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Text size Apple and Google face new regulatory scrutiny in the U.K. Lionel Bonaventure/AFP via Getty Images … Source link

It took Arkady Volozh 20 years to build Yandex into Russia’s Google, Uber, Spotify and Amazon combined, says Wired – and just 20 days for “everything to crumble”. The country’s preeminent tech giant has been so stricken by the Ukraine war that there are doubts about its survival – at least in its current form. Western sanctions have led to Yandex’s shares being frozen on US stock exchanges, which in turn has led shareholders to seek repayment on convertible note guarantees,… Source link

NEW YORK — MLB commissioner Rob Manfred, say what you will about him, understands labor negotiations. Labor relations, less so — a fact that’s so hard to deny, he doesn’t even bother trying. But the part where you extract as much and surrender as little as possible through ruthlessness and savvy? Well, we wouldn’t have been in this mess if he was worse at it. And so when he offers insights into the inner workings, they’re worth taking seriously. After the latest, and longest in a… Source link

NFL agents from around the country, ones who often compete tooth and nail against each other for clients, are coming together to discuss what they plan to do with their draft prospects when the NFL scouting combine begins next week. The most likely road they could take — assuming combine boarding conditions don’t change — is to encourage their clients not to perform the on-field workouts at the combine, according to conversations Yahoo Sports has had with multiple agents, as well as from… Source link

Text size Investors in Meta have been taken on a wild ride this month. There are more threats ahead. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images … Source link

Google has launched today a new security feature for Google Cloud tenants that is meant to detect and block cryptomining operations that may be taking place behind the owners’ backs. Named Virtual Machine Threat Detection (VMTD), Google said this new feature is an agentless system that continually scans the memory of virtual machines deployed in Google Cloud environments for tell-tale signs of increased CPU or GPU usage—specific to cryptomining operations. To avoid false-positive… Source link

Brazen freight train thefts have spiked in Los Angeles, with images of looted packages and abandoned containers capturing headlines and captivating social media — and putting pressure on California Governor Gavin Newsom to address conditions even he likened to “a third world country.” The thefts have sparked a war of words between law enforcement and Union Pacific (UNP), which owns the railroad and has called for stronger deterrence. But the growing problem has become a rallying cry for at… Source link

Omicron, the latest variant of COVID-19, has hit certain sectors of the economy hard, causing labor shortages and child care issues and making some Americans wary again of dining out. But in a new interview with Yahoo Finance this week, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo offered hopeful news from business leaders she’s spoken with recently amid all of this uncertainty. “They see [the problem] as short term,” said Raimondo, who sat down in Washington, DC for an upcoming episode of Influencers… Source link

While traders are making bank chasing Apple to a $3 trillion market cap, many in the market are adding cash to their accounts amid heightened concerns around the Omicron variant and a more hawkish Federal Reserve. Bank of America’s monthly fund manager survey out Tuesday found cash allocation among investors surged 14 percentage points in December from November. Fund managers were net 36% overweight cash, the highest allocation to the asset class since May 2020. Besides cash, investors also… Source link

Android has 2.5 billion users around the world and they all need to be on high alert after Google confirmed millions of users have been affected by dangerous new scams that came directly from the Play Store. Google Android 12 Google MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Critics Explain Why You Should Quit ChromeBy Gordon Kelly The news comes following an investigation by Avast. The security specialist found 151 Google Play store-approved apps masquerading as games, custom… Source link