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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – MAY 28: Google senior vice president of product Sundar Pichai delivers the … [+] keynote address during the 2015 Google I/O conference on May 28, 2015 in San Francisco, California. The annual Google I/O conference runs through May 29. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Getty Images A new report from The Information claims Google CEO Sundar Pichai is making the company’s connected TV business a “top priority,” as the company battles… Source link

A global energy crunch, fueled by tightening coal and gas supply, has already roiled the market and threatened to squeeze customers this winter, as utility bills rise. That may just be the beginning, according to Duke Energy (DUK) CEO Lynn Good, who heads one of the country’s largest energy holding companies. In an interview at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit, Good said she expects the supply and demand imbalance in the energy markets to continue well into 2022, with full rebalancing… Source link

Severe supply chain disruptions forebode a “brutal winter” for markets, which could suffer from heightened uncertainty if Congress fails to raise the debt ceiling well ahead of a December deadline, Citigroup (C) CEO Jane Fraser told Yahoo Finance at its All Markets Summit on Monday.  She expressed optimism that the supply-demand imbalance could pass next year, but acknowledged that disruptions “could become more sustainable.”  “We’re probably in for a bit of a brutal winter, particularly in… Source link

The situation in which employers find it hard to hire and the supply chain crisis forces businesses to hike prices is likely to persist for at least 6 to 12 months, one bank chief said. “The realities of things like… wage pressures… supply chain pressures… all these things are going to continue to contribute to this wage inflation that we’re seeing,” Wells Fargo CEO and President Charles Scharf told Yahoo Finance’s Andy Serwer at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference.  Noting… Source link

A milestone week that began with the introduction of the first Bitcoin-based exchange traded fund (ETF) ended just as it began — with a new fund based on the world’s leading cryptocurrency.  On Friday, digital asset manager Valkyrie launched its Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BTF) on the Nasdaq exchange. The company anticipates its fund will be the first of at least a couple more, as big and small investors flock to crypto investments. Valkyrie’s Bitcoin ETF followed the debut of the Proshares… Source link

Bitcoin (BTC-USD) smashed its previous all-time high of just under $65,000 on Wednesday — just a day after the launch of ProShares’ Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) on Tuesday, Oct. 19. In light of these developments surrounding bitcoin, Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein believes that investment in crypto shows no signs of stopping. “Well, the asset class is here to stay, and investors have a general appreciation of that. Investing in crypto is now something thematic, right?” Sonnenshein… Source link

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and parent company Alphabet Inc., GOOG 0.91% said the U.S. government should take a more active role in policing cyberattacks and encouraging innovation with policies and investments. In the wake of recent cybersecurity breaches attributed to Chinese and Russian hackers, Mr. Pichai said the time had come to draft the equivalent of a Geneva Convention for technology to… Source link

Over the course of Tom Brady’s 22-year career, the NFL’s winningest quarterback has bolstered the reputation of lesser-known players and coaches, his own brand TB12, and most recently the Tampa Bay Buccaneers after winning a Super Bowl championship during his first season with the franchise. But businesses don’t need to be directly on Brady’s team to benefit from the future Hall of Famer. New data from EDO, which measures consumer engagement with ads, shows that brands that advertise… Source link

The Seattle Kraken, the National Hockey League’s 32nd team, will play its inaugural game on Tuesday night in Las Vegas. For the business minds behind the return of professional hockey to Seattle after a nearly century-long hiatus, the Kraken’s first game is a crucial step in a nearly $2 billion investment in the team. “When people think that there aren’t many opportunities left, we found this great frontier called Seattle,” Kraken CEO Tod Leiweke said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above)…. Source link

Jamie Dimon, the CEO of the largest U.S. bank, took another jab at bitcoin bulls on Monday, alleging that the cryptocurrency may not be limited in quantity. “I’ll just challenge the group to one other thing: how do you know it ends at 21 million? You all read the algorithms? You guys all believe that? I don’t know, I’ve always been a skeptic of stuff like that,” said the JPMorgan Chase (JPM) CEO at an Institute for International Finance event on Oct. 11. The price of bitcoin was hovering… Source link