Tag Archives: talking

Nobody is talking to me about ‘quiet quitting’: U.S. Labor Secretary

Nobody is talking to me about ‘quiet quitting’: U.S. Labor Secretary

Quiet quitting may be the hot talk on social media and internal employee chat rooms, but U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh says it’s not a big topic of discussion in his chats with business leaders. “I haven’t really heard about it from companies. I know that it’s being reported in the press. I’ve talked to a lot of companies in the country. And I haven’t heard about that,” Walsh said on Yahoo Finance Live. Quiet quitting, a term that popped up on TikTok and gained steam in 2022, has no single… Source link

Read More »

Google’s finally talking about its Mandiant acquisition – here’s what they said

Google’s finally talking about its Mandiant acquisition – here’s what they said

Google (GOOG, GOOGL) is finally sounding off on its blockbuster $5.4 billion acquisition of cybersecurity firm Mandiant, expressing the extent of the company’s ambitions in the sector. The mega-deal was all about strengthening Google’s capabilities in detecting cyber threats – something Mandiant has become well-known for, said Google Cloud Chief Information Security Officer Phil Venables at a press conference yesterday. “I want to emphasize that this is adding more frontline threat… Source link

Read More »

Biden and the oil industry are talking past each other

Biden and the oil industry are talking past each other

Remember the outrage when a handful of U.S. oil refineries closed in 2020? If you don’t, that’s because there wasn’t any outrage. Oil and gasoline prices were blissfully low and the COVID-19 pandemic dominated the news. Hardly anybody noticed. Energy investors certainly did, however, because 2020 was one of the worst years in history for energy producers. Exxon Mobil notched the first loss in its history, a gigantic $22 billion write-off. The five biggest U.S. oil refiners — Marathon… Source link

Read More »

Oil’s magic number that everyone is talking about: Morning Brief

Oil’s magic number that everyone is talking about: 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, March 9, 2022 With prices ‘unhinged,’ next stop could be $150 (or higher) Uncle Sam is preparing to hit the Siberian bear where it hurts. And a lot of people will be feeling the pain. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden vowed to do the previously unthinkable: ban Russian energy imports in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Although… Source link

Read More »

It’s ‘disingenuous’ for CEOs to avoid talking politics

It’s ‘disingenuous’ for CEOs to avoid talking politics

It has often been a rule of running a business that the less said about politics the better. But Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says that business leaders actually have a duty to weigh in on issues like voting rights that impact the lives of employees and customers. “It is disingenuous to think that you can separate economics from politics or that a CEO can separate her responsibility as a political leader from her responsibility as an economic leader,” she told Yahoo… Source link

Read More »

Tell Google Assistant ‘stop’ to make a smart speaker stop talking

Tell Google Assistant ‘stop’ to make a smart speaker stop talking

If your Google Assistant-powered smart home display or speaker is rambling on and on after you asked it for the weather, you can now tell it to “stop” without having to say “Hey Google” first. It’s a small, but welcome, change and one that makes interacting with a digital assistant just a little more natural. Google’s smart home devices have had a version of this feature for years, where you could silence an alarm without saying “Hey Google.” It’s nice to see it… Source link

Read More »

What is Web3, the new version of the internet everyone is talking about

What is Web3, the new version of the internet everyone is talking about

If 2021 gave us anything, besides an endless pandemic, a supply chain crisis, inflation, and, well…you get it, it was the mainstreaming of the term Web3. A largely nebulous concept, Web3 is being trumpeted by crypto and blockchain boosters as the future of the internet. The idea is to create a decentralized web, where users can transport their data from service to service without corporate walled gardens stopping them. It’s a soup of much-hyped tech terms ranging from NFTs to the… Source link

Read More »