Google headquarters in Mountain View, California.  Richard Nieva/CNET Google on Wednesday said… Source link

As investor interest in cryptocurrency spikes, bitcoin could rise to $1 million over the next five years, one expert told Yahoo Finance Live. “Bitcoin is going to $1 million a coin,” CoinDesk Learn Editor Ollie Leech said. “I actually believe that it will, at some stage, with just the scarcity aspect alone, it makes it an incredibly exciting asset to hold… Bitcoin is uncontested.” The timing of bitcoin crossing $1 million is the big question. Leech says the next bitcoin halving — a… Source link

A shareholder resolution calls for a third-party audit of Google’s whistleblower policies. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A year after Alphabet’s board voted against a measure to review its whistleblower protections, one of its shareholders is pushing the measure again in the hope that institutional investors will bolster support for the effort in light of high profile firings at its subsidiary, Google and complaints of illegally spying on employees. Brought by Trillium… Source link

Google is giving its employees more flexibility to work from different locations or entirely from home, taking a more lenient policy as the Alphabet Inc. company prepares for a return to office life after the pandemic. Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai outlined the plan to staff in a note Wednesday morning. The influential Silicon Valley giant, one of the first to send employees home in 2020, has slowly opened its offices, but said its employees can work remotely until September. Google… Source link

Bloomberg ‘Worse Than Brexit’: Scottish Independence Weighs on U.K. Assets (Bloomberg) — A week that could set in motion the eventual collapse of the 314-year union between England and Scotland is concentrating City trading desks on market disasters ahead.As Scots enter a May 6 vote pitched on whether there should be a second independence referendum, fund managers and sell-side strategists see potential for massive chaos across the U.K.’s economic landscape in the years to come. Yet in… Source link

Google Google on Wednesday announced the launch of a new entertainment hub for Android tablets… Source link

Quail Hollow Club returns this week to host another Wells Fargo Championship. The course is one of the longest on TOUR. It’s loaded up to 7,521 yards as a par-71 layout. Distance is a clear advantage when you get a course that long. There are two stats I will focus on this week and both of them bake in power as part of the equation. I want to find golfers that can stripe it off the tee and also attack from long range on approach (200+ yards). Let’s jump into the numbers to see if any value… Source link

Earlier this week, Verizon announced it is selling AOL and Yahoo to private equity group Apollo for a hefty $5 billion, backing off its foray into media and advertising technology (adtech) and retrenching to its core competence as a mobile telco. This news should come as no surprise.  When Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 and then Yahoo in 2017 for approximately $9 billion combined, the industry reaction was mixed (and rightly so):  Pro: Verizon getting into the media business was a sign… Source link

Android tablets may have been in decline, but it seems like the pandemic made us care about them again. According to Google, in the last year, “we’ve seen over 30 percent more people start using Android tablets compared to the prior year.” To make these devices potentially more useful, the company is announcing a new feature today called Entertainment Space that serves as a portal for all the media apps you’ve installed.  In a blog post, product manager for Google Play James Bender wrote… Source link