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(Bloomberg) — A stock selloff deepened in Asia, after fresh data redoubled concerns about China’s economy and as investors curbed wagers on Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. Most Read from Bloomberg Hong Kong shares led the declines, with the Hang Seng Index tanking nearly 4%. The CSI 300 mainland Chinese benchmark also fell 1.6%. The losses came after official figures showed while China reached its 2023 economic goal, the country’s housing slump has worsened and domestic demand… Source link

The cloud division of tech giant Google (GOOGL) has joined the Flare blockchain as a validator and infrastructure provider. Google Cloud is one of 100 organizations adopting this combined role, both securing the network as a validator and contributing to the Flare Time Series Oracle (FTSO), according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk on Monday. Flare, which calls itself “the blockchain for data,” gives developers access to decentralized data via its Oracle system. In blockchain… Source link

Google just announced a change for users in Europe that will let them decide exactly how much data-sharing they’re comfortable with. The new policy, which the company said was in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), allows users to opt out of data sharing across all, some, or none of a select number of Google’s services. The services listed include YouTube, Search, ad services, Google Play, Chrome, Google Shopping, and Google Maps. But the policy isn’t watertight… Source link

Image Credits: https://techcrunch.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2216465&action=edit / Getty Images Google today announced that it’ll stop charging Google Cloud customers a fee to migrate their data to another cloud provider or on-premise datacenter, effective immediately. Customers using Google Cloud services including BigQuery, Cloud Bigtable, Cloud SQL, Cloud Storage, Datastore, Filestore, Spanner and Persistent Disk are eligible for free transfers out of Google Cloud —… Source link

“Starting today, Google Cloud customers who wish to stop using Google Cloud and migrate their data to another cloud provider and/or on premises, can take advantage of free network data transfer to migrate their data out of Google Cloud,” Amit Zavery, a Google cloud vice president, wrote in the post. “This applies to all customers globally.”  While Zavery didn’t name any specific vendors, data transfer fees are a profitable source of revenue for tech companies and can serve to reduce churn… Source link

The cost of switching between cloud-computing providers has long drawn complaints, with the services derided as “roach motels” that let businesses check in but not out. Now Alphabet Inc.’s Google is taking steps to change that. Effective immediately, the company is eliminating fees levied on customers who want to leave its cloud for a rival service — a policy shift that may pressure competitors Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to do the same. Source link

Thomas Friestad – Kansas City Business Journal 10 hours ago FILE – In this Sept. 24, 2019, file photo a sign is shown on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File) Google recently bought close to 500 acres planned for data center development in Kansas City’s Northland, several miles northwest of a site where the company for years has eyed a different campus project. AG Rose Solutions LLC, an affiliate of the… Source link

US stock futures traded cautiously mixed on Wednesday, with tech stocks reaching for gains as investors waited for fresh inflation data and absorbed a dramatic turn in events in spot bitcoin ETFs. Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) futures were down 0.1%, while benchmark S&P 500 (^GSPC) futures hovered just above the flatline. Nasdaq 100 (^NDX) futures rose about 0.2%, after tech stocks eked out the sole win among the major indexes the previous day. Stock investors are likely treading… Source link

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Special counsel Jack Smith has a plan for how to illustrate Donald Trump’s influence over the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Prosecutors will show a map of people gathered around the Ellipse to hear Trump say, “we’re going to the Capitol” to “fight like hell,” then follow those supporters in real time as they head down Pennsylvania Avenue to where lawmakers were certifying President Biden’s victory.

By Philippa Wain Technology reporter 4 January 2024 Image source, Getty Images Google has begun testing changes to the way companies are able to track users online. A new feature in the Chrome browser disables third-party cookies – small files stored on your device to collect analytic data, personalise online ads and monitor browsing. It will initially be available to 1% of global users, about 30 million people. Google describes the changes as a test, with plans for a full rollout to eliminate… Source link