Bloomberg Google employees staged protests on both US coasts this week to call attention to labor conditions for subcontracted workers and support thousands of co-workers who were recently laid off. Rallies, one held on Wednesday at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, and another Thursday near Google’s corporate offices in New York City, came after the company announced the largest ...

Bloomberg Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defended the use of additional tools besides interest rates to rein in inflation, including a more active policy to reduce foreign exchange volatility and the regulation of fuel prices and food stocks. In a 180-page message to lawmakers on Thursday, Lula blamed his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro for abandoning the use of “important ...

  Bloomberg Italy will “study the details” of KKR & Co’s offer for Telecom Italia SpA, Economy and Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said. The government, which is stakeholer of the belaguered phone carrier, will “evaluate the offer when it has full information on it” Giorgetti said Friday in Rome, according to Ansa newswire. The minister reiterated that the government’s goal ...