Short-form video sharing giant TikTok will face competition from Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) in March. Alphabet subsidiary Google will roll out YouTube Shorts to the U.S. market “in the coming weeks.” YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan announced the stateside rollout of YouTube Shorts in a blog post on Wednesday, alongside several other tweaks to YouTube’s video-sharing and monetization processes. Mohan wrote that YouTube Shorts will… Source link

House Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) — the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security — filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing former President Donald Trump of conspiring to incite the deadly attack on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The filing marks the latest in a slew of lawsuits and probes that center on a range of allegations, including efforts to influence election officials in Georgia, defame women who accused him of sexual assault, and manipulate the value of his assets for tax and loan… Source link

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Google struck a deal with the Murdoch family owned media conglomerate News Corp. as proposed legislation in Australia threatens to jeopardize the tech platform’s future operations in the country. Under the three-year deal announced Wednesday, News Corp. brands in the U.S., U.K. and Australia like The Wall Street Journal and New… Source link

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By April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq fell on Wednesday as concerns about inflation pressured stocks and investors rotated out of technology shares. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged higher, however, aided in part by gains in shares of Verizon Communications Inc and Chevron Corp, which rose after Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc disclosed major investments in the companies on Tuesday. Verizon shares climbed 5.0%, and Chevron shares advanced 2.7%. Technology… Source link

News Corp. NWS, -1.16% announced Wednesday a three-year agreement with Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL, +0.43% Google, in which News Corp. will provide premium content for the Google News Showcase offering in return for “significant payments” from Google. MarketWatch publisher Dow Jones is a division of News Corp. As part of the agreement, News Corp. will provide news from its news sites, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s,… Source link

Drivers throughout the United States will now have the option to pay for street parking right from Google Maps as part of an expanded partnership with transportation software companies Passport and ParkMobile. Google also announced it was extending this contactless payment feature to public transit users. Google Maps’ pay for parking feature will expand first via Android to more than 400 U.S. cities, including Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and… Source link

Burger King (QSR) on Wednesday jumped into the widening chicken wars with a new hand-breaded sandwich — just as McDonald’s is expected to debut its own version, and on the same day Wendy’s rolled out an update to its menu item. The battlefield for the hearts and stomachs of consumers is growing more fierce, with a clutch of fast food giants unveiling competitors for Popeye’s wildly popular sandwich. As a result, Burger King is planning to release the item nationwide later this year, after a… Source link

ATLANTA, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — ParkMobile, the leading provider of smart parking and mobility solutions in the U.S., announced today a new solution that enables users to pay for parking right from Google Maps. This expands ParkMobile’s work with Google that launched in November 2020 following the introduction of the redesigned Google Pay app. Google… Source link

Databricks and Google Cloud today announced a new partnership that will bring to Databricks customers a deep integration with Google’s BigQuery platform and Google Kubernetes Engine. This will allow Databricks’ users to bring their data lakes and the service’s analytics capabilities to Google Cloud. Databricks already features a deep integration with Microsoft Azure — one that goes well beyond this new partnership with Google Cloud — and the company is also an AWS partner. By… Source link