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Love it or hate it, the Meme Market is back, and Wall Street strategists say it can’t be ignored. While shares of AMC Entertainment (AMC) are having a volatile Thursday, the social-media-fueled trading frenzy has pushed shares of AMC up nearly 3,000% this year, giving the money-losing movie theater chain a market value of more than $30 billion. AMC is not alone. Shares of Bed, Bath & Beyond (BBBY), Express (EXPR), and BlackBerry (BB) are all up this year. It’s reminiscent of the… Source link

Google Photos is no longer unlimited and that’s a bummer. Here’s how iPhone owners can switch to iCloud Photos.  Angela Lang/CNET … Source link

Bloomberg A Sizzling Rally Lures India’s Top Bank to Do More Equity Deals (Bloomberg) — A hot equity market in India is prompting HDFC Bank Ltd. to try to muscle in on the action as companies raise record levels of funding.The government has flooded the market with money in response to one of the world’s worst outbreaks of coronavirus, pushing stocks to dizzying levels and helping companies to boost capital buffers. Despite being India’s most valuable lender, HDFC Bank so far hasn’t… Source link

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai saw a “tectonic shift” in the future of work, driving product innovation and new ways of working at the tech giant.  The pandemic, which resulted in a massive remote work experiment, “was a tectonic shift. And the future of work is changing dramatically. It is going to be more flexible. Work is no longer just a place,” Pichai told Yahoo Finance in a wide-ranging interview.  More than 20 years ago, Google (GOOG, GOOGL) set out the create “the… Source link

Back when photos took up 1 shoebox and not 1 terabyte. getty All good things come to an end. Or, I should say, all good free things eventually start to charge. Starting June 1st, Google GOOG will start counting high-quality photos against a user’s 15GB storage cap, which also includes other Google services as well (primarily Gmail and Drive). If you go over that cap you can either delete photos to stay under the cap or pay $2/month or $20/year for 100GB of storage. If you… Source link

When Luke Stark sought money from Google in November he had no idea he’d be turning down $60,000 from the tech giant in March. Stark, an assistant professor at Western University in Ontario, Canada, studies the social and ethical impacts of artificial intelligence. In late November, he applied for a Google Research Scholar award, a no-strings-attached research grant of up to $60,000 to support professors who are early in their careers. He put in for the award, he said,… Source link

Institutional investors no longer view the COVID-19 pandemic as the No. 1 tail risk, according to the latest Bank of America (BofA) survey of global fund managers, an important gauge of sentiment on Wall Street. Since COVID-19 became a global pandemic a year ago, the virus has dominated the rankings as the top tail risk by fund managers. For the first time since February 2020, COVID-19 is no longer in the top spot. These days, investors consider the biggest tail risks to be higher than… Source link

TipRanks Goldman Sachs Predicts Over 50% Rally for These 2 Stocks Stocks started this year with heft gains, edged back last week, and now are rising again. The big tech giants led the moves, with volatility in Apple and Amazon leading the NASDAQ on its gyrations. The strategy team at investment bank Goldman Sachs have taken notice of the market shakeups, and are working out what it means for investors. According to macro strategist Gurpreet Gill, watching bond yields and stock values closely,… Source link

Ron Amadeo Samsung is upping the ante on Android updates and offering four years of security updates on many of its Android devices. The company’s full update package is now three years of major OS updates and four years of security updates, besting even what Google offers on the Pixel line. In the announcement, Samsung says, “Over the past decade, Samsung has made significant progress in streamlining and speeding up its regular security… Source link

by: The Associated Press and Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Jan 11, 2021 / 07:20 AM EST / Updated: Jan 11, 2021 / 07:21 AM EST President Donald Trump has been kicked off of most mainstream social media platforms following his supporters’ siege on the U.S. Capitol. But it remains to be seen how fast or where — if anywhere — on the internet he will be able to reach his followers. The far right-friendly Parler had been the… Source link