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Could the Delta variant disrupt the Fed’s taper talks?

Top economic policymakers are facing a critical question: Will the Delta variant hold back the more than 6 million Americans still sidelined from work compared to pre-pandemic levels? Child care concerns and enhanced unemployment insurance benefits are often cited as top reasons for hesitancy in returning to work. But a third reason is fear of contracting the virus, a factor likely to be amplified by the spread of the more contagious Delta variant. At the Federal Reserve, the policymakers… Source link

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Google Cloud Exec Rob Enslin Talks Neurodiversity In The Workforce And How The Autism Career Program Seeks Top Talent

Google has partnered with Stanford University on a new Autism Career Program for neurodiverse job … [+] seekers. Google Images Google on Monday announced in a blog post the launch of what it calls the Google Cloud Autism Career Program. The Bay Area-based tech titan said it’s designed to “hire and support more autistic talent in the rapidly growing cloud industry.” This effort by Google is the latest in an ever-growing trend, spearheaded by organizations big and small, to… Source link

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French anti-trust decision on Google’s copyright talks with publishers due in coming days

PARIS, July 8 (Reuters) – France’s anti-trust watchdog will make a decision in the coming days over the way Google (GOOGL.O) held copyright talks with some French publishers about paying for news content, the watchdog’s head Isabelle de Silva said on Thursday. Antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet’s Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over copyright, sources who read the investigators’ report… Source link

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Australian regulator may authorise media group talks with Google, Facebook

Google and Facebook logos and Australian flag are displayed in this illustration taken, February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo July 1 (Reuters) – Australia’s competition watchdog said on Thursday it issued draft proposals to authorise regional newspaper industry group, Country Press Australia, to negotiate with Google and Facebook for payments for news content on their platforms. Country Press Australia (CPA) is seeking authorisation to allow its members to hammer out a payments deal… Source link

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Yahoo Finance: Tom Lydon Talks Infrastructure Bill Winners

Joining the “ETF Report” with hosts Alexis Christoforous and Kristin Myerson, ETF Trends CEO Tom Lydon spoke to what investors should be expected following the recent infrastructure deal. As far as what ETFs to look at for the investors looking to find exposure based on the infrastructure deal, Lydon points out the Global X Infrastructure And Development ETF (PAVE), the iShares Global Infrastructure ETF (IGF), the iShares U.S. Infrastructure ETF (IFRA), the FlexShares STOXX Global Broad… Source link

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Nvidia CEO Talks about ARM Merger, $100M U.K. Supercomputer; Stock Rises 5%

Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang made a strong case for the ARM merger at the Six Five Summit and CogX conference. The executive also talked about U.K. opportunities and investments. Nvidia stock jumped 4.76% on Thursday to close at $746.29. Huang told the CogX conference that the merger would combine ARM’s CPU capabilities with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence capabilities to create new ideas. “The U.K. has every reason to be proud of Arm and its achievements and contributions to the… Source link

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‘Bipartisan’ infrastructure talks are a smoke screen

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (L) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) (2nd R) leave the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) following a meeting on Capitol Hill on June 09, 2021 in Washington, DC. Since the talks on infrastructure legislation with the White House fell through, a bipartisan group of senators have organized to try drafting a proposal themselves. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) During the Trump presidency, “infrastructure week” became a running joke because… Source link

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Ignore Elon Musk when he talks about bitcoin: cryptocurrency CEO

Stop letting random musings on bitcoin from Tesla CEO Elon Musk influence your decisions on how to trade the cryptocurrency and remain focused on the fundamentals, said one crypto expert When Yahoo Finance Live asked Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein if traders should ignore Musk’s comments on bitcoin, Sonnenshein said, “yes.” Grayscale bills itself as the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, managing various crypto ETFs. As usual, traders in bitcoin (BTC-USD) were far from ignoring… Source link

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Former Google CEO talks data privacy, the future of health tech

In a wide-ranging and forthcoming interview, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO who helped steer the tech giant’s foray into health care, opened up about a host of issues facing the future of medicine. Among the topics Schmidt touched on in a half-hour conversation at the STAT Health Tech Summit: his upcoming role as the board chair of the powerful Broad Institute, why synthetic biology is a critical field to watch, the fraught debate over patient data privacy and health systems, and why… Source link

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