SUNNYVALE, Calif. and TOKYO, May 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Seven-Eleven Japan is advancing its digital transformation strategy with Seven Central, its data cloud platform built on Google Cloud that consolidates and analyzes data from its 21,000 stores across the country to drive real-time business decision making. At its core, Seven Central’s purpose is to enable real-time data views to enable faster business decision making. It brings siloed point of sale (POS) data from Seven-Eleven Japan… Source link

On May 6, 2021, Google announced that beginning in the second quarter of 2022, mobile app developers submitting new apps and app updates to the Google Play store will be required to disclose… Source link

The past few weeks haven’t exactly been a golden age for the Golden Globes. The annual event honoring film and television has been embroiled in near-constant controversy following a February investigation by the Los Angeles Timesthat discovered the group behind the Globes, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, did not have a single Black member among its ranks, among other troubling revelations. By mid-March, Hollywood’s leading publicists joined with representatives from Time’s Up and… Source link

TipRanks Buy These 2 New Stocks Before They Jump Over 80%, Says JPMorgan In the past week, investors have had to cope with multiple conflicting signals from the markets. The April jobs report, which was expected to show almost 1 million new positions for the month, showed only 266,000. The official unemployment number ticked upward slightly to 6.1%, and hourly wages also gained – by 0.7%. That last would seem to be a positive – except that, combined with the massive government stimulus… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yahoo Sports’ Launch Pad – Salvador Pérez splashes a 460-footer  Yahoo! Voices Source link

(Bloomberg) — Wall Street traders like Trey Griggs are finding a new lease on life in the $2.4 trillion crypto Wild West. After two decades in energy trading, the 51-year-old was lured by a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. colleague this February into a new world of market-making in digital currencies. Now he’s in fighting spirits — unleashing old-school finance tricks to exploit the industry’s rampant inefficiencies, volatility and downright weirdness. “All the fun that used to be had 30… Source link

Shocked I am, shocked beyond words. A new study from Brigham Young University (BYU) found that a highly-touted smartphone capability claim from both Apple and Google is indeed complete nonsense. The feature, in this case, is Apple’s Night Shift (and Android’s Night Mode), which adjusts a device’s screen to warmer hues, theoretically allowing users to get to sleep faster. BYU detailed the perception, the myth Apple and Google played upon, and then obliterated… Source link

The next time you open your Google browser, you might come across a doodle drawn by local 4th grader Makenna Krukenberg of Bismarck, but she needs your help to make this a reality.   Named the North Dakota winner in the Doodle for Google competition, Makenna’s doodle is now in the running to be picked as a national finalist in her grade group. There will be 5 national finalists in total, one of which will go on to become the national winner. Contestants were asked to use… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Alphabet Inc. and Facebook Inc. tumbled on Monday, leading a broad move lower in internet stocks after Citigroup Inc. warned about the outlook for digital advertising, a key source of revenue for the sector. The firm downgraded both names to neutral from buy, writing that “caution is in order” for companies that derive revenue from digital advertising. While ad budgets are expected to continue shifting online, growth is likely to decelerate, and “historically, that… Source link

Goldman Sachs thinks the surprisingly lackluster April jobs report could be partially explained on the generosity of Uncle Sam.  “We see two partial explanations for the payrolls disappointment. First, reopening effects likely overlapped with normal seasonal hiring patterns, resulting in less-impressive job gains on a seasonally-adjusted basis. Second, labor supply appears to be tighter than the unemployment rate suggests, likely reflecting the impact of unusually generous unemployment… Source link