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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Stock market news today: Rally pauses, but stocks still head for blowout month  Yahoo Finance Source link

In an email, Google has reportedly informed people about its decision to pause new green card applications and mentioned that this is pretty difficult for them, but employees should be aware of this move. New Delhi,UPDATED: Jan 23, 2023 13:45 IST Google just announced the layoff of 12,000 employees across globe and the company now has one more bad news for IT engineers. By Ankita Garg: Google just announced the layoff of 12,000 employees across the globe and the company now has one more bad… Source link

Google just indefinitely postponed construction of a $600 million data center facility in Beck, Minn., according to reporting by the Minnesota Star Tribune. Just last week, Meta stopped data center expansion in Denmark and declared a moratorium on future builds. And it paused construction on projects in Alabama and Texas, putting 11 projects into a redesign to focus more on supporting AI workloads. With today’s news from Google, some may see… Source link

BENGALURU, Nov 1 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google is pausing its policy that requires app developers to use its Google Play billing system for buying digital goods and services in India, following a ruling by the country’s antitrust body. Google had previously set an extended deadline of Oct. 31 for developers in India to comply with its payments policy. The search engine giant should not restrict app developers from using third-party billing or payment processing services in India,… Source link

Hey, friends! It’s that time again. Another week has passed us by, which means another issue of Week in Review — the newsletter where we recap the top stories to hit TechCrunch’s front page in the past seven days. Sign up here! The top story this week was about a new set of documents detailing how (and how often) the Department of Homeland Security taps third-party data brokers to obtain potentially sensitive location info while “sidestepping the legal process government… Source link

Google has reportedly internally announced a hiring freeze that will remain in place for two weeks. According to a report from The Information, Prabhakar Raghavan, Google’s senior vice president, sent out a company-wide email to inform workers about the decision. This follows Google’s announcement of a hiring slowdown that will last until the end of this year. “We’ll use this time to review our headcount needs and align on a new set of prioritized Staffing Requests for the next… Source link

Russian technology company Yandex said that it was “pausing” its autonomous vehicle and sidewalk robot testing in the US. The news was first reported by Automotive News. The company said it was shutting down its robotaxi fleet in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well as a delivery service with Grubhub powered by its six-wheeled sidewalk robots. “We hope to resume the operations in the future,” a spokesperson said. The news comes as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continued to send… Source link

On Thursday, the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine called claims that Google Maps “labels” were being used by Russia’s military “another fake.” In a post to its official Telegram channel, the country’s intelligence agency debunked a wave of social media rumors that claimed Russian insurgents had tagged airstrike locations on Google Maps of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. The agency described these false claims as a psychological operation “to sow panic and… Source link

DuckDuckGo has “paused” its partnership with Russian search engine Yandex over the war in Ukraine, a top official of the privacy-focused search service said Tuesday at a House hearing on tech. “The index was used to provide traditional links — meaning, non-news links — on the search engine results page in Russia and Turkey,” said Katie McInnis, DuckDuckGo’s senior public policy manager for the U.S. DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused search engine, has faced increased scrutiny as conspiracy… Source link

FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google will pause all campaign donations from its political action committee, a spokesman said, in the wake of the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol and efforts to block the certification of election results “We have frozen all NetPAC political contributions while we review and reassess its policies… Source link