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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Uber’s recent tie-up with Hertz and Tesla on the electric vehicle front has garnered a good bit of attention (and market gains for Hertz and Tesla, in particular), but Lyft’s co-founder John Zimmer wants to remind everyone his company was first to pledge to an all-electric fleet future.  Zimmer reiterated in an interview on Yahoo Finance Live on Wednesday a commitment to have an all-electric fleet by 2030. The company is in active discussions with the major automakers to bring EVs to its… Source link

Meet her now and you might find it hard to believe that, less than 10 years ago, 38 year-old Jessica McCabe was at the end of her rope: divorced, broke, living at home with her mother, with no viable job prospects in sight. “My career was going nowhere,” she said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “And I went, ‘You know what, let me figure this out.’” Her first step was to look hard at the condition she had been struggling with for as long as she could remember: attention deficit… Source link

Apollo is eyeing leadership changes at Yahoo as it prepares to take over the media company. Former Hearst magazines head Troy Young has been among those advising Apollo, fueling speculation he could be tapped for a leadership role there. Apollo is expected to try to turn around the company by investing in editorial, subscriptions, and commerce. As Apollo Global… Source link