Monthly Archives: February 2021

‘Terraria’ Creator Cancels Stadia Version After Google Account Lockout

Terraria Re-Logic Google Stadia made news this month when it announced it was shutting down its original first party production house, and would instead focus on third party partnerships for the service going forward. But one of those may be on the rocks, according to a recent thread from Terraria creator Andrew “@Demilogic” Spinks. In a thread posted late last night, Spinks lamented about how he has been locked out of his Google Account for… Source link

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Global Payments stock gains after profit beat, Google partnership announcement

Shares of Global Payments Inc. were up 2.9% in premarket trading Monday after the financial technology company beat profit expectations for its latest quarter while also announcing a partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Global Payments GPN, +0.20% posted fourth-quarter net income of $183 million, or 61 cents a share, up from $103 million, or 34 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. On an adjusted basis, Global Payments earned $1.80 a share,… Source link

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Google Partners Collaborate On Providing Google Job Opportunities

SADA, one of Google’s largest channel partners, if not the largest, is partnering with Appsbroker, a large Google MSP, to develop a platform for Google channel partners to connect with potential employees. Los Angeles-based SADA and U.K.-based Appsbroker have developed a new job board called Partnercareers.com as a way for solution providers around the world to post Google-focused job offerings, and have received commitment from Google to send potential job candidates to the… Source link

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Palantir Teams Up With IBM, Sending Its Shares Soaring

(Bloomberg) — Palantir Technologies Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are uniting in a partnership that will dramatically expand the reach of Palantir’s sales force while making IBM’s own artificial-intelligence software easier for non-technical customers to use, the companies plan to announce Monday. The global partnership is the largest of its kind for Palantir, the maker of data-analysis software whose shares have more than quadrupled since its September debut on the New… Source link

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Don't expect a $15 federal minimum wage: Goldman Sachs – Yahoo Finance

Bloomberg EV Company With Almost No Revenue Posts 3,000% Gain in 8 Months (Bloomberg) — There is nothing about the finances of Blink Charging Co. that would suggest it’s one of the hottest stocks in America.It’s never posted an annual profit in its 11-year history; it warned last year it could go bankrupt; it’s losing market share, pulls in anemic revenue and has churned through management in recent years.And yet a hot stock it is. Investors have bid Blink’s share price up 3,000% over… Source link

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Hologic taps Google Cloud for AI-driven cervical cancer screening collaboration

Hologic has tapped Google Cloud to help elevate its digital pathology platforms for diagnosing cervical cancer with new artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. The medtech’s Genius cytology system digitally stacks 2D images of a patient’s cells to provide additional visual depth to glass Pap test slides and uses AI to select the scans that may be the most relevant to the pathologist’s task of spotting precancerous lesions and signs of cervical… Source link

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Stocks rise to reach record highs; Bitcoin prices spike

Stocks rose on Monday, extending advances after stocks’ best week since November last week. The Dow added more than 100 points, or 0.4%, to a fresh record high, and both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also reached record intraday levels. Bitcoin prices spiked more than 12% to a record high of more than $43,000 after Tesla disclosed it purchased $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and may start allowing customers to use Bitcoin to purchase products. Investor optimism over another round of fiscal… Source link

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How to Use Audiences in Google Ads

There were a lot of great questions during SEJ eSummit around audiences, so this month’s Ask Me Anything About PPC installment is a helpful cheat sheet on: What are audiences? How do I use them? When should you adjust your audience strategy? Important note: this post will only cover audiences from the Google suite of ad channels. What Are Audiences in Paid Media? Audiences are groups of people who have: Completed specified actions (remarketing). Demonstrated specified behaviors (in-market/custom… Source link

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Google Considers Anti-Tracking Feature for Android

(Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Google is reportedly taking a page from Apple’s privacy playbook with its new anti-tracking feature. Citing unnamed sources, Bloomberg last week suggested the search giant is “discussing how it can limit data collection and cross-app tracking on the Android operating system in a way that is less stringent than Apple’s solution.” The move, Bloomberg reported, aims to balance consumers’ privacy concerns with the financial needs of… Source link

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Google’s Jigsaw Announces Toxicity-Reducing API, Perspective, is Processing 500M Requests Daily

NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Jigsaw, a unit within Google that forecasts and confronts emerging digital threats, announced that Perspective, a free, open source API that uses machine learning to spot toxic comments, is now processing 500 million requests daily and is measurably reducing toxicity to make conversations online better at scale. The third issue of the company’s online research magazine, The Current, which was published today, details the persistent and damaging… Source link

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