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By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Google is investing $8 million to support Israeli tech firms and Palestinian businesses, the Alphabet-owned group said on Wednesday, citing the need for small companies to secure financing during the Israel-Hamas war. Google said its $4 million support fund would be provided to AI startups in Israel and another $4 million would go to early-stage Palestinian startups and businesses to help them continue operating. The grant to Israeli AI startups will be in… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex and 4 Other Russian Tech Firms to Be Delisted from Nasdaq and NYSE – Latest Tweet by TechCrunch  LatestLY Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex and 4 other Russian tech firms to be delisted from Nasdaq and NYSE  TechCrunch Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nasdaq to Delist Russia’s Yandex, Other Tech Firms  The Moscow Times Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Nasdaq tells Yandex, other Russian firms of plan to delist stocks  Reuters Source link

When Kim Talbot first launched her milling shop in southern Maine, she hoped to win a coveted contract with the federal government to manufacture steel and aluminum machine parts. With no idea where to start, she did what any inexperienced small-business owner might do: She Googled. The top search result was, in her eyes, an official-looking webpage. It prominently displayed a logo very similar to that of SAM.gov, the government website where businesses must register before pursuing such… Source link

Oil giants spent $24 million on Google search ads over two years Google pledged not to make money from climate disinformation Study says many ads on Google twisted facts on climate change LOS ANGELES, Nov 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Google is selling oil firms valuable digital real estate that they use to downplay their role in climate change, despite the search engine giant pledging it would stop taking money for ads that counter the scientific consensus on global warming, a new report… Source link

Over the weekend, Google suspended its translation service in mainland China, ending another attempt by the U.S.-based tech company to return to the Chinese market amid Beijing’s drive to more tightly control the country’s internet. Mainland Chinese users trying to access Google Translate in China were instead shown a static image of a generic Google search bar, and a link to the company’s Hong Kong-based domain. (Google in Hong Kong is uncensored and blocked to mainland Chinese… Source link

ARK Invest founder and CEO Cathie Wood relinquished her role as portfolio manager at two of the investment management firm’s exchange-traded funds, according to a regulatory filing. William Scherer, who has served as a trading manager at ARK since 2014, has been appointed to handle investments in place of Wood for the company’s two index funds, ARK 3D Printing ETF (PRNT) and ARK Israel Innovative Technology ETF (IZRL) beginning September. The 3D printing-focused fund has a net value of… Source link

A 3D medical illustration of femur bones in the leg.Getty/yodiyim Workers from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are paying $75,000 to be taller, a surgeon told GQ. The Las Vegas surgeon can lengthen patients’ legs via a painful months-long process. He breaks the thigh bones and inserts nails that are extended every day for three months. A Las Vegas cosmetic surgeon specializes in leg-lengthening procedures that can grow people’s height by 3 to 6 inches, as a new GQ profile said. Many of his… Source link