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When Google launched Nearby Share in 2020, Android users everywhere rejoiced. They finally had a tool to rival Apple’s AirDrop, a simple way to move files between devices without having to attach them to an email or upload them to Google Drive just to download them again on a new device. Now, ahead of Google I/O, a few users have noticed an upgrade lurking in Google Play Services that makes Nearby Share even easier. The new “self-share” mode, as spotted by Esper’s Mishaal Rahman… Source link

When Tesla (TSLA) reports earnings on Wednesday, all eyes won’t be on whether Elon Musk comments on his bid for Twitter on the earnings call (or if he is even on the call) but rather how big of a hit the company will experience due to a Shanghai factory production shutdown. “With Berlin and Austin key factories now online and producing Model Y’s in a quickly ramping pace, the main question for tomorrow is just how bad the China production issues are and what that means for deliveries in 2Q… Source link

The richest Americans are quickly coming off of the sidelines as the 2022 midterm elections heat up, according to newly released filings from the Federal Election Commission. An analysis by Yahoo Finance of the data running through March 31 finds that super PACs (Political Action Committees) have received over 30 checks so far this year of at least $1 million each. And Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison each gave eight-figure donations to Republican… Source link

Yahoo Sports WNBA writer Cassandra Negley recaps all three rounds of excitement from the 2022 WNBA Draft. Video Transcript [MUSIC PLAYING] CASSANDRA NEGLEY: The WNBA welcomed 36 new players to its ranks on Monday night for the 2022 WNBA draft. The first was Rhyne Howard out of Kentucky. Atlanta Dream picked her number one after making a trade for that spot last week. Now the first round went off script, if you had followed mock drafts up until this point. And it started with the Indiana Fever,… Source link

The following appeared in the “Reno Evening Gazette,” Jan. 4, 1964. “When Dean [Martin], Frank [Sinatra] and their buddy Sammy Davis Jr. appeared at the Las Vegas Sands’ 11th anniversary, Dean bowed to Frank and said: “It’s your world, Frank; I just live in it.” Today’s version: It’s your world, Elon; I just live in it. Elon Musk has been compared to everyone from Steve Jobs to Howard Hughes to Thomas Edison and of course Tony Stark, but Sinatra fits too. Old Blue Eyes may have been “king… Source link

If you are willing to be flexible, a decent deal on an airline ticket could be had for this spring and summer. “I know everyone is on the deal hunt. So I would suggest looking at your Tuesdays and Saturdays. If you can be flexible, there are opportunities to travel for cheap,” said MKM Partners airline analyst Conor Cunningham on Yahoo Finance Live. Higher prices for airfare are currently the norm, however. Domestic airlines are seen increasing fares by 7% on average each month until June,… Source link

In this weekly segment, ExchangeWire sums up key industry updates in media, marketing, and commerce from around the globe. In this edition: European lawmakers propose the Digital Markets Act to tackle antitrust behaviour in Big Tech; Russia’s search engine, Yandex, has sparked security concerns over harvesting users’ data; US representatives propose a new bill to create a digital dollar; and, Meta have hired digital consulting firm Targeted Victory to “orchestrate a nationwide campaign”… Source link

Nvidia introduced a new version of its autonomous-driving platform at its GTC developers conference this week. Automotive is a small segment of the company’s business. But it’s getting a lot of attention from Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang. At the conference, Huang touted the company’s $11 billion vehicle-tech order pipeline over the next six years. But he says that’s only one slice of the potential market for autonomous-driving technologies and their importance to Nvidia ( Source link

AXA General Insurance Hong Kong Limited named home Big Idea Chair Champion winner ITeSHOP & American Express swept the awards with immersive AR and media commerce campaigns HONG KONG, March 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Yahoo today live-streamed the winner announcement of the “Yahoo Asia Big Idea Chair Awards 2021” (Yahoo Asia BIC Awards 2021) on Yahoo TV. Amidst another year of commotion, the awards celebrated undue creativity in the digital media and advertising industry as the world struggles to… Source link

Arkady Yurievich Volozh seemed to be in good spirits. It was February 11, his birthday, and the 58-year-old billionaire CEO and cofounder of Yandex, the Russian tech behemoth, was in the sort of open, engaging mood that could be called privetliviy, after the casual Russian word privet for hello. He was speaking from his car in Tel Aviv, bragging about his father—an oil geologist in his eighties who had “discovered” oil in Israel, Volozh said—as we chatted about my upcoming trip to… Source link