Expectations are running high for Google parent company Alphabet Inc. (GOOG, GOOGL) as it prepares to release its earnings results for the fiscal fourth quarter. The company has had an exceptional year, having benefited from greater online activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, there are signs that growth is slowing while inflation persists across the economy and market as a whole. Analysts forecast that Alphabet will announce $27.14 in earnings per share to accompany $72.1… Source link
Read More »Job openings rose to 10.925 million in December
The number of job openings and quits each held at historically elevated levels in December, with worker leverage remaining high as labor demand persisted. Vacancies across the U.S. totaled 10.925 million at the end of 2021, the Labor Department said in its latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS). This compared to 10.775 million openings in November, according to the revised monthly print. Consensus economists had anticipated December vacancies would come in at 10.3 million,… Source link
Read More »Tom Brady officially retires after 22 seasons
Tom Brady is officially retiring from the NFL. Brady, 44, announced that he would be retiring from the league via Instagram on Tuesday morning. That announcement came after he said on his podcast released Monday night that he was still going through the process of a retirement decision. “I have always believed the sport of football is an ‘all-in’ proposition — if a 100% competitive commitment isn’t there, you won’t succeed, and success is what I love so much about our game,” Brady wrote…. Source link
Read More »Auto Tab Discard: How a free extension speeds up Google Chrome
Regular readers will know that I’ve been on a campaign for a few years now to try to make Google Chrome better. I’ve been tweaking settings, streamlining the installation, installing extensions, deleting extensions, and I even paid for a service to try to make it more usable. The results were mixed, to say the least. What I needed was something that basically allowed… Source link
Read More »LA councilman blasts train theft ‘chaos,’ calls them ‘a threat to our economy’
Brazen freight train thefts have spiked in Los Angeles, with images of looted packages and abandoned containers capturing headlines and captivating social media — and putting pressure on California Governor Gavin Newsom to address conditions even he likened to “a third world country.” The thefts have sparked a war of words between law enforcement and Union Pacific (UNP), which owns the railroad and has called for stronger deterrence. But the growing problem has become a rallying cry for at… Source link
Read More »Premarket Mover: Yandex NV (YNDX) Up 2.27% – InvestorsObserver
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Read More »VTB and Yandex.Cloud develop a unique voice for financial assistant
VTB is the first on the market to introduce its own voice for Yandex.Cloud’s Alice virtual assistant. Every month, approximately 45 million Alice users will be able to talk and get financial advice with a virtual banking assistant. In 2022, the bank plans to launch a branded voice in the VTB Online mobile app. Not only bank customers, but all users can communicate with the VTB voice assistant in Yandex services. To activate the assistant, just say, “Alice, start the… Source link
Read More »Stock futures open lower after S&P 500 posts worst month since March 2020
Contracts on Wall Street’s main indexes edged lower in pre-market trading Tuesday after stocks bounced back from a losing streak in the previous session to cap the last day of a historically volatile January in the green. Futures tied to the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq Composite fell in overnight trading after the S&P 500 recorded its roughest monthly performance since March 2020 in Monday’s session. Meanwhile, the Nasdaq Composite narrowly avoided its worst-performing… Source link
Read More »Google: Gmail is getting this new look to make switching between apps easier
Google has detailed its phased rollout of a new Gmail view that aims to make it easier to navigate across the Gmail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet apps. The new “integrated view” for Gmail is intended to make it “easy to move between critical applications like Gmail, Chat and Meet in one unified location”, according to Google. ZDNet… Source link
Read More »Google Set to Cap Blockbuster Year With Sales Gains
Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG 1.81% is expected to report another quarter of strong sales growth, capping a year when profits nearly doubled despite mounting regulatory pressure that threatens the search giant’s future. The company’s dominance in online search, video and internet ad sales made it one of last year’s leading beneficiaries of an upswing in digital advertising. Last year, small and large businesses alike flooded into… Source link
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