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This new Roku-Google fight has big divorced parent energy

Photo: ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images Across many years of covering our increasingly fractured media landscape, there’s really just one thing that’s given us some true hope for the triumph of the human spirit over the rampant rise of cold corporate logic: The continued existence of the petty-ass “Just LOOK what your father is making me do!” energy that pervades any big conflict between content studios and the service providers who carry their work to the masses. Once upon a time, you… Source link

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Workers say Google parent company fails to provide safe environment for harassment victims

Dive Brief: Alphabet, the parent company of Google, “does not provide a safe environment for those who face harassment in the workplace,” a group of more than 1,700 employees said in an April 9 public letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The letter claims the existence of a “long pattern where Alphabet protects the harasser instead of protecting the person harmed by the harassment,” citing instances in which alleged harassers received “exit packages” upon resigning… Source link

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Workers urge Google parent to get tough on harassment – Yahoo Finance Australia

Bloomberg WHO Sees Pandemic on Wrong Path; Korean Wave: Virus Update (Bloomberg) — The pandemic is on the wrong trajectory after six straight weeks of increased cases, according to a World Health Organization officer, who said “vaccines will not end the pandemic.”South Korea’s president will hold an urgent meeting on Monday with the country’s top health officials, Yonhap News reported, after authorities warned the country is in the early stage of another wave of infections. Pfizer… Source link

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Google parent company Alphabet employees demand company do more to stop harassment at work

An open letter addressed to Google (GOOG) and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, published online on Friday, made two demands: the company stop those who are found to have harassed other employees from managing anyone and the company move anyone who has been found to have harassed others to another team. As of Friday afternoon, it appeared to have been signed by more than 1,000 company employees. “Alphabet workers deserve the right to work in an environment free from their abusers,” the letter said…. Source link

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Google’s parent company releases earnings

Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reports earnings Tuesday. The company saw an uptick in e-commerce and advertising dollars, but it’s also facing three antitrust lawsuits brought by state attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice.  How might this affect Google’s business model? These lawsuits target Google’s dominance as a search engine and how businesses rely on Google for customers to find them.  “Google is getting a cut of so much of… Source link

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Google’s parent deflates internet-beaming balloon company

Google’s parent company is letting the air out of an internet-beaming balloon company that was providing online access from the stratosphere By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer January 22, 2021, 6:28 PM • 3 min read SAN RAMON, Calif. — Google’s parent company is letting the air out of an internet-beaming balloon company that was providing online access from the stratosphere. The plan to shut down Loon was announced late Thursday, ending what started out nine years ago as one of… Source link

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Google’s parent deflates internet-beaming balloon company

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Google’s parent company is letting the air out of an internet-beaming balloon company that was providing online access from the stratosphere. The plan to shut down Loon was announced late Thursday, ending what started out nine years ago as one of Google’s secret projects in its so-called “moonshot factory,” a division now called X. Google, Loon and X all are owned by Alphabet Inc., which draws upon Google’s digital advertising empire finance risky ideas like… Source link

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Google’s parent deflates internet-beaming balloon company

The plan to shut down Loon was announced late Thursday, ending what started out nine years ago as one of Google’s secret projects in its so-called “moonshot factory,” a division now called X. Google, Loon and X all are owned by Alphabet Inc., which draws upon Google’s digital advertising empire finance risky ideas like internet-beaming balloons and another high-profile flop, internet-connected glasses. Source link

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