(Pocket-lint) – Google recently announced six updates for Android users, including that the Google Maps app is finally getting a true dark mode called dark theme. It’s widely releasing the option, which it has been testing since late 2020, and making it easily accessible from the app’s settings. “These days, we’re all experiencing a bit of screen fatigue”, Google explained in a blog post on 23 February… Source link
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TipRanks Deutsche Bank Is Getting Bullish About Airlines; Offers 3 Stocks to Buy The COVID pandemic crisis hit the economy like a sledgehammer – or to be more precise, the government responses of shutdowns and lockdowns hit the economy – but the crisis is fading now. Daily new cases of coronavirus disease have fallen by two-thirds, serious cases have fallen even faster, and the vaccination program is starting to accelerate. There are fits and starts in the process, as in any large and… Source link
Read More »Main Street is lagging Wall Street: Morning Brief
Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, February 24, 2021 Consumer confidence remains measured while Wall Street booms. For the last few weeks we’ve chronicled the increasingly positive economic outlook for the U.S. economy and the investor enthusiasm around this idea. But U.S. consumers are still lagging behind this buoyant outlook from the investor class. The Conference Board’s reading on consumer confidence in February… Source link
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The big shareholder groups in Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) have power over the company. Generally speaking, as a company grows, institutions will increase their ownership. Conversely, insiders often decrease their ownership over time. Warren Buffett said that he likes “a business with enduring competitive advantages that is run by able and owner-oriented people.” So it’s nice to see some insider ownership, because it may suggest that management is owner-oriented. Yandex has a market… Source link
Read More »Bill to Make Facebook, Google Pay for News Clears Last Major Hurdle in Australia
SYDNEY—Australian legislation effectively requiring Facebook Inc. FB 2.12% and Google to pay news outlets for content cleared its last major parliamentary hurdle, capping a multiyear effort that could set a global precedent for regulating the tech giants’ relations with publishers. As its spat with the Australian government over the proposed media code deepened, Facebook last week followed through on a… Source link
Read More »Massive Google-Funded COVID Database Will Track Variants and Immunity
An enormous international database launched today will help epidemiologists to answer burning questions about the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, such as how rapidly new variants spread among people, whether vaccines protect against them and how long immunity to COVID-19 lasts. Unlike the global COVID-19 dashboard maintained by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and other popular trackers that list overall COVID-19 infections and deaths, the new repository at the data-science… Source link
Read More »Massive Google-funded COVID database will track variants and immunity
A new database collects individual-level COVID-19 data, such as travel history and when a person first felt sick.Credit: An Yuan/China News Service/Getty An enormous international database launched today will help epidemiologists to answer burning questions about the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, such as how rapidly new variants spread among people, whether vaccines protect against them and how long immunity to COVID-19… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Basketball: Wednesday Picks
We should have another busy night in the NBA on Wednesday with nine games on the schedule. Let’s get right down to business and highlight some players to consider for your Yahoo entries, as well as a few that it might be best to stay away from. GUARDS Dejounte Murray, SA at OKC ($31): An outbreak of COVID-19 recently sidelined the Spurs, but they are set to return Wednesday and play their first game in 10 days. The problem is, they will be without several key players, including DeMar DeRozan… Source link
Read More »Apple To Hike Dividends, Tim Cook Says
TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 10%; RBC Says ‘Buy’ Soaring commodity prices, additional federal stimulus, and government bond yields on the rise are all raising the specter of inflation. Furthermore, there is growing concern that stocks – and tech ones in particular – are now at valuations disconnected from reality. Is the changing macro climate about to send the bull market into retreat? Too early to tell, but it does signal that a more prudent approach to investing might be a… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Golf: WGC-Workday Championship
WGC-Workday Championship at The Concession Bradenton, FloridaThe Concession Golf Club – Par 72 – 7,474 yardsField – 73 entrantsPurse – $10.5M The Preview An eruption of euphoria accompanied bargain-bin special Max Homa‘s hometown win in dramatic playoff fashion at Riviera this past week, as a handful of memorably-absurd shots down the stretch preceded a trophy handoff from his golf hero, Tiger Woods. Moods have since turned somber upon the news of Woods’ accident, but he thankfully avoided the… Source link
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