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U.S. jobless claims set a more than 50-year low last week as the red-hot labor market shows few signs of cooling in the near-term. The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims, week ended March 19: 187,000 vs. 210,000 expected and a revised 215,000 during prior week Continuing claims, week ended March 12: 1.350… Source link

Google Search has reduced the irrelevant results shown in Google Search by over 50% in the last seven years, the search company announced. With that, Google also dropped another nugget of information saying they have seen a more than 60% increase in natural language queries. Irrelevant results. Google is constantly making changes to Google Search. In 2021, Google said it made more than 5,000 improvements to search and ran more than 800,000 experiments. For comparison, in… Source link

WASHINGTON— Alphabet Inc.’s Google should be forced to turn over internal emails that it has withheld or redacted in the antitrust case filed against it by state and federal governments, the Justice Department said Monday. In a filing in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said that Google improperly invoked legal privilege to shield sensitive internal communications, a practice it said has gone on for years. Source link

WASHINGTON— Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG -0.24% Google should be forced to turn over internal emails that it has withheld or redacted in the antitrust case filed against it by state and federal governments, the Justice Department said Monday. In a filing in U.S. District Court, the Justice Department said that Google improperly invoked legal privilege to shield sensitive internal communications, a practice it said has gone on for years. “For… Source link

Steve Harvey had folks on social media baffled this week when the entertainment business’s hardest working employee revealed that he owed the Internal Revenue Service millions of dollars at one point in his illustrious career. During a recent appearance on Tuesday, March 15, episode of the “Earn Your Leisure Podcast” with co-hosts Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, the “Family Feud” host returned to an account he has discussed previously about owing the IRS $22 million in 2008. “My… Source link

New unemployment claims improved more than expected last week, further reflecting a tight labor market and relatively low levels of firings and layoffs. The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims, week ended March 12: 214,000 vs. 220,000 expected, 227,000 during prior week Continuing claims, week ended March 5: 1.419… Source link

Google is facing a lawsuit from a Florida restaurant chain owner that accuses the company of directing users to “unauthorized” Google-branded food ordering webpages, where it uses restaurants names “without their approval,” as first reported by Ars Technica. A copy of the lawsuit alleges Google employs “bait-and-switch” tactics by placing its “Order Online” button at the top of restaurants’ profile panels on the search engine. The large blue button redirects users to a

Applications for unemployment insurance inched up higher than expected in the latest weekly data but extended a broader trend downward after surging COVID-19 infections earlier this winter briefly disrupted the labor market’s recovery to start the year. The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims, week ended March 5:… Source link

On Thursday, the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine called claims that Google Maps “labels” were being used by Russia’s military “another fake.” In a post to its official Telegram channel, the country’s intelligence agency debunked a wave of social media rumors that claimed Russian insurgents had tagged airstrike locations on Google Maps of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. The agency described these false claims as a psychological operation “to sow panic and… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump adviser John Eastman’s emails may have evidence the former president and his associates committed crimes in attempting to prevent Congress from certifying the 2020 election results, a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection said in a court filing. Most Read from Bloomberg It’s the first public signal that the committee is looking into criminal activity by those within Trump’s inner circle. The committee says the emails may contain evidence of… Source link