After 38 years of speaking his mind on the Dallas airwaves, Dale Hansen is calling it quits. The 72-year-old WFAA sports anchor and commentator announced on Tuesday that he’s retiring in September. He did so with a jab at a frequent subject of his criticism — the Dallas Cowboys. “There’s an old proverb that says all good things must come to an end, and it’s true, all good things do,” Hansen said, per WFAA. “I’ve been waiting 25 years for the Cowboys to win another Super Bowl, and I… Source link
Read More »Shopify stock pops after Google announces online shopping expansion
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Google Google is deepening its partnership with Shopify by making it easier for the company’s 1.7 million merchants to reach shoppers in Google Search and across some of its other properties. The move comes as Google and Shopify are ramping up their efforts to compete against Amazon in e-commerce. Amazon is also increasingly competing with Google on search ads for commercial queries, which typically mean a consumer is actively considering a purchase, and is expected to… Source link
Read More »Fisker Inc. Announces First Quarter 2021 Financial Results
Q1 2021 results in-line with expectations. Cash balance of $985 million. Increasing full-year operating expense guidance range by $30 million to include PEAR program costs (explicitly excluded from prior guidance). Capital expenditure guidance unchanged. Majority of Fisker Ocean Bill of Material (BOM) now sourced, improving cost visibility across the entire model range at targets previously communicated. Foxconn binding agreement completed and initial production in U.S. confirmed. Design of… Source link
Read More »Coinbase Announces Proposed Private Offering of $1.25 Billion of Convertible Senior Notes Due 2026
Coinbase Global, Inc. (“Coinbase”) (Nasdaq: COIN) today announced its intention to offer, subject to market conditions and other factors, $1.25 billion aggregate principal amount of Convertible Senior Notes due 2026 (the “notes”) in a private offering (the “offering”) to persons reasonably believed to be qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). Coinbase also expects to grant the initial purchasers of… Source link
Read More »Google/Android announces privacy requirements | Data Protection Report
More than a news source, the Data Protection Report provides thought leadership on emerging privacy, data protection and cybersecurity issues, and helps its readers proactively address risks and anticipate next steps in this crucial emerging field. Read more Source link
Read More »Square, Inc. Announces First Quarter 2021 Results
Bloomberg China’s Trade Surges as Global Stimulus Keeps Export Boom Going (Bloomberg) — China’s exports rose more than expected in April, suggesting its trade out-performance could last longer than expected this year, fueled by global fiscal stimulus.Exports grew 32.3% in dollar terms in April from a year earlier, the customs administration said Friday, exceeding the 24.1% median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of economists. Imports climbed 43.1%, a sign of strong domestic demand and… Source link
Read More »Google announces campus-focused post-COVID return-to-office plan
Google will move away from largely remote operations and return to campus-focused employment with most workers onsite for at least a few days a week, the company has announced. Employees can apply to be fully remote, or move to other offices, but those who do may see their compensation cut, the blog post indicated. Google has said most employees could continue working from home until September, and the latest announcement did not change that timeline. “For more than 20 years, our employees… Source link
Read More »Google Announces A Hybrid Return-To-Work Plan, Including Both Remote And In-Office Options
(Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared his vision of the search giant’s new hybrid return-to-work plans via an internal message from the chief executive to his employees. The plan would call for around 60% of Googlers coming together in the office for a few days a week, while another 20% will work in new office locations and 20% are anticipated to work remotely. In his post, Pichai first… Source link
Read More »Google announces Entertainment Space for Android tablets
Android tablets still exist, somehow. And people may still be buying them, for some reason. All of this in spite of Google’s best efforts to simply ignore the form factor completely for the past few years, and we don’t mean just by not releasing any more of its own tablets, but also in not adapting Android to the bigger screen sizes at all. Today the search giant has suddenly remembered that Android tablets exist, and has thus announced a new feature, just for Android tablets. Can you… Source link
Read More »Amazon.com Announces First Quarter Results
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2021. Operating cash flow increased 69% to $67.2 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $39.7 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020. Free cash flow increased to $26.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $24.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended March 31, 2020. Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and… Source link
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