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An internal Google document laid out a theory for why the company has become so slow. A former employee who created the presentation compared Google to slime mold. The document posited that bottom-up cultures like Google’s could create “coordination headwinds.” As Google has swelled in size to over 186,000 people, many of its employees and even its CEO have complained… Source link

Microstrategy founder and bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor had some strong words about fallen FTX founder and one-time billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). “I think this [crypto] crash accelerates regulatory intervention,” Saylor said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I mean, in fact, in a sense, SBF is like the Jordan Belfort of the crypto era. Instead of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ they’ll make a movie called ‘The King of Crypto.'” Belfort famously was found guilty of stock market… Source link

You might have heard: Joe Biden is shaping up as the next Jimmy Carter. As a Democratic president in the 1970s, Carter had to deal with surging inflation, as Biden does now. Carter also faced an energy crisis, triggered abroad, much as Biden is now trying to tackle soaring gasoline prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Carter famously claimed the nation faced a “crisis in confidence,” which is arguably the case under Biden, too, given that consumer confidence, by some measures,… Source link

Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook is flush with cash. The head of the world’s first company to reach a $3 trillion market cap took home a staggering $98.7 million in stock and cash in 2021. That’s a 571% increase in his compensation compared to 2020. Cook, of course, has seen Apple through a slew of firsts including hitting a market cap of $1 trillion in 2018. Oh, and he also oversaw the release of everything from new versions of the Apple Watch to the company’s expansion into streaming… Source link

GENEVA, July 5 (Reuters) – The forced grounding of a passenger plane in Minsk shows the Belarussian government’s wish to end all forms of dissidence, the U.N. Special Rapporteur told the Human Rights Council on Monday, comparing its tactics with those of totalitarian states. Anaïs Marin told the Geneva-based forum that the forced landing of a passenger jet in Minsk which led to the arrest of an onboard journalist in May “illustrates the desire of authorities to end all forms of dissidence by… Source link

The unique device identifier that Apple uses for personalized ad tracking, the IDFA, has been in the news lately. You may soon be hearing just as much about Google’s equivalent for Android, the Android Advertising Identifier (AAID). Unlike Apple, Google is not voluntarily throttling the third-party tracking of Android users that the AAID facilitates. But it is facing a new privacy complaint in the EU brought by noyb, the group that disrupted EU-US data transfers… Source link

Kiper compares a top 2021 NFL Draft quarterback prospect to Tom Brady originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston The Mac Jones hype train is gaining a lot of steam in the lead up to the 2021 NFL Draft, and it’s easy to see why. Jones was prolific last year for Alabama, completing 77.4 percent of his passes for 4,500 yards, 41 touchdowns, and just four interceptions en route to an undefeated season and a national title for the Crimson Tide. He has been getting a lot of praise for his… Source link

President-elect Joe Biden has watched the stock market surge as he prepares to take power next year. The rally appears to be driven largely by the spate of positive coronavirus vaccine news but has nevertheless been helped by some of Biden’s initial moves as President-elect. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) broke 30,000 for the first time one day after the news broke that the President-elect had picked Janet Yellen as his Treasury Secretary. Mohamed El-Erian, the President of Queens’… Source link