The Super Bowl’s in the books, and that means it’s time to close the door on this year’s crop of ads, too. We graded every single one of them as they aired last night, but here’s the greatest (and un-greatest) hits version: the best and worst of what we saw last night. The Best Tide Your verdict on how you liked these Super Bowl ads depended largely on how you like your nostalgia served: remixed or just reheated. The Jason Alexander hoodie bit was a clever little montage, and setting… Source link
Read More »Terraria for Google Stadia Canceled, and It’s Google’s Fault
(Photo: Re-Logic) The incredibly popular action-adventure sandbox game Terraria has seen a release on just about every platform available since it launched in 2011. Google Stadia was going to be added to that list, but not anymore thanks to the action (and subsequent inaction) of Google. As IGN reports, Terraria is developed by Re-Logic, which was founded by Andrew Spinks. On Jan. 27, Spinks tweeted that he’d been suspended from YouTube and Gmail without explanation. Today, Spinks tweeted… Source link
Read More »Google Works to Bring Cookieless Marketing and Privacy Future Into Focus
PHOTO: Chris Wetherell Cliffhangers work well for keeping TV show fans mesmerized. For digital marketers, cliffhangers bring more anxiety than anticipation. Last year Google introduced a doozy of a cliffhanger when it announced Sandbox, a two-year research initiative to eliminate third-party cookies from its Chrome browser. Last week Google revealed a browser extension containing an API called Federated Learning of Cohorts or “FLoC” — a nickname pronounced as “flock.” FLoC… Source link
Read More »‘Terraria’ Creator Cancels Stadia Version After Google Account Lockout
Terraria Re-Logic Google Stadia made news this month when it announced it was shutting down its original first party production house, and would instead focus on third party partnerships for the service going forward. But one of those may be on the rocks, according to a recent thread from Terraria creator Andrew “@Demilogic” Spinks. In a thread posted late last night, Spinks lamented about how he has been locked out of his Google Account for… Source link
Read More »Global Payments stock gains after profit beat, Google partnership announcement
Shares of Global Payments Inc. were up 2.9% in premarket trading Monday after the financial technology company beat profit expectations for its latest quarter while also announcing a partnership with Alphabet Inc.’s Google. Global Payments GPN, +0.20% posted fourth-quarter net income of $183 million, or 61 cents a share, up from $103 million, or 34 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. On an adjusted basis, Global Payments earned $1.80 a share,… Source link
Read More »Google Partners Collaborate On Providing Google Job Opportunities
SADA, one of Google’s largest channel partners, if not the largest, is partnering with Appsbroker, a large Google MSP, to develop a platform for Google channel partners to connect with potential employees. Los Angeles-based SADA and U.K.-based Appsbroker have developed a new job board called Partnercareers.com as a way for solution providers around the world to post Google-focused job offerings, and have received commitment from Google to send potential job candidates to the… Source link
Read More »Palantir Teams Up With IBM, Sending Its Shares Soaring
(Bloomberg) — Palantir Technologies Inc. and International Business Machines Corp. are uniting in a partnership that will dramatically expand the reach of Palantir’s sales force while making IBM’s own artificial-intelligence software easier for non-technical customers to use, the companies plan to announce Monday. The global partnership is the largest of its kind for Palantir, the maker of data-analysis software whose shares have more than quadrupled since its September debut on the New… Source link
Read More »Don't expect a $15 federal minimum wage: Goldman Sachs – Yahoo Finance
Bloomberg EV Company With Almost No Revenue Posts 3,000% Gain in 8 Months (Bloomberg) — There is nothing about the finances of Blink Charging Co. that would suggest it’s one of the hottest stocks in America.It’s never posted an annual profit in its 11-year history; it warned last year it could go bankrupt; it’s losing market share, pulls in anemic revenue and has churned through management in recent years.And yet a hot stock it is. Investors have bid Blink’s share price up 3,000% over… Source link
Read More »Hologic taps Google Cloud for AI-driven cervical cancer screening collaboration
Hologic has tapped Google Cloud to help elevate its digital pathology platforms for diagnosing cervical cancer with new artificial intelligence and machine learning programs. The medtech’s Genius cytology system digitally stacks 2D images of a patient’s cells to provide additional visual depth to glass Pap test slides and uses AI to select the scans that may be the most relevant to the pathologist’s task of spotting precancerous lesions and signs of cervical… Source link
Read More »Stocks rise to reach record highs; Bitcoin prices spike
Stocks rose on Monday, extending advances after stocks’ best week since November last week. The Dow added more than 100 points, or 0.4%, to a fresh record high, and both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq also reached record intraday levels. Bitcoin prices spiked more than 12% to a record high of more than $43,000 after Tesla disclosed it purchased $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and may start allowing customers to use Bitcoin to purchase products. Investor optimism over another round of fiscal… Source link
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