Hotel Bills Influencer MillionsYouTube “Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.” Soon after YouTuber Elle Darby asked Dublin’s White Moose Cafe and Charleville Lodge if she could stay for free, NY Mag reports the hotel’s owner Paul Stenson shut her way, way down. In a January 16 Facebook post, Stenson screengrabbed Darby’s apparent email in which she asked for a comped stay essentially in return for traffic to the hotel. She notes her… Source link

Last year’s stock market volatility rattled Americans so much that almost 2 in 3 prefer to have their money sit in cash on the sidelines rather than endure market swings. That is the latest finding from Allianz Life, which asked this question for the first time in a recent survey of 1,005 adults over 18 in December. And data released in January by the Department of Commerce shows that Americans are again starting to sock away more cash. The savings rate for December was 3.4% — the highest… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) is set to report its Q4 2022 earnings on Feb. 2, as the company looks to deliver after a difficult year that rattled its stock. Here’s what Wall Street’s expecting to see from Amazon’s key numbers, as compiled by Bloomberg. Net Sales – $145.8 billion expected Online Stores Net Sales: $65.03 billion Physical Stores Net Sales: $4.93 billion Earnings Per Share (EPS): 17 cents expected Amazon Web Services (AWS) Net Sales: $21.76 billion expected Operating Income: $2.51 billion… Source link

Company also unveils survey of small businesses and finds over a third of SMB owners turned to e-commerce to survive the pandemic NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Alibaba.com, one of the world’s largest B2B e-commerce marketplaces, a business unit of Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), today unveiled its predictions for key digital export trends in 2023 along with the findings from its 2022 small business survey for global suppliers within its Digital B2B Outlook 2023. Alibaba.com is predicting… Source link

Google parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) will report its Q4 earnings after the bell on Wednesday as investors and analysts look for signs that the broader digital advertising market has hit its bottom. Here’s what Wall Street expects from the company, as compiled by Bloomberg, compared to how the company performed in the same period last year. Alphabet had a 20-to-1 stock split in July 2022. The company, like Meta (META) and Snap (SNAP), is working to overcome a slowdown in the digital… Source link

U.S. stock futures were mixed ahead of the open Thursday, with tech stocks leading the way up following the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate hike. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) added 0.4%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) lagged, dipping 0.4%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose by 1.2%. The yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note ticked up to 3.415% Thursday morning. The dollar index was flat. The major U.S. stock… Source link

Rob, a member of the Mozart group, leads a military training of Ukrainian soldiers in rural Donbas, in eastern Ukraine, on July 23, 2022. (Laura Boushnak/The New York Times) KYIV, Ukraine — Andrew Milburn, a former American Marine colonel and leader of the Mozart Group, stood in a chilly meeting room on the second floor of an apartment building in Kyiv about to deliver some bad news. In front of him sat half a dozen men who had traveled to Ukraine on their own dime to work for him. “Guys,… Source link

Samsung, Google and Qualcomm are joining hands to make a mixed-reality platform. Executives from the companies, namely Samsung’s TM Roh, Qualcomm’s Cristiano Amon, and Google’s Hiroshi Lockheimer came on stage at the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked event to make this announcement. These companies only announced the partnership — they had no future device or hardware product to show. “We are working to create a new era of highly immersive digital experiences that… Source link

Tom Brady is done with the NFL “for good” and Jimmy Fallon thinks he knows what’s next for the superstar quarterback. On Wednesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Fallon joked the “deserted landscape behind” Brady in his video announcing his retirement meant he’s landed a role on HBO’s “The Last Of Us.” Failing scoring a part in the post-apocalyptic drama, Fallon later aired a promo for what could be Brady’s next gig — in “The Bachelor.” Watch the video here:

In this market, the last thing investors have been rewarding this earnings season is a bottom-line miss vs. expectations of any magnitude. Except if you are Meta (META). Shares of the social media giant exploded nearly 20% in pre-market trading on Thursday following a whopper of an earnings shortfall. The company had the most visited ticker page on Yahoo Finance. Here is how Meta performed compared to Wall Street estimates — at first blush it was far from rosy and deserving of a major push… Source link