It’s Juneteenth, a day celebrating the end of slavery. And this year, given the intense focus on racial injustice , corporations are doing more to mark the holiday.
Juneteenth dates back to 1865 and it is a celebration, specifically, of the end of slavery in Texas, which was one of the last holdouts. Even though slavery had already been abolished two years earlier by the Emancipation Proclamation, people in several states, including Texas, were still being held as slaves.
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What happaned to coronavirus tracing on our phones? - Marketplace
“Test and trace” was supposed to be the way to let businesses and economies reopen safely. The idea was to identify people infected with COVID-19 quickly and then figure out who they’d been in contact with so they could isolate themselves.
Earlier in this pandemic, Apple and Google joined forces to help create a shared underlying technology for digital contact tracing apps. But at least in the United States, they haven’t caught on. Apple and Google’s tech only work with apps developed by government health authorities. And almost no states have developed those apps.
Quantum Metric Launches Continuous Product Insights to Google Cloud Marketplace
Quantum Metric, the platform that helps organizations build better digital products faster, today announced its availability on Google Cloud Marketplace.
The Google Cloud Marketplace lets users quickly deploy functional software packages that run on Google Cloud and easily stand up a familiar software package with services like Compute Engine or Cloud Storage, with no manual configuration required.
To provide Quantum Metric customers the highest level of value, security and query speed, the solution is built exclusively on the Google Cloud.
Supreme Court rules in favor of DACA, for now - Marketplace
Anthoa Munoz was on a quick break from his job at Blue Bottle Coffee, a boutique coffee roaster and retail chain, when he explained that he had no idea about his immigration status until he was 17.
“I didn’t know I wasn’t from this country until I had to ask my mother for information. Apparently I came in when I was 1," he said.
His mom is Colombian and he was born in Venezuela, but Munoz calls himself a New Yorker. He's 29 now and works through the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
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Immigration is a labor force story - Marketplace
How Do You Stand Out in a Technology-Saturated Marketplace?
There was a time when if you went downtown shopping there would be a store with a clown on the sidewalk in front, waving a sign advertising a special product or price. You, and lots of other folks, were likely to visit or at least notice that store.
But suppose every store on Main Street had a clown in front? It's unlikely any of them would get your or other prospective buyers' attention.
The same thing is happening in today's ecommerce world. Technology, for all it has given us, is making it possible to place a virtual clown in front of every business.
U.S. walks out on global digital tax negotiations - Marketplace
Last week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sent a letter to several finance ministers in Europe essentially withdrawing from global negotiations over how to tax digital companies.
The Treasury says it's just asking for a "pause," but European allies aren't taking it as just a simple delay. This fight has been simmering for about a year, and this marks an escalation over who has the right to tax tech companies.
To recap what this fight is about: Tech companies — let's just say Facebook or Dropbox — make money off of users in France or India or Brazil, but they mostly pay taxes in the United States. That's how the rules work: You're taxed where you are physically present. But a lot of countries say in a digital world, these rules are unfair, and they want to tax tech companies that make money off their citizens.
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Pretty amazing that we all keep blindly believing that these companies are here to help us. https://t.co/8Z4D0POWHY slpng_giants Fri Jun 19 06:04:57 +0000 2020
Here in Maine, I introduced a bill to cap the cost of insulin so that families like Ollie's aren't forced to pay hu… https://t.co/Ddhgpi4s18 SaraGideon (from Maine, USA) Wed Jun 17 21:43:23 +0000 2020
Here's Why Big Tech Companies Are Similar To The Chinese Communist Party, According To Ted Cruz https://t.co/DWftpBLMgI DailyCaller (from Washington, DC) Fri Jun 19 00:45:02 +0000 2020
Here's a photo of Marc Short participating personally and substantially in a meeting focused on the interests of ph… https://t.co/xtPSACiWp1 waltshaub Thu Jun 18 22:37:13 +0000 2020
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