Author: Zach_Wilson
Google’s Cofounders Are Stepping Down. Sundar Pichai Will Become The CEO Of Google And Alphabet.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who cofounded Google in 1998, are stepping down from their day-to-day roles at Google’s parent company, Alphabet, and handing leadership responsibility to Sundar Pichai, who will serve as CEO of both Google and Alphabet moving forward. Previously, Page served as CEO of Alphabet and Brin…
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A Huge Flood Of Housing Is Expected To Hit The Market As Boomers Die
Baby boomers are now ages 55 to 73; to housing economists, this fact means millions of homes will hit the market in the next couple of decades “as their current owners pass away” or move in with their children or into assisted living, according to a new and utterly macabre…
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Amazon Workers In Sacramento Are Demanding Paid Time Off
Amazon delivery station employees in Sacramento are demanding fair treatment and benefits equal to those of other Amazon workers. By Sunday, more than 200 workers had signed a petition requesting an explanation for why they receive fewer paid days off per year than typical Amazon warehouse workers. These workers, who…
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Four Engineers Allege Google Fired Them For Speaking Up. Now They Want The NLRB To Investigate.
Four recently fired Google engineers who were active in company worker movements say they will push for a federal investigation into the search and advertising giant for unfair labor practices. On Tuesday, the four former employees announced their intent to file charges with the National Labor Relations Board for what…
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New Lawsuit Alleges Mailchimp Facilitated Sex Trafficking
A woman who alleges she was sex-trafficked as a result of an email sent via Mailchimp, an email marketing platform, is suing the company. The lawsuit, filed last week in Georgia, will challenge the relative immunity of tech platforms from legal responsibility — and damages — for what users post…
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Tinder Lets Known Sex Offenders Use The App. It’s Not The Only One.
This article is copublished with Columbia Journalism Investigations and ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Susan Deveau saw Mark Papamechail’s online dating profile on Plenty of Fish in late 2016. Scrolling through his pictures, she saw a 54-year-old man, balding and broad, dressed in a T-shirt. Papamechail…
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