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Facebook Share Twitter Share In a recent edition of the Republican business section  an article appeared concerning the decision by Verizon to divest it’s Yahoo and AOL holdings, “Verizon to see off media brands Yahoo, AOL,” May 4, page A8. The Board of Directors of Verizon approved a $3 million bonus to the current head of Yahoo to assure that he remain in place for six months. Think of the absurdity of that number which works out be about $3 thousand per hour for a 40 hour week during… Source link

Google chief business officer Philipp Schindler topped the list for the technology giant’s executive officer pay last year, earning more than $66.38 million in salary, stock awards and other compensation, according to a new regulatory filing. Schindler earned a $655,000 salary, stock awards valued at $65.5 million and $226,816 in other compensation, with the latter including $215,660 for personal use of aircraft chartered by the company, according to a proxy statement filed by parent… Source link

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–IRI®, a fast-growing, innovative, global provider of technology, data, and predictive analytics for the consumer, retail, and media sectors, today announced the appointment of Kirk Perry, Google’s President of Global Client & Agency Solutions, as President and CEO and a member of its Board of Directors, effective May 17, 2021. Mr. Perry succeeds Andrew Appel, who has successfully led a transformation of IRI for nearly a decade. Mr. Appel will remain an… Source link

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Box, Inc. (NYSE: BOX), the leading Content Cloud, today announced that Sebastien Marotte will be joining the Box Executive team as President of Box Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), effective June 7, 2021. The appointment underscores Box’s continued commitment to the region where the Company recently announced a new office opening in Warsaw, Poland, and its recent acquisition of SignRequest, a European electronic signature… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Aparna Chennapragada, vice president of product for AR and VR at Google. speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. REUTERS/ Stephen Lam (Reuters) – Robinhood Markets Inc has appointed former Google executive Aparna Chennapragada as its first chief product officer, a blog post by the U.S. online brokerage showed on Wednesday. The blog said Chennapragada will oversee product, design and research at Robinhood, which… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Aparna Chennapragada, vice president of product for AR and VR at Google. speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. REUTERS/ Stephen Lam (Reuters) – Robinhood Markets Inc has appointed former Google executive Aparna Chennapragada as its first chief product officer, a blog post by the U.S. online brokerage showed on Wednesday. The blog said Chennapragada will oversee product, design and research at Robinhood, which… Source link

Google confirmed Marian Croak, one of its few black executives, will manage 10 teams, including a dozen scientists studying the ethical considerations of automated technologies known as AI Reuters | February 19, 2021 | Updated 12:17 IST Alphabet Inc’s Google on Thursday named Marian Croak, one of its few black executives, to oversee research on responsible artificial intelligence (AI) after weeks of internal anger over its firing of a prominent Black scientist. Google confirmed Croak will… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Telecom Italia new logo is seen at the headquarter in Rozzano neighbourhood of Milan, Italy, May 25, 2016. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo MILAN (Reuters) – Former Google executive Carlo d’Asaro Biondo has been appointed as Chief executive officer of Telecom Italia’s (TIM) newly-created cloud unit Noovle, Italy’s biggest phone group said on Monday. The creation of the new company is part of the former phone monopoly’s strategy to boost and diversify its revenues,… Source link

TipRanks 3 Top Dividend Stocks With Growth Opportunity; Goldman Sachs Says ‘Buy’ Investing is all about finding profits, and investors have long seen two main paths toward that goal. Growth stocks, equities that will give a return based mainly on share price appreciation, are one route. The second route lies through dividend stocks. These are stocks that pay out a percentage of profits back to shareholders – a dividend, usually sent out quarterly. The payments vary widely, from less than… Source link

Nearly 800 Google employees have joined a solidarity campaign in support of one of the company’s top female executives, a known advocate for diversity in the industry who said she was fired after what her boss described as a dispute over a research paper. The executive, Timnit Gebru, technical co-lead of Google’s Ethical Artificial Intelligence Team, announced on Twitter late Wednesday that she had been fired after sending an email to co-workers stating that the company’s leadership had… Source link