The Dallas Cowboys launched a new coffee sponsorship on Tuesday morning, and it’s not going well. The timing of it was, well, about as poor as it possibly could have been. The Cowboys launched a partnership with Black Rifle Coffee on Tuesday, which they now call “America’s Coffee.” As part of their Independence Day celebration, the team is giving away two tickets to a game this fall and a year subscription to Black Rifle Coffee. While that looks like a simple giveaway that teams across… Source link
Read More »Google allowed sanctioned Russian ad company to harvest user data for months
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The day after Russia’s February invasion of Ukraine, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Mark Warner sent a letter to Google warning it to be on alert for “exploitation of your platform by Russia and Russian-linked entities,” and calling on the company to audit… Source link
Read More »Google may have shared data with sanctioned Russian ad company, report finds
Google may have been sharing potentially sensitive user data with a sanctioned ad tech company owned by Russia’s largest state bank until as recently as June 23, according to a ProPublica report. This comes just four months after the Senate Intelligence Committee warned the tech giant to stay alert for possible exploitation by Russia and Russia-linked entities following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Google allowed RuTarget, a Russian company that helps brands and agencies buy digital ads,… Source link
Read More »France’s Thales creates cloud services company powered by Google
The logo of Thales is seen on a company building in Brest, France, March 14, 2022. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register PARIS, June 30 (Reuters) – French defence company Thales (TCFP.PA) said on Thursday it has created a new firm, dubbed S3NS, in partnership with Google to offer state-vetted cloud computing services for the storage of some of the country’s most sensitive data. The new company is the result of an alliance sealed last year… Source link
Read More »Redfin shareholders approved executive bonuses and huge compensation packages on the same day the company announced major layoffs. How is that legal?
Last week, the CEO of real estate company Redfin, Glenn Kelman, announced the company was laying off 8% of its employees in an email, saying that demand for the company’s realtor services had fallen 17% below expectations in May. “We don’t have enough work for our agents and support staff, and fewer sales leaves us with less money for headquarters projects,” Kelman wrote in the email announcing the layoffs on June 14. The layoffs at Redfin and another real estate company, Compass, on… Source link
Read More »2 former Tesla employees have filed a lawsuit against the company claiming its mass layoffs violated federal law
Tesla CEO Elon Musk.Maja Hitij/Getty Images Two former Tesla employees have filed a lawsuit against Tesla, claiming its mass layoffs violated federal law. In early June, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla needed to cut 10% of its staff, per Reuters. The two former employees are looking to claim 60 days’ worth of pay and benefits. In a lawsuit filed Sunday, two former Tesla employees claim the electric carmaker violated federal law by laying off hundreds of employees on short notice. On June 2, Tesla CEO… Source link
Read More »Limelight Completes Acquisition of Yahoo’s Edgecast; Combined Company Rebrands as Edgio Creating a Global Leader in Edge-Enabled Solutions
Poised for growth with the most complete edge native solution to deliver the fastest web applications on the planet, in a high growth $40 billion market Improved profitability underwritten by greater than $50 million of run-rate cost synergies and meaningful revenue diversification Stronger balance sheet and Board with Apollo Funds/Yahoo’s investment TEMPE, Ariz., June 16, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Edgio, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGIO), the globally-scaled software solutions provider powering secure… Source link
Read More »Who owns Google? Alphabet, the same company that owns YouTube and Waze
Google Inc., the popular American search engine, was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Originally titled Backrub, the two then-Stanford University graduate students built the engine in their college dorms, according to Google. The name is a play on the math term “googol,” which is the number one followed by 100 zeros. Google went public in 2004 and since then has grown to be the world’s most visited website, with 89 billion visits in April 2022. Who owns Google? The… Source link
Read More »‘Thank goodness I’m not the CEO of a major media company today’
Leaders at mega companies like Netflix (NFLX) and Disney (DIS) can no longer “straddle” the fence on cultural and political issues. “All I’m going to say is thank goodness I’m not the CEO of a major media company today,” Marc Randolph, who served as Netflix’s first CEO from its inception in 1997 to 2003, told Yahoo Finance in a new interview. “We have a country that is becoming more and more polarized. There’s people on either side.” “In the past, it was very straightforward to either ignore… Source link
Read More »Google contractors say a recruiting company has been systematically skimming their pay
A group of Google contractors says they’ve been underpaid by the agency that recruited them, resulting in thousands of dollars in unpaid wages per affected worker. The earliest reports occurred as long ago as 2019, and workers say the payroll errors are happening so regularly that they believe it to be a kind of systematic wage theft. Guy Mylius, a contract employee in the Bay Area, found out about the issue four months into his job, when co-workers recommended he check his pay stub… Source link
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