Tesla shares dip after CEO Elon Musk makes bid to buy Twitter
Customers experience new energy electric vehicles at a Tesla store in Shanghai, China, On December 4, 2021. Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty Images Tesla shares were down about 3.5% Thursday after company CEO Elon Musk offered to buy social media company Twitter. Musk offered to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share, or about […]
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Here are Google’s most important US real estate investments in 2022
Google has dozens of real estate projects around the U.S., and it says at least 20 key projects will receive investments this year to the tune of nearly $10 billion. In a blog post Wednesday, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai highlighted country-wide offices and data centers either under construction or opening in 2022. In […]
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Google’s first week back in the office included marching bands, mayor visits and traffic jams
Employees are welcomed back to work with breakfast in the cafeteria at the Chicago Google offices on April 05, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Google brought employees back into the office after two years of remote work last week, and the occasion was met with everything from marching bands to visits […]
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Peter Thiel calls Warren Buffett a ‘sociopathic grandpa from Omaha’ and bitcoin ‘enemy number one’
Peter Thiel VCG/VCG | Getty Images At a bitcoin conference on Thursday, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel said Warren Buffett tops an “enemies list” of people who are trying to stop the cryptocurrency. “Enemy number one,” Thiel said to a booing Miami crowd, is “the sociopathic grandpa from Omaha.” Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway is based in […]
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Tech companies cautiously bring people back while contending with hesitant employees
Atsuko Bolinguit, with tech startup company Fast, works in the office at her desk on March 24, 2021 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Starting Monday, Google is bringing most employees back to assigned physical offices three days a week. The company has said since the beginning of the pandemic that it […]
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Google Fiber contractors in Kansas City are first to unionize under Alphabet Worker Union
A technician gets cabling out of his truck to install Google Fiber. George Frey | Reuters Google Fiber contractors in Kansas City, Missouri voted to unionize Friday, becoming the first workers with bargaining rights under the Alphabet Workers Union. The group of 10 full-time workers are employed by BDS Connected Solutions through Alphabet and work […]
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Google employees bombard execs with questions about pay at recent all-hands meeting
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google executives, facing a barrage of criticism from employees on issues related to compensation, defended the company’s competitiveness at a recent all-hands meeting while acknowledging that the performance review process could change. The companywide virtual gathering earlier this month followed the release of […]
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DoorDash offers gas rewards program for drivers, says customers won’t bear the costs
A DoorDash Inc. delivery person arranges an order in the back of a vehicle outside of a DoorDash Kitchens location in Redwood City, California, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Food delivery company DoorDash is taking steps to try and help drivers offset rising gas prices, though […]
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