As most cars today have attained an agreeable level of performance and reliability, car buyers are increasingly more concerned about connectivity. Ford announces a six-year “strategic partnership” with Google to use Android to run many of the infotainment, navigation, and connectivity features on Ford and Lincoln vehicles. Google will extend its capabilities outside the car, to increase efficiencies in everything from manufacturing employee training to plant equipment performance.
Read More »Captain Tom Moore dies after battling COVID and pneumonia
Watch: How Captain Sir Tom Moore captured a nation’s hearts The NHS, the Queen and Boris Johnson have led tributes to Captain Sir Tom Moore, who has died at the age of 100 after testing positive for COVID-19. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, Sir Tom’s daughters Hannah Ingram-Moore and Lucy Teixeira said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear father, Captain Sir Tom Moore. “We are so grateful that we were with him during the last hours of his life; Hannah,… Source link
Read More »Google can help you find Black-owned businesses. Here’s how
Google will make it easier to find Black-owned businesses through Search and Maps. Angela Lang/CNET … Source link
Read More »Robinhood’s future is ‘toast,’ says ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Jordan Belfort
TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 8% Dividend Yield Let’s talk portfolio defense. After last week’s social flash mob market manipulation, that’s a topic that should not be ignored. Now, this is not to say that the markets are collapsing. After 2% losses to close out last week’s Friday session, this week’s trading kicked off with a positive tone, as the S&P 500 rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq climbed 2.5%. The underlying bullish factors – a more stable political scene, steadily… Source link
Read More »Ford to Add Google Maps, Voice Assistant to Its Vehicles in 2023
Today Ford and Google formed a partnership to use Google’s cloud platform and Android operating system in Fords and Lincolns beginning in 2023. The infotainment system will be Ford branded but will have native access to Google Maps, Google’s voice assistant, and the Google Play store. Google’s cloud platform will be used to help with supply chain management and training. The partnerships between automotive and tech powerhouses continue with Ford and Google announcing today that they will… Source link
Read More »Ford (F), Google Team Up for Cloud Services, Vehicle Connectivity
Ford F recently entered into a six-year partnership with Alphabet GOOGL owned Google, that will make the tech giant responsible for reinventing the connected vehicle experience aimed at accelerating the automaker’s current $11-billion restructuring plan. Highlights of the Partnership The alliance, effective 2023, will revolutionize virtually every element of the automotive business, from the way vehicles are designed, engineered and assembled to the way customers shop and then experience… Source link
Read More »A history of online message boards and ‘stonks’
Ja Rule is among the latest to support the WallStreetBets push on shares of GameStop (GME). But the Queens-born rapper is not the only relic of the 2000s bringing nostalgia to the stock frenzy of the last week. The r/WallStreetBets community on Reddit appears to be the modern reincarnation of online message boards of years’ past. Sites like Silicon Investing, Raging Bull, and this one — Yahoo Finance — served as open forums for investors to anonymously float ideas during the dot-com… Source link
Read More »Google Launches Data Analytics Solution to Expand Vaccine Access
By Jessica Kent February 02, 2021 – Google Cloud has announced the Intelligent Vaccine Impact solution, a set of data analytics technologies to help regional and local governments ensure vaccine availability and deliver successful COVID-19 public health strategies. “Google has supported communities and public health organizations throughout the pandemic through research grants, telehealth support, and more. And as the global challenge to immunize millions of people continues to… Source link
Read More »Google antes up $2.6 million to settle pay, job discrimination case
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE | The Associated Press SAN RAMON — Google will pay $2.6 million to more than 5,500 employees and past job applicants to resolve allegations that the internet giant discriminated against female engineers and Asians in California and Washington state. The settlement announced Monday closes a 4-year-old case that the Labor Department brought as part its periodic reviews of the pay practices at federal government contractors such as Google. That inquiry resulted in… Source link
Read More »Google’s parent company releases earnings
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, reports earnings Tuesday. The company saw an uptick in e-commerce and advertising dollars, but it’s also facing three antitrust lawsuits brought by state attorneys general and the U.S. Department of Justice. How might this affect Google’s business model? These lawsuits target Google’s dominance as a search engine and how businesses rely on Google for customers to find them. “Google is getting a cut of so much of… Source link
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