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Stock futures advanced on Wednesday after the market staged a U-turn in earlier trading, welcoming a Federal Reserve decision to ramp up the pace of its taper and leave interest rates unchanged — for now. All three major U.S. indexes opened higher ahead of the overnight trading session, driven mostly by tech stocks after clarity from the Fed about their timeline for rate hikes. Contracts on the Dow were up 10 points to 35,936.00, and S&P 500 futures edged higher by 3 points to 4,712.50…. Source link

In its latest move to placate European competition regulators, Google has offered a set of commitments to France’s antitrust watchdog — in the hopes of settling a costly (for it) intervention over legally mandated payments for displaying snippets of news publishers’ content. Back in July, France’s Autorité de la Concurrence slapped the tech giant with a fine of half a billion euros over a series of suspected breaches in how it negotiated with news publishers to remunerate them… Source link

As a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows received text messages from multiple Fox News hosts and the president’s son, urging him to convince Trump to issue a statement condemning the violence, according to the House select committee investigating the attack. The text messages are among thousands of documents Meadows has turned over to the committee, according to Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who revealed the… Source link

Stock futures were up on Monday following declines during the earlier trading session for all three major U.S. indexes as investors set their sights on a prolific week in Washington that includes the Federal Reserve’s final policy-setting meeting of 2021 and the release of new prints on retail sales, housing starts and other economic data. Contracts on the S&P 500 edged higher, turning positive after the blue-chip index retreated from a rally last week that helped the index post its sharpest… Source link

New Mexico settles Google lawsuit over children’s online privacy Skip to content ✕ × Close Ad … Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Instacart president Carolyn Everson stepping down  Supermarket News Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google issues warning to location-sharing apps  BBC News Source link

Stock futures opened higher Tuesday evening after a technology-led rally during the regular trading day, as investors looked through concerns over the Omicron variant and a potential policy pivot by the Federal Reserve.  Contracts on the Nasdaq Composite opened in the green. Earlier, the index closed higher by more than 3%, posting its best day since March. The S&P 500 and Dow also advanced solidly, rising more than 2% and 1.4% during the session, respectively. Treasury yields climbed, and… Source link

The Covid-19 pandemic once again featured heavily in internet searches in Australia this year, as lockdowns gripped the two largest states, and people sought vaccines. Google has compiled data on the most popular search terms from the previous 12 months, which showed Covid’s dominance in Australia was only challenged by people looking for an escape in sport. The NBA, AFL, cricket, NRL, football, Wimbledon and the Olympics took out the top spots for most searched topics in Australia in 2021…. Source link

In a complaint being unsealed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Google names two defendants, Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov, as well as 15 unnamed individuals. Alphabet Inc.’s Google is suing two Russian nationals it claims are part of a criminal enterprise that has silently infiltrated more than a million computers and devices around the world, creating “a modern technological and borderless incarnation of organized crime.” In… Source link