Jennifer Elias
Technology Reporter at CNBC
tech reporter @cnbc covering Google, labor and Silicon Valley culture. 📩 Jennifer.Elias at nbcuni, DM for Signal, overpriced rental for carrier pigeon.
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2 weeks ago |
cnbc.com | Jennifer Elias
Google has reversed a policy forbidding employees from discussing its antitrust woes following a settlement with workers. The company sent a notice to U.S. employees last week saying it rescinded "the rule requesting that workers refrain from commenting internally or externally about the on-going antitrust lawsuit filed against Google by the U.S. Department of Justice," according to correspondence viewed by CNBC.
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3 weeks ago |
cnbc.com | Jennifer Elias |Annie Palmer
After Google scrapped its diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring aspirations in February, CEO Sundar Pichai addressed the matter with his employees at a company all-hands meeting. "We believe in building a representative workforce," Pichai said, according to audio obtained by CNBC.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Jennifer Elias |Annie Palmer
2 hours agoDon’t think ‘it can’t happen here’ — it’s already happeningDemonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign country.
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1 month ago |
nbcwashington.com | Ari Levy |Jennifer Elias
Just weeks into Trump's second term, Google has agreed to pay $32 billion, by far its biggest deal ever, to acquire security startup Wiz. "It's going to be a great litmus test and bellwether for M&A in 2025," said Brad Haller, senior partner for mergers and acquisitions at West Monroe. The deal could lead to a major windfall for venture capital firms, which have struggled to generate returns since the IPO market mostly shut down in early 2022.
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1 month ago |
cnbc.com | Ari Levy |Jennifer Elias
Seven months ago, Alphabet lost a marquee case against the Biden administration's Justice Department, which accused the company of maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Weeks earlier, Google's pursuit of cybersecurity vendor Wiz, in what would have been its largest deal ever, fizzled in part because of antitrust concerns. With Donald Trump's return to the White House, Alphabet is back on the offensive.
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