(Bloomberg) — Tuesday’s brutal selloff in the aftermath of August’s hotter-than-expected inflation print looked like opportunity to Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management. Most Read from Bloomberg The firm bought 27 stocks across its eight exchange-traded funds on Tuesday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The largest buy was Roku Inc., which is already the third biggest holding in the firm’s flagship $8 billion ARK Innovation ETF (ticker ARKK). The purchases came on a day when… Source link
Read More »Lineup picks for the Sunday Baller contest
The NFL Week 2 main slate begins Sunday at 1:00 p.m. EDT and features 12 games. The entire league will be in action this week, but the Thursday Night Football (Chargers-Chiefs), Sunday Night Football (Bears-Packers) and Monday Night Football (Titans-Bills, Vikings-Eagles) participants are excluded from this slate. Yahoo will be running plenty of NFL DFS contests for Week 2, but the biggest is the Sunday Baller, which pays out a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000 to the top 5,306 finishers,… Source link
Read More »Google fails to overturn EU’s €4BN+ Android antitrust decision • TechCrunch
Google’s appeal against a €4.34 billion antitrust fine handed down by the European Union four years ago, after the bloc’s competition regulator found major violations in how it operated its Android mobile OS, has not succeeded in overturning the decision: The EU’s General Court largely confirmed the Commission’s decision in a ruling issued today. It’s a much needed win for the EU which has had a number of its antitrust decision unpicked by the courts in recent years. Reached… Source link
Read More »E.U. Scores Major Legal Victory Against Google
Global efforts to crimp the power of the world’s largest technology companies scored an important legal victory on Wednesday when a European Union court gave its blessing to a record multibillion-dollar fine issued against Google in 2018. The decision, by the General Court in Luxembourg, provides fresh momentum to European regulators who have investigated companies like Google, Amazon and Apple for anticompetitive business practices. The fine of 4.34 billion euros (worth $5.1 billion in… Source link
Read More »E.U. Scores Major Legal Victory Against Google
Global efforts to crimp the power of the world’s largest technology companies scored an important legal victory on Wednesday when a European Union court gave its blessing to a record multibillion-dollar fine issued against Google in 2018. The decision, by the General Court in Luxembourg, provides fresh momentum to European regulators who have investigated companies like Google, Amazon and Apple for anticompetitive business practices. The fine of 4.34 billion euros (worth $5.1 billion in… Source link
Read More »Will Google Penalize Sites That Look The Same?
Google’s John Mueller answered the question if Google penalizes sites that are nearly identical. Mueller used examples of different levels of similarity between sites and suggested which one to avoid. Will Google Rank Sites that Look the Same? The question asked was about whether two sites that look similar could still rank in Google search. There was no mention as to whether the content was similar but John also included that scenario into his answer. This is the question that was… Source link
Read More »Google loses appeal against record $4 billion EU fine
Google (GOOGL) suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court fined it 4.125 billion euros ($4.13 billion) for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, offering a precedent for other regulators to ratchet up pressure. The unit of US tech giant Alphabet had challenged an earlier ruling, but the decision was broadly upheld by the Europe’s second-highest court in Wednesday’s… Source link
Read More »Google loses challenge against EU antitrust decision, wins 5% fine cut
European Commission Vice President Margrethe?Vestager speaks during an interview with Reuters in Brussels, Belgium, March 28, 2022. REUTERS/Johanna?Geron/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register LUXEMBOURG, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google on Wednesday suffered its second setback in less than a year as Europe’s top court agreed with EU antitrust regulators that it had abused its dominance but trimmed the fine by 5% because of a disagreement on… Source link
Read More »Google has already published its version of the new 31 emojis • TechCrunch
Unicode Consortium, an organization maintaining the official emojis catalog for smartphones, published the Unicode 15.0 standard on Tuesday with 31 new emojis including a pushing hand, a shaking face (or I’m SHOOK), a moose, a goose, the long-awaited pink heart, and a Wi-Fi/wireless sign. We first saw some of the illustrations of these 31 emojis — one of the lowest number of additions in the past few years — back in July. Now that they are approved, phone… Source link
Read More »Yandex.Maps is the driving tool that can pick the optimal lane
The Yandex.Maps development team announced the expansion of cartographic capabilities and incorporated smart voice commands for drivers in the service. Image source: Yandex press service. The new feature is available for Yandex.Maps. It tracks the location of the car and explains to the drivers how many lane to go in at difficult interchanges. These tips help traffickers change lanes in advance and not miss their turn, especially in metropolitan areas. A miss can significantly… Source link
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