Search marketers are buzzing about Google’s John Mueller calling AI-generated content “spam.” He did this while answering a question during the April 1 Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout (and it was no joke). Mueller’s response is not shocking. Especially considering Google has answered this question many times in recent years. Plus, automatically generated content has long been part of their webmaster guidelines as something to avoid. Yet, AI-generated content is a popular… Source link
Read More »Inflation cushioned by bigger bank accounts: Bank of America Institute
U.S. households — particularly low-income ones — are still sitting on a healthy pandemic nest egg, cushioning them for now against steep price increases on food and energy. That means that even with consumer prices forecast to have risen 8.4% in March, shoppers shouldn’t be running out of cash. That’s the finding of a new Consumer Checkpoint report from the Bank of America Institute, which showed debit and credit card spending rose 11% last month, or 6.7% on a per-household basis. The… Source link
Read More »Giannis Antetokounmpo Put His Money in 50 Banks Until Bucks Owner Helped Him Invest
(Bloomberg) — Milwaukee Bucks superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo had more banks than letters in his name before Avenue Capital Group founder Marc Lasry stepped in. Most Read from Bloomberg The National Basketball Association’s two-time most-valuable player had accounts open at 50 different banks, with each of them holding up to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. coverage limit. That shocked Lasry, who co-owns the Milwaukee team. “I spend a lot of time with them explaining where they should… Source link
Read More »Rite Aid stock crashes 20% after Wall Street analyst suggests retailer could go out of business
Rite Aid’s (RAD) outlook is a hot mess — so hot the company may not be in business much longer. At least that’s the word from Deutsche Bank analyst George Hill, who issued a damning downgrade of the struggling retailer on Thursday. Hill slashed his rating on Rite Aid to Sell and slapped the stock with a $1 price target. Most worrisome — at least if one still owns Rite Aid’s stock — is that Hill suggests Rite Aid may go under. “We see a likely risk that the company provides guidance next… Source link
Read More »Tiger Woods makes PGA Tour return at 2022 Masters Tournament
Tiger Woods makes PGA Tour return at 2022 Masters Tournament originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington Tiger Woods is back. Woods made his long-awaited return to the PGA Tour at the 2022 Masters Tournament on Thursday morning, teeing off at 11:04 a.m. ET. He was welcomed by a rousing ovation from a large gallery as he prepared for his first shot on the par-4 first hole at Augusta National. Woods wasn’t pleased with his drive or approach shot, but managed to save par by sinking an uphill… Source link
Read More »Google is using AI to update business hours that are out of date on Google Maps
Google has shared how it’s using artificial intelligence, including its restaurant-calling Duplex tech, to try and keep business hours up to date on Google Maps. The company says that if it is confident enough in the AI’s prediction of what a business’s hours should be, it will update the information in Maps. In a blog post, Google outlines the various factors its AI analyzes to determine whether it should do these updates. First, it looks at when the business profile was last… Source link
Read More »Wild scene at August as Tiger Woods returns
AUGUSTA, Ga. — At about 10:55 a.m. the crowd parted all on its own. No security told people to do it. No ropes were pulled out. Nothing was imminent. This was in front of the famed Augusta National clubhouse, under the sprawling live oaks that offer scenery and shade, some of the most exclusive ground in this exclusive country club. Tiger Woods was coming. He wasn’t there yet, but he was coming. Everyone knew that. He was set to tee off at 11:04 which meant he would be emerging from the… Source link
Read More »Ukraine Shot Down One of Russia’s Most Advanced Fighter Jets
Photo credit: Ukrainian General Staff/Facebook Russia’s war in Ukraine is not going well, and this week brought even more bad news for Moscow: the loss of one of the country’s most advanced fighter jets. Ukraine’s military shared photos on social media showing the wreckage of an Su-35S multi-role fighter jet, the first lost in the war. Ukraine’s aging air defense network allegedly shot down the fighter, often characterized as a fifth-generation fighter … just without the stealth…. Source link
Read More »S&P 500 companies hit highest level of analyst ‘Buy’ ratings in more than a decade
U.S. equity markets endured a gnarly first quarter. All three major indexes logged their worst performance in two years as rising interest rates, geopolitical tensions and supply-chain disruptions dampened investor sentiment. But even against that backdrop, Wall Street pros stayed bullish on stocks. According to new data from FactSet, analysts had the most Buy ratings on stocks in the S&P 500 as a percentage of their total ratings during February and March in over a decade. Of 10,821 ratings… Source link
Read More »Controversial SEC proposal would rein in large shareholders like Elon Musk
Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk’s disclosure on Monday that he acquired a 9.2% stake in Twitter (TWTR) represents just the type of surprise for investors that U.S. regulators may soon curtail. In February, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a controversial rule change that it says can “modernize” disclosure rules for investors who buy a large block of a public company’s stock. Electronic filing advances since the rule was adopted in 1968, the agency says, make it possible… Source link
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