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Bird is the latest operator to integrate its e-scooters and e-bikes with Google Maps – TechCrunch

Micromobility company Bird has officially joined the ranks of e-scooter and e-bike operators that are integrated with Google Maps, which now surfaces nearby vehicles for users in the U.S. Bird’s announcement comes just a day after Spin also announced its integration with Google Maps and just a few weeks after Lime, which has been integrated with Google Maps since 2019, announced an integration with transit planning app Moovit. Bird already works with… Source link

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Biden’s latest mortgage assistance can cut your monthly payment by up to 25%

Biden’s latest mortgage assistance can cut your monthly payment by up to 25% While most U.S. homeowners have come through the pandemic unscathed, or even further ahead thanks to money-saving refinances at cheap mortgage rates, millions of others have had to opt for forbearance to put their loan payments on hold. A federal foreclosure ban provided them further protection. Now, those safeguards are falling away. Though more than 1.74 million mortgages were still in forbearance as of Aug. 10,… Source link

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Britney Spears’ latest conservatorship move keeps ‘prison sentence’

Britney Spears is once again asking the courts to replace her father as conservator of her estate — but at least one expert thinks the latest filing is hardly in the pop star’s long-term interest.  On Monday, Britney’s newly appointed lawyer, Mathew Rosengart, filed a petition to remove Jamie Spears from his position as sole conservator of the pop star’s reported $60 million estate.  Rosengart — a former prosecutor and prominent Hollywood lawyer whose A-list clients include Ben Affleck… Source link

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Google becomes latest tech firm to delay reopening as Delta variant spreads | Google

Google has backtracked on plans to welcome most workers back to its sprawling campus in September, becoming the latest Silicon Valley company to delay reopening amid a surge in Covid cases. The company announced Wednesday it is postponing a return to the office until mid-October and rolling out a policy that will eventually require everyone who returns in person to be vaccinated. The decision sees Google join Apple and Netflix in postponing calling employees back to the office due to concerns… Source link

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Beware of the latest global housing boom

The global housing market has gotten too hot to be sustained, according to Oxford Economics‘ deep dive into more than 121 years of housing data. Home prices in advanced economies may be about 10% overvalued compared to the long-term, according to new research from Oxford Economics lead economist Adam Slater. This “boom,” Slater notes, is one of the biggest since 1900. The last boom period in 2006 saw home prices 13% to 15% overvalued, based on Oxford’s analysis. Students of market history… Source link

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Breaking down Elon Musk’s latest market-moving Dogecoin tweet

Leave it to Elon Musk to give Dogecoin the lift it sorely needed. With yet another market-moving tweet on Friday, the Tesla chief—who famously dubbed himself “The Dogefather”—lifted Dogecoin out of its recent slump, driving the crypto meme-coin back above 22 cents after a steady decline that had seen it slip below 20 cents on Thursday. That’s still a long way from Dogecoin’s heady highs in May, when it broke 74 cents in the buildup to Musk’s hotly anticipated Saturday Night… Source link

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What Investors Should Know About Google’s Latest 5G Deal

Alphabet‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google recently partnered with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) to develop new 5G and edge cloud solutions for telecom companies and enterprise customers. Google already provides cloud services to Ericsson, one of the world’s top telecommunications equipment providers, but the new partnership will expand that relationship with the co-development of new services at Ericsson’s D-15 Labs in Silicon Valley, as well as a pilot… Source link

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Google’s latest diversity report shows jump in departures among women of color

Google’s latest diversity report shows that despite some gains in the number of Black employees, the company is lagging in its goal to double the number of Black workers by 2025. And the search giant is having particular difficulty retaining women of color, the report released Thursday (pdf) shows. Google uses a scale it calls an attrition index, with the number 100 used as a benchmark. The attrition figure for Black women on that index rose from 110 in 2020 to 146 in 2021, the report… Source link

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Intel Falls on Latest Server Chip Delay; Rival AMD Gains

(Bloomberg) — Intel Corp. fell after saying a new version of its Xeon server chip line will go into production in 2022, rather than by the end of this year as promised, the latest in a series of delays that have cost the company technology leadership of the chip industry.Rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rose after Intel said Tuesday that a chip design, code-named Sapphire Rapids, will begin production in the first quarter of 2022 with the “ramp” beginning the following quarter. The… Source link

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