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Google employee fired for shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at company event

Google employee fired for shouting ‘Free Palestine’ at company event

Google recently fired an engineer after the employee expressed anti-Israel sentiments during the Israeli tech industry conference, Mind The Tech, in New York. During a speech by Barak Regev, Google’s CEO in Israel, the employee publicly protested against Google’s collaboration in Project Nimbus, the Israeli military’s cloud computing project.  “I’m a Google software engineer, and I refuse to build technology that powers genocide, apartheid, or surveillance,” he shouted before being… Source link

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Over 600 Google Workers Urge the Company to Cut Ties With Israeli Tech Conference

Over 600 Google Workers Urge the Company to Cut Ties With Israeli Tech Conference

More than 600 Google workers and counting have signed a letter addressed to Google marketing leadership demanding that it drop its sponsorship of Mind the Tech, an annual conference promoting the Israeli tech industry taking place in New York this week. “Please withdraw from Mind the Tech, issue an apology, and stand with Googlers and customers who are despairing over the overwhelming loss of life in Gaza; we need Google to do better,” reads the letter, which was seen by WIRED. The two-day… Source link

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Google cancels contract of team that went on strike against the company

Google cancels contract of team that went on strike against the company

Google has reportedly cut a team of contractors that had gone on a union strike against the company. According to a report by The Verge. the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA, representing contractors for YouTube Music, allege that Google terminated their contracts following an extended strike.The affected group, comprising moderators employed by Google contractor Cognizant in Austin, Texas, was responsible for vetting music content for YouTube Music.According to a statement provided to The Verge,… Source link

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Google Expands AI Training Courses, Launches Company AI Fund

Google Expands AI Training Courses, Launches Company AI Fund

Are Google AI courses Free? A lot of the foundational AI courses mentioned above can be found in Google’s library of online courses are free to take, and they’re pretty comprehensive. There are also lots of additional resources and teaching materials you can access for free too. However, Most Google Career Certificate learners will have to pay a Coursera monthly fee for taking one Google certificate course, typically around $49. However, This may vary depending on how quickly you complete… Source link

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After YouTube Premium, this Google service crosses 100 million milestone: What company CEO Sundar Pichai has to say

After YouTube Premium, this Google service crosses 100 million milestone: What company CEO Sundar Pichai has to say

Google said last week that YouTube Music and YouTube Premium have reached the 100 million subscriber milestone. Now the company CEO Sundar Pichai has announced that Google One – a subscription service that provides expanded cloud storage – has also crossed 100 million subscribers.“We just crossed 100M Google One subscribers! Looking forward to building on that momentum with our new AI Premium Plan (launched yesterday) offering AI features like Gemini Advanced, plus Gemini in Gmail,… Source link

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Yandex parent company to sell its Russian businesses for $5.2 billion

Yandex parent company to sell its Russian businesses for $5.2 billion

The Netherlands-based parent company of the Yandex group is selling its Russian businesses to local investors for $5.2 billion, the company announced on Monday. Despite a mandatory discount of at least half enforced by the Kremlin, this would be the largest corporate exit from Russia since it invaded Ukraine two years ago. Yandex, often referred to as “Russia’s Google,” was founded in Russia in the late 1990s and went public on the Nasdaq in 2011 via a company called Yandex NV registered… Source link

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Tech company Yandex is selling Russian operations for $5 billion. It’s a big discount

Tech company Yandex is selling Russian operations for $5 billion. It’s a big discount

The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil company Lukoil By DAVID McHUGH AP Business Writer February 5, 2024, 8:29 AM ET • 3 min read FRANKFURT, Germany — The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil… Source link

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Yandex parent company announces $5.2 billion deal to sell Russian assets — Meduza

Yandex parent company announces $5.2 billion deal to sell Russian assets — Meduza

After a year and a half of negotiations, Yandex founder Arkady Volozh and foreign shareholders have reached a deal to part ways with the company’s Russian assets. The Russian IT giant’s Netherlands-based parent company announced Monday that it will sell a large portion of its operations to a consortium of Russian investors before rebranding and continuing to develop its remaining international properties. The Russian investment fund making the purchase, called Consortium.First, includes… Source link

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Disney lawsuit against DeSantis dismissed by judge as company vows fight ‘will not end here’

Disney lawsuit against DeSantis dismissed by judge as company vows fight ‘will not end here’

A federal judge is dismissing Disney’s (DIS) free speech lawsuit against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis — a big win for the politician amid his ongoing political feud with the media giant. In a court filing obtained by Yahoo Finance, US District Judge Allen Winsor, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump in 2019, granted a motion to dismiss the First Amendment case. The judge determined that Disney’s position “fails on the merits” and ultimately “lacked… Source link

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