Video game developer Eidos-Montreal announced its shift to a four-day workweek last Thursday, marking it as the most high-profile studio in the gaming world to do so. Eidos’ announcement is a tectonic shift in an industry that’s been notorious for the poor treatment of its developers for decades. Crunch culture — the video game industry practice of working longer hours for big studios (known industry-wide as AAAs), and pushing employees to exhaustion when a project’s deadline draws… Source link

AT&T Inc (NYSE: T) is trading lower Monday after Barclays analyst Kannan Venkateshwar maintained the stock with an Equal-Weight rating and lowered the price target from $34 to $30. The Barclays analyst cited challenging technicals as a result of the equity performance at Discovery Inc (NASDAQ: DISCA), which AT&T will be merging its media business with. AT&T was among the top three trending stocks on Stocktwits at publication time. AT&T is set to announce its third-quarter financial results… Source link

Google has pulled several “stalkerware” ads that violated its policies by promoting apps that encouraged prospective users to spy on their spouses’ phone. These consumer-grade spyware apps are often marketed to parents wishing to monitor their child’s calls, messages, apps, photos and location, often under the guise of protecting against predators. But these apps, which are often designed to be installed surreptitiously and without the device owner’s consent, have been… Source link

The gall! A couple of moderate Democrats, Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, are blocking a massive spending bill that would transform the social-welfare system and turbocharge green energy. Liberal Democrats, which the Washington Post recently dubbed the “mainstream” of their party, refuse to vote for a popular infrastructure bill until they get $3.5 trillion in additional spending on a wish list of progressive priorities. Forget the regular disputes… Source link

State orders new car insurance ‘stimulus checks’ — are you due another refund? While Washington stopped entertaining the idea of a fourth stimulus check, advocates and at least one state are still pushing car insurance companies to hand you some COVID-19 cash. Some insurers paid discounts and rebates to policyholders when they reaped soaring profits as Americans stayed home more during the Great Driving Slowdown in 2020. Yet government officials, advocacy groups and a class-action… Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s odds at renomination continue to hang in the wind, as the White House works through whether or not they should bring in fresh blood to the head of the central bank. Complicating his path to a second term: a scandal that has engulfed at least three senior Fed officials, centered on big financial bets they made during 2020. Regional Fed Presidents Robert Kaplan and Eric Rosengren stepped down from their roles after reporting revealed bets on real… Source link

The days of needing to buy a guitar tuner or download an app for that are gone. Now, Google Search has added its own built-in tuner. You type “Google tuner” into the search bar. The user interface is laid out with a microphone button, and it’ll let you know after strumming a tune if it needs to be tuned up or down. The new built-in tuner can be used with any phone or a desktop or laptop computer. Results vary, as they do with other guitar tuning apps, but the website Android… Source link

Google released images of the Pixel 6 already, but now details about the features have apparently leaked. Google … Source link

Now is the time to hit your boss up for a raise — or even look for a new job, says one economist.  “Worker power is so high right now. That leverage is there because of the tight labor market,” Glassdoor Senior Economist Daniel Zhao told Yahoo Finance Live. “Demand for workers is still red hot.” “Now is a good time to ask for that raise or to even ask for more benefits or more flexibility in the work arrangements,”said Zhao. “Employers right now are not just raising wages, they’re also… Source link

Wall Street has come out with a highly caffeinated outlook for newly minted public company Dutch Bros.  Shares of the upstart coffee retailer exploded nearly 13% to $48 on Monday — making the stock a top trending ticker on Yahoo Finance before midday — after investment banks initiated mostly coverage on the company after its successful late September IPO.  Five analysts initiated coverage with ratings equivalent to Buys, despite shares being up more than 85% since the Dutch Bros’s Sept…. Source link