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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google accused of making it harder to search for rival  BBC.com Source link

Summary Bug in Google Messages prevents users from replying to messages from notifications, only allowing them to mark as read. The issue seems to be limited to Pixel devices and recent stable builds of Google Messages. Users can wait for a bug fix or install a beta build of Google Messages to resolve the problem. If you use Google Messages as a primary form of communication, you might rely on notifications from the app on your Android device to keep up with… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Man says tenant interview in Bengaluru harder than Google’s  Hindustan Times Source link

Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger” in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news outlets reported. Citing the “uncertain global economic outlook,” the CEO said Google would slow its hiring pace for the second half of 2022. Google brought on a whopping 10,000 workers during the second quarter, per Pichai. The chief Googler went on to say the… Source link

Gone are the days when celebrities can jet-set without their locations being known — at least for billionaires like Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Jack Sweeney, 19, became an overnight sensation after his Twitter account @ElonJet went viral. The account, which has over 470,000 followers, uses a bot to automatically track the location of Musk’s private jet. Some billionaires are easier to trace than others, Sweeney told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “With Elon Musk,… Source link

Lumber prices hit a nine month low as borrowing costs surge.Carolyn Cole/Getty Images Lumber prices are spiraling as red-hot house prices and the rising cost of mortgages is hitting affordability. Nearly 80% of National Housing Survey respondents reported now is the worst time to buy a home. It’s set to worsen as Americans foresee their financial situations deteriorating over the next year. Lumber prices have been on a steep decline as a combination of rising interest rates, record-high… Source link

The House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act on Nov. 19. Though the bill would implement several tax increases, it’s a far cry from Democrats’ initial ambitions for raising revenue through taxes. On the campaign trail Joe Biden vowed to raise the corporate income tax rate to 28% from 21%. In the end, the bill contains a less aggressive 15% corporate minimum tax. Likewise on individual taxes: Lawmakers floated several ideas, including raising the top individual tax rate to… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, August 20, 2021 More signs of a summer swoon for economic growth On Thursday morning, we noted that challenges were emerging for the health of the economic expansion, mostly due to the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic.  Those signs continued into the end of this week.  After highlighting that at least two Wall Street firms had either cut or… Source link

Miguel Ojeda Google said Thursday it’s funding a project to increase Linux security by writing… Source link

It’s going to get harder for Android apps to track users who’ve opted out of receiving personalized ads, the Financial Times reports, after Google announced changes to how it’ll handle the unique device identifiers that allow marketers to track them between apps. Starting later this year, Google is cutting off access to these “Advertising IDs” after a user opts out, and will show developers a “string of zeros” in its place. The news was announced in an email to Play Store… Source link