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“We’re deeply aware of the importance of this issue. We work to support and protect people who report concerns, thoroughly investigate all claims and take firm actions against substantiated allegations,” a spokesperson for Google said. Story continues below advertisement The petition comes after Emi Nietfeld, a former Google engineer, alleged Thursday in the New York Times that the company let her harasser continue sitting next to her even after verifying her complaint and punishing him…. Source link

Employee protesters at Google headquarters in 2018. James Martin/CNET More than a thousand… Source link

More than 500 Alphabet employees have signed an open letter demanding Google stop protecting the subjects of harassment complaints. The move comes two days after former Google engineer Emi Nietfeld wrote an op-ed in The New York Times alleging that she was forced to have one-on-one meetings with the man who harassed her — and sit next to him in the office — even after she filed an HR complaint. “This is a long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the… Source link

Less than three years after thousands of Google employees walked out of their offices to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment, the search giant’s workers are again raising the issue in response to a damning report. In a letter published Friday titled “Alphabet, Stop Protecting Harassers,” LINK THIS dozens of employees said the company has a pattern of protecting those who have been accused of misconduct. They asked Alphabet Inc. GOOGL,

Bloomberg Real Estate Investors Desperate to Spend $250 Billion Hoard (Bloomberg) — Investors with a record hoard of money to finance distressed commercial real estate are finding themselves in a tough spot: There’s nowhere to spend it.The massive wave of defaults expected after the coronavirus shuttered offices, hotels and stores last year has so far failed to materialize. Now, as the U.S. economy swings from pandemic lows to a vaccine- and stimulus-induced rebound, the window of… Source link

Bloomberg SoftBank Seeks $1.2 Billion in Greensill Collapse (Bloomberg) — Greensill Capital owes $1.15 billion to SoftBank Group Corp., people familiar with the matter said, as the Japanese institution emerges as one of the main creditors to the collapsed supply chain finance firm.A total value of claims for more than A$1.75 billion ($1.35 billion) was submitted on behalf of Greensill’s creditors, administrator Grant Thornton said in a statement Friday after a call between creditors… Source link

With the growing demand for data privacy, Google announced it will stop selling ads based on … [+] individual users’ web browsing habits. However, privacy-focused browser Brave advances the ambition with a new search engine. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Privacy browser Brave created a competitor to Google’s GOOG flagship search engine with its latest acquisition. But the timing could have been better. Announced yesterday, Brave… Source link

New market research report on Search Engine: The research report on global Search Engine Market is a comprehensive guide for new market entrants. The report provides the market history of each product retailed by the company. It also provides a history of product types, technology and volume during the forecast period. The growth rate, challenges and obstacles are also explained in the Global Search Engine study report. The report highlights the rate of development of the… Source link

Google’s Gary Illyes reveals the search index uses a tiered system where the most popular content is indexed on faster, more expensive storage. This topic is discussed in the latest episode of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast which deals with language complexities in search index selection. In explaining how Google builds its search index, Illyes says content is indexed on three types of storage: RAM (Random Access Memory): Fastest and most expensive SSD (Solid State Drive): Very fast… Source link

(Reuters) – U.S. civil rights groups will organize an advertiser boycott against Alphabet’s YouTube if it does not remove President Donald Trump’s channel, the groups told Reuters. Jim Steyer, one of the organizers of the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign which led over 1,000 advertisers to boycott Facebook in July, said the groups are demanding YouTube take down Trump’s verified YouTube channel, which has 2.76 million subscribers. YouTube is the last major tech company that has not… Source link