A person in a mask walks by the New York Google offices after they announced they will postpone their reopening in response to updated CDC guidelines during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., July 29, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Google plans to buy a New York City office building for $2.1 billion, even as most of its workforce remains remote, the company announced Tuesday. The purchase is the the most expensive for any single U.S. office… Source link

McDonald’s (MCD) is planning to give its iconic Happy Meal toys a major makeover, as big companies push to make their operations more environmentally friendly in the face of climate change. On Tuesday, the Golden Arches announced its plans to make every toy around the world more sustainable by 2025. In order to do so, McDonald’s is working closely with its supply chain to use renewable, recycled or certified materials.  If realized, the fast-food giant estimates it will result in a 90%… Source link

With , developers both big and small have started updating their apps to take advantage of the operating system’s marquee features. One of those is Google, which the iOS 15-related enhancements you can expect from its apps. The biggest change involves how Gmail, Meet, Tasks, Maps, Home and many of Google’s other applications will handle notifications. Should you have iOS 15’s new Focus Mode enabled, Google says prompts that don’t require your immediate… Source link

Stock futures gained Tuesday morning after sliding a day earlier, as a bevy of concerns out of China and in Washington spurred a steep selloff across risk assets. Traders also turned their attention to the start of the Federal Reserve’s latest two-day monetary policy-setting meeting. Contracts on the S&P 500 advanced by about 0.8% after the blue-chip index logged its worst day since May by the end of Monday’s session. Dow futures added more than 300 points, or 0.9%, while Nasdaq futures… Source link

If you happen to be on Ohio State University’s campus this fall, you’re likely to see what looks like a robot invasion. Fear not, they come in peace—with food. GrubHub and Ohio State have partnered to launch food delivery on campus using 50 self-driving “Rovers” provided by Yandex Self-Driving Group, a spinoff by Russian search engine powerhouse Yandex. That will expand to a fleet of 100 Rovers if all goes well, a spokesman says. Ordinary cars can’t reach the pedestrian-only areas… 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 Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Two words that hint of volatility, connected by a third An ugly start to September, and the even uglier start to this week’s trading session, can be defined using two alliterative words that often unsettle investors. Correction and contagion. The first word relates to stocks that, as bulls are wont to remind us, usually… Source link

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo Finance, a leader in business and financial news, today announced the next two installments in the All Markets Summit event series—All Markets Summit: The Path Forward will take place on Monday, October 25 at 9 a.m. ET and All Markets Summit+: Crypto Investing will take place on Monday, September 27 at 12:00 p.m. ET. All Markets Summit: The Path Forward will be an all-virtual summit hosted live from the Nasdaq in New York’s Times Square and… Source link

The Federal Reserve is not expected to announce any major policy change at the conclusion of its meeting on Wednesday, but markets could jitter from Fed signals that one could be coming soon. The Fed has signaled that it will likely start pulling back on its extraordinary monetary support before the end of the year. The Fed’s playbook calls for slowing its asset purchase program first, followed by interest rate hikes down the line. But Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has already communicated to… Source link

Three colors of Chromecast TV devices are displayed during the Google Launch Night In virtual event … [+] seen on a laptop computer in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Alphabet’s Google launched a new Chromecast TV device as it seeks to hold off Amazon from continuing to gain share in the smart home space. Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg © 2020 Bloomberg Finance LP Google may be looking to make its connected television platform even… Source link

New COVID stimulus checks are on the way for some US workers After a long year and a half, many Americans are hopeful that the worst economic pain from the pandemic is behind them. But some of the hardest hit workers with jobs that are considered essential are still reeling. Many of them had to dip into their own funds to pay for protective equipment or child care. Now, to assist with those expenses, the government intends to offer financial relief through what are essentially targeted… Source link