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USC hands Kansas historic loss

USC entered the NCAA tournament boasting the Pac-12’s most efficient defense. When it brought an offense to match, Kansas didn’t stand a chance. No. 6 seed USC smothered No. 3 seed Kansas on both sides of the floor Monday, handing the Jayhawks their worst-ever NCAA tournament loss, 85-51. Their previous worst effort was a 60-42 loss to Indiana in the 1940 national title game.  Pac-12 keeps rolling The win caps a dominant weekend for the Pac-12, which sends four of its five entrants in the… Source link

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Ford, Google join hands to offer cloud-based data services

TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 8% Dividend Yield Let’s talk portfolio defense. After last week’s social flash mob market manipulation, that’s a topic that should not be ignored. Now, this is not to say that the markets are collapsing. After 2% losses to close out last week’s Friday session, this week’s trading kicked off with a positive tone, as the S&P 500 rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq climbed 2%. The underlying bullish factors – a more stable political scene, steadily… Source link

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Microsoft, Salesforce, Oracle Join Hands To Develop COVID-19 Vaccine Passports

TipRanks Raymond James: 2 Big 7% Dividend Stocks to Buy Now Watching the markets with an eye to the main chance, Raymond James strategist Tavis McCourt sees both risk and opportunity in current market conditions. The opportunity, in his opinion, stems from the obvious factors: the Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats in the recent runoff vote, giving the incoming Biden Administration majority support in both Houses of Congress – and increasing the odds of meaningful fiscal support getting… Source link

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PTAB Hands Wins To Google Over Video Playback Patents

Law360 (January 13, 2021, 5:27 PM EST) — Google scored a pair of victories in a patent fight over video playback technology after the Patent Trial and Appeal Board struck down two Virentem Ventures LLC patents for being obvious. In separate final written decisions this week, the PTAB said that Google successfully showed that each of the claims in two of Virentem’s patents were obvious due to prior art that included an earlier U.S. patent known as Nelson, which covers a digital video… Source link

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Kenya and Google join hands to make ‘internet balloons’ — 1,000 users can login from each

(Representational Image) of a Google internet balloon | Photo: Wikimedia Commons Text Size: A- A+ How do internet balloons work and do many countries use them? Google’s internet balloons are wireless Internet connectivity towers that float in the stratosphere. They beam Internet signals to earth-based stations, which then transmit the internet to users through internet service providers. These floating giant balloons are made… Source link

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Google’s Jio investment hands Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani another $4.5 billion

Google (GOOGL) will pump $4.5 billion into Mukesh Ambani’s Jio Platforms, the digital technology arm of sprawling conglomerate Reliance Industries. That gives Google a 7.7% stake in the company, the companies announced Wednesday. The investment includes a deal to jointly develop an entry level, affordable smartphone and “expand the benefits of digitization across the length and breadth of India,” they said. The deal values Jio at about $58 billion. Jio Platforms includes India’s biggest mobile… Source link

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Hands on with Bing’s real-time Twitter search

Hands on with Bing’s real-time Twitter search

Bing has gained access to the entire public Twitter feed, which has enabled Microsoft to launch Twitter real-time search results in beta over at Bing.com/Twitter. Microsoft isn’t the only one, as Google announced its own Twitter search deal within hours. Microsoft has also announced a global partnership with Facebook that will bring the social site’s status updates to Bing search results, but that experience will be available… Source link

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Hands on with Bing’s real-time Twitter search

Hands on with Bing’s real-time Twitter search

Bing has gained access to the entire public Twitter feed, which has enabled Microsoft to launch Twitter real-time search results in beta over at Bing.com/Twitter. Microsoft isn’t the only one, as Google announced its own Twitter search deal within hours. Microsoft has also announced a global partnership with Facebook that will bring the social site’s status updates to Bing search results, but that experience will be available… Source link

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Hands on: Bing gains Silverlight-only Visual Search feature

Hands on: Bing gains Silverlight-only Visual Search feature

Microsoft today launched the first major new feature since the debut of the company’s decision engine in May 2009. The software giant releases updates to its Web search almost every spring and fall, and this season is no exception. Visual Search beta is the first of many updates that Bing will be getting this fall, and it’s also easily the most fun to use. Redmond says it created the feature so that users can refine a query… Source link

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