Category Archives: (KFGO The Mighty 790) Technology
Bollore scores win as Vivendi investors back Universal spin-off
By Mathieu Rosemain and Gwnalle Barzic PARIS (Reuters) -Shareholders in Vivendi overwhelmingly approved on Tuesday the French media giant's plan to spin off its prized Universal music business, in a w...
Jun 22, 2021
Exclusive: Google drops engineering residency after protests over ‘inequities’
By Jeffrey Dastin and Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google plans to shut down a long-running program aimed at entry-level engineers from underrepresented backgrounds after participants said i...
Jun 22, 2021
Natural language processing tech startup Primer raises $110 million
By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Primer, a San Francisco-based startup that offers a natural language processing platform used by U.S. national security agencies and others, on Tuesday s...
Jun 22, 2021
EU antitrust regulators to investigate Google’s adtech business
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators opened on Tuesday an investigation into Alphabet unit Google's digital advertising business to examine whether the company favors its own business, putting...
Jun 22, 2021
Reality check for Volkswagen in China after sluggish start for electric car series
By Yilei Sun and Tony Munroe SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Volkswagen AG's ID series - the backbone of its electric vehicle ambitions - is off to what even company sources call a worryingly slow start in China...
Jun 22, 2021
Austrian online tutoring startup GoStudent gains valuation boost
BERLIN (Reuters) - Austrian online tutoring startup GoStudent has raised 205 million euros ($244 million) in new funding to reach a valuation of 1.4 billion euros, it said on Tuesday, as the business ...
Jun 22, 2021
Nokia to allow employees to work remotely for three days a week
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Nokia said its employees can choose to work up to three days a week remotely with increased support for flexible working hours from January after its current work from home polic...
Jun 22, 2021
EU top court says YouTube not liable for user copyright breaches
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Europe's top court on Tuesday said that Google's YouTube and other online platforms are not liable for copyright-infringing works uploaded by users onto their platforms under ce...
Jun 22, 2021
Chipmaker GlobalFoundries plans $6 billion expansion in Singapore, U.S., Germany
By Aradhana Aravindan SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Chipmaker GlobalFoundries said on Tuesday it will spend $6 billion to expand capacity at its factories in Singapore, Germany and the United States amid a ch...
Jun 22, 2021
Messaging app helps take off blinders at top-down South Korean chaebol culture
By Joyce Lee and Heekyong Yang SEOUL (Reuters) - An anonymous messaging app called Blind used by South Korean employees to air their grievances is helping change management attitudes towards workers i...
Jun 22, 2021
