Tag Archives: Global

Jan 25 (Reuters) – Google employees from across the globe are forming a union alliance, weeks after more than 200 workers at the search engine giant and other units of parent company Alphabet Inc formed a labor union for U.S. and Canadian offices. Alpha Global was formed in coordination with UNI Global Union, a union federation that represents about 20 million workers globally, and includes unions from countries such as the United States, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK, UNI Global… Source link

Various Alphabet unions have joined forces and created a global alliance called Alpha Global. It was created with some help from UNI Global, a federation of unions that represents 20 million workers from a variety of fields including the technology industry. According to The Verge, 13 different unions are part of Alpha Global, spanning 10 different countries including the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. In a statement published by UNI Global, the alliance said it would “demand… Source link

(Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Unions used to dominate many American industries. However, over the years, their power has waned. Now, there are new signs that this trend may be changing. President-elect Joe Biden, on his website, states, “Strong unions built the great American middle class. Everything that defines what it means to live a good life and know you can take care of your family—the 40 hour workweek, paid… Source link

Google has recently announced three new cloud regions; Chile, Germany, and Saudi Arabia, which will go live in the coming term. In total, Google Cloud currently operates 24 regions and 73 zones in 17 countries. There is no doubt that giving high-performance, low-latency cloud services are significantly important, and other players, AWS and Microsft Azure, also have bets in cloud expansion. While Microsoft  Azure is well ahead of the competition in terms of the total number of regions… Source link

Image: Engin Akyurt on Unsplash Highlights This blog presents a global dashboard that compiles publicly available Google search data and can be used by policymakers and the general public to understand how internet search interest for different terms or phrases can be used to effectively assess the spread of the coronavirus in real-time for almost 200 countries worldwide.  Search interest for various symptoms of coronavirus is highly correlated with administrative COVID-19 cases and… Source link

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada plans to impose a tax on corporations providing digital services from 2022 that will stay in place until major nations come up with a coordinated approach on taxation, the Finance Department said on Monday. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development is working on a common approach to ensure digital behemoths, such as Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook Inc, pay their share of taxes as the coronavirus hammers budgets. Canada said it was concerned about… Source link

Speakers Include NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-Chair Bill Gates, Carly Fiorina Enterprises Chairman Carly Fiorina, National Basketball Players Association President Chris Paul, Best Buy CEO Corie Barry, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Host and Former NFL Linebacker Emmanuel Acho, Fmr. White House National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Rock The Bells Founder & CEO LL COOL J, Citigroup CEO Michael Corbat and Many More Watch a Clip from Bill Gates Source link

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies’ founder Ren Zhengfei’s global ambitions are marked in bricks and mortar at a new company campus in southern China, where the buildings are replicas from European cities. Zhang Yiming, founder of ByteDance, the operator of short video app TikTok, has plastered his Beijing headquarters with posters including a cover of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s book “How Google Works”, and has long said he will build a global firm that can compete with… Source link