which is all I can speak of with my successor and all those folks — the… Source link

Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff is stepping down for health reasons, and the six-year-old company and its products will be folded into Google, he wrote in a blog post Thursday. Doctoroff says he’s been diagnosed with what may be ALS and wants to spend more time with his family. “Starting next year, Sidewalk products Pebble, Mesa, Delve, and Affordable Electrification will join Google, becoming core to Google’s urban sustainability product efforts,” Doctoroff wrote in the post…. Source link

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) is down more than 20% from its record high and is set for its fourth straight weekly decline. Crypto bulls, as always, are keeping the faith. That includes MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, who added bitcoin to his company’s balance sheet last year. Since then, he’s been an outspoken advocate. Right now, he doesn’t see many — any? — long-term obstacles to prices going higher. “The only legitimate risk is a black swan – an unknown unknown,” he said in an… Source link

Weber’s secret weapon in its most recent quarter is one they have relied on time and time again to perform well in periods of high supply chain stress (such is the case now). Making more grills and components where the products end up being sold, says Weber CEO Chris Scherzinger. “We are the only major grill brand who makes our own grills and do it locally in the continent,” Scherzinger said on Yahoo Finance Live. Weber operates three manufacturing facilities in Illinois that handle metal… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices alone. And in the U.S., app usage surged ahead of the time spent watching live TV. Currently, the average American watches 3.7… Source link

DocuSign (DOCU) CEO Dan Springer is owning up to some execution mistakes in the third quarter that did their part to send shares down more than 40% on Friday as traders digested the company’s latest earnings report.  But, Springer told Yahoo Finance Live he will buy shares next week as the one-day plunge doesn’t make sense given DocuSign’s leadership position and growth potential.  “I am surprised, I’ll be straightforward with you. I do not see the reaction in the stock price to be… Source link

As backlogs in the U.S. supply chain continue to threaten shipping and deliveries this holiday season, consumers’ purchasing habits and plans appear to be relatively unwavered. According to ChargeItSpot founder and CEO Doug Baldasare, the majority of shoppers the company surveyed are not changing their gift buying approach this year. “We’ve seen a gradual and steady return to brick-and-mortar shopping. As we’ve looked at the last 12 months, it’s really been a pretty steady upward trend,”… Source link

Jack Dorsey logging out as Twitter CEO is a good thing for investors, contends veteran internet analyst Brent Thill at Jefferies. “I think everyone is excited for the change,” Thill said on Yahoo Finance Live. “The company has not achieved its full vision.” Thill rates Twitter’s stock a Hold. Dorsey said Monday he is stepping down as CEO. He will be replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal, who has been with Twitter for more than a decade. “I’ve decided to leave Twitter because I believe the company is… Source link

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 Wednesday, November 24, 2021 The gaming giant can’t reinvent itself if he’s still in charge Activision Blizzard (ATVI) CEO Bobby Kotick needs to step down. The CEO of one of the country’s largest video game companies, Kotick has reportedly told executives at Activision Blizzard that he’ll… Source link