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The pandemic has inspired new Google Workspace features NurPhoto via Getty Images Google has announced a wave of new features for Google Workspace, many of which were developed as a result of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, according to the man in charge of the suite. Among the new features being announced for Google Workspace today are: Segmentable working hours that allow staff to signal to colleagues when they are and aren’t available Google… Source link

(Reuters) – Apple said on Monday all its 270 U.S. stores have been opened, the first time in almost a year after it was forced to shutter several outlets because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has been cautious in re-opening its retail stores, using a team that includes medical experts to make its own calls on a county-by-county basis and sometimes shuttering stores again when local rules would otherwise allow stores to operate. The iPhone maker has also expanded its ‘Express’ format, a… Source link

Created by well-funded anti-vaccine groups and spread by misguided but dedicated activists on social media, vaccine misinformation could lengthen the COVID-19 pandemic and literally kill people. The First Amendment prevents governments from silencing speech, but it doesn’t compel private companies to enable, promote and support harmful speech: Nobody is owed a social media service. Social media companies must limit anti-vaccine groups’ power to harm people through their services. For… Source link

It was January 2021 in McKinley County, New Mexico, and George Munoz was despondent. Ten months into the coronavirus pandemic, the devastating impact on his community weighed him down. “We live in a small town, so everybody kind of knows everybody right?” Munoz, a representative elected to the state’s legislature, told Yahoo Finance. “For seven days straight, I knew somebody who had died.” McKinley County has one of the highest COVID-related mortality rates in the U.S., according to a new… Source link

Syringes in front of Google logos. NurPhoto via Getty Images Coronavirus became etched into popular culture after the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread across the globe in 2020, but people have been aware of coronaviruses for decades. Was ‘coronavirus’ well-known before the Covid-19 pandemic? One way to estimate a word’s popularity is to ask Google. More specifically, you can use Ngram Viewer, a tool that displays a graph of how frequently phrases appeared in… Source link

When the U.S. government bailed out student loan lenders during the Great Recession, legislators unintentionally set off a series of cascading events that has left more than 6 million student loan borrowers locked out of a crucial benefit more than 10 years later amid the coronavirus pandemic. Two consumer advocacy groups are pressing the Biden administration to change that. “The Trump administration exercised executive authority to cancel student loan interest charges and pause loan payments… Source link

InvestorPlace 10 Dividend Stocks Increasing Their Payouts There are two types of dividend stocks: those that increase their annual dividend payments year after year, often referred to as Dividend Aristocrats, and those that grow their annual dividends by double-digit percentages every year. In early January, Rob Carrick, one of Canada’s best personal finance columnists, wrote an article about dividend stocks that doubled their payouts over the past 10 years. With an assist from Tom Connolly… Source link

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on January 22, 2020. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) As Google prepares to return workers to offices in 2021, it is warning it may take a productivity and financial hit in the process, according to the company’s annual 10-K report. The company, known for its competitive, perks-fueled culture, employs 135,301 full-time workers and an… Source link

The ability to put just a few extra bucks into stocks. A pandemic panic that drove stock prices way down for many companies that have a future ahead. Easy to use apps. And throw in a little extra cash via government stimulus checks and some extra time when major league sports teams stopped playing during the pandemic, you couldn’t see a movie at a theater and college graduates started working remotely back home. All of those factors contributed to growth among new investors in 2020. Sure, many… Source link

TipRanks The 5G Revolution Could Send These 3 Stocks Higher We’ve got a full month of 2021 behind us now, and a few trends are coming clearer. The coronavirus crisis may still be with us, but as vaccination programs expand, the end is in sight. With President Trump out of the picture, and the Democrats holding both Houses of Congress and the White House, politics is looking more predictable. And both of those developments bode well for an economic recovery this year. Looking back, at the… Source link