Nigel Kinrade/NKP/Motorsport Images/Shutterstock / Nigel Kinrade/NKP/Motorsport Images/Shutterstock Baby Doge, a “new crypto birthed by fans of the Doge Coin online community,” is making its NASCAR debut Saturday, as the coin’s branding will be featured on driver Brandon Brown’s No. 68 Chevrolet Camaro. See: Visa Crypto-Linked Cards Have Amassed $1 Billion in Spending so Far this Year, Company Launches New Card with BlockFiFind: Is the Shiba Inu Coin the Cryptocurrency You Should Be… Source link

If Beyond Meat could get people quickly ordering its newest innovation, perhaps the chicken shortage plaguing restaurants may ease by the year 2023.  On Thursday, the plant-based food company led Ethan Brown took the wraps off its new breaded chicken tenders. The tendies — as one would surmise from Beyond Meat — are plant-based, with the starring ingredient giving it a chicken flavor being the fava bean.  Beyond Meat (BYND) is no stranger to the faux chicken game. At one-time it sold… Source link

U.S. and Canada: Top 50 food and grocery retailers by salesThe SN Top 50 Retailers report is compiled in partnership between Supermarket News and research partner IGD, a leading UK-based analysis and insight organization for the food and consumer goods industry. The table includes the rankings of the Top 50 food and grocery retailers and wholesalers in the U.S. and Canada, including supermarkets, mass merchandisers, dollar stores, convenience stores and drugstores. Sales figures… Source link

Google Meet is getting new video filters, effects, and augmented reality masks for personal calls on iOS and Android, the search giant has announced. They’re available via the sparkle icon at the bottom right of your video feed during a call, which brings up a carousel of different effects that include color filters and animated AR face effects. Most of the options are only available for personal Gmail accounts, while Workspace users have to keep things more professional with a limited… Source link

Drug tests are no longer required for most jobs in the municipal offices for Isle, Minnesota, a small town tucked on the southeastern corner of the Mille Lacs Lake. The reason? The town’s liquor store needs just one more person so that its owner, Don Graber, can stop working double shifts on the weekend. “There’s a lot of things that are scaring away potential hires and that was one of them,” Graber told Yahoo Finance. Graber successfully lobbied the town to eliminate the drug test, a… Source link

PARIS, July 8 (Reuters) – France’s anti-trust watchdog will make a decision in the coming days over the way Google (GOOGL.O) held copyright talks with some French publishers about paying for news content, the watchdog’s head Isabelle de Silva said on Thursday. Antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet’s Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over copyright, sources who read the investigators’ report… Source link

Russian tech giant Yandex (YNDX) has launched an electric scooter rental service in parts of Moscow and plans to expand it to more areas over time. The service is available through the company’s Yandex.Go app. The app will help customers locate a scooter after selecting a city. First-time customers will be required to view an instruction video on how to navigate safely. Yandex plans to launch an educational program targeting first-time users of electric scooters. (See Yandex stock charts on… Source link

Google used anticompetitive practices in an attempt to “preemptively quash” Samsung’s Galaxy Store, and prevent it from becoming a viable competitor to its own Play Store. That’s according to an antitrust lawsuit filed by a coalition of three dozen state attorney general, which accuses Google of illegally attempting to control app distribution on Android. The suit also alleges Google paid off app developers to stop them circumventing its store. The allegations challenge one of… 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 Thursday, July 8, 2021 Quits have never been a bigger part of restaurant worker churn By now, Morning Brief readers have likely become familiar with everyone’s favorite hipster economic data report: JOLTS.  Short for the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), the report has been closely watched by investors for… Source link

A string of corporate news also moved individual stocks in London. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images Stocks in Europe slumped into the red on Thursday as concerns around rising inflation resurfaced after signals from the US Federal Reserve. In London, the FTSE 100 (^FTSE) nosedived 1.9%, hovering just above the 7,000 point mark, while the CAC (^FCHI) was 2.2% down in France, and the DAX (^GDAXI) fell 1.6 % in Germany. “The FTSE 100 fell with miners and banks the principal… Source link