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Stock futures opened little changed Wednesday evening after another choppy session in the markets, with another batch of bank earnings and labor market and inflation data due for release on Thursday.  Contracts on the S&P 500 hugged the flat line. Earlier, both the blue-chip index and Nasdaq closed out the session higher, led by a jump in technology stocks as Treasury yields pulled back after a recent run-up. The drop in yields— with the benchmark 10-year yield pulling back below 1.55%… Source link

Başarsoft, a prominent digital map provider operating in Turkey, has tricked navigation giants Google and Yandex into revealing that they did in fact steal the company’s maps used in their services, a report by Dünya newspaper showed on Thursday. Başarsoft is now preparing to sue the companies. To test whether their services were being illegally copied by other companies, Başarsoft added fake street names to its maps of Turkey, which are subject to constant updates… Source link

The tech giant may open a data center in Eagle Mountain. (Mark Lennihan | The Associated Press) Google logo is shown in 2017. The company has acquired 300 acres in Eagle Mountain.   | Oct. 4, 2021, 8:00 p.m. Google has purchased 300 acres in Eagle Mountain, the rapidly growing city announced Monday, which could be the starting point for a new data center in Utah County. Eagle Mountain is already home to one of Facebook’s data centers, though the 1.5 million-square-foot facility is not yet… Source link

A once tiny hamlet in the rolling hills west of Utah Lake, Eagle Mountain is developing a knack for attracting some of the biggest names in business. The city on Monday announced search giant Google purchased property that may host a future data center. The announcement follows a pair of other development coups in that last few years that include a massive Facebook data center and a Tyson Foods meatpacking plant. The new investments are coinciding with a booming Eagle Mountain… Source link

Demis Hassabis, co-founder of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) startup DeepMind. Jeon Heon-Kyun | Getty Images LONDON — Alphabet’s Google and sister firm DeepMind are facing legal action for the way in which they obtained and processed over a million patient health records without consent in the U.K.  British law firm Mishcon de Reya told CNBC Friday it had filed a claim with the High Court on behalf of Andrew Prismall and roughly 1.6 million other individuals whose medical records were… Source link

By Rachel Metz, CNN Business Google Maps is making it easier to find the latest information about wildfires as part of a push to ensure the immensely popular app is more useful during emergencies. On Wednesday, Google said it’s adding a new wildfire layer to Google Maps, which users will be able to turn on to see the latest details about multiple fires at once. This can be essential during fire season when many fires may burn simultaneously. The new layer will show “most major… Source link

With the Pfizer (PFE)/BioNTech (BNTX) booster guidance in the rearview mirror, the CDC and the country’s other regulatory and public health agencies are gearing up to tackle Moderna’s (MRNA) and eventually Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) booster filings for recipients of those vaccines. Meanwhile, many have wondered why the U.S. is not following Europe’s and Canada’s lead in allowing mixing and matching of vaccine brands in order to be considered fully vaccinated or for booster doses. CDC Director… Source link

The brand logo of Alphabet Inc’s Google is seen outside its office in Beijing, China August 8, 2018. Picture taken with a fisheye lens. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo SYDNEY, Sept 28 (Reuters) – Australia’s antitrust watchdog said it wants the power to curb Google’s use of internet data to sell targeted ads, saying the Big Tech firm dominated the market to the point of harming publishers, advertisers and consumers. The comments, in a report published Tuesday, set up another possible showdown… Source link

Google is negotiating to build two more data centers in The Dalles, seeking access to a lot more water and a new package of tax breaks in exchange for spending hundreds of millions of dollars to expand its facilities on the site of a former aluminum smelter. Neither Google nor the city will say how big the new data centers would be, but they figure to be huge. Google spent $1.8 billion on its server farms along the Columbia River through 2017. Google has expanded steadily in The Dalles since… Source link

Is this truly the end of last-click attribution? Google will no longer use last-click attribution as the default conversion model in Google Ads, its buy-side ad network, the company announced in a blog post on Monday. The change will mean that, going forward, the default conversion method for any attribution touchpoint – a new product purchase page, app install campaign, display ad landing page  – will fall into what Google calls “data-driven attribution,” its algorithmic… Source link