CEO Sundar Pichai is stressed about Google’s plan to become carbon free over the next decade. That means the company aims to use no carbon-based energy whatsoever by 2030. “It’s a long shot, it stresses me out in terms of how to get there,” Pichai said at a virtual climate change event hosted by earth-imaging platform Planet in July. But “you bet on technology and innovation,” he said. Google has been carbon neutral since 2007, Pichai said. That means that though Google’s operations still… Source link

Alphabet Inc. is the most vulnerable Big Tech company on the regulatory front, but don’t expect that to matter when the search giant reports second-quarter financial results Tuesday. The leading digital advertising company and Google GOOGL, +3.58% GOOG, +3.37% parent company faces at least five government antitrust lawsuits, primarily for its dominance in the search market. And that dominance, to no one’s surprise,… Source link

(For a Reuters live blog on U.S., UK and European stock markets, click LIVE/ or type LIVE/ in a news window.)    * Social media stocks rally after upbeat results    * AmEx jumps on blowout Q2 profit    * Intel sales forecast implies rocky second half    * Indexes up: Dow 0.51%, S&P 0.77%, Nasdaq 0.80% (Adds comments, updates prices to early afternoon)    By Devik Jain and Shreyashi Sanyal    July 23 (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq indexes hit record highs on Friday and were on… Source link

Crocs CEO Andrew Rees continues to lead one of the hottest footwear brands on the planet, a brand founded in 2002 that has seen its fair share of peaks and valleys in consumer adoption. Rees tells Yahoo Finance Live the company is still firing on all cylinders for several reasons, besides just inking buzzy partnerships with an influencer such as Justin Bieber and high-end fashion brand Balenciaga.  “It’s comfortable [the shoes], it’s easy on and off. It’s lightweight, so it’s very easy to… Source link

Google’s Doodle for the opening day of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is practically a full-size video game. Doodle Champion Island Games is a classic top-down, RPG-style sports adventure featuring seven minigame events and global leaderboards. Doodle Champion Island is the work of Tokyo-based Studio 4°C, an award-winning animation studio that has worked on 2010’s Halo Legends film series; 2011’s Thundercats TV series, and 2015’s Batman: Arkham Knight for Rocksteady Studios. The… Source link

Through a collaboration with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and as part of the NeurIPS conference on machine learning (ML), Yandex is to launch the global ‘Shifts Challenge’. The three-pronged competition is designed to tackle the problem of distributional shift in ML and features the largest autonomous vehicle (AV) data set in the industry to date. Containing 600,000 scenes, equivalent to over 1,600 hours of driving, the data set was collected through self-driving… Source link

The rate at which Americans quit their jobs hit a historic high this spring, and workers may not be done job-hopping this year. More than a third of workers (37%) are either thinking of leaving their current jobs or are already preparing to make the move, according to a Yahoo Finance/Harris Poll survey of 1,639 U.S. adults conducted June 25-28, 2021. Four in five of the potential quitters (83%) want to make the move in the next six months, while the same percentage said they’ve been… Source link

(Corrects to remove reference to three stocks in fourth paragraph) * Social media stocks rally after strong results * AmEx jumps on blowout Q2 profit * Intel sales forecast implies rocky second half of 2021 * Indexes up: Dow 0.39%, S&P 0.44%, Nasdaq 0.26% By Devik Jain and Shreyashi Sanyal July 23 (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes rose on Friday, helped by megacap technology stocks and strong earnings from social media companies, while a weak sales forecast from Intel hit chipmakers amid… Source link

The key to profitable investing is building a profile that combines powerful potential with an economical point of entry. It’s a strategy that will frequently suggest a closer look at stocks in the micro- and small-cap size range, companies with valuations less than $2 billion. These smaller firms frequently feature share prices below $10, and triple-digit upsides to sweeten the pot. Using TipRanks’ database, we’ve found two stocks that fit this profile: A market cap under $500 million and… Source link

With more COVID hotspots popping up around the country and the Delta variant as the dominant strain, unvaccinated individuals in the U.S. may be more vulnerable than at any other point when vaccines were available amid the pandemic.  “If you are unvaccinated, this is probably the most dangerous point in time of the pandemic to date,” Dr. Sejal Hathi, faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “It’s incredibly important that… Source link