Google Meet is getting new video filters, effects, and augmented reality masks for personal calls on iOS and Android, the search giant has announced. They’re available via the sparkle icon at the bottom right of your video feed during a call, which brings up a carousel of different effects that include color filters and animated AR face effects. Most of the options are only available for personal Gmail accounts, while Workspace users have to keep things more professional with a limited… Source link
Read More »Labor shortage accelerates shift away from drug testing for new hires
Drug tests are no longer required for most jobs in the municipal offices for Isle, Minnesota, a small town tucked on the southeastern corner of the Mille Lacs Lake. The reason? The town’s liquor store needs just one more person so that its owner, Don Graber, can stop working double shifts on the weekend. “There’s a lot of things that are scaring away potential hires and that was one of them,” Graber told Yahoo Finance. Graber successfully lobbied the town to eliminate the drug test, a… Source link
Read More »French anti-trust decision on Google’s copyright talks with publishers due in coming days
PARIS, July 8 (Reuters) – France’s anti-trust watchdog will make a decision in the coming days over the way Google (GOOGL.O) held copyright talks with some French publishers about paying for news content, the watchdog’s head Isabelle de Silva said on Thursday. Antitrust investigators have accused Alphabet’s Google of failing to comply with the state competition authority’s orders on how to conduct negotiations with news publishers over copyright, sources who read the investigators’ report… Source link
Read More »Yandex Enters Scooter Rental Business
Russian tech giant Yandex (YNDX) has launched an electric scooter rental service in parts of Moscow and plans to expand it to more areas over time. The service is available through the company’s Yandex.Go app. The app will help customers locate a scooter after selecting a city. First-time customers will be required to view an instruction video on how to navigate safely. Yandex plans to launch an educational program targeting first-time users of electric scooters. (See Yandex stock charts on… Source link
Read More »Google feared Samsung Galaxy Store and tried to quash it, lawsuit alleges
Google used anticompetitive practices in an attempt to “preemptively quash” Samsung’s Galaxy Store, and prevent it from becoming a viable competitor to its own Play Store. That’s according to an antitrust lawsuit filed by a coalition of three dozen state attorney general, which accuses Google of illegally attempting to control app distribution on Android. The suit also alleges Google paid off app developers to stop them circumventing its store. The allegations challenge one of… Source link
Read More »Restaurant workers are quitting like crazy: Morning Brief
This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, July 8, 2021 Quits have never been a bigger part of restaurant worker churn By now, Morning Brief readers have likely become familiar with everyone’s favorite hipster economic data report: JOLTS. Short for the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), the report has been closely watched by investors for… Source link
Read More »European stock markets nosedive amid fears of rising inflation
A string of corporate news also moved individual stocks in London. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images Stocks in Europe slumped into the red on Thursday as concerns around rising inflation resurfaced after signals from the US Federal Reserve. In London, the FTSE 100 (^FTSE) nosedived 1.9%, hovering just above the 7,000 point mark, while the CAC (^FCHI) was 2.2% down in France, and the DAX (^GDAXI) fell 1.6 % in Germany. “The FTSE 100 fell with miners and banks the principal… Source link
Read More »Yandex to Announce Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results on July 28th
MOSCOW, RUSSIA and AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS / ACCESSWIRE / July 8, 2021 / Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX:YNDX) today announced it will report its financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2021, on Wednesday, July 28, 2021. On that day, management will hold a conference call and webcast at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (3:00 p.m. Moscow time, 1:00 p.m. London time) to review and discuss the Company’s results for the second quarter. Second Quarter 2021 Financial Results Conference Call Wednesday,… Source link
Read More »Grubhub, Yandex Plan to Bring Robotic Delivery to College Campuses
Yandex Self-Driving Group, a unit of Russian tech company Yandex, has partnered with Grubhub to bring robotic delivery to American college campuses. Yandex hopes to reach over 250 campuses over the course of the multiyear partnership, starting with dozens of robots in the fall, reported TechCrunch (July 6). YANDEX’S DEVELOPMENT In September 2020, Yandex’s self-driving unit spun out from a joint venture with Uber. As part of the spin-out, Yandex invested $150 million… Source link
Read More »Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) Given Consensus Rating of “Buy” by Brokerages
Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) has received an average recommendation of “Buy” from the ten brokerages that are covering the firm, MarketBeat Ratings reports. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and six have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average 1-year price target among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is $71.75. A number of equities analysts have commented on YNDX shares. New Street Research started coverage on… Source link
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