The Android app for Google TV is getting new discovery features and support for a handful of entertainment, news, and live TV apps not previously available, including YouTube TV and FuboTV. Google TV’s Android app will borrow some of the discovery tools from Google TV on the Chromecast, including more rows of personalized recommendations as well as the “watched” tool already available on the TV experience. To help improve recommendations, users can now head to the details page of a… Source link

Text size Remember Yahoo!? After the internet company sold its core business to Verizon Communications, Altaba was what was left. David Paul Morris/Getty Images The liquidation of Altaba, the former Yahoo, is still going on. The fund said Monday that it would distribute $7.48 a share in cash to its shareholders in early August, after… Source link

Text size Remember Yahoo!? After the internet company sold its core business to Verizon Communications, Altaba was what was left. David Paul Morris/Getty Images The liquidation of Altaba, the former Yahoo, is still going on. The fund said Monday that it would distribute $7.48 a share in cash to its shareholders in early August, after… Source link

Internet & Streaming by: Patrick Farmer, BestReviews Staff Posted: Jul 27, 2021 / 06:41 AM PDT / Updated: Jul 27, 2021 / 06:41 AM PDT Before all of the big companies started selling their own versions of a mesh router system, Eero was one of the first. Which mesh Wi-Fi is better? Since their introduction in the mid-2010s, mesh router systems have become one of the most popular ways to get Wi-Fi in your home. Instead of… Source link

Photo by: BBB/STAR MAX/IPx 2021 2/24/21 A Walmart is seen in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Walmart (WMT), the nation’s largest private employer, says it will start paying 100% of the tuition for its debt-free college perk as part of a $1 billion commitment to career training and development over the next five years. In the summer of 2018, the big-box retailer began offering its 1.5 million U.S. associates debt-free college, as part of its $1-a-day college tuition perk, called Live Better U. Beginning… Source link

The logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google outside the company’s office in Beijing, China, August 8, 2018. Thomas Peter | Reuters Alphabet has handily outperformed its megacap tech peers this year, and analysts remain bullish on the stock ahead of the company’s second-quarter earnings results on Tuesday afternoon. Wall Street firms expect Google’s parent company to show continued recovery in Search advertising as well as accelerating ad revenue from YouTube. Source link

Home price growth in the U.S. soared to a new record in May as the housing market continues to heat up. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted a 16.6% annual gain in May, up from 14.8% in April — marking the highest reading in more than 30 years of data. It is also the 12th straight month of accelerating prices. The 20-City Composite posted a 17% annual gain, up from 15% a month earlier. The 20-City results surpassed analysts’… Source link

One of the newer members of the meme stock movement of 2021— Wendy’s — has more opportunities to sizzle.  That’s the good word from Guggenheim analyst Gregory Francfort, who initiated coverage of Wendy’s (WEN) on Tuesday with a Buy rating and $26 price target. At current prices, the analyst is looking for an approximate 20% upside move in shares of the square-shaped burger serving chain.  Shares of Wendy’s are up 5% year-to-date, giving back a good portion of the gains that happened in… Source link

BERLIN, July 27 (Reuters) – Google said on Tuesday that it was taking legal action over an expanded version of Germany’s hate-speech law that recently took effect, saying its provisions violated the right to privacy of its users. The Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit, which runs video-sharing site YouTube, filed suit at the administrative court in Cologne to challenge a provision that allows user data to be passed to law enforcement before it is clear any crime has been committed. The request for a… Source link

HANGZHOU, China, July 27, 2021–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988) today announced that it filed its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021. The annual report can be accessed under the SEC Filing section on the Company’s investor relations website at https://www.alibabagroup.com/en/ir/secfilings. The Company will provide a hard copy of its annual report containing the audited consolidated financial statements, free of… Source link