CALGARY, Alberta–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Google for Startups Accelerator Canada announced today that ICwhatUC has accepted their invitation to participate in this year’s cohort alongside a small group of promising tech startups. This milestone is a major step for ICwhatUC towards its mission to enable the world’s mobile workforce to complete their work virtually. The accelerator is designed to bring the best of Google’s programs, products, people and technology to startups that… Source link
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Archegos-Linked Stocks Whipsaw With Block-Trade Woes Persisting
(Bloomberg) — The group of stocks at the center of a $20-billion block trades selling spree last week were under pressure on Monday as investors worried there could be more fallout from forced offerings. ViacomCBS Inc. fell as much as 4.3% in New York trading after a $2.1 billion block trade was said to price at the top of its range, while Discovery Inc. gained 2.4%. The American depositary receipts of Chinese companies Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Baidu Inc. and GSX Techedu Inc. were… Source link
Read More »Facebook, Google to lay subsea cables between U.S. and Southeast Asia
The vessel used to lay one of Google’s other subsea cables. Google Facebook and Google are planning to lay two huge subsea cables that will link the U.S. West Coast to Singapore and Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s biggest economy and home to a growing number of smartphone users. The Echo and Bifrost trans-Pacific cables will increase the data capacity between the regions by 70% and improve internet reliability, Facebook said Monday. While Facebook is investing in both cables, Google is only… Source link
Read More »Mogo Launches First Bitcoin Cashback Mortgage
Members can now earn up to $3,100 in bitcoin cashback rewards on a new mortgage or renewal Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ:MOGO) (TSX:MOGO) (“Mogo” or the “Company”), a digital payments and financial technology company, today announced that it has extended its unique bitcoin cashback rewards program – which currently applies to the Mogo Visa* Platinum Prepaid Card and digital spending account – to include MogoMortgage. Under the program, Mogo members who take out a new mortgage or refinance with Mogo… Source link
Read More »Ex-Google Policy Lead Founds Tech-Friendly Progressive Group
(Bloomberg) — A new technology industry group led by the former head of U.S. public policy at Alphabet Inc.’s Google is looking to remind Democrats that technology companies are on their side when it comes to progressive priorities like voting rights, fighting climate change and reducing income inequality. Adam Kovacevich, who most recently led government relations for electric scooter company Lime, launched the Chamber of Progress on Monday to promote “a progressive high-tech society,… Source link
Read More »Here comes Corporate America’s profit explosion
The market may be trading sideways at the moment as traders digest rising Treasury yields and banter around meme stocks and higher taxes, but it could come alive again soon amid looming first quarter earnings reports from corporate America. Because all indications are that a profit explosion from corporate America is poised to be on full display as earnings reporting season kicks off in mid-April. Those hearty bottom line gains would reflect companies cycling comparisons to businesses being… Source link
Read More »Google Says There’s No Limit on Title Tag Length
How Long Should a Title Tag Be? SEO Industry Recommended Title Tag Length Google’s Gary Illyes on Optimal Title Tag Length Gary Illyes Explains Why He Does Not Recommend Title Tag Length Google Does Not Recommend a Title Tag Size Best Title Tag Length Citations Gary Illyes shared if there are any hard limits to how long title tags can be during a Google Off the Record podcast. He then explained what the best title tag is. How Long Should a Title Tag Be? Title tags are technically measured in… Source link
Read More »Oil Pares Losses With Market Eyeing OPEC Meeting, Suez Ship
TipRanks Goldman Sachs Bets on These 3 Stocks; Sees Over 50% Upside Potential What goes up must come down, as we all know. This fact of physics is the underlying worry of the stock market, that fuels our suspicions of bubbles. But investment firm Goldman Sachs doesn’t believe we should worry; the firm’s chief global equity strategist Peter Oppenheimer gives several reasons to expect that the market’s current upward trend is real. His key points include the equity risk premium, the real… Source link
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Bloomberg Biden Team Boosts Effort to Shield Power Grid From Hackers (Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is escalating efforts to safeguard the U.S. power grid from hackers, developing a plan to better coordinate with industry to counter threats and respond to cyber attacks, according to people familiar with the matter.Top administration officials, including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Deputy National Security Adviser Anne Neuberger, briefed top utility industry executives on… Source link
Read More »Nike and other Western brands are likely to remain under a microscope in China: Cowen
The Chinese government has called for boycotts of several Western companies — including Nike, Adidas, and H&M — that have made past statements criticizing China for alleged human rights abuses against Uyghurs in the northern province of Xinjiang, where the Chinese government has built a network of internment camps for the Muslim minority group, forcing them to work in textile and other hard-labor manufacturing jobs, according to human rights groups. Though China denies the allegations,… Source link
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