Tag Archives: keeping

When close to half the companies in the United States have price-to-earnings ratios (or “P/E’s”) below 17x, you may consider Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) as a stock to avoid entirely with its 29.7x P/E ratio. However, the P/E might be quite high for a reason, and it requires further investigation to determine if it’s justified. Before we start, investors should know that Apple has an outstanding performance in multiple areas, such as cash flows, working capital management, earnings quality, and… Source link

After a hugely disappointing April jobs report, U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh rejected claims from Republicans and some businesses that enhanced unemployment benefits are keeping workers from going back to work.  The Labor Department reported the U.S economy added back just 266,000 jobs last month, sharply missing economists’ expectations of 1 million.  “266,000 jobs under normal circumstances — and we’re certainly not living in normal circumstances — would be a good month,” said… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the internet, counting millions of websites as its customers, ranging from Airbnb (ABNB) and Ancestry.com to McDonald’s (MCD) and Volkswagen.  The world’s largest cloud provider, it has ensured that video chatting apps like Zoom (ZM), streaming services like Netflix (NFLX), and virtual learning platforms have operated throughout a pandemic that has kept everybody at a physical distance. And according to Amazon CTO Werner Vogels,… Source link

Managing infrastructure at Google is a lot more than just putting stuff into containers and letting Borg push it around. There is a whole art to keeping services running at scale up and running, and the people who do it are called site reliability engineers, or SREs. More and more, the practices that Google created are being adopted and so is the SRE term. Most companies can’t hire the smartest people in infrastructure in the world, like the hyperscalers and cloud builders can. And so… Source link

Tech giant Google has detailed the efficiency improvements it made with Chrome 89, the latest version of its browser released earlier this month. According to The Verge, depending on whether a user is utilising the browser on Windows, macOS, or Android, Google said the browser should use fewer resources, launch quicker, and feel more responsive to use. However, there is no mention of any improvements specifically for users on iOS. The exact benefits… Source link

Refinery29 Doctors Are Going Broke During The Pandemic. Why Is No One Talking About It? Heather Bartos, MD, OB/GYN, received no salary for most of last year. She was still working all week: delivering babies in nearby hospitals, performing routine exams, logging into telehealth appointments. But because she has her own private practice, soon after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, she had to make a choice between reducing her employees’ work hours or going… Source link

Welcome to Bloxburg Roblox Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and gaming app Roblox are both getting set to go public through a direct listing of their shares. They have something else in common that’s likely to prove very attractive to investors: Brand awareness. Both companies spend less than 10% of their net revenue on sales and marketing. Those are savings that allow the companies to focus more on product development and even profit generation. With limited marketing, Coinbase emerged as the… Source link

Scorecards provides an assessment of open-source packages, which developers can use to judge whether they are safe to introduce into their projects or systems. This new system is intended to help developers assess the risk level of a software package. Image: iStock Introducing… Source link

After the Bidens move into the White House in January, Dr. Jill Biden will continue to teach English at North Virginia Community College, becoming the first presidential spouse to keep their day job and commute to work, The New York Times reports. “Dr. Biden is focused on building her team and developing her priorities focused on education, military families and veterans, and cancer,” her spokesman, Michael LaRosa, told the Times. She has worked at North Virginia Community College for a… Source link