PayPal’s (PYPL) Venmo is set to become an even more formidable player in the payments space in the next several years, according to Bank of America. In the past year, PayPal has evolved beyond its early peer-to-peer payments capabilities, rolling out new features including a Venmo credit card and cryptocurrency trading. The company has also eyed introducing high-yield savings accounts and budgeting tools. And on Monday, CNBC reported that PayPal is looking to roll out a stock-trading… Source link

The restructuring of the MLU ride-hailing and car sharing joint venture, which includes Yandex.Taxi, will see Yandex own 71% while Uber’s stake falls to 29% from 33.5%, Yandex said, adding it had taken out a $2 billion call option to buy out the rest if it chooses to do so. By Anna Rzhevkina and Gleb Stolyarov MOSCOW: Russian internet giant Yandex said on Tuesday it would buy Uber’s stakes in their joint foodtech, delivery and self-driving businesses, and increase its stake in their… Source link

Russian IT giant Yandex said on Tuesday it had reached a $1 billion (€0.85bn) deal to buy out ride-hailing service Uber from several joint ventures, squeezing the US company out of ex-Soviet markets. Under the deal, Yandex will buy Uber’s stake in their shared food delivery operations and a business that develops self-driving vehicles, gaining 100 per cent ownership. Yandex will also increase to 71 per cent its stake in transport ventures with Uber – including taxi and car-sharing… Source link

BERLIN (AP) — Google said Tuesday that it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The internet giant said it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in the town of Hanau, close to the DE-CIX data exchange in Frankfurt. Google said it would purchase more than 140 megawatts of electricity from the German subsidiary of French utility company… Source link

South Korea legislators on Tuesday approved the first law in the world that requires app stores to let users pay for in-app purchases through multiple payment systems, a blow to the market dominance of Apple and Google, which opposed the bill. South Korea’s National Assembly passed amendments to the country’s Telecommunications Business Act that prevent app marketers like Google and Apple from forcing certain payment methods, unfairly delaying the review of mobile content and unfairly… Source link

The US-based fund Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMR) has acquired a 4.5 percent stake in Russian internet search engine Yandex, reports Cnews.ru. The market price of this stake is UAS 1.17 billion. Five US-based funds now own stakes at Yandex.  Source link

As the U.S. reaches a daily average of 100,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations for the first time since January, doctors are urging more Americans to get vaccinated, saying it is “key” to getting control of the virus. “You’ve got to promote vaccination. And people keep saying to me, ‘Well, the people who are vaccinated, what do they have to worry about?” NYU Langone Health’s Dr. Arthur Caplan told Yahoo Finance Live. “But it’s the unvaccinated who irresponsibly are filling up our ERs,… Source link

Facing a staggering amount of back rent, hundreds of thousands of individuals and families may be put out of their homes this year as the eviction moratorium comes to an end, according to research from Goldman Sachs. Following the Supreme Court’s decision last week to strike down the pandemic-era policy that kept renters in their homes despite being unable to pay, economists at the investment bank said on Monday that about 750,000 US households will ultimately be evicted later this year,… Source link

Nest Audio keeps the signature dot display of other Google smart speakers. Chris Monroe/CNET … Source link

Stocks dipped on Tuesday, with the major indexes on track to close out August trading with another monthly gain.  The S&P 500 was slightly lower, pulling back after the Conference Board’s closely watched monthly report on consumer confidence fell more than expected in August amid the Delta variant’s spread. Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq had set fresh record intraday and closing highs during Monday’s trading day, powered higher by a jump in heavily weighted Big Tech stocks.  The S&P 500 is… Source link