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With COVID-19 restrictions lifting, more people are booking trips and hotels online, which is very good for Google’s advertising business. Google’s employees, however, are working from home and not traveling as much on the company dime — and that’s also good for its business. During the first quarter, Google parent Alphabet Inc. saved $268 million in expenses from company promotions, travel and entertainment, compared with the same period a year earlier, “primarily as a result of… Source link

With Covid-19 restrictions lifting, more people are booking trips and hotels online, which is very good for Google’s advertising business. Google’s employees, however, are working from home and not traveling as much on the company dime — and that’s also good for its business. During the first quarter, Google parent Alphabet Inc. saved $268 million in expenses from company promotions, travel and entertainment, compared to same period a year earlier, “primarily as a result of… Source link

Home price growth in the U.S. surged at the fastest pace in 15 years in February. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted a 12% annual gain in February, up from 11.2% in January. The rate is the highest year over year gain recorded by the index since February 2006. The 20-City Composite posted a 11.9% annual gain, up from 11.1% the previous month, beating consensus estimates of 11.9%, according to Bloomberg. “Housing’s strength… Source link

By Hilary Russ    NEW YORK, April 20 (Reuters) – Religious leaders in Georgia on Tuesday will call for a boycott of Home Depot Inc because of its silence on the state’s new voting curbs that activists say make it harder for Black people and other racial minorities to vote.    Other Georgia-based corporations – including Delta Air Lines Inc and Coca-Cola Co – have been meeting with the activists for weeks and issued statements opposing the voting restrictions.    Coca-Cola also hosted a… Source link

Where would you go if you could go anywhere? Eliot Herman The coronavirus essentially shut down travel — local and… Source link

Make your Google Home a daily helper. Google “Hey, Google” might be an integral part of your day,… Source link

yahoo Answers, The internet’s favourite wormhole of bizarre questions – and even more bizarre answers – will be permanently closed in May. Yahoo, which is owned by Verizon, announced that they would be officially closing Yahoo Answers on May 4th. Yahoo Answers was a stalwart of the early noughties internet: a forum where users could ask… Source link

SAN JOSE — Some unassuming properties that Google bought in downtown San Jose near the Shark Tank are poised to provide land to “jump-start” an affordable housing site made possible by the search giant’s transit village. During 2018, in multiple transactions over a span of seven months, Google bought three properties on North Montgomery Street and North Autumn Street. At the time, the transactions raised eyebrows because the properties were outside of the emerging footprint of the… Source link

Make your Google Home a daily helper. Google “Hey, Google” might be an integral part of your day,… Source link

Google is killing off its dedicated Google Wifi app for managing its routers, rolling that functionality over to the Google Home app as the company continues to “help our customers control and manage all their connected products in one place and enable routines across them.” The switchover to the Google Home app will come in two phases: first, Google will disable most of the functionality of the Google Wifi app on May 25th. Starting then, users will only be able to view the current… Source link