One might assume that Google is the only search engine in the world worth talking about, but Bing has been making a lot of headway recently and if you take a look at a few other countries you would realize that Google’s influence is by no means universal. For example, in Russia the most popular engine turns out to be Yandex and this is the sort of thing that can work in the favor of Google’s competitors since they can work together to make changes that would potentially supplant… Source link
Read More »Rostelecom, Yandex to develop cloud services together – Business & Economy
ST. PETERSBURG, June 3. /TASS/. Russia’s digital services provider Rostelecom and IT giant Yandex will present joint cloud services for business and the public sector, according to the joint message of the companies. According to the statement, the partnership between the two companies includes joint development and implementation of solutions using the Yandex.Cloud platform and Rostelecom services for clients in the corporate and government segments. All services will comply with the… Source link
Read More »Google to use patient data to develop healthcare algorithms for hospital chain
Google has made a deal for access to patient records from HCA, which which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, so the tech company can develop healthcare algorithms, The Wall Street Journal reports. Google will store anonymized data from patient health records and internet-connected medical devices. That data will be used to build programs that could inform medical decisions made by doctors. The deal is described as “multiyear” by the WSJ,… Source link
Read More »Google Strikes Deal With Hospital Chain to Develop Healthcare Algorithms
Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG 0.29% Google and national hospital chain HCA Healthcare Inc. HCA 0.50% have struck a deal to develop healthcare algorithms using patient records, the latest foray by a tech giant into the $3 trillion healthcare sector. Nashville, Tenn.,-based HCA, which operates across about 2,000 locations in 21 states, would consolidate and store with Google data from digital… Source link
Read More »Russia’s Yandex to acquire Acropol bank to develop financial services
Yandex said on Thursday it had agreed to buy mid-sized bank Acropol for 1.1 billion roubles ($14.8 million), a move that will secure a banking licence for the Russian internet company so that it can develop financial services. Yandex has sought a means to develop its fintech offering after its split from a joint venture with state lender Sberbank last summer meant it ceded control of e-payment service Yandex.Money. In October, a $5.48… Source link
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Bloomberg Bonds Beat Stocks at Pension Funds, Turning 60/40 Inside Out (Bloomberg) — The debate over the traditional 60/40 portfolio seems endless, but for pensions at least, it’s over — and bonds won.The retirement funds of the top 100 U.S. public companies, with combined assets of about $1.8 trillion, have ratcheted up their fixed-income allocations to a record level. At the end of their last fiscal year, they held 50.2% of assets in debt, while slashing money parked in equities to an… Source link
Read More »Russia’s Yandex to buy Acropol bank in move to develop financial services
Bloomberg Shock and Tears: Behind Vanguard’s Retreat From China’s Market (Bloomberg) — Vanguard Group Inc. staff who dialed into a video call from their desks on the 40th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Center last month were expecting a morale-boosting speech from regional head Scott Conking on how the U.S. fund giant would tackle the Chinese market after years of preparation.Instead, Conking said the $7 trillion money manager was abandoning its push for a mutual fund license. The… Source link
Read More »UPDATE 1-Russia’s Yandex to buy Acropol bank to develop financial services
(Adds detail) MOSCOW, April 29 (Reuters) – Yandex said on Thursday it had agreed to buy mid-sized bank Acropol for 1.1 billion roubles ($14.8 million), a move that will secure a banking licence for the Russian internet company so that it can develop financial services. Yandex has sought a means to develop its fintech offering after its split from a joint venture with state lender Sberbank last summer meant it ceded control of e-payment service Yandex.Money. In October, a $5.48 billion… Source link
Read More »Nokia and Google Cloud partner to develop new, cloud-based 5G radio solutions
Press Release Nokia and Google Cloud partner to develop new, cloud-based 5G radio solutions The two companies will develop 5G solutions combining Nokia’s Radio Access Network (RAN), Open RAN, and Cloud RAN, with Google’s edge computing platform Building on recent partnership announced in February, new collaboration between Nokia and Google Cloud will deliver additional 5G monetization opportunities for CSPs 15 March 2021 Espoo, Finland – Nokia has today announced a partnership with Google… Source link
Read More »Google won’t develop new ways to track users, removes ad tracking
The digital giant has been working on proposals to remove so-called third party cookies from Chrome. LONDON, UK — Google says it won’t develop new ways to follow individual users across the internet after it phases out existing ad-tracking technology from its Chrome browser, a change that could shake up the online advertising industry. Google says it’s making the move to protect user privacy. It’s… Source link
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