Sept 24 (Reuters) – Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai in 2019 was warned that describing the company’s Incognito browsing mode as “private” was problematic, yet it stayed the course because he did not want the feature “under the spotlight,” according to a new court filing. Google spokesman José Castañeda told Reuters that the filing “mischaracterizes emails referencing unrelated second and third-hand accounts.” The Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit’s privacy disclosures have generated… Source link

Starbucks’ (SBUX) famous Pumpkin Spice Latte has not only helped boost the coffee chain’s foot traffic, but also social media conversations about the classic fall flavor.  Social media analytics company Sprout Social compiled data on volume, keywords and conversation trends between August 1 and September 21. The firm found that pumpkin is still the most talked about fall flavor — despite the fact that Starbucks recently debuted its new Apple Crisp Macchiato this year.  Online conversations… Source link

Mention the name of Sunrise to a select demographic of nerds and you’re likely to elicit a visceral reaction. Before Microsoft and about a year later, it was one of those apps people loved to praise. Thoughtful design and features helped it differentiate itself and earn a passionate fanbase in a crowded market that was dominated by heavyweights like GCal. But then Microsoft shut down the app and fans were left to look elsewhere, with almost no alternative coming in to fill the void. But… Source link

Russian search giant Yandex this week announced that it has spun out its distributed column-oriented analytic database ClickHouse into its own company. Based in New York City, ClickHouse Inc. also was given $50 million in Series A capital to jumpstart its business. Moscow-based Yandex started developing the ClickHouse database in 2009, and it was put into service several years later the OLAP backend for its Yandex.Metrica Web analytics service. The database’s main advantage was the… Source link

Cue Health, which makes at-home Covid-19 testing kidds, made its public market debut Friday. Cue Health In April, Google started sending at-home Covid-19 tests to its U.S. employees from a little-known start-up in San Diego called Cue Health. Most of Cue Health’s business up to that point had come from a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide rapid tests to the federal government. Google instantly became the health-tech company’s biggest private sector customer. Cue Health has used… Source link

When it comes to online calendars and calendar apps, services like Google Calendar and Outlook from Microsoft rule the roost with hundreds of millions of users globally. Now another company is hoping to ruffle some feathers with its own move into the space. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Yahoo is working on called Day, a new standalone calendar app. Sources tell us the company has recruited Jeremy Le Van — who had co-founded another calendaring app, Sunrise, and eventually… Source link

For more business and finance explainers, check out our Yahoo U page. For the federal government, “raise the roof” is anything but fun — it means things could spiral into disaster. It all concerns a legislative feature that has existed in American politics for over 100 years: the debt ceiling. As a mechanism to enforce prudence over government spending, Congress establishes a statutory limit on the amount of money that the federal government owes. When the government breaches that limit,… Source link

Unvaccinated Americans are still driving a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in various parts of the country, and one doctor believes that the country needs to appreciate the power of vaccines throughout history. “For us in the medical field and for the population in general, we forgot how bad these diseases are — how bad smallpox, how bad polio, how bad measles is — because they’ve been eradicated for the largest part in many parts of the world, especially the developing… Source link

Could you please feel outraged? Again? For the last 10 or 20 years, politicians, mostly Democratic, have been trying to point out some vast inequities in the U.S. tax system. In 2011, President Obama proposed the “Buffett rule,” which would require billionaires such as Warren Buffett to pay taxes at the same rate as middle-class workers. Buffett has long pointed out that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, because of the wide disparity in tax rates on regular income and on gains… Source link

The Nest Audio. Chris Monroe/CNET Google is getting ready to announce its next… Source link