Google made big news this week with an announcement that employees will come back to the office three days a week in the Bay Area and other locations. Unfortunately, some of that news broke before employees got the company email informing them their work lives were changing. The hybrid work announcement, made Wednesday, applies to the Bay Area and several other U.S. locations. Under the new plan, “most employees will spend approximately three days in the office and two days… Source link
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On Tuesday, Google announced its earnings for the final quarter of 2021. Like many of its tech brethren, it was a very good quarter. Google reported record revenue of $75 million, most of which came from the company’s advertising business. In fact, Google’s advertising business is so good that the company loses money on everything else, but still managed to post one of the most profitable quarters of any company, ever. For the three months ending in December, Google made almost $21 billion… Source link
Read More »Google Just Gave You the Best Reason Yet to Finally Quit Using Chrome
A while back, Google said that it was on board with the idea that cookies–the little pieces of software code that websites use to do all sorts of things like keeping you logged in, to letting an advertiser know when you’ve clicked on their ad and then made a purchase–were bad. At least, the third-party kind–the ones that track your activity across the internet. Those types of cookies would be blocked in Chrome by 2023. Except, because Google–like every advertising platform–uses… Source link
Read More »Google Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Quit Chrome
Chrome’s 2.6 billion users have faced an increased number of security threats in recent months, but now arguably the biggest warning has been issued concerning Google itself. And it might just make you want to quit Chrome. Through Chrome, it is claimed Google now has the power to determine how the web functions LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES MORE FROM FORBESGoogle Confirms Chrome’s 12th & 13th Zero-Day Hacks In 2021By Gordon Kelly In an explosive editorial, Source link
Read More »Google tells EU court payments to phone makers gave Android a chance against Apple
A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave Google says payments merely a promotional opportunity EU says they are pinnacle of illegal interlocking practices EU court judgment likely next year LUXEMBOURG, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Payments to phone makers to pre-install only Google Search on their devices were not aimed at preventing competition but were necessary for Android to seize market share from… Source link
Read More »Google reportedly gave some users’ data to Hong Kong authorities in 2020
Google provided some user data to the government of Hong Kong last year, despite promising it would not process such data requests from authorities, according to the Hong Kong Free Press. The company told the news outlet it “produced some data” in response to three of the 43 requests it received from Hong Kong’s government. Two of the requests had to do with investigations into human trafficking and included search warrants, and a third was an emergency disclosure as part of a… Source link
Read More »Google gave phone makers extra money to ditch third-party app stores
Newly unredacted sections of Epic’s antitrust complaint against Google reveal new details on the lengths to which Google went to undermine third-party app stores on the Android platform. According to the new text, starting in 2019, Google ran a “Premier Device Program” that gave Android phone makers a greater share of search revenue than they would normally receive. In exchange, the OEMs agreed to ship their devices without any third-party app stores preinstalled. Specifically, they… Source link
Read More »Warren Buffett gave this investing tip to NFL defenseman Ndamukong Suh
Very few people in the world could call investing legend Warren Buffett a good friend. Tampa Bay Buccaneers star defenseman and investing fanatic Ndamukong Suh is one of those people. Suh, 34, told Yahoo Finance Presents he has learned tons of invaluable investing lessons from the now 90-year-old Oracle of Omaha, but one in particular stands out. “Probably the most important one [lesson] that I learned from him is focusing on the people,” Suh said. “People are the most important thing about… Source link
Read More »Google allegedly gave its ad system an advantage with a special project
Bloomberg Pivotal Week Confronts Emerging Markets at Mercy of U.S. Yields (Bloomberg) — That the immediate fate of emerging markets is likely to be determined by the path of the dollar and Treasury yields is barely in dispute.But what is less clear is which direction the U.S. currency and bond market will take, as investors weigh the competing forces of Covid-19 infections and the prospects of a global economic rebound. Another uncertainty is which developing economies are best-placed to ride… Source link
Read More »Google Messages just gave us the Android texting feature we’ve wanted forever
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