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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

When GetYourGuide criticized Google for promoting an uneven competitive playing field, some GetYourGuide partners accused GetYourGuide of similar transgressions in the way it markets its Originals tours. GetYourGuide vowed to make amends, the results of which will only become clear in a few months. — Dennis Schaal Source link

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

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

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

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

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

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., questions Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai over Google’s artificial intelligence work in China. Google CEO Sundar Pichai came under fire from lawmakers on Capitol Hill during a highly-publicized hearing on Wednesday for the company’s decision to pull out of bids for lucrative government contracts following employee backlash – while still carrying on some operations in China. When questioned about decisions to end a bid for the lucrative $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud… Source link

On this special episode of Yahoo Finance Presents, Brian Sozzi hosts two tech giants – HP Enterprise CEO Antonio Neri, and JC2 Ventures Founder & CEO John Chambers – to discuss a wide range of topics, including the changes in the tech industry in a post COVID-19 world, the digital ‘Great Reset’, internet as an essential service, and many others. Source link