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Starbucks (SBUX) posted fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results that mostly missed Wall Street estimates, but the coffee giant reported a spike in active Starbucks reward members as the fast food industry leans into digital in an effort to boost sales and drive customer loyalty. Here’s what the Seattle-based company reported, compared to Wall Street estimates, according to a Bloomberg consensus estimates: Revenue: $8.1 billion versus $8.22 billion expected Adj. earnings per share (EPS): $1.00… Source link

Tesla’s (TSLA) record profits for the fourth quarter are sending shares toward record highs. The next catalyst to take the stock up could be the electric vehicle giant’s autonomous program, Oppenheimer analyst Colin Rusch told Yahoo Finance Live. “Valuation is pretty substantial for the company, and it’s really predicated in our view, around their ability to deliver on the autonomous program,” he said. “We think the EV program where they’ve done a tremendous job and are continuing to make… Source link

The Education Department (ED) is rolling out a series of major changes to a notoriously troubled Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program for student loan borrowers in public service. “Borrowers who devote a decade of their lives to public service should be able to rely on the promise of Public Service Loan Forgiveness,” Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said in a press release. “The system has not delivered on that promise to date, but that is about to change for many borrowers… Source link

Private financial services platform Acorns is making it a little easier for parents to invest in their children’s financial futures by saving early and often. “Everyone should be doing as proactive a job as possible, and thoughtfully approaching early financial literacy and education,” Kennedy Reynolds, the Chief Education Officer at Acorns, told Yahoo Finance (video above). “There’s no such thing as too early when it comes to this.” The Acorns Early program allows parents to set aside… Source link

Burger King (QSR) is rolling out its app-based loyalty program nationwide, expanding its digital presence as the industry leans in on COVID-19 dining trends that have successfully lured in customers. On Thursday, the fast food giant announced that its “Royal Perks” will launch in two-thirds of restaurants by September. Initially, Burger King tested the program in a 3 market pilot in Los Angeles, Miami and the New York Metro area that began in February. In a function of how digital is playing a… Source link

BERLIN (AP) — Google said Tuesday that it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The internet giant said it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in the town of Hanau, close to the DE-CIX data exchange in Frankfurt. Google said it would purchase more than 140 megawatts of electricity from the German subsidiary of French utility company… Source link

BERLIN (AP) — Google said Tuesday that it is investing 1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) by 2030 to expand its cloud computing infrastructure in Germany and to increase the use of renewable energy. The internet giant said it plans to add new cloud computing centers in the Berlin region and in the town of Hanau, close to the DE-CIX data exchange in Frankfurt. Google said it would purchase more than 140 megawatts of electricity from the German subsidiary of French utility company Engie over the… Source link

Google is teaming up with Stanford University in an effort to make its workforce more neurodiverse. The technology giant said recently that it is launching a new program aimed at bringing more people with autism into its cloud workforce and supporting them better. With Google Cloud’s Autism Career Program, the company said that it will work with experts from the Stanford Neurodiversity Project — part of the university’s medical school — to train as many as… Source link

Google has partnered with Stanford University on a new Autism Career Program for neurodiverse job … [+] seekers. Google Images Google on Monday announced in a blog post the launch of what it calls the Google Cloud Autism Career Program. The Bay Area-based tech titan said it’s designed to “hire and support more autistic talent in the rapidly growing cloud industry.” This effort by Google is the latest in an ever-growing trend, spearheaded by organizations big and small, to… Source link

Google is launching a new beta tester program for Android Auto, giving users the chance to get early access to features if they’re prepared to put up with the potential instability of unfinished software. Android Auto has had a testing program, but attempting to sign up for it has shown a message warning that the program had reached its “maximum number of testers.” “As a beta tester, you can help us build a better version of Android Auto. You can test how well new features work… Source link