On Thursday, President Joe Biden announced a proposal to get even more aggressive with the billions seized from Russian oligarchs who have close ties to Vladimir Putin. The White House released the outlines of what it calls a new comprehensive legislative package around Ukraine that includes provisions to “streamline the process for seizure of oligarch assets, expand the assets subject to seizure, and enable the proceeds to flow to Ukraine,” the White House said. The move on oligarchs and… Source link
Read More »Yandex is sending data from millions of iOS users to Russia
A report today says that ‘Russian Google’ Yandex is sending data harvested from millions of iOS app users to Russia – whether or not you use the company’s apps. Laws there could compel the company to make the data available to the Russian government. Your data can be grabbed from a wide range of third-party apps which use a developer tool created by Yandex. Developers save time and money by using the Yandex API AppMetrica to obtain analytics data for their app, while the… Source link
Read More »The yield curve may be sending a recessionary signal
Bond king Jeffrey Gundlach has a lot on his mind as it pertains to markets when Yahoo Finance sits down with the DoubleLine founder at length inside his California estate on the first trading day of 2022. China isn’t a great market to be investing in, contends Gundlach. Stock valuations as measured by the DoubleLine favorite the CAPE ratio appear too rich, says Gundlach. But it’s Gundlach’s warning on the path of the U.S. economy — in part caused by looming interest rate hikes by the… Source link
Read More »House passes bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday, sending it to Biden’s desk for signature into law
In a resounding bipartisan vote, the House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday making Juneteenth, the day commemorating the official end of slavery in the United States, a federal holiday. The final vote on the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act was 415-14, and the bill now heads to President Biden’s desk for signature into law. “We cannot change the future if we do not recognize the past,” Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus said on the… Source link
Read More »Palantir Teams Up With IBM, Sending Its Shares Soaring
(Bloomberg) — Palantir Technologies Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are uniting in a partnership that will dramatically expand the reach of Palantir’s sales force while making IBM’s own artificial-intelligence software easier for non-technical customers to use, the companies plan to announce Monday. The global partnership is the largest of its kind for Palantir, the maker of data-analysis software whose shares have more than quadrupled since its September debut on the New… Source link
Read More »Stop ‘sending everybody free money’
Bloomberg EV Company With Almost No Revenue Posts 3,000% Gain in 8 Months (Bloomberg) — There is nothing about the finances of Blink Charging Co. that would suggest it’s one of the hottest stocks in America.It’s never posted an annual profit in its 11-year history; it warned last year it could go bankrupt; it’s losing market share, pulls in anemic revenue and has churned through management in recent years.And yet a hot stock it is. Investors have bid Blink’s share price up 3,000% over… Source link
Read More »Google Search Console Sending Messages With Errors
Google is advising site owners a message that was recently sent via Search Console may contain errors due to a known bug. Google Search Console is sending emails recommending the use of domain properties, emphasizing how much data is missing without one. The email begins with a headline that highlights the amount impressions data a site’s reports can gain with a verified domain property. Many of these messages were received with a glaring error at the beginning where the site’s URL either… Source link
Read More »Dan Snyder accused of sending ‘intruders’ to harass legal adviser
The legal fight between Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder and his three limited partners keeps getting messier. According to Daniel Kaplan of The Athletic, a new court filing reveals that the limited partners have accused Snyder of “corporate malfeasance,” and allege that he sent “intruders” to the home of the partners’ adviser, John Moag, to harass him. Washington Football Team owner Dan Snyder has been accused of corporate malfeasance by his limited partners. (Rich… Source link
Read More »Google’s co-lead of Ethical AI team says she was fired for sending an email – TechCrunch
Timnit Gebru, a leading researcher and voice in the field of ethics and artificial intelligence, says Google fired her for an email she sent to her direct reports. According to Gebru, Google fired her because of an email she sent to subordinates that the company said reflected “behavior that is inconsistent with the expectations of a Google manager.” Gebru, the co-leader of Google Ethical Artificial Intelligence team, took to Twitter last night, shortly after the National Labor… Source link
Read More »Bond Yields Are Sending a Scary Signal on Stocks
(Bloomberg Opinion) — There is no shortage of investors shrugging off the latest leg lower in U.S. Treasury bond yields, saying heavy central bank involvement in this part of the financial market make such moves less of a signal that the economy or that equities are headed for trouble. That interpretation would be a mistake. Recall that yields on 30-year government bonds started to decline on Jan. 2, anticipating the fallout from the budding coronavirus crisis that had taken hold in China…. Source link
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