By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Companies including GM, Ford, Google and solar energy producers said on Tuesday they would work together to establish standards for scaling up the use of virtual power plants (VPPs), systems for easing loads on electricity grids when supply is short. Energy transition nonprofit RMI will host the initiative, the Virtual Power Plant Partnership (VP3), which will also aim to shape policy for promoting the use of the systems, the companies said. Virtual… Source link

Tesla’s beat-up stock (TSLA) price may have one more move left in it to the downside before buyers could finally emerge with a little gusto. At least that’s the message from Tesla’s stock chart. “Tesla is now officially oversold,” said market technician and Fundstrat Managing Director Mark Newton on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “I’m looking right down under $100 right before Tesla’s earnings happen right towards the end of the month, and that’s when a lot of my own cycles start to show… Source link

Google has been the unassailable leader among search engines for around 20 years. However, Microsoft ‘s reported plans to integrate artificial-intelligence technology from OpenAI into its search tools are raising questions about whether it could threaten Google’s dominance.  Source link

US-based ecommerce software company BigCommerce has partnered Microsoft Advertising to launch Microsoft Ads and Listings for merchants on the BigCommerce Marketplace.   Following this announcement, Big Commerce merchants of all sizes are enabled to integrate their stores directly and reach millions of potential new customers across the Microsoft Advertising Network, who are thought to have increased purchasing power, engage more with ads, and have a higher probability of purchasing… Source link

The rumored Xiaomi 13 Lite made a stop on the Google Play Console database which revealed its design and some key specs. The device is codenamed Ziyi which matches the Xiaomi Civi 2 while the linked image looks identical to the Xiaomi Civi 1S. Xiaomi 13 Lite listing on Google Play Console The rest of the specs on the GPC listing confirm a 1080 x 2400px screen resolution, the Snapdragon 7 Gen 1 chip chipset alongside 8 GB RAM. The software side is covered by Android 12. Previous… Source link

BigCommerce BigCommerce merchants will be able to reach Microsoft Advertising’s audience of over one billion users BigCommerce has partnered with Microsoft Advertising to release Microsoft Ads and Listings in the BigCommerce Marketplace. This  will extend audience reach for BigCommerce merchants, drive more traffic via the Microsoft Advertising Network and optimise… Source link

Jenny Wood Tim Gillies Have you ever been told “you’re too much?” Perhaps someone accused you of being too sensitive, too loud, or said you ask too many questions. Jenny Wood, the founder of Google’s Own Your Career program, says there’s no such thing as being “too much.” In fact, she says, being “a bit much leads to much more” in your career. She would know. Jenny is not only an executive running a large operations team at Google that helps drive tens of billions of… Source link

A new tool will help developers find out which phones support which features Android’s biggest strength and weakness is its fragmentation. It’s great that Android allows us to get hundreds of amazing smartphones from all kinds of manufacturers every year, but this also means that all of these devices need their own update channels—and some of them just inevitably get left behind. Google was able to fix a lot of problems related to this by decoupling core… Source link

A version of 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 Tuesday, January 10, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Julie Hyman, anchor and correspondent at Yahoo Finance. Follow Julie on Twitter @juleshyman. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. Fourth-quarter earnings season begins in earnest this Friday with big banks reporting results, and investors are bracing… Source link

On the 10th day of January, we have 10 games on the NHL docket. That makes for an assortment of options for your DFS lineups. To try and give you a leg up, here are my players to target, and to avoid, for your contests. GOALIE Andrei Vasilevskiy, TAM vs. CLM ($40): Vasilevskiy didn’t look great in his return from illness, but he should hopefully be fine by now. He also has a 2.45 GAA and .919 save percentage. Apparently adding Johnny Gaudreau wasn’t enough for the Blue Jackets. They’ve… Source link