Google is moving parts of YouTube to its cloud service

Sundar Pichai, Alphabet CEO David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google is moving parts of its popular YouTube video service from the advertising company’s internal data center infrastructure to the company’s cloud service, the head of Google’s cloud said. The effort indicates Google is looking inward as it seeks to expand its share of the growing cloud-computing market and become less reliant on advertisements appearing on its web search engine and other properties. Historically, Google… Source link

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Here’s what to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2021

Apple’s (AAPL) annual WWDC, or Worldwide Developers Conference, kicks off on Monday, and while it won’t be the usual in-person extravaganza, the company is still expected to announce a slew of major updates to everything from the software powering your iPhone and iPad to, possibly, a new MacBook or two. Here’s everything Apple could debut at the all-virtual show. Apple’s iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 The biggest news from WWDC always includes changes to Apple’s most important operating system:… Source link

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What Marketers Need to Know About Google Marketing Livestream

PHOTO: PixieMe Google Marketing Livestream 2021 featured marketing innovations in lead generation, audience insights, search image ads, customer data privacy and in-app content on YouTube and digital video. “Overall, a lot of these changes are in line with Google’s shift toward improved on-page experiences,” said Salman Aslam, head of marketing at MuchNeeded.  “I’m most interested in how the Google Analytics and reporting updates will play out. The extended modeling should, as… Source link

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Castor Maritime (NASDAQ:CTRM) Has A Somewhat Strained Balance Sheet

Warren Buffett famously said, ‘Volatility is far from synonymous with risk.’ So it might be obvious that you need to consider debt, when you think about how risky any given stock is, because too much debt can sink a company. Importantly, Castor Maritime Inc. (NASDAQ:CTRM) does carry debt. But the real question is whether this debt is making the company risky. When Is Debt Dangerous? Generally speaking, debt only becomes a real problem when a company can’t easily pay it off, either by raising… Source link

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India’s ‘Ugliest’ Language? Google’s Answer, Kannada, Drew a Backlash

It was an odd, unanswerable question. Still, it was on the mind of at least one Google user in India. What is the country’s “ugliest” language? For anyone who typed the question into the platform’s search bar recently, its algorithm produced a fact box confident of the answer: a tongue called Kannada, spoken by tens of millions of people in India’s south. Informed of that result, many of them weren’t happy. Several politicians in the state of Karnataka, where most Kannada speakers… Source link

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India’s ‘Ugliest’ Language? Google Had an Answer (and Drew a Backlash).

It was an odd, unanswerable question. Still, it was on the mind of at least one Google user in India. What is the country’s “ugliest” language? For anyone who typed the question into the platform’s search bar recently, its algorithm produced a fact box confident of the answer: a tongue called Kannada, spoken by tens of millions of people in India’s south. Informed of that result, many of them weren’t happy. Several politicians in the state of Karnataka, where most Kannada speakers… Source link

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The biggest question in Friday’s jobs report: 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 Friday, June 4, 2021 Is the labor market loose or tight? Friday’s jobs report is a big one.  After April’s disappointing hiring data and some hotter-than-expected inflation data, price pressures and labor competition are the dominant economic stories as we enter an expected summer boom.  And the biggest question investors and economists hope to… Source link

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Meet 30 Black Founded Startups Selected By Google For Their New $2 Million (£1.5 Million) Black Founders Fund

– Courtesy of Google Europe Yesterday, Google for Startups announced the 30 tech businesses receiving grants from its $2million (approximately £1.5million) Black Founders Fund for Black-led tech startups across Europe. With less than 0.25% of venture capital (VC) funding going to Black-led startups in the U.K., and only 38 Black founders receiving venture capital funding in the last 10 years, Google for Startups is helping to level the playing field by helping Black founders… Source link

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As Trump restarts rallies, GOP strategists hope against all odds that he won’t rehash 2020 election

The Republican Party finds itself in befuddling circumstances as former President Donald Trump prepares to hold political rallies again, beginning this weekend with an appearance in North Carolina. Trump was one of the only Republican candidates to lose a high-profile competitive race in 2020. GOP candidates won the majority of close races across the country, in the U.S. Senate, in the U.S. House and in state legislatures and gubernatorial races. Yet the party remains stuck with Trump as its… Source link

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Reddit traders put $345m into AMC but meme stock mania has peaked

AMC’s stock close to doubled on Wednesday amid a flurry of interest in the stock from day traders and other amateur investors. Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images The recent revival of investor interest in so-called “meme stocks” like US cinema chain AMC (AMC) and retro smartphone maker BlackBerry (BB) may already be over, according to analysis of retail trading flows. Vanda Research said on Friday that its proprietary tools tracking retail investor flows in the US and UK suggested… Source link

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