Bloomberg ARKK Copycat Is Beating Cathie Wood’s Original by 10-Fold (Bloomberg) — A tiny ETF tracking innovative companies is quietly outpacing one of the most famous investments on Wall Street.The Direxion Moonshot Innovators ETF (MOON) has risen 39% this year, compared to ARK Innovation ETF’s 3.5% gain, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.Cathie Wood’s flagship fund, known by its ticker ARKK, became one of the top-performing exchange-traded funds in the past year thanks to big… Source link
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Google rival calls out search giant for spying on users
DDG took to Twitter to point out that Google added labels for ‘Search’ and ‘Gmail’ after delaying the update for months. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) Privacy-focussed search engine DuckDuckGo (DDG) called out Google for spying on users after the latter updated privacy labels on Apple’s App Store to show the type of data it collects from users. DDG took to Twitter to point out that Google… Source link
Read More »Skin-crawling find in couple’s roof
A Gold Coast couple have been horrified by a “nightmare” find in the roof of their home. Reid Newell from Snake Catchers Brisbane & Gold Coast told The Courier-Mail he was called to a home in Currumbin last week where he “roughly counted” 57 snake skins in a 7×7 metre space in the roof. He added he’s unsure how many snakes the skins have come from. “It wasn’t just from the one species either, there was carpet python sheds in there, and also common tree snake sheds,” Mr Newell told… Source link
Read More »Wall Street can’t keep up with the economy: Morning Brief
Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, March 16, 2021 No one can be bullish enough right now We’re one week away from lapping the one-year anniversary of the market’s pandemic low. And Wall Street is still struggling to keep up with the pace of both the recovery in markets and the real economy. As happens over the weekends and into Monday morning, The Morning Brief’s inbox is flooded with weekly updates from economists,… Source link
Read More »Ex-Google Employees Build New Search Engine
Built And Run By Ex-Googlers How Does Neeva Work? What Data Does Neeva Collect? How Does Neeva Use This information? So, How Is This Different? How Is This Different To Google? Do We Need Another Search Engine? Citations You may have read about the social media platform built for good recently; well, how do you feel about a search engine created for privacy? Sure, you have the likes of DuckDuckGo that offers additional privacy protections, and Mozilla Firefox, which has built-in cookie jars to… Source link
Read More »FOMC preview: How optimistic is too optimistic for the US economy? – Yahoo Finance
The Federal Reserve is running into a unique challenge as it kicks off its second policy-setting meeting of the year: maintaining easy monetary policy through what could be the fastest economic recovery in history. “There’s a lot left to do,” said Fed Chairman Jerome Powell at a Wall Street Journal event on March 4. “We have a lot of ground left to cover and good reason for optimism.” The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is expected to release its quarterly economic forecasts on… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Basketball: Tuesday Picks
Tuesday brings a seven-game slate in the NBA, including an exciting matchup between the Jazz and Celtics. We also have another opportunity to win some cash on Yahoo, so here are some players to consider for your entries, as well as a few to potentially avoid. GUARDS Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC at CHI ($37): Gilgeous-Alexander enters this contest having scored at least 30 points in each of his last three games. He’s not only having an excellent season in the scoring column, but he’s also… Source link
Read More »The Google Files: Power players
Jon Leibowitz Former Democratic FTC chair Now associated with Facebook The Democratic FTC chair at the time of the Google investigation, Leibowitz stepped down two months later to take a job at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell, which is representing Facebook in antitrust investigations that have led to lawsuits by the FTC and state attorneys general. Leibowitz isn’t involved with those suits. Edith Ramirez Former Democratic FTC commissioner now associated with Google A Democratic… Source link
Read More »The Google Files: Four things the documents reveal
Google made sure it was the search engine of choice for mobile carriers FTC staff urged the agency’s five commissioners to sue Google for signing exclusive contracts with Apple and the major wireless carriers that made sure the company’s search engine came pre-installed on smartphones. View note A top Google executive told investigators that the company was paying “humongous” sums as part of these deals. He bragged in internal company communications that the contracts… Source link
Read More »Facebook and Amazon dropped the dime on Google
Facebook: The Google+ network and phone wars Google’s fledgling social network, Google+, had about 500 million users in 2012 compared with more than 1 billion people on Facebook. (Facebook now has an estimated 2.8 billion users worldwide.) But Facebook said the new upstart had an unfair advantage: Google had structured its search website so that users would see links to Google+ profiles before those from networks like Facebook and Twitter. In a previously unknown March 2012 presentation… Source link
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