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The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it has settled with mobile advertising company Tapjoy over claims it used false advertising offers for the promise of in-game rewards that weren’t given. But two Democratic regulators also said Apple and Google helped create the environment that squeezes mobile gaming industry players and incentivizes them to find other monetization models that may have unsavory consequences for consumers. The Federal Trade Commission said Thursday it… Source link

More than 200 employees at Google parent company Alphabet announced plans to form a union Monday, joining with the Communications Workers of America to organize full-time and contract workers alike. The move comes after public walkouts and controversies over employee dismissals at Google in recent years. … Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Set for Monster Growth in 2021 We’ve turned a new page on the calendar, Old Man ’20 is out the door, and there’s a feeling ‘21 is gonna be a good year – and so far, so good. The markets closed out 2020 with modest session gains to cap off larger annual gains. The S&P 500 rose 16% during the corona crisis year, while the NASDAQ, with its heavy tech representation, showed an impressive annual gain of nearly 43%. The advent of two viable COVID vaccines… Source link

Inside Google, tensions are growing weeks after the company fired a high-profile Black researcher. Questions are still simmering about whether Google can tolerate dissent and criticism. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Google employees are demanding the company rehire and promote a Black research scientist who spoke out for more women and people of color. As NPR’s Bobby Allyn reports, her ouster has led many inside and outside the company to question whether… Source link

Yahoo Finance users voted Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) as the worst company of the year. And it wasn’t close.  The battery-electric and fuel cell electric truck startup received five times more votes — 15% of 1,582 responses in a poll — than the second place company, which Yahoo Finance did not publicly name.  Only one of five poll respondents said they think Nikola can recover. The inauspicious achievement joins Nikola with Boeing Aerospace Co. (NYSE: BA), which… Source link

Yahoo Finance readers have chosen Nikola as the worst company of the year. (Nikola Motor) Nikola Motor Company (NKLA) is the worst company of the year, according to Yahoo Finance users, who chose the company in a poll. Nikola received almost five times more votes than the second-place company, with a plurality of 15% of the 1,582 responses. It’s been quite the year for the electric truck company, which took the other available half of electric innovator Nikola Tesla’s name. And not in a… Source link

December 9th, 2020 by Johnna Crider  Yahoo! Finance chose Zoom as its “Company of the Year,” and that’s perfectly fine. However, Yahoo! Finance decided to focus a whole article on why Tesla didn’t make the cut, and the article’s got some issues. Aside from not being fair to Tesla, it really wasn’t fair to Zoom. To be frank, it’s weird. I really don’t see the point, but let’s dive in. First, congrats to Zoom — it really did help… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has apologized for how a prominent artificial intelligence researcher’s abrupt departure last week has “seeded doubts” in the company. Pichai told Google employees in a Wednesday memo obtained by Axios that the tech company is beginning a review of the circumstances leading up to Black computer scientist Timnit Gebru’s exit and how Google could have “led a more respectful process.” Gebru, a top scholar in the field of AI… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Could Reach New Highs The markets have been on a tear of late despite the headwinds presented by the novel coronavirus pandemic. The question is how long this will last?Writing from Goldman Sachs, the firm’s chief US equity strategist David Kostin says that the markets will outperform both other investments and analyst expectations over the next two years. He sees the S&P 500 hitting 4,600 by the end of 2022, which would represent a 25% gain.Backing… Source link

In light of artificial intelligence researcher Dr. Timnit Gebru’s exit from Google last week, Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to staffers, obtained by Axios, saying the company would investigate “the circumstances that led up to Dr. Gebru’s departure, examining where we could have improved and led a more respectful process.” Last week, Gebru said she was fired from the company after sending an email to her direct reports discussing how she was disappointed in her… Source link