Apple, whose stock is perched at a record high, is inching closer to becoming a $3 trillion company as Wall Street gets bullish on its future. The tech giant saw its shares jump more than 3% following Morgan Stanley’s Kathy Huberty note to investors about raising price target from $164 to $200. Huberty argued that it’s time to consider the company’s plans to launch an augmented reality product and self-driving car in the next few years. Similarly bullish sentiment came from KeyBanc… Source link

Russian search engine Yandex is more likely to promote conspiracy theory-related content in its search results than any other major search engine, according to a new study published Wednesday. More than half of Yandex’s first-page search results for controversial terms such as “flat earth” and “George Soros” were for pages that promoted conspiracy theories, researchers at the University of Zurich found. That was a significantly higher share than among the results… Source link

Yandex NV (YNDX) is higher by Wednesday morning, with the stock rising 1.93% in pre-market trading to 68.3. YNDX’s short-term technical score of 31 indicates that the stock has traded less bullishly over the last month than 69% of stocks on the market. In the Internet Content & Information industry, which ranks 134 out of 146 industries, Yandex NV ranks higher than 55% of stocks. Yandex NV has fallen 22.14% over the past month, closing at… Source link

Each year, Google puts out lists of top trending searches in the United States, giving readers a tantalizing view into America’s collective id. Rather than simply show what people searched for the most, these lists highlight the words and phrases people are searching for this year that they weren’t the year before. In effect, these searches speak to our latest fears, desires, and questions — the things we were too embarrassed to ask anyone but Google. As Google data editor Simon… 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, December 8, 2021 Blank-check companies have matured, but still look like the ‘Wild West’ It’s been a rough week for special purpose acquisition companies, the funding vehicles better known as a SPAC. Once upon a time referred to as “blank-check” companies, SPACs are firms that go public with the express purpose of raising capital to… Source link

That’s what is clear from Google’s annual “Year in Search” list, released Wednesday. Each year, the tech company analyzes which search terms saw the highest spike over the course of the last year. Those questions and phrases that saw unusually high growth in searches can show the company what information needs to be made more accessible and teaches us a little more about what we all experienced together. After people spent 2020 trying to survive and understand the global pandemic, this… Source link

Google (GOOGL) released its annual “Year in Search” list on Wednesday, offering a glimpse into the top trending search terms that saw a spike in traffic from the year prior, both globally and broken down by country and categories. Last year, “coronavirus” predictably topped the trending search list globally and dominated much of the US list. This year, the top trending global searches were more sports-focused. The Australia vs India Men’s World Cup cricket match and India’s match against… Source link

Have a gamepad handy and a recent LG TV? You can likely now try Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform — as of today, it’s an app you can download for your television running webOS 5.0 or webOS 6.0 (read: likely 2020 models or later) in any of the 22 countries that Google covers. You’ll find it in the LG app store on your TV. LG promised that both Google Stadia and Nvidia’s rival GeForce Now cloud gaming service would arrive on its TVs in 2021, and the company’s made it under… Source link

Stock futures opened higher Tuesday evening after a technology-led rally during the regular trading day, as investors looked through concerns over the Omicron variant and a potential policy pivot by the Federal Reserve.  Contracts on the Nasdaq Composite opened in the green. Earlier, the index closed higher by more than 3%, posting its best day since March. The S&P 500 and Dow also advanced solidly, rising more than 2% and 1.4% during the session, respectively. Treasury yields climbed, and… Source link

Antonio Brown taught us a few things last week. First, COVID-19 vaccination cards are nowhere near the foolproof passport we’ve treated them to be.  Second, if someone is determined to refuse a mandate to get a shot, obtaining some slick documentation to evade it isn’t that hard.  Third — and this was the detail that undercut Brown and two other players in the NFL’s investigation — eliminating loose strings in your story goes a long way toward “misrepresenting” your vaccination… Source link