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We Never Said We Wouldn’t Poach From Google, Says Facebook’s Sandberg

2019-03-06T06:11:43-05:00

It all started with Apple’s Steve Jobs and Google’s Eric Schmidt allegedly entering a secret agreement promising not to poach each other’s employees.

Now, the size and scope of this legal controversy over fixing tech-worker wages in Silicon Valley is expanding. And one major player in the Valley is getting out in front of the allegations that a hiring conspiracy took place.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Robocoin Rolling Out First Bitcoin ATM in the U.S.

2019-03-06T06:10:09-05:00

Call it the dawn of the bitcoin ATM.

In Austin, Texas, on Thursday, Robocoin is unveiling the first of what it intends to be many bitcoin ATMs around the world, including at least seven in the United States by May.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Google Makes Huge Investment in Clean Energy

2019-03-06T05:48:39-05:00

When you conduct a search on Google, your query goes across the Internet, hits a server, gets processed and is sent back to you in microseconds. You would be surprised how much energy is consumed in that process.

In its latest quarter, Google spent $2.25 billion on data center and infrastructure spending, a huge area of costs for the company. That’s one of the reasons the company is aggressively moving to solar, wind and other alternative energies to power its data centers and banks of servers scattered around the world.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.

Slow Down, Carl: Not All Apple Shareholders Want a Big Share Buyback

2019-03-06T05:41:21-05:00

For months, Carl Icahn has been pushing Apple CEO Tim Cook to use the company’s $158 billion war chest to buy back company shares, and hopefully substantially boost its stock price.

But not every Apple shareholder agrees with that strategy, and at least one big one doesn’t appreciate Icahn’s activism.

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This article originally appeared on Recode.net.