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MCDONALD'S ERA IN RUSSIA COMING TO A CLOSE, RESTAURANTS SOLD

McDonald’s is selling all of its restaurants in Russia 30 years after the burger chain became a powerful symbol of easing Cold War tensions between the United States and Soviet Union.

MUSK WARS WITH TWITTER OVER HIS BUYOUT DEAL - ON TWITTER

Tesla CEO Elon Musk promised that taking over Twitter would enable him to rid the social media platform of its annoying “spam bots.” Now he’s arguing — without presenting any evidence — that there might be just too many of those automated accounts for the $44 billion deal to move ahead.

4 Ways to Protect Your Small Business From Cyberattacks

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses have quickly adopted remote working and transitioned to new technologies, such as contactless payments and online ordering.

GOOGLE STRIKES CONTENT DEALS WITH 300 EUROPEAN PUBLISHERS

Google said that it struck licensing deals with 300 news publishers in Europe in its latest effort to comply with a recently introduced European Union copyright law.

MS. PAC-MAN CLEARS PATH TO WORLD VIDEO GAME HALL OF FAME

More than 40 years after blazing a trail for female video game characters, Ms. Pac-Man was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, along with Dance Dance Revolution, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Sid Meier’s Civilization.

SEC: NVIDIA FAILED TO DISCLOSE CRYPTO AS REVENUE GENERATOR

Nvidia, a major tech company that has expanded aggressively into gaming, will pay a $5.5 million penalty for failing to disclose that crypto-mining was a significant source of revenue growth from the sale of graphics processing units that were produced and marketed for gaming.

GOOGLE GETS MORE MULTILINGUAL, BUT WILL IT GET THE NUANCE?

About 10 million people speak Quechua, but trying to automatically translate emails and text messages into the most widely spoken Indigenous language family in the Americas was long all but impossible.

CRYPTO COMES TO WASHINGTON. WILL THE MILLIONS BUY INFLUENCE?

Erin Houchin braced for the worst when a mysterious, well-financed group started buying television ads last month in her highly competitive southern Indiana congressional race.

COINBASE LOSES HALF ITS VALUE IN A WEEK AS CRYPTO SLUMPS

Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase has lost half its value in the past week, including its biggest one-day drop 5o date on Wednesday as the famously volatile crypto market weathers yet another slump.

BIDEN ANNOUNCES PROGRAM OFFERING DISCOUNTED INTERNET SERVICE

President Joe Biden announced that 20 internet companies have agreed to provide discounted service to people with low incomes, a program that could effectively make tens of millions of households eligible for free service through an already existing federal subsidy.

EA SPORTS AND FIFA END PARTNERSHIP, BOTH EYE NEW VIDEO GAMES

Electronic Arts will stop making its hugely successful FIFA video game in its current name, marking a split in one of soccer’s most successful and lucrative partnerships after the sides failed to strike a new licensing deal.

GOOGLE ADOPTS AN APPLE-LIKE APPROACH FOR ITS PIXEL PRODUCTS

Google took a big step toward pushing its Pixel product line-up down a road already paved by Apple and its array of trendsetting devices.

SCIENTISTS GROW PLANTS IN LUNAR DIRT, NEXT STOP MOON

For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.

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Airbus Posts Profit, Plans New Jet Assembly Line in Alabama

Airbus said that its profit in the first three months of 2022 more than tripled to 1.22 billion euros ($1.28 billion), helped by an increase in aircraft deliveries as airlines recover from the worst of the pandemic.

A Loved One Owes You Money Now What?

Your sibling asked you to cover their rent for a couple of months while they were between jobs. Or maybe you loaned a friend a few hundred bucks for a car repair they couldn’t afford.

TELECOMN GROUPS END FIGHT AGAINST CALIFORNIA NET NEUTRALITY

Telecommunications industry groups ended their bid to block California’s net neutrality law that bars broadband providers from throttling service.

STELLANTIS POURS BILLIONS MORE INTO CANADA, ELECTRIC

Automaker Stellantis said it will invest $3.6 billion Canadian dollars ($2.8 billion) to upgrade two Canadian assembly plants and expand a research center as it accelerates its long-term electrification strategy.

CALIFORNIA MOVES TO EMBRACE CRYPTOCURRENCY AND REGULATE IT

California, which has a economy larger than all but four countries and where much of the world’s technological innovation is born, on Wednesday became the first state to formally begin examining how to broadly adapt to cryptocurrency and related innovations.

MUSK GETS $7B BACKING FOR TWITTER BID FROM TECH HEAVYWEIGHTS

Billionaire Elon Musk has strengthened the equity stake of his offer to buy Twitter with commitments of more than $7 billion from a range of investors, including Silicon Valley heavy hitters like Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison.

IDAHO NEEDS TO SHORE UP CYBERSECURITY, TASK FORCE SAYS

Idaho needs to be better prepared to defend against inevitable cyberattacks that could harm individuals, businesses and critical infrastructure, the Governor’s Cybersecurity Task Force said in a report released this week.

ELON MUSK ASKED TO TESTIFY ON TWITTER BY UK PARLIAMENT

A British parliamentary committee scrutinizing draft online safety legislation has invited Elon Musk to discuss his plans to buy Twitter and the changes he’s proposing for the social media platform.

CDC RESTATES RECOMMENDATION FOR MASKS ON PLANES, TRAINS

US health officials this week restated their recommendation that Americans wear masks on planes, trains and buses, despite a court ruling last month that struck down a national mask mandate on public transportation.

NASA CLIMATE RESEARCH SCIENTIST WINS WORLD FOOD PRIZE

A NASA climate research scientist who has spent much of her career explaining how global food production must adapt to a changing climate was awarded the World Food Prize on Thursday.

IDEAS ON MUTE? STUDY: REMOTE MEETINGS BRAINSTORMING

Video meetings dampen brainstorming because we are so hyper-focused on the face in that box that we don’t let our eyes and minds wander as much, a new study found.

TRUMP SAYS HE HAS NO PLANS TO REJOIN TWITTER AFTER MUSK DEAL

Former President Donald Trump said that he has no intention of rejoining Twitter even if his account is reinstated following Elon Musk’s agreement to buy the social media giant for roughly $44 billion.

SHARES OF FACEBOOK PARENT META SOAR DESPITE GROWTH SLOWDOWN

Facebook parent Meta’s first-quarter profit and its count of daily users jumped past Wall Street’s expectations despite the company’s slowest revenue growth since going public a decade ago. Shares were up sharply in after-hours trading.

GOOGLE PARENT SUFFERS 1Q GROWTH SLOWDOWN, PROFIT DECLINE

Google’s corporate parent posted its slowest quarterly revenue growth since 2020, the latest sign that the huge gains enjoyed by technology companies during the pandemic are fading into the rear-view mirror.

ROUNDING LIFE'S SECOND CURVE A HARD ROAD OF SELF DISCOVERY

It took Jack Craven 20 years to grasp that running his family’s wholesale business selling goods to discount stores wasn’t how he wanted to spend the second half of his life. He also figured out his ever-mounting unhappiness had taken a toll on his relationships with loved ones.

GROUPS THAT WANT TO ELECTRIFY USPS FLEET FILE LAWSUITS

Groups that want the U.S. Postal Service to buy more electric delivery vehicles are suing to halt purchases of thousands of gas-powered trucks as the agency modernizes its mail delivery fleet.