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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Young people are increasingly using TikTok as a search engine, utilizing the social media platform’s powerful algorithm to provide them with the personalized information they want, reports the New York Times. And Google has noticed. “In our studies, something like almost 40% of young people, when they’re looking for a place for lunch, they don’t go to Google Maps or Search. They go to TikTok or Instagram,” Prabhakar Raghavan, a Google senior vice president,… Source link

NEW YORK — The term “Googling” may be synonymous with “searching” for things online, but for the group known as Gen Z that might be changing. Nearly 40% of Gen Z members (born from 1997 to 2012, according to the Pew Research Center) prefer TikTok for online searches, according to internal data from Google, which was first reported by TechCrunch. “They don’t have a long attention span; they said that several times,” said Adrienne Sheares, a social media consultant, who formed a Gen Z focus… Source link

Gen Z workers entering the labor market are pushing to transform the idea of what a typical office job looks like. According to the Center for Generational Kinetic’s (CGK) Annual State of Gen Z study, starting salary is the most important job factor for Gen Z workers — defined as those who fall between the ages of 16 and 26 — followed by schedule flexibility. “We found that 44% of Gen Z said they had to work five days a week if they really wanted to get promoted,” Jason Dorsey, a Gen… Source link

To become a Vogue Business Member and receive the Technology Edit newsletter, click here. As a global media and tech company, Yahoo reaches more than one-third of the US’s Gen Z audience, but it’s hoping to build on that — and it’s turning to fashion to do it. “Fashion is such a high-interest category of the Gen Z audience,” says Joanna Lambert, president and general manager of Yahoo. Yahoo has begun working with New York fashion designers on projects that use technologies… Source link

The Pixel Stand 2 is a tailor-made accessory for Google’s impressive Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones. Delivering fast wireless charging speeds and exclusive features in a robust design, the $79.99 Pixel Stand 2 is not cheap, so you’ll need a good reason to plunk down the cash for this latest Google accessory. We spent a week with the new Pixel Stand to find out if it’s worth the price and if this premium wireless charger is… Source link

The latest Google Pixel Stand is less of a “must-have” accessory if you’re a Pixel phone owner and more of a “nice to have.” For $79, its primary job is fast wireless charging, and it does that well. But unless you’re a Pixel 6 or 6 Pro owner and you’re really sold on one of the stand’s handful of extra features supported by your phone, then you’d be better off saving your money and getting an inexpensive third-party charger. … Source link

Investment company Next Gen Emerging Markets Portfolio (Current Portfolio) buys Yandex NV, Grid Dynamics Holdings Inc, LPP SA, Unity Software Inc, Sea, sells Krka d.d., Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Corp, Delivery Hero SE, Network International Holdings PLC, Halyk Savings Bank of Kazakhstan JSC during the 3-months ended 2021Q3, according to the most recent filings of the investment company, Next Gen Emerging Markets Portfolio. As of 2021Q3, Next Gen Emerging Markets Portfolio owns 39 stocks… Source link

A recent study by financial source DailyFX revealed that Apple (AAPL), Tesla (TSLA), and GE (GE) are the most popular stocks for millennials and Generation Z investors. The study collected data from Robinhood and examined investing preferences among millennials and Gen Z across the United States and United Kingdom for the 12 months ending April 2021. DailyFX noted that GameStop (GME) was not included in the study “as that would dominate the end results, skewing them for the search volume… Source link

Over the past year, I’ve heavily relied on Google’s Nest Hub Max in the kitchen. This 10-inch smart display has helped me remember important ingredients while I cooked, and it’s entertained me with music as I waited for the water to boil. I’ve enjoyed my time with it so much that when Google unveiled a new version of its 7-inch Nest Hub, I was excited to see if bringing it into my bedroom could upgrade my sleep too. Sleep Sensing is the hot new feature in Google’s smaller smart display. As… Source link

Bloomberg One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes Is Wiped Out in Days (Bloomberg) — From his perch high above Midtown Manhattan, just across from Carnegie Hall, Bill Hwang was quietly building one of the world’s greatest fortunes.Even on Wall Street, few ever noticed him — until suddenly, everyone did.Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time — a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive… Source link