Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Yandex Self-Driving Group (NASDAQ: YNDX) announced Tuesday it reached a multi-year partnership with the delivery company Grubhub to expedite deliveries on college campuses in the United States. The idea is to use Yandex’s technology and its driverless robots to deliver food to students on college campuses. The US delivery firm, on the other hand, has a partnership with over 250 college campuses across the… Source link

If you use an iPhone or Android phone, chances are the majority of your most-used apps were made by Apple and Google. That’s the takeaway from a new Comscore study that ranks the popularity of preinstalled iOS and Android apps, such as Apple’s Messages, alongside apps made by other developers. The results show that the majority of apps people use on their phones in the US come preinstalled by either Apple or Google. The first-of-its-kind report was commissioned by Facebook, one of… Source link

Stock futures gained after a mixed session on Tuesday, during which the S&P 500 and Dow each pulled back from record levels. Contracts on the S&P 500 rose by 0.2% with two hours until the opening bell. The index pulled back by the end of the regular session Tuesday, but this came following a notable run-up for the blue-chip index in recent weeks: It had closed at record highs at the end of each of the last seven sessions, and hit a record intraday high Tuesday morning.  The Dow also headed… Source link

(Adds valuation, background on company, sector)    July 7 (Reuters) – Greek-yogurt maker Chobani could be valued at more than $10 billion in its initial public offering (IPO), a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, as the company confidentially filed regulatory paperwork for its stock market listing.    The food sector has gained investor attention over the past few years, especially as fast-food chains and upscale restaurants create new menus to attract health- and… Source link

Enlarge / Google Chat, in just some of its many form factors. Google Chat officially launched for consumers recently, and that means the time has come to dive back into everyone’s favorite subject: Google messaging services! Google Chat is the latest in Google’s long and prodigious line of (usually) short-lived messaging applications, but this one is a bit more important than most of the others. While the “~2 years and under” club is packed… Source link

This week, we continue the conversation about Ethereum miners and how they’re preparing for changes to the reward dynamics of the network. Also, we take a look at what other asset types are popularly used on decentralized finance (DeFi) applications beyond ether (ETH).  Welcome to another edition of Valid Points. This article originally appeared in Valid Points, CoinDesk’s weekly newsletter breaking down Ethereum 2.0 and its sweeping impact on crypto markets. Subscribe to Valid Points… Source link

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A set of SkySat satellites before a launch. Planet Satellite imagery and data specialist Planet Labs is preparing to go public, announcing on Wednesday that it will merge with a SPAC to list on the New York Stock Exchange. Planet Labs is combining with special purpose acquisition company dMY Technology Group IV, which trades on the NYSE under ticker DMYQ. The deal gives the space company a $2.8 billion equity valuation and is expected to close in the fourth quarter, resulting in Planet listing… Source link

Yandex (YNDX) Self-Driving Group (SDG) is moving a step closer to commercializing its self-driving technology. The company has inked a partnership deal with online and mobile food ordering services, Grubhub (GRUB). The two are coming together to enable fast and affordable deliveries using robots in U.S. colleges. Yandex autonomous robots will be integrated into Grubhub’s food delivery platform for in-campus delivery as part of the partnership. The two are in the process of rolling out… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, July 7, 2021 Pricing pressures stopped getting worse for the service sector last month If we wind back the clock to mid-May, the only idea it seemed investors wanted to discuss was inflation.  The argument from many economists and Federal Reserve officials — then and now — was that pricing pressures would prove “transitory,” or that… Source link