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 Monday, November 15, 2021 Full disclosure: I have never bought a turkey for Thanksgiving before.  Hang with me here because it’s not as weird as it sounds.  For the past 15 years I haven’t really had any Thanksgivings (don’t pity me, I bring this stuff on myself). Most of the time I was out in stores on Thanksgiving day either channel-checking… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person, directed a series of insults at Bernie Sanders on Twitter after the U.S. senator repeated his call for billionaires to pay more in taxes. Most Read from Bloomberg Musk even raised the notion of selling more of his Tesla Inc. shares, which would require him to pay capital gains taxes. The 80-year-old Sanders, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020, on Saturday tweeted that “we must… Source link

Microsoft has published its list of IP addresses that Bingbot, the Microsoft Bing crawler, users when crawling your web site. Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said “to help all webmasters, we also published Bingbot IP ranges.” Bingbot IPs. You can access the current list of Bingbot’s IP addresses over here. It is a JSON file that Microsoft can maintain. Verify Bingbot. You can also verify Bingbot using this tool and also through the IP addresses listed above. Microsoft… Source link

OSLO, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Telenor (TEL.OL) and Alphabet Inc’s Google Cloud (GOOGL.O) have formed a partnership to digitalise the Norwegian telecom company’s global operations and are exploring ways to jointly offer services to customers, the two companies said on Monday. The firms will not only use Google Cloud’s services to boost Telenor’s own IT and network, but also collaborate to provide Telenor’s customers with digital tools, their respective chief executives told Reuters. Oslo-based… Source link

Google is working on an app to help people with disabilities better communicate. (Bigstock) Google wants to make it easier for people with disabilities that affect their speech to communicate with those around them and they’re looking for some help. The company has developed an app that’s able to decipher the speech patterns of those with impairments. The app known as Project Relate can be used to transcribe spoken words to text in real time and it can speak the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Soros Fund Management increased its bets on real estate and financial stocks during the last quarter, while the value of its U.S. equity portfolio dipped to less than $5 billion. Most Read from Bloomberg George Soros’s investment firm disclosed new positions in Hill-Rom Holdings Inc., MGM Growth Properties LLC, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc., according to a regulatory filing Friday. The New York-based firm increased stakes in IHS Markit Ltd. and homebuilder… Source link

Reuters IBM, Amazon partner to extend reach of data tools for oil companies International Business Machines Corp and Amazon.com Inc’s Amazon Web Services said on Monday they would work together to extend the reach of a set of tools that oil companies use to manage disparate types of data. Amazon in 2018 worked with Royal Dutch Shell to create a technology to turn data from more than a century of oil production, largely from paper records, into a standardized format for multinational oil… Source link

Warren Buffett saw inflation coming early on — 8 tips to help you come out ahead Rising prices and uncertainty about how long they’ll last are putting Americans in a bad mood. Inflation was significantly worse than expected in October, with consumer prices soaring 6.2% from a year ago. That inflation rate was the steepest in more than 30 years, with energy, housing, food and cars leading the way. When prices began accelerating earlier this year, some experts, including the “Oracle of… Source link

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Investors this week will be focused on data on the consumer, with both retail sales and earnings results from two retail giants set for release.  The total value of retail sales in the U.S. is expected to have climbed by 1.1% month-on-month in October, according to the Commerce Department’s latest monthly print on Tuesday. This would accelerate from a 0.7% monthly advance in September, which had been an unexpected increase at the time given that many economists were anticipating that a rise… Source link