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[unable to retrieve full-text content] Google fires 20 more employees involved in protests of Israeli contract  San Francisco Chronicle Google fires more workers who protested its deal with Israel  The Washington Post Google firing office protesters shows tide is turning as ‘bosses are losing patience’ with activist employees  Fox News Source link

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue/Joe Raedle/Getty Images Text messages between Elon Musk and various notables in tech and business have been released. In several private exchanges, Musk and Jack Dorsey discussed the platform and Musk’s involvement. “I trust you,” Dorsey said in one text to Musk. Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey texted privately about Twitter several times before and after the Tesla billionaire became financially involved in the company, newly revealed court… Source link

Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant knows Kyrie Irving has some important decisions to make this offseason. Irving previously said he wanted to stay in Brooklyn for the long haul, but — as many things are with Irving — the situation is complicated. Irving has a $36 million player option for the 2022-23 season. He has until June 29 to pick up that option. A few months ago, it was assumed Irving would pick up that option or sign a long-term extension with the Nets. But after Irving missed a… Source link

Earlier this week, David Harville, one of seven former eBay employees involved in a 2020 campaign to harass the creators of a newsletter critical of the e-commerce company, pleaded guilty to five federal felony charges, ending one of the most bizarre episodes in recent tech history. In June 2020, the US Department of Justice , including Harville, with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking and conspiracy to tamper with witnesses. Of the group, Harville was the final employee to admit involvement… Source link

Washington Football Team safety Deshazor Everett was involved in a car crash in Virginia on Thursday night that killed a female passenger, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said on Friday morning. Everett was driving in Loudoun County, which sits just outside of Washington D.C., around 9:15 p.m. on Thursday when police said the vehicle “left the right side of the roadway, struck several trees and rolled over.” The passenger, a 29-year-old woman, was taken to a local hospital where she… Source link

Newspapers all over the country have been quietly filing antitrust lawsuits against Google and Facebook for the past year, alleging the two firms monopolized the digital ad market for revenue that would otherwise go to local news.  Why it matters: What started as a small-town effort to take a stand against Big Tech has turned into a national movement, with over 200 newspapers involved across dozens of states. “The intellectual framework for this developed over the last 3-4 years,” said Doug… Source link

Seventeen-year-old Dylan Jin-Ngo became fascinated with the stock market when he was in sixth grade. Now the Huntington Beach teen spends much of his free time teaching other kids about markets.  “Being able to invest without my age being a barrier was something so unique,” Dylan told Yahoo Finance about his motivation. “I learned on my own for the past 3 or 4 years, and I became the youngest certified mutual fund counselor in the nation in 2020.” Dylan spearheads a literacy program through… Source link

Law360 (April 22, 2021, 6:21 PM EDT) — The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has struck down several claims of a communications patent involved in parallel infringement litigation against Google and Amazon in the Western District of Texas, finding the claims obvious over prior art. In a 79-page decision issued Wednesday, the PTAB invalidated each of the challenged claims in Hammond Development International Inc.’s communications systems patent for being obvious due to three published… Source link

Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, son of head coach Andy Reid, was involved in a multi-vehicle crash that injured two young children Thursday night, according to KSHB in Kansas City. The Chiefs confirmed Reid was involved in the crash. The team said it is gathering information. Reid was driving a white Dodge Ram pickup truck when he hit a stranded car on a highway entrance ramp. The crash took place near the Chiefs’ facility. Yahoo Sports’ Terez A. Paylor confirmed details of… Source link