Ebay's Fourth-quarter Revenue Rose 18 Percent

The longtime senator believes that backing Medicare expansion, higher taxes on the wealthy, and a hike in the minimum wage is a winning agenda. In a presidential contest that has left heads spinning, one truth has remained unchanged: It’s the economy, stupid. Poll after poll shows that economic concerns are the top priority for voters following a pandemic-fueled recession and the high inflation that accompanied the nation’s recovery.

Among the top categories, account management work saw the highest growth rate (62%) in hybrid job postings over the past six months. Hybrid work is among the most common—and most desired—flexible work arrangements. In fact, a recent FlexJobs survey revealed that the majority of workers want some form of remote work, with 37% reporting that hybrid jobs are their preferred work arrangement.

We often allow toxic coworkers more power than they actually have. This medical leader says we can tame these annoying ‘paper tigers’ by honing these 4 microskills. The term “paper tiger” refers to an entity or situation that appears powerful and threatening, and in reality, is ineffectual and lacking the claimed significance or status.

Synamedia’s Senza uses cloud computing to bring streaming hardware costs way down. Synamedia’s Senza is the dumbest streaming device I’ve ever used. It only costs about $10, and the hardware alone isn’t capable of much more than loading a video stream from a bare-bones menu system.

Apple Inc. lost its court fight over a €13 billion ($14.4 billion) Irish tax bill, in a boost to the European Union’s crackdown on special deals doled out by nations to big companies. The E. U.’s Court of Justice in Luxembourg backed a landmark 2016 decision that Ireland broke state-aid law by giving the iPhone maker an unfair advantage. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The court ruled on Tuesday that a lower court win for Apple should be overturned, because judges incorrectly decided that the commission’s regulators had made mistakes in their assessment. The ruling is a boost for E.

LONDON — Google lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping fine. The European Union’s Court of Justice upheld a lower court’s decision, rejecting the company’s appeal against the 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) penalty from the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust enforcer. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “By today’s judgment, the Court of Justice dismisses the appeal and thus upholds the judgment of the General Court,” the court said in a press release summarizing its decision. Google didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment. Read More: What Google’s Antitrust Defeat Means for AI The commission’s original decision in 2017 accused the Silicon Valley giant of unfairly directing visitors to its own Google Shopping service to the detriment of competitors.