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Russia’s competition watchdog has launched a formal probe into Yandex, alleging the country’s largest technology company could be abusing its dominant position in the search market to promote its own services at the expense of competitors. The Federal Anti-Monopoly Service (FAS) said Tuesday that Yandex has failed to comply with a previous warning that it must stop favoring its own products in search results. Shares in the technology giant, which is listed on the U.S. Nasdaq… Source link

More than 500 Alphabet employees have signed an open letter demanding Google stop protecting the subjects of harassment complaints. The move comes two days after former Google engineer Emi Nietfeld wrote an op-ed in The New York Times alleging that she was forced to have one-on-one meetings with the man who harassed her — and sit next to him in the office — even after she filed an HR complaint. “This is a long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the… Source link

Bloomberg Credit Suisse Executives Under Scrutiny for Serial Miscues (Bloomberg) — Credit Suisse Group AG is still tallying the losses from its relationship to Lex Greensill and Bill Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management. But attention is likely to soon turn to accountability for a management team stung by serial fiascos. The bank has reactivated a special crisis committee — led by Chairman Urs Rohner and the heads of the audit and risk committees — to oversee the issues surrounding Credit… Source link

Stock futures traded little changed Wednesday evening after a record-setting day on Wall Street. Contracts on the S&P 500 hugged the flat line, after the blue-chip index reached a record intraday high during the regular session, and closed out its best monthly gain since November. Nasdaq futures edged up after technology stocks lifted the index higher by more than 1.5%. In late trading, shares of electric-vehicle stocks including Workhorse Group (WKHS) and Plug Power (PLUG) increased as… Source link

MMA Weekly UFC 260 results: Francis Ngannou KO’s Stipe Miocic, becomes new baddest man on the planet Stipe Miocic was the baddest man on the planet heading into Saturday night’s event at The Apex in Las Vegas. Now that the UFC 260 results are in, there is a new baddest man on the planet. UFC 260 results: Francis Ngannou lands brutal KO Francis Ngannou showed massive improvement in his skill and his approach in taking out Stipe Miocic at UFC 260. It was evident from the opening bell that… Source link

The PGA TOUR heads to TPC San Antonio for this week’s Valero Texas Open. It’s a short journey for the stars in the field who played in Austin last week. They will return to the Lone Star State in May. There is plenty of course history to lean on this week as TPC San Antonio has hosted here since 2010. However, most of those editions were not played a week before the Masters. There are few added elements to the course setup that come into play when that’s the case. So, instead of relying too… Source link

Bloomberg After Jubilation on the Suez Canal Comes the Investigation (Bloomberg) — In the end, it took roughly six days and seven hours to undo the minutes of drama that exposed the vulnerability of global trade and captivated the world. It may take longer to figure out how to avoid it happening again.At just after 3 p.m. local time on Monday, the Ever Given was dislodged from a sand bank in the Suez Canal by tugboats pushing and pulling to rock it loose. To cheers from the dozens of crew… Source link

(Reuters) – Players at the Miami Open on Monday expressed little love for COVID-19 vaccines, with many saying they want more information before getting a shot. Seventh seeded Aryna Sabalenka expressed more concern over the vaccine than her quarterfinal opponent number one Ash Barty while fifth seed Elina Svitolina said she was inclined to take the advice of friends and wait. “So far I don’t really trust it,” Sabalenka told reporters following her fourth round 6-1 6-2 mugging of Marketa… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Global traders are bracing for what’s shaping up to be one of the most anticipated opens for U.S. equities in months following an extraordinary $20 billion wave of block trades Friday that rattled investors worldwide. Archegos Capital Management LLC — the family office of Bill Hwang — was behind the sales, dumping shares of Chinese tech giants and U.S. media conglomerates, according to two people directly familiar with the trades. While some of the stocks targeted in the… Source link

Serena Williams and Roger Federer have both withdrawn from the Miami Open. Image: Getty Disturbing scenes in Miami have highlighted why a number of top tennis stars may have been unwilling to travel to the Miami Open for the first Masters 1000 tournament of the year. Serena Williams joined Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in withdrawing from the prestigious event on Sunday. ‘HEARTBREAKING’: Tennis rocked by Juan Martin del Potro news WOW: Model claims she was offered $90,000 to… Source link