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Marissa Mayer, former CEO of Yahoo! launches “Sunshine Contacts” the app designed to manage contacts

This application, exclusively for iOS, manages users’ contacts efficiently in the background. Grow Your Business, Not Your Inbox Stay informed and join our daily newsletter now! November 21, 2020 3 min read This article was translated from our Spanish edition using AI technologies. Errors may exist due to this process. Sunshine , the startup of Marissa Mayer,… Source link

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Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s new company launches Sunshine Contacts

Over the years, Mayer has been the subject of fascination. First, she was a rare female executive at the helm of a major tech company. Since then, people have been similarly interested in what would come after she departed Yahoo following its sale to Verizon in 2017. On Wednesday, Mayer announced that her secretive startup Lumi Labs — which she cofounded in 2018 with Enrique Muñoz Torres, who also worked at Yahoo and Google (GOOG) — has been rebranded as Sunshine and has its first product:… Source link

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus

The former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, is finalizing a plan to become a citizen of the island of Cyprus, Recode has learned, becoming one of the highest-profile Americans to take advantage of one of the world’s most controversial “passport-for-sale” programs. Schmidt, one of America’s wealthiest people, and his family have won approval to become citizens of the Mediterranean nation, according to a previously unreported notice in a Cypriot publication in October. While it is not… Source link

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EXCLUSIVE-Russia’s VTB to stay in grain business for next 3-5 years – CEO

By Tatiana Voronova, Katya Golubkova * VTB to develop grain business for next 3-5 years – CEO * Has no plans to cut stake in grain unit further – CEO * Wants closer cooperation with Yandex * Full Kostin quotes in Russian MOSCOW, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Russia’s VTB bank, which has transformed itself into a major grain trader within a year, plans to remain in the grain business for the next three to five years, Andrey Kostin, the chief executive of the state-controlled lender, told Reuters. VTB,… Source link

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Walmart CEO: 'The country needs to come together and solve problems' – Yahoo Finance

TipRanks 3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding Over 7%; JMP Says ‘Buy’ With markets showing volatile movements in recent sessions – down one day, up the next – some of Wall Street’s analysts are showing a renewed interest in high-yield dividends. Not that they have ever shied away from these steady income generators; rather, the market boom of this past summer led the Street to focus on share appreciation as the source of profits. Market fluctuations since early September have analysts and… Source link

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TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer cheers DOJ lawsuit against Google

Boston Globe | Getty Images Many in Silicon Valley may be fuming about the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet‘s Google, but one slice of the tech industry is cheering the move: Online travel booking operators. TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer, a longtime critic of Google, welcomed the government’s decision to look into the tech behemoth. The DOJ and 11 Republican state attorneys general are going after Google for allegedly unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in search by… Source link

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Southwest will resume selling middle seats after reporting a $1.2 billion quarterly loss: CEO

Southwest Airlines (LUV) on Thursday reported a net loss of $1.2 billion on revenue of $1.8 billion in the third quarter. Chairman and CEO Gary Kelly says the coronavirus pandemic continues to cause huge losses for the airline but he is encouraged, “by modest improvements in leisure passenger traffic,” since a slowdown in July. Here are the quarterly results compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Diluted earnings loss per share: net loss of $1.96 per share vs. expected loss… Source link

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Google Antitrust Fight Thrusts Low-Key C.E.O. Into the Line of Fire

OAKLAND, Calif. — When Sundar Pichai succeeded Larry Page as the head of Google’s parent company in December, he was handed a bag of problems: Shareholders had sued the company, Alphabet, over big financial packages handed to executives accused of misconduct. An admired office culture was fraying. Most of all, antitrust regulators were circling. On Tuesday, the Justice Department accused Google of being “a monopoly gatekeeper of the internet,” one that uses anticompetitive tactics to… Source link

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