Apple, Amazon, Google & more

Jackie Drees – Friday, March 26th, 2021 Print  | Email Here are eight recent partnerships between healthcare organizations and big tech companies including Amazon, Apple and Google.  1. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh developed a new machine learning tool to be used in clinical forecasting, which Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure funded. 2. Intermountain Healthcare, Ascension and Amazon Care became founding members of a new healthcare coalition… Source link

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GameStop’s Tumult Lives On With $6.4 Billion Roller Coaster Trip

(Bloomberg) — GameStop Corp. is ending the week lower than where it started, even after retail investors refused to let go of their commitment to the stock following an earnings-related selloff. Investors were quick to get over GameStop’s 12th consecutive quarter of slowing sales and management’s decision to not take questions on its earnings call on Tuesday, despite warnings from most Wall Street analysts. On Thursday, shares erased the earnings-led slump. More than $6.4 billion in… Source link

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Elon Musk’s Bitcoin Marketing Coup

Here’s some free advice for the Honda Motor Company: Market your cars to the newly bitcoin rich. I’ve already got the ad copy for you.  A true bitcoiner is building for the future and deferring gratification. She doesn’t blow her hard-earned savings on flashy toys. She prefers a solid, dependable family car. Related: UK Man Ordered to Pay More Than $571M for Fraudulent Bitcoin Trading Scheme: CFTC And a slogan…. Lambos are for losers. HODLers drive Hondas. Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk’s… Source link

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Shaka Smart bolts Texas for Marquette

There is no greater sleeping giant in all of college basketball than the University of Texas — a program so ripe with potential that it consistently attracts high-quality dreamers … who eventually leave vexed and frustrated. It’s been that way for, what, 70 years? For a long time, its best attribute was hiring Abe Lemons, whose actual name was just A.E. Lemons, two initials that stood for nothing so he inserted the “b”. A product of the Oklahoma dust bowl of the Great Depression, he used… Source link

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Retirees who pay the most in taxes make only $36,000 a year on average, study finds

Retirees who have the most money pay the most in taxes, according to a recent working paper, but they’re not necessarily rich. “Most of the tax burden is carried by the top quintile of households,” Anqi Chen, co-author and assistant director of savings research at the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, told Yahoo Money. But “it’s important to keep in mind that when we think about the top quintile of households — the top 20% — they’re not the super wealthy.” Read… Source link

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Google Analytics 4’s Enhanced Measurement Simplifies Events Management

PHOTO: Wander Fleur Changes to website content often go hand in hand with the need to update analytics tags. Marketers are well familiar with this task. With the introduction of Google Analytics 4, Google introduced enhanced measurement, which has the potential to make these updates much, much easier.  How Tagging Links and Buttons Have Changed Back when analytic solutions were first introduced, adding events required proactive planning of any analytic tags before launching a site. This… Source link

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Analyzing Alibaba Group Holding’s Unusual Options Activity

Bloomberg Turkey’s Central Bank Chief May Have Little Time to Repair Trust (Bloomberg) — If the experience of Sahap Kavcioglu’s most recent predecessors is any indication, Turkey’s new central-bank chief has little time left to win back the trust of foreign-exchange traders — or he may lose it forever.In the past three instances when President Recep Tayyip Erdogan replaced the governor, the reaction of the currency markets in the first week of the new incumbent’s tenure set the tone… Source link

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The NBA Yahoo Cup Post Up Presented by BetMGM

NBA DFS picks for Round 15 of the Yahoo Cup for Yahoo Daily Fantasy Basketball | March 26 Welcome to Round 15 of the NBA Yahoo Cup! This free, multi-round, single-entry contest that runs every Friday throughout the rest of the NBA DFS season. Scoring is cumulative for the year-long points race, with your five lowest scores dropped. At the end of the season, a $50,000 prize pool is shared amongst the top 7,950 competitors, with a whopping $10,000 going to first. But even if you’re late to… Source link

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‘This never ends for me’

“I knew my life would never, ever, ever be the same,” said Eric Coomer, 50, in an interview with Yahoo Finance earlier this week. The director of product strategy and security for Dominion Voting Systems—now on paid leave—Coomer was recalling a nationally televised press conference in mid-November when Trump Campaign lawyers Rudolph Giuliani and Sidney Powell denounced him individually, by name, as having helped rig the 2020 presidential election. In the most in-depth print interview… Source link

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Rewriting Queries Based on Context to Meet Intent

So What is This New Search Intent-based Patent About? Predicting Intent in Searches With an Awareness of Context Expanding Intent in Search Results I’ve been looking at sources of information that discuss the intent behind searches for many years now.I keep an eye out for patents from the search engines, and what search engineers have been saying about patents, as well. So when a newly granted patent from Google is named “Predicting intent of a search for a particular context,” the authors… Source link

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