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Google is adding an option to its Calendar service to let you show where you’re working on any given day of the week, the company has announced. The feature will start rolling out from August 30th for users on select Google Workspace plans, and will be accessible via Calendar’s settings menu alongside its existing working hours options, as well as on the weekly calendar view below where it shows each day’s dates. Available work locations include “Office,” “Home,”… Source link

The next Social Security raise may hit a 40-year record. But will it be enough? Consumer prices soared in June and July at an annual rate of 5.4, the highest since 2008. Steeper prices for gas, food, cars and countless other things are squeezing Americans, especially older ones with fixed, often modest incomes. But there’s a bright side: The spike in inflation could provide seniors next year with their biggest Social Security boost in almost four decades. In fact, advocates just raised their… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, August 11, 2021 The COVID golf boom continues in 2021 In August 2020, we wrote in The Morning Brief that the golf business was booming during the pandemic.  In August 2021, the industry only looks stronger.  Within the last week, we’ve seen golf’s two biggest publicly-traded companies — Titleist parent company Acushnet (GOLF) and Source link

New Nest Cams. The indoor/outdoor, battery-powered (or wired) Google Nest Cam with battery. … Source link

Supply constraints and increased demand drove the average price of a new car to $41,044 in July, an all-time high, according to J.D. Power’s latest U.S. Automotive Forecast. “We can’t get to $41,000 without both a supply chain issue that we’re seeing from microchips, as well as increased consumer demand that is not being met with the supply available,” J.D. Power Vice President of Data & Analytics Tyson Jominy told Yahoo Finance.  The previous high, set in June, was $39,942. “Too few vehicles… Source link

July 27 (Reuters) – Google parent Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) quarterly revenue and profit surged to record highs, the company reported on Tuesday, powered by a rise in advertising spending as more consumers shopped online. Shares of Alphabet, the world’s largest provider of search and video ads, rose 3.3% in extended trading after the results, which handily beat analyst estimates. Shares of Facebook, which competes with Google in web ad sales and reports its own results on Wednesday, rose 1.3%.

(Bloomberg) — Rio Tinto Group, the world’s biggest iron ore miner, reported its highest-ever interim profit and will pay $9.1 billion in dividends as the company and its global rivals cash in on this year’s commodities rally. Rio is the first of the majors to post earnings, kicking off a reporting season that’s expected to see record results across the board. The industry has been one of the biggest beneficiaries from the world’s efforts to emerge from the pandemic. The trillions of… Source link

By Sheila Dang, Nivedita Balu (Reuters) -Google parent Alphabet Inc’s quarterly revenue and profit surged to record highs, the company reported on Tuesday, powered by a rise in advertising spending as more consumers shopped online. Shares of Alphabet, the world’s largest provider of search and video ads, rose 3.3% in extended trading after the results, which handily beat analyst estimates. Shares of Facebook, which competes with Google in web ad sales and reports its own results on… Source link

Home price growth in the U.S. soared to a new record in May as the housing market continues to heat up. Standard & Poor’s said Tuesday that its S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller national home price index posted a 16.6% annual gain in May, up from 14.8% in April — marking the highest reading in more than 30 years of data. It is also the 12th straight month of accelerating prices. The 20-City Composite posted a 17% annual gain, up from 15% a month earlier. The 20-City results surpassed analysts’… Source link

The U.S. housing market was a bright spot during most of the COVID-19 pandemic, but it didn’t get any help from international buyers, many of whom couldn’t even travel to the U.S. The dollar volume of existing-home purchases by foreign buyers for the 12-month period ending March 2021 fell 27% to $54.4 billion, while the number of homes bought by foreigners fell 31% to 107,000 units, according to a new report by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released Monday. The dollar volume… Source link