AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine and syringe are seen at the medical centre “It’s appalling the way AstraZeneca has been treated. I wouldn’t blame them if they were thoroughly fed up and decided to bow out of the covid vaccine business.” That was the view from one of the biggest institutional investors in the UK. It’s not a view the pharmaceutical giant and its talismanic boss Pascal Soriot would have expected to hear, having developed a safe, effective vaccine at breakneck speed, signing contracts… Source link

European internet and ride-hailing provider Yandex NV (NASDAQ: YNDX) announced the exit of Greg Abovsky as CFO and COO effective April 30 to pursue another opportunity in a different region. Vadim Marchuk was appointed as acting CFO. Marchuk had joined Yandex in 2016 as VP of Corporate Development. The COO roles will be divided between management team members, including Deputy CEO Tigran Khudaverdyan. Price action: YNDX… Source link

Albertsons Cos. Inc. ACI, +0.25% said Tuesday that, after a year of planning in partnership with Google GOOGL, -0.02% GOOG, -0.14%, the two companies will launch a series of technologies to enhance the grocery shopping experience. Using artificial intelligence (AI), the companies will provide hyperlocal information about where shoppers can find and purchase products. Enhanced features will also allow shoppers to… Source link

On Tuesday, Google unveiled the feature, called Indoor Live View, which shows graphics like arrows, directions, and icons on your smartphone’s screen, laid atop a camera view of the world around you. It can be used to help you find a store in a shopping mall or a bathroom at an airport, for instance. The feature is more interactive than Google Maps’ existing indoor maps, and expands on a similar feature for city-street navigation that launched in 2019. It’s available for Android and iOS… Source link

Bloomberg One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes Is Wiped Out in Days (Bloomberg) — From his perch high above Midtown Manhattan, just across from Carnegie Hall, Bill Hwang was quietly building one of the world’s greatest fortunes.Even on Wall Street, few ever noticed him — until suddenly, everyone did.Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time — a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive… Source link

TipRanks 3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding at Least 8%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ We’ll talk about dividend stocks, but we’ll get there through tax policy. The connection is simple: Government spending is going up, as exemplified by the $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill passed this month. Stimulative cash infusions into the economy are likely to boost consumer spending, and there are worries that the Biden Administration has no plans to pay for its increased spending. Several tax proposals made… Source link

Refinery29 Knowing When It’s Time To Leave Your Job, According To A Google Alum Once a year, America acknowledges the egregious pay gap in which Latinas earn just 67 cents for every dollar a non-Latinx white man makes. It’s time we interrogate this fact year-round. The L-Suite examines the diverse ways in which Latinx professionals have built their careers, how they’ve navigated notoriously disruptive roadblocks, and how they’re attempting to dismantle these obstacles for the rest of… Source link

Google is announcing a handful of major updates to Google Maps today that range from bringing its Live View AR directions indoors to adding weather data to its maps, but the most tantalizing news — which in typical Google fashion doesn’t have an ETA just yet — is that Google plans to bring a vastly improved 3D layer to Google maps. Using photogrammetry, the same technology that also allows Microsoft’s Flight Simulator to render large swaths of the world in detail, Google is also… Source link

Bloomberg Big Oil’s Secret World of Trading (Bloomberg Markets) — It was a bleak moment for the oil industry. U.S. shale companies were failing by the dozen. Petrostates were on the brink of bankruptcy. Texas roughnecks and Kuwaiti princes alike had watched helplessly for months as the commodity that was their lifeblood tumbled to prices that had until recently seemed unthinkable. Below $50 a barrel, then below $40, then below $30.But inside the central London headquarters of one of the… Source link

Google is announcing a bunch of new features planned for Google Maps, including a new tool to help with indoor navigation and suggestions for eco-friendly driving routes. The features announced today aren’t rolling out all at once, though; many aren’t available just yet, and it’s unclear when some will be available in some parts of the world. One of the biggest announcements is that Google is bringing its Live View augmented reality directions to airports, transit stations, and… Source link