Stocks rose on Monday, with investors further weighing the potential impacts of the Omicron variant after last week’s volatile trading. Bitcoin prices edged marginally lower after a weekend sell-off. The S&P 500 and Dow each gained, while the Nasdaq was slightly lower. Small-cap stocks outperformed, and the Russell 2000 added about 1%.  Some encouraging developments about the latest coronavirus variant helped boost risk assets. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy… Source link

Microsoft (MSFT) has had a stunning year. After nearly 50 years in business, the tech giant crashed through the $2 trillion market capitalization mark in June, joining an exclusive club that includes Apple and, for a brief moment, Google parent Alphabet. As of Dec. 6, Microsoft was worth a staggering $2.4 trillion. Over the last 52 weeks, Microsoft’s stock price has skyrocketed 45%, easily outpacing the broader S&P 500, which rose 21%, not to mention rivals Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN),… Source link

Arkady Volozh Extends Lock-up for an Additional Two Years Moscow and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 6, 2021 – Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX) today announces that its founder, CEO and principal shareholder, Arkady Volozh, has agreed to a further lock-up of his Class B shares. Arkady has agreed with Yandex that he (and his family trust) will not sell or transfer any Class B shares during the next two years, ending December 31,… Source link

Exhibit 99.1   Arkady Volozh Extends Lock-up for an Additional Two Years Moscow and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, December 6, 2021 – Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX) today announces that its founder, CEO and principal shareholder, Arkady Volozh, has agreed to a further lock-up of his Class B shares. Arkady has agreed with Yandex that he (and his family trust) will not sell or transfer any Class B shares during the next two years, ending December 31, 2023. This is an extension of the lock-up… Source link

You may have sliced a few pizzas on Monday’s Google Doodle, which features versions of the culinary favorite from all over the world. Google’s interactive Doodle allows you to slice pizza using your cursor, with certain rules about the number of slices you get and the toppings that need to go on each slice. The pizzas represent cultures from all over the world, including Italy, Argentina, Canada, Hungary, Japan, Thailand, India and Brazil. Why are we celebrating pizza on Dec. 6? On the… Source link

How often do you turn to Google? Every day? Multiple times a day? If you’re focused on privacy, there are better options. Tap or click for alternatives to Google that work well without gathering so much of your data. You shouldn’t turn to Google, or any other search site, to diagnose symptoms. Tap or click for reasons you should ditch Dr. Google. When it comes to finding what you want, some tricks make the job easy. Here are 10 Google tips to try: 1. Filter search results by date Let’s say… 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 Monday, December 6, 2021 Most investors will enter this week confused after battling through another topsy-turvy trading week.  Bitcoin nosedived at its worst by 20% over the weekend (more on that below). Last week, the S&P 500 saw five straight losses of at least 1% at one point each day, according to Bloomberg data. Small-cap stocks as measured… Source link

Bitcoin was trading near two-month lows. Photo: Getty Images Cryptocurrencies were down on Monday morning after bitcoin’s price took a battering over the weekend. Bitcoin (BTC-USD) was down almost 3% at the time of writing, trading at $48,143 (£36,304). That’s almost 30% down from its all-time high of $69,000, which it hit last month. Over the weekend it had fallen to about $42,000. The crypto was trading near two-month lows as a level near $42,000 was last seen in the first few sessions… Source link

In association with Yahoo. In the run-up to the festive season, ExchangeWire speaks to Yahoo’s Selma Ali (insights director) and Joe Connors (director, buyer development) to discuss the key trends for marketers in the coming weeks and how data can be leveraged by retailers in both online and offline contexts. What are the key shopping trends marketers and retailers should be aware of over this Christmas period and how will these differ compared to last year? We have just published our… Source link

Good luck to her, because this will be a tough battle. Big Tech carries out its own AI research with much more money, effectively sucking oxygen out of the room for everyone else. In 2019, for instance, Microsoft Corp. invested $1 billion into OpenAI, the research firm co-founded by Elon Musk, to power its development of a massive language-predicting system called GPT-3. A Harvard University study on AI ethics, published Wednesday, said that investment went to a project run by just 150… Source link