Monthly Archives: March 2021

Pittsburgh moves to cloud-based services powered by Google – TribLIVE

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2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E review

The recently released Ford Mustang Mach-E is turning out to be something of a success. And rival Tesla (TSLA) is feeling the brunt of that increased competition — on the showroom floor. Looking at recent February auto sales data, analysts at Morgan Stanley discovered an interesting nugget. While battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales outpaced the total vehicle market by nearly 40% in February, Tesla’s BEV market share declined to 69% of the market, vs. 81% a year ago. Morgan Stanley… Source link

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Bitcoin, Around $51K, Nears Upper Bound of 3-Year Price Trend

Bloomberg Zoom Founder Eric Yuan Transfers $6 Billion Worth of Shares (Bloomberg) — Eric Yuan, chief executive officer of Zoom Video Communications Inc., donated more than a third of his stake in the company, filings show.Yuan gifted almost 18 million shares of the conferencing-technology firm last week. The filings didn’t specify the recipient of the stock, which was owned by a Grantor Retained Annuity Trust, or GRAT, for which Yuan is a trustee.The shares were valued at about $6 billion,… Source link

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U.S. Government to Sell 0.7501 Bitcoin Worth $38,000 at Current Prices

(Bloomberg) — Tucked away among the Ford, Dodge and Chevy sedans, the 12,000-gallon storage container and the inoperable Caterpillar tractor being auctioned off by the U.S. government is an unusual item: 0.7501 of a Bitcoin. The U.S. General Services Administration typically uses its auctions to sell surplus federal equipment to the general public. With lot 4KQSCI21105001, which goes up for auction in a week, the government is offering an amount of Bitcoin worth about $38,000 at Monday’s… Source link

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After Building Google’s Advertising Business, This Founder Is Creating An Ad-Free Alternative

Neeva Cofounder and CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy Neeva It wasn’t long ago that Sridhar Ramaswamy was the king of Google advertising. During his 15-year career at the search startup that became an Internet giant, Ramaswamy built, scaled and ultimately ran Google’s $115 billion advertising division. However, he finally left in 2018 after becoming disillusioned that Google’s obsession with growth was affecting everything from search quality to consumer privacy. Initially, he… Source link

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Biden to deliver prime time address to mark COVID shutdown anniversary

TipRanks JPMorgan Bets on These 3 Stocks; Sees Over 50% Upside Potential It’s time to check in with the macro picture, to get an idea of just where markets are headed in the coming months. That’s what a JPMorgan global research team, headed up by Joyce Chang, has been doing. The JPM team starts by noting the sell-off in US Treasury bonds last week, pushing up yields as investors acted in response to inflationary fears. However, the rise in bond yields steadied on Friday, and Chang’s team… Source link

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Top 10 Marijuana And Psychedelic Stock News Stories Of The Week

Welcome to the Cannabis Countdown, the Legal Marijuana Industry’s Number One Curated Weekly News Recap. In This Week’s Edition, We Recap and Countdown the Top 10 Cannabis and Psychedelic Stock News Stories for the Week of March 1st – 7th, 2021. Without further ado, let’s get started. * Yahoo Finance readers, please click here to view the full article. 10. With U.S. Pot Stocks the Hot Theme of 2021, Here’s Why Red White & Bloom Could Be One of the Cannabis Sector’s Top… Source link

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Third Bitcoin ETF Expected to Launch in Canada This Week – Yahoo Finance

Bloomberg As IMF Talks Bog Down, Argentine Bonds Plunge Toward 30 Cents (Bloomberg) — Six months after Argentina exited default, its new bonds have sunk to a mere 30 cents on the dollar.The depressed price is, in fairness, partly the result of the basic mechanics of the securities — they carry artificially low interest rates and a generous grace period — but it also reflects a grim reality that’s setting in on creditors: The IMF deal that the country desperately needs is a long ways… Source link

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Google’s scrapping third-party cookies – but invasive targeted advertising will live on

Google has announced plans to stop using tracking cookies on its Chrome browser by 2022, replacing them with a group profiling system in a move the company says will plot “a course towards a more privacy-friendly web”. The change is significant. Chrome commands some two-thirds of the web browser market. Third-party tracking cookies, meanwhile, underpin much of the targeted advertising industry. And, while Mozilla’s Firefox and Apple’s Safari have already stopped supporting… Source link

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Google TV is getting kids profiles this month

It’s been almost six months since Google launched its latest TV-focused platform, appropriately called Google TV, alongside new Chromecast hardware. Somewhat surprisingly, Google TV arrived without some essential features for families with young children, as there were no kids profiles or parental controls. That’s being fixed, as Google TV will soon support kids profiles and various screen time control features. Google says you can add new profiles using existing Google accounts, assuming… Source link

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