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The key drivers of the late 2023 stock market rally have faded. With investors increasingly questioning when the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, the so-called “soft landing” trade which saw investors pour into interest-rate sensitive sectors has stumbled to start 2024. That raises the question of what the next catalyst is — and investors may not need to look further than the tech sector (XLK). Despite the recent craze over small caps and other hot trades that could benefit from… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google Officially Partners with Respond.io, Bringing Google Business Messages to More than 10,000 Businesses Globally  Yahoo Finance Source link

Google is taking another shot at bringing new features to phones that haven’t gotten OS updates in years. It’s releasing something called the “Extension Software Developer Kit,” which should let developers use features like Android 13’s new photo picker in apps running on some versions of Android 11 and 12. In a blog post announcing the change, the company says the feature lets it “extend the support of certain platform functionality to existing Android versions.” While more… Source link

The Extensions SDK is what makes features like Photo Picker possible on older Android versions. Project Mainline is a way for Google to deliver updates to some critical system components through the Google Play Services framework and the Google Play Store. Each Mainline module is delivered as either an APK file, an APEX file, or an APK-in-APEX. When a Mainline module is being updated, the user sees a “Google Play System Update” (GPSU) notification on their… Source link

Google is introducing new features for Android 13 that should make it easier for users to transition between different audio devices when listening to music. Announced at CES 2023, media notifications will ask users if they want to switch over to a different listening device based on their proximity, allowing you to seamlessly transition between your phone, speakers, headphones, TV, car, and more. This feature uses the cross-device software development kit (SDK) released by Google last year…. Source link

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Friday said the central bank’s job on lowering inflation is not done, suggesting that the Fed will continue to aggressively raise interest rates to cool the economy. “We will keep at it until we are confident the job is done,” Powell said in remarks delivered at the Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “While the lower inflation readings for July are welcome, a single month’s improvement falls far short of what the Committee… Source link

Google is expanding its custom text stickers to Android users who use the US-English version of its Gboard keyboard. Previously, only Google Pixel users had access to the feature, which lets you create and send personalized stickers by typing in your own text and choosing a premade design. In addition to expanding custom stickers, Google is also introducing over 1,600 new Pride Month and summer-themed mashups to Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen. You can use the feature by simply typing in an… Source link

McDonald’s (MCD) is bringing back its fan-favorite Szechuan Sauce. Beginning on March 31, and for “only a few days,” the sauce will be available for free with any Chicken McNuggets order at U.S. locations. There’s a catch though, the dipping sauce will only be sold via the McDonald’s app. This is the sauce’s fourth return to the Golden Arches since its debut 24 years ago as a promotional tie-in to Disney’s animated movie “Mulan.” The sauce made a cult-fan comeback 20 years later, in 2017,… Source link

During Google’s I/O event last year, the company laid out plans to significantly revamp the look and feel of its Workspace cloud apps (they were called G Suite until a 2020 name change). That includes a new look for Gmail that’s starting to roll out this month, search chips (you can just call them filters) for Google Drive, and a set of changes that are about to arrive for Google Docs and Google Sheets. The theme of this approach is called “smart canvas.” It takes some hints from… Source link

Google has announced early access to a new version of Chrome OS called Chrome OS Flex. The new version of Chrome OS, designed for businesses and schools, is designed to run on old PCs and Macs. The operating system can be installed “within minutes,” according to Google’s blog post. Google told me that Chrome OS Flex will look and feel identical to Chrome OS on a Chromebook — it’s built from the same code base and follows the same “release cadence.” It did caveat that some… Source link