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As businesses emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns, many are facing the challenge of too few workers to accommodate strong demand. And while the labor shortage isn’t new, it’s definitely a sore spot for many that’s growing more acute. And amid a booming jobs market, some economists say the shortage isn’t labor related, but rather wage-driven — an economic third rail that companies big and small have increasingly grabbed in order to address widespread labor shortages.  Yet the strategy of… Source link

As COVID-19 restrictions loosen across the United States, the hospitality industry — which was walloped by the pandemic — is experiencing a new challenge: too few workers available to address soaring demand for dining out. A furious debate is underway over what’s behind the labor shortage, which is prompting restaurants to adapt by modernizing with kiosks and digital ordering. Many are biting the bullet and ponying up more in compensation just to attract employees.  “A lot of us are… Source link

Google has partnered with Siemens to combine deep domain expertise in manufacturing with artificial intelligence (AI). The partnership aims to provide manufacturing with a way to deploy AI at the edge on manufacturing production lines in a way that can scale globally. In a video showcasing how AI could be deployed on a production line, Axel Lorenz, vice-president of control and factory automation at Siemens Digital Industries, discussed AI-powered vision, based on a camera and a model… Source link

Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the health care industry was so slow to change. But the global crisis forced the industry and companies to act swiftly.  But can an industry that still relies on fax machines while simultaneously pursuing integration of artificial intelligence maintain such a pace post pandemic?  Dr. Sachin Jain, CEO of SCAN Group and Health Plan, says it must in order to address health inequities. “I think health care is ultimately a fundamental foundation of our… Source link

TipRanks 3 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding at Least 8%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ We’ll talk about dividend stocks, but we’ll get there through tax policy. The connection is simple: Government spending is going up, as exemplified by the $1.9 trillion COVID stimulus bill passed this month. Stimulative cash infusions into the economy are likely to boost consumer spending, and there are worries that the Biden Administration has no plans to pay for its increased spending. Several tax proposals made… Source link

TipRanks JPMorgan Bets on These 3 Stocks; Sees Over 50% Upside Potential It’s time to check in with the macro picture, to get an idea of just where markets are headed in the coming months. That’s what a JPMorgan global research team, headed up by Joyce Chang, has been doing. The JPM team starts by noting the sell-off in US Treasury bonds last week, pushing up yields as investors acted in response to inflationary fears. However, the rise in bond yields steadied on Friday, and Chang’s team… Source link

The NXT GEN MED program will launch on the Rochester campus in Summer 2022. The University of Minnesota recently announced that a new health sciences degree program, designed to address the national shortage of healthcare workers, will be launching on the Rochester campus in summer 2022. In a collaborative project, the NXT GEN MED program will use new technology from Google to teach students in a hybrid format and connect them with working healthcare professionals from the Mayo Clinic, a… Source link

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

He said that during the inquiry, parties expressed concern about potential conflicts of interest from Google’s various roles in this industry. “This includes Google very often acting on behalf of both publishers and advertisers for the same ad sale across the ad tech supply chain, while also selling its own ad inventory,” Sims added. The commission had yet to form a view on whether Google’s conduct breached Australian competition law through a misuse of market power, the report said. A… Source link

He said that during the inquiry, parties expressed concern about potential conflicts of interest from Google’s various roles in this industry. “This includes Google very often acting on behalf of both publishers and advertisers for the same ad sale across the ad tech supply chain, while also selling its own ad inventory,” Sims added. The commission had yet to form a view on whether Google’s conduct breached Australian competition law through a misuse of market power, the report said. A… Source link