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Google bonus delay offers lesson in windfall spending

Google bonus delay offers lesson in windfall spending

A pedestrian strolls on the Google campus in Mountain View, California, on Jan. 27, 2022. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Change to bonuses addresses 2023 uncertainty Google employees who qualify for bonuses will get 80% of the sum in January, with the remainder coming in March or April, according to a memo obtained by CNBC. That’s a departure from Google’s typical practice of delivering full checks in January. A Google spokesperson said it “extensively” communicated that… Source link

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The market lesson in the Spotify, Joe Rogan drama: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, February 2, 2022 Focus on the fundamentals, ignore the outrage brigades Since Neil Young noisily departed Spotify in protest over its hosting of Joe Rogan, the platform has endured a slow drip of chart-toppers from a bygone era opting to join Young, and a torrent of bad press. Meanwhile, related Google searches have spiked dramatically… Source link

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‘The one big lesson’ of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, according to Ian Bremmer

As the last of the U.S. troops leave Afghanistan, one geopolitics expert thinks America’s longest war left us with one key lesson. “The one big lesson is that as rightfully angry and scared as Americans were after 9/11, we made Afghanistan into an almost existential threat to the American homeland — and it was never that,” Eurasia Group Founder Ian Bremmer told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It was never a grade A national security priority for the U.S. It never merited a hundred-plus… Source link

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