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Reddit IPO, Nvidia event, Fed decision: What to watch

Reddit IPO, Nvidia event, Fed decision: What to watch

Next week, Wall Street will be paying close attention to Wednesday’s next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. The focus will be on the latest Fed dot plot, revealing FOMC members’ estimates for interest rate cuts Reddit will make its IPO debut on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, March 21 under the ticker RDDT with a share price of between $31 and $34. Nvidia’s (NVDA) annual GTC conference will take place between March 18-21st, with CEO Jensen Huang giving a 2 hour keynote… Source link

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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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Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum

Google fires employee who protested Israel tech event, shuts forum

There was more internal controversy this week, also tied to the crisis in Gaza. Ahead of an International Women’s Day Summit in Silicon Valley on Thursday, Google’s employee message board was hit with an influx of staffer comments about the company’s military contracts with Israel. The online forum, which was going to be used to help inform what questions were asked of executives at the event, was shut down for what a spokesperson described to CNBC as “divisive content that is disruptive to… Source link

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