Tag Archives: dropped

After a record-breaking 2021 with annual revenue of $257 billion — the first time it has gone over $200 billion for a year — Google’s parent company reports in a filing (pdf) that it has started off 2022 with Q1 revenue that’s up 23 percent from the same period last year, reaching $68 billion. However, with expenses up compared to 2021, its net profit actually dropped to $16.4 billion compared to last year’s $17.9 billion. In an accompanying statement, Google and Alphabet CEO… Source link

Nudging users toward security works. That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. In October 2021, the company announced plans to turn on two-factor authentication by default for 150 million Google users who were not currently using the service and to require 2 million YouTube creators to use it. In the latest post, Google says it

Jaquiski Tartt would like to have that one back, but at least he owned up to it. The San Francisco 49ers safety dropped what may have been the easiest interception of his NFL career on Sunday during the NFC championship game. Plenty went wrong for the Niners in a fourth quarter that started with San Francisco up 17-7 and ended with them losing 20-17, but Tartt’s drop stood out as the worst missed opportunity. The play came with the Niners up 17-14 and a little under 10 minutes left, when Rams… Source link

QUESTION: What can I do to make dropped pins more accurate in Google Maps? ANSWER: Dropped pins — which is done by pressing on any point in a map view — are very helpful for locations that don’t have a physical address, such as a remote hiking area or in regions of the world that don’t have physical addresses displayed on every building. Google has invested heavily in developing Google Maps, but it can only be as accurate as you and your device will let it. Precise Location Setting The… Source link

The Meme Market is back with a vengeance.  And AMC (AMC) is playing a different game the second time around.  On Thursday morning, the company filed to sell up to an additional 11.5 million shares as its stock price continues a monster run higher.  On Wednesday alone AMC shares rose 95% and in pre-market trading on Thursday the stock was at one point up another 20%.  But this does not mark the company’s first effort to capitalize on recent volatility.  Earlier this week AMC raised $230… Source link

Bloomberg Deliveroo to Dimon Stoke Fears About London’s Post-Brexit Future (Bloomberg) — If Deliveroo Holdings Plc’s listing was meant to hang an ‘Open For Business’ sign over the City of London, the opening day crash in the shares jarred somewhat with the message the U.K. had intended to send about post-Brexit Britain.Personally welcomed by Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the food delivery company’s initial public offering should have been a beacon to lure tech firms against competition… Source link

Bloomberg Retail Trader Army Is Signaling Retreat on Latest Stimulus Wave (Bloomberg) — From bullish options to basketball trading cards, the multibillion-dollar retail frenzy is showing signs of fading.Just as $1,400 stimulus checks arrive all across the U.S., day-trader favorites are losing steam, stirring speculation that the army of individual investors who disrupted markets over the past year have opted to spend the cash on plane tickets and restaurants rather than their trading… Source link

Facebook: The Google+ network and phone wars Google’s fledgling social network, Google+, had about 500 million users in 2012 compared with more than 1 billion people on Facebook. (Facebook now has an estimated 2.8 billion users worldwide.) But Facebook said the new upstart had an unfair advantage: Google had structured its search website so that users would see links to Google+ profiles before those from networks like Facebook and Twitter. In a previously unknown March 2012 presentation… Source link