Google is announcing a handful of updates to Google Maps, including one that will show toll prices before you start navigating to where you want to go. “We look at factors like the cost of using a toll pass or other payment methods, what the day of the week it is, along with how much the toll is expected to cost at the specific time you’ll be crossing it,” Google said in a blog post. If a toll-free route is available, that will be shown as an option as well. The feature will begin… Source link

All eyes are on AT&T’s (T) WarnerMedia spinoff with Discovery (DISCA). “This is going to be the most exciting story in the sector for the next few years,” Jessica Reif, research analyst at Bank of America, confidently told Yahoo Finance. The telecom giant revealed it will issue a special dividend to shareholders on April 5 when they can decide whether to own just AT&T, the soon-to-be Warner Bros. Discovery, or both. AT&T’s WarnerMedia will represent 71% of Warner Bros. Discover, and its… Source link

In free agency, the Minnesota Vikings signed edge rusher Za’Darius Smith, but the work is not done! While they have spoken about wanting to get a Danielle Hunter extension done, neither Hunter nor Smith are a guarantee after this season. On tonight’s show, Yahoo Sports’ Eric Edholm joins the show to discuss the edge class in-depth. How good is it at the top? How deep is it? When should the Vikings take an edge? Find out tonight on The Real Forno Show at 8 central! After that, we… Source link

Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said that the central bank can raise interest rates more aggressively to dampen the high rate of inflation felt by Americans. Brainard, who is awaiting a confirmation vote to serve in the central bank’s number two role, added that policymakers are attuned to the disparate impacts of inflation on particularly lower-income households. “Currently, inflation is much too high and is subject to upside risks,” Brainard said at a conference Tuesday. “The… Source link

Inflation is the biggest threat to Joe Biden’s presidency. Prices are rising nearly 8% per year, and could go higher still before Federal Reserve rate hikes or other measures bring some relief to family budgets. But inflation isn’t the only risk Biden faces, and a key cohort of voters have another major complaint: student debt. As a candidate in 2020, Biden pledged to cancel up to $10,000 in student debt per borrower. As president, however, Biden has done very little, and he’s once… Source link

PHOTO: Adobe Stock Google announced earlier this month that its Universal Analytics platform will stop collecting new data on July 1, 2023. Google Analytics 4 will serve as the new analytics property type from the search giant, offering more privacy protection and using data-driven attribution to analyze the impact of marketing efforts across the entire customer journey. Craft a Strategy to Make the Switch to Google Analytics 4 Dialpad CMO Morgan Norman said marketing teams need to… Source link

After more than two years of remote work and multiple return-to-office delays, most Google employees are heading back to the office at least part-time — and ex-Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt couldn’t be happier about it. “[I]t’s important that these people be at the office, in my view,” Schmidt, 66, tells CNBC Make It, arguing that for decades, the in-office style has been proven effective. “I’m a traditionalist.” Starting Monday, Google’s hybrid work arrangement kicked off, with most… Source link

After three weeks of holding up traffic on the D.C. Beltway, the so-called “truckers’ convoy” is moving on from Washington D.C., for now. One person who will clearly not miss them is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who oversees the trucking industry and is currently in the middle of an effort to recruit more drivers to the field. He says the rhetoric from right-wing protest group, which originally formed to protest coronavirus mandates, is not representative of truckers overall. Asked… Source link

Over a decade ago, a group of employees at Yahoo were struggling to compete with Google Maps as the younger firm aggressively outspent its rivals and scaled its offering with a grand vision and unmatched risk-appetite. “We didn’t have the same kind of budget and they ultimately won. But as a competitive person that was deeply frustrating to me,” said Ariel Seidman, who served as a product manager at Yahoo. Soon enough, Siedman co-founded Gigwalk and attempted to use smartphones to… Source link

This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Abhinav in New Delhi, who writes: “How can article aggregator sites outperform the original source? Google has various guidelines on aggregator copy not performing well, and much is said of not showing duplicate content across the web. Yet RSS aggregator sites URLs are indexed, even knowing it’s 100% duplicate content. Why does Google index them, knowing their duplicate content and how can they possibly outperform the original… Source link