Telcos have regularly sought out Nokia as a provider of network goodies. In more recent years, they have also looked to Google for its expertise in the cloud and all things related. Now they can buy the entire package in one go after the Finnish equipment maker and the US Internet giant made a joint pitch to operators. The alliance they have struck targets operators building 5G networks with the enterprise customer in mind. Businesses signing up to 5G services will, of course, need a… Source link

A 1952 Mickey Mantle — one of baseball cards’ holy grails — has sold for a whopping $5.2 million, setting a record for the most expensive trading card ever and nearly doubling its value since a 2018 sale. The card is one of nine known in existence in its condition. It sold to Rob Gough, an entrepreneur and actor, who started the DOPE clothing and CBD line and whose credits include the 2018 film “Billionaire Boys Club.” This particular card is graded as Mint 9 by PSA — the go-to… Source link

Press Release Google Cloud, Nokia partner to accelerate cloud-native 5G readiness for communication service providers Google Cloud and Nokia will jointly develop cloud-native 5G core solutions for communication service providers and enterprise customers New partnership will deliver cloud capabilities to the network edge to accelerate enterprise digital transformation 14 January 2021  Espoo, Finland and Sunnyvale, California – Google Cloud and Nokia today announced a global, strategic… Source link

FILE PHOTO: Visitors gather outside the Nokia booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez/File Photo (Reuters) – Nokia on Thursday partnered with Alphabet’s Google Cloud unit to build 5G core network infrastructure and allow business customers to offer services such as smart retail and automated manufacturing. Cloud computing units of big technology companies such as Microsoft and Amazon are also tying up with telecoms vendors ahead of… Source link

Thursday, January 14, 2021 Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Cities and suburbs diverging, housing market edition. On Wednesday morning, we covered the diverging fortunes of cities and suburbs as seen through the lens of national burger chain Shake Shack (SHAK). And then on Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book report offered another way to see the urban/suburban economic divide. And that is through the… Source link

RIDINGS By Dean RidingsCEO, America’s Newspapers It is no secret that Google has secured a near monopoly in the search and local advertising world. However, the impact on newspapers hasn’t been quite as obvious. A number of lawsuits have recently been… Source link

MUMBAI: Alphabet Inc’s Google has removed lending apps aimed at consumers in India from Play Store in an attempt to safeguard users, it said in a blog post on Thursday. “We have reviewed hundreds of personal loan apps in India, based on flags submitted by users and government agencies,” Suzanne Frey, vice president, Product, Android Security and Privacy said in the post. A recent investigation by Reuters found at least 10 lending apps on Play Store breached Google’s rules on loan repayment… Source link

Google announced that it is sending out notices to let publishers know that Google has begun crawling their websites with the advanced HTTP/2 protocol. The notice is only being sent out to those whose sites have been upgraded. Why HTTP/2 HTTP/2 (also referred to as h2) is a network protocol that servers, browsers and bots can use to transfer data from a server. HTTP/2 is more efficient than the older HTTP/1.1 protocol and is able to transfer data at faster rates the older protocol. The benefit… Source link

Shares of Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) have been assigned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the fourteen analysts that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $59.07. A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the company. Bank of America upgraded Yandex from a… Source link

TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Could Surge Over 300%, Say Analysts Risk and reward often travel hand-in-hand, making the stock market both lucrative and dangerous. Among the best exemplars of this axiom are the penny stocks, those equities priced at $5 or less. With that low price comes the potential for extreme gains, as even an incrementally small price increase will translate to a high percentage gain.JPMorgan’s Head of Small and Midcap Equity Strategy, Eduardo Lecubarri, sees both the… Source link