S&P Dow Jones Indices Announces Dow Jones Sustainability Indices 2024 Review ResultsNEW YORK and AMSTERDAM , Dec. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P Dow Jones Indices ("S&P DJI"), the world's leading index provider, today announced the results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) rebalancing and reconstitution. The DJSI are float-adjusted market capitalization weighted indices that measure the performance of companies selected using environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria. The DJSI, including the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), were launched in 1999 as the pioneering series of global sustainability benchmarks available in the market. The index family is comprised of global, regional and country benchmarks. As a result of this year's review, the following top three largest companies based on free-float market capitalization have been added to and deleted from the DJSI World. All changes are effective on Monday, December 23, 2024 . Additions: Airbus SE, Schlumberger Ltd, BAE Systems Plc Deletions: Alphabet Inc 1 , UnitedHealth Group Inc, ASML Holding NV 2 The full results and list of DJSI constituents will be available as of Monday, December 23 2024 , at https://www.spglobal.com/esg/csa/djsi-annual-review S&P Dow Jones Indices will be renaming a number of its sustainability and ESG-related indices (see Index Announcement ). As part of this update, the family of Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) will be renamed Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices. The changes will become effective on Monday, February 10, 2025 . The S&P Global CSA Scores will continue to be a key factor in selecting constituents for the DJSI when they are renamed Dow Jones Best-in-Class Indices in February 2025 . For more information about the DJSI methodology, please visit: www.spglobal.com/spdji . 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For more information, visit: www.spglobal.com/spdji . 1 Still member of DJSI World Enlarged and DJSI North America 2 Still member of DJSI World Enlarged S&P DJI MEDIA CONTACTS: spdji.comms@spglobal.com View original content: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sp-dow-jones-indices-announces-dow-jones-sustainability-indices-2024-review-results-302331745.html SOURCE S&P Dow Jones IndicesBy Caden Pearson Contributing Writer U.S. regulators asked a federal judge on Wednesday to break up Google, accusing the tech giant of abusing its monopoly in the search engine and search advertising markets for over a decade. The Department of Justice, alongside 38 states and territories, outlined its proposed remedy in a 23-page court filing late Wednesday. The filing follows a federal court ruling that found Google unlawfully maintained its dominance through anti-competitive practices. U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta for the District of Columbia previously ruled that the company’s conduct harmed competition and stifled innovation, depriving consumers and advertisers of meaningful choices. “Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly” over general search services and search text advertising markets, the judge found, according to court filings. The DOJ’s proposal aims to “restore competition” in the markets for general search services and search text advertising. The proposal calls for Google to divest its Chrome browser, which regulators argue has been used to reinforce the company’s monopoly by directing search traffic exclusively to Google’s platforms. Additionally, the government is exploring the potential divestiture of the Android operating system, citing its role in locking competitors out of the market. The court filing also seeks to bar Google from entering into exclusive agreements with distributors, such as its contracts with Apple that make Google Search the default search engine on iPhones in Safari’s search bar. Regulators argue these arrangements have allowed Google to control nearly all search access points, leaving consumers with limited choices and rivals with little opportunity to compete. The proposal includes measures to address Google’s vast troves of user data, which the DOJ contends have created an insurmountable advantage. Regulators want Google to share its search indexing and user-side data with competitors, enabling them to develop and improve their services. The government is also seeking to eliminate Google’s ability to use its financial and operational control over products like YouTube and its advertising technology to further entrench its market power. Judge Mehta’s ruling emphasized that Google’s anticompetitive behavior has created a “feedback loop” of control, where its dominance in search services attracts more users, advertisers, and data, further entrenching its position and discouraging competition. “The playing field is not level because of Google’s conduct, and Google’s quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired. The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages,” the filing states. The DOJ also proposes a decade-long oversight plan, including the creation of a technical compliance committee to monitor Google’s adherence to the court’s directives. Regulators argue this oversight is critical to ensuring Google does not circumvent the remedies and to restoring competition in the search and advertising markets. Google has yet to respond to the latest filing. The company has previously defended its business practices, arguing that its products benefit consumers and that competition in the tech industry remains robust. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
NEW YORK (AP) — Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers worldwide reported having issues with services like Outlook and Teams on Monday. In social media posts and comments on platforms like outage tracker Downdetector, some impacted said that they were having trouble seeing their emails, loading calendars or opening other Microsoft 365 applications such as Powerpoint. Related Articles Microsoft acknowledged “an issue impacting users attempting to access Exchange Online or functionality within Microsoft Teams calendar” earlier in the day. In updates posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, the company’s status page said it identified a “recent change” that it believed to be behind the problem — and was working to revert it. Microsoft shared that it was deploying a fix — which, as of shortly before noon E.T., it said had reached about 98% of “affected environments.” Still, the company’s status page later added , targeted restarts were “progressing slower than anticipated for the majority of affected users.” As of midday Monday, Downdetector showed thousands of outage reports from users of Microsoft 365 , particularly Outlook .