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...The Silicon Valley company’s moves come amid growing fears that mobile apps will be weaponised by US states to police new abortion restrictions in the country....
...In today’s newsletter: Exxon’s ‘mother fracker’ of a deal Birkenstock’s rocky first day of trading Neil Shen’s big plans for HongShan The Texas tycoons behind Exxon’s mega-deal As a short bet, Pioneer...
...New EU rules on gig economyGig economy companies will be forced to prove their workforces are self-employed contractors rather than employees, for the first time, under new draft legislation being published...
...Job moves Freshfields will open a new office in Silicon Valley with seven founding partners. Full details here....
...Google’s security warning also came hot on the heels of Apple’s apology this week for failing to disclose that contractors were listening to customers’ voice recordings when they used its virtual assistant...
...companies have not done enough given the rapid expansion of their own workforces, and blamed them for pushing out other workers and making the region unaffordable to lower-paid people, including the many contractors...
...One scoop to start: US buyout group Advent International is set to buy Cobham, the UK aerospace and defence contractor, in a deal that will value it at about £4bn including debt....
...Google has become the latest Silicon Valley company to come under fire for its handling of sexual harassment claims after it emerged that two male executives had left the company with substantial pay packages...
...The club had a rocky start under his ownership, falling out of the Premiership as coaches and executives bickered over the use of statistics to measure players....
...President Vladimir Putin has ordered two-thirds of American diplomats in Russia to leave the country, as the already rocky relationship between two former cold war rivals sours further....
...This comes as companies ranging from Silicon Valley start-ups to multinationals choose to host more of their operations in the cloud....
...That sentiment was echoed by many others in Silicon Valley this weekend....
...Google’s venture capital arm and Silicon Valley’s Kleiner Perkins have invested in a start-up run by two former National Security Agency analysts, which promises to give large companies access to some of...
...His inspiration came in August, shortly after fugitive former American security contractor Edward Snowden revealed the pervasive internet surveillance conducted by the US National Security Agency....
...A spokesman for the consortium, Chicago Parking Meters LLC, says that only the city has the authority to raise rates....
...HP shareholders speak out Some Hewlett-Packard shareholders must have a glass half-empty view of the trouble-prone Silicon Valley company....
...A spokesman for Nvidia said Ms Jiau was a contractor for the firm and left a year ago. Marvell did not respond to a request for a comment....
...You buy a share of one house but can trade weeks in a variety of places, including a ski lodge in the Rockies, a beach house in the Caribbean, a castle in Italy and a house within a golf club in Ireland....
...Nabors Industries, an oil and gas rig contractor, rose 2.9 per cent to $23.06 after reporting demand for North American onshore rigs was poised for a rebound....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...It was hard to imagine how they had climbed to where they were, or how they would shift their bovine frames back down into the valleys....
...The Valley of the Fallen – a huge mausoleum for the dictator, built by Republican prisoners after the war – will become a monument to all the war dead....
...Frank Quattrone, once Silicon Valley’s most influential banker, has made a deal with prosecutors that allows him to return to the banking business....
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