Today, we are excited to announce a new chapter in our partnership with Google: a multiyear agreement that represents a first-of-its-kind option in payment choice and offers opportunities for both consumers and developers.   Users who’ve downloaded Spotify from the Google Play Store will be presented with a choice to pay with either Spotify’s payment system or with Google Play Billing. For the first time, these two options will live side by side… Source link

Google will no longer sell movies and TV shows from the Google Play app starting in May, the company announced (via Ars Technica). Instead, you’ll be able to get movies and shows from the Google TV app. “On Google TV, you will find the same experience you are used to on Google Play Movies & TV with the latest new releases, rentals, deals, and great recommendations for you,” according to a company support page. Content you have already purchased will be available in the Google TV… Source link

Oil at $150 a barrel is not “outside the realm” of possibilities, says one energy trader. “It’s hard to take anything off the table right now. Russia is starting to retaliate with its own response to U.S. sanctions, whether that’s demanding payments in rubles or potentially not allowing crude to flow through a very prominent pipeline through Kazakhstan,” Rebecca Babin, senior equity trader for CIBC Private Wealth, told Yahoo Finance Live. “As we’ve seen this escalate in ways that were very low… Source link

Google on Wednesday released a new directory of agencies and marketers participating in its Partners program so that companies looking to hire Google Ads experts have an easy resource to turn to. However, for search marketers, the announcement meant a bit more: A recommitment to a program that previously lost a lot of good faith with marketers. What happened? In February 2020, Google said it planned to change the requirements for participating partners, which included… Source link

Google has introduced a new sidebar feature to Chrome, which lets you quickly access your bookmarks and reading list while using the desktop version of the browser (via 9to5Google). Previously, the reading list’s main home was as a button on the bookmark bar, which not everyone has enabled. Clicking the side panel button, which looks like a rectangle with a shaded portion on the right side, will show or hide the panel. Once you’ve got it open, you can access the same reading list… Source link

The reaction to a potential COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough for young children out of Moderna (MRNA) may have some traders scratching their heads. Shares of the biotech fell 3% on Wednesday on positive interim data released by Moderna for its coronavirus vaccine for children under six years old. Moderna said the shots were about 44% effective in preventing Omicron in children six months up to two years old. “We believe these latest results from the KidCOVE study are good news for parents of… Source link

March 23 (Reuters) – Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it will pause all ads containing content that exploits, dismisses or condones the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. The move follows many major social media platforms that have announced new content restrictions around the conflict, including blocking Russian state media RT and Sputnik in the European Union. Earlier this month, the search giant said it had stopped selling all online ads in Russia. Register now for FREE… Source link

Starbucks stock (SBUX) has fallen out of favor with investors. Shares of the coffee-selling powerhouse are down 20% in the past year, according to Yahoo Finance Plus data, badly lagging the S&P 500’s 14% gain. McCafé coffee seller McDonald’s has seen its stock rise 6% in the past year, while Restaurant Brands (which owns coffee chain Tim Horton’s) shares are down 10%. Jefferies analyst Andy Barish in a new note on Wednesday points to three things holding back shares of Starbucks. “The factors… Source link

Google Cloud today launched its Suspend/Resume feature for virtual machines into general availability. Before it launched this feature as an alpha a couple of years ago, the only option developers had were to stop and start instances. With Suspend/Resume, the experience is more akin to closing and opening the lid on your laptop, Google argues. While the instance is suspended, you don’t pay for the cores and RAM it would typically use. Instead, you only pay for the storage cost of the… Source link

Disney workers are taking a stand amid the company’s response to Florida’s controversial Parental Rights in Education Act, which critics have infamously dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. On Tuesday, employees staged several walkouts in protest of CEO Bob Chapek’s handling of the bill, which passed through the state’s legislature and is now awaiting signature from Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. If signed, the bill would prohibit classroom discussions regarding sexual orientation and gender… Source link