Tag Archives: Work

Yandex.Checkout to work under YooMoney name outside Russia

The payment service Yandex.Checkout is changing its name outside Russia to YooMoney. The company will complete the transition after 15 December, and, up to that date, the new brand and the old one will be used simultaneously.  YooMoney serves 120,000 online platforms and mobile applications from 75 countries, according to Ivan Glazachev, the CEO of YooMoney. It was the No. 1 online payment service provider in Russia and CIS according to the 2019 statistics provided by… Source link

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Pelosi calls on Republicans to ‘stop the circus and get to work’ on COVID

With the coronavirus pandemic continuing to rage, and President Trump refusing to concede the election, the nation’s two Democratic leaders in Congress on Thursday scolded Republicans for their reluctance to pass a new COVID-19 relief bill and accept that Joe Biden is now president-elect. “Stop the circus and get to work on what really matters to the American people,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said during a press conference on Capitol Hill. “It is most unfortunate that Republicans… Source link

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Google Advises Site Owners of Rise in ‘Work From Home’ Searches

Google is notifying site owners via Search Console of an increase in searches related to work from home jobs. The increase in searches is directly related COVID-19’s impact on businesses and employment. The purpose of alerting site owners is to make them aware of an opportunity to use remote job structured data markup. Lily Ray shared a screenshot of the email Google is sending out, which reads: “Given the recent COVID-19 impact on businesses and employment, Google has seen increased job… Source link

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Google CEO defends US military support, downplays work in China

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., questions Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai over Google’s artificial intelligence work in China. Google CEO Sundar Pichai came under fire from lawmakers on Capitol Hill during a highly-publicized hearing on Wednesday for the company’s decision to pull out of bids for lucrative government contracts following employee backlash – while still carrying on some operations in China. When questioned about decisions to end a bid for the lucrative $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud… Source link

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What Google’s Work From Home Plans Mean for Office Markets in Big Cities

Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Google’s work from home plans could have a big impact on office markets in major U.S. cities (Getty, Pixabay) In December 2018, Google CFO Ruth Porat announced plans for the search giant’s new 1.7 million-square-foot campus in Manhattan’s Hudson Square, a move that would allow the company to “more than double the number of Googlers in New York over the next 10 years.” It was the latest in a series of billion-dollar moves that had made Google one of… Source link

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Google lets employees work from home until at least next summer

(Gray News) – Google is telling its employees they can work from home until about this time next year. CNN Business obtained an employee memo that outlines the plan. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we’ll be extending our global voluntary work from home option through June 30, 2021, for roles that don’t need to be in the office,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai wrote. “I hope this will offer the flexibility you need to balance work with taking care of yourselves and your loved… Source link

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Google Employees To Work At Home Until Next July Due To Pandemic – Deadline

Google employees will work from home at least until next July due to the coronavirus pandemic, a decision that makes the search engine company the first major U.S. corporation to commit to the year-long stay-at-home plan. According to a report in today’s Wall Street Journal, Google’s plan affects nearly all of the company’s 200,000 full-time and contract employees across Google parent Alphabet Inc. WaPo describes Google’s decision as among the “cautious camp of companies”… Source link

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$117.5M Yahoo Breach Settlement Was Reasonable, But Legal Work Was ‘Not Novel,’ Judge Koh Says

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh, Northern District of California U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh signed off on the $117.5 million data breach settlement with Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday, but she slashed attorney fees by more than $7 million after concluding the deal was “unexceptional” and the legal work “not particularly novel.” Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: … Source link

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Better Home for Work: Google to revamp Gmail for corporates

Google is revamping its G Suite kit in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. The company, ahead to next week’s Google Cloud conference, has announced that the major update will transform its G Suite productivity tools into a unified app for all of Google’s platforms, including Gmail, Chat, Rooms and Meet. To curb the problem of constant switching between communication platforms a user might face to keep up with the work from home corporate industry, Google has integrated all its subsidiary… Source link

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