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Russian-born tech giant Yandex has responded to allegations surrounding the security of user data. In a blog post published on Friday, the company clarified the functions of analytics tool AppMetrica, which has come under scrutiny in the past week. It also insisted that its use of data is transparent, and invited international auditors to conduct an appraisal of the… Source link

Russian-born tech giant Yandex has responded to allegations surrounding the security of user data. In a blog post published on Friday, the company clarified the functions of analytics tool AppMetrica, which has come under scrutiny in the past week. It also insisted that its use of data is transparent, and invited international auditors to conduct an appraisal of the… Source link

Russian-born tech giant Yandex has responded to allegations surrounding the security of user data. In a blog post published on 1 April, the company clarified the functions of analytics tool AppMetrica, which has come under scrutiny in the past week. It also insisted that its use of data is transparent, and invited international auditors to conduct an appraisal of the… Source link

President Biden’s approval rating for his handling of Russia and Ukraine has risen 5 percentage points since the start of the war in Eastern Europe more than two weeks ago, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — including a 12-point gain among self-described independent voters. Yet spiraling gas prices, remote peace prospects and rampant U.S. partisanship make Biden’s hopes of a political turnaround seem tenuous at best. The survey of 1,623 U.S. adults, which was conducted from… Source link

On the latest Sporticast episode, hosts Scott Soshnick and Eben Novy-Williams chat with Jo Lambert, president and general manager of consumer at Yahoo, about the company’s reach, its sports content business, and its expansion into daily fantasy and sports betting. For years, Yahoo has been a primarily ad-supported business. Lambert explains how the company, now majority owned by Apollo Global Management, is starting to diversify its revenue streams, including the creation of… Source link

A clean room in a microchip fabrication plant in Singapore.Credit: Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg/Getty One of the many consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is a global shortage of the microchips that are essential to electronic devices. The factories that make these chips had to shut down for some of the pandemic, and are struggling to cope with an increase in demand. Some products could be delayed by months. It’s too early to know how the shortage will affect… Source link

In a winter fraught with unsteady economics and politics, along with the perils of a chronically undershot pandemic, DJ LeMahieu’s baseball free agency hasn’t looked different than most. Nearing the middle of January, he remains a free agent, same as a large majority of the top free agents. This, perhaps, reflects lost revenue from last summer, the fear of similar conditions ahead and, as some players suspect, an opportunity for club owners to artificially tamp salaries for the coming… Source link

ATLANTA — Just two days before the Georgia runoffs that will determine the leadership of the Senate and one day before a rally on behalf of the Republican candidates, President Trump has continued to unload on the GOP officials leading the state. In an extraordinary development, Trump attempted to cajole Republican Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, according to the Washington Post, which published audio of their call on Sunday. “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want… Source link

With 2021 quickly approaching, it’s important to consider how to positively evolve when it comes to properly structuring stock portfolios. ETF Trends’ Director of Research and CIO, Dave Nadig, spoke with Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Christoforous on “Yahoo Finance Presents,” presented by T. Rowe Price, about investment strategy heading into 2021, along with the record ETF flow of 2020. At the end of the year, as Nadig explains, there looks to be an all-time record with a year close-out at… Source link

For many organizations, the shift to cloud computing has played out more realistically as a shift to hybrid architectures, where a company’s data is just as likely to reside in one of a number of clouds, as it might in an on-premise deployment, in a data warehouse, or in a data lake. Today, a startup that has built a more comprehensive way to assess, analyse and use that data is announcing funding as it looks to take on Snowflake, Amazon, Google and others in the area of enterprise… Source link