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Gojek drivers waiting for passengers in Indonesia. afif c. kusuma | iStock Editorial | Getty Images SINGAPORE – More than 75% of the population in six major Southeast Asian countries have access to the internet and a majority of them have shopped online at least once, according to a new report from Google, Temasek Holdings and Bain & Company. As many as 40 million people across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand came online for the first time this year,… Source link

Shiba Inu dog. AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi A 35-year-old former supermarket warehouse manager who made an $8,000 bet on shiba inu at the start of the year is now enjoying his retirement thanks to the meme coin’s stunning rally. Rob, who is from northern England, told Fortune he dabbled in cryptocurrencies to supplement his $68,000 yearly salary so he could create a better life for his partner and their son. Unexpectedly, he came across shiba inu, which was founded in August 2020. And upon… Source link

Stock futures rose Friday morning as traders eyed the Labor Department’s October jobs report, which showed a better-than-expected pick-up in payroll growth and another improvement in the unemployment rate.  Contracts on the S&P 500 advanced. A day earlier, the blue-chip index rallied to a record high, logging a sixth straight record close as technology stocks advanced. The Nasdaq also jumped amid the broad move higher in tech shares, while the Dow closed lower for the first time in six… Source link

Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, U.S. June 3, 2019. REUTERS/Mason Trinca Apple (AAPL) will report Q4 earnings after the closing bell on Thursday, and analysts will pay close attention to demand for the new iPhone 13 lineup and the company’s ability to withstand the ongoing chip shortage. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting from the quarter, as compiled by Bloomberg, compared with how Apple performed in the same quarter… Source link

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder. Alex Wong/Getty Images An Amazon worker on leave emailed Jeff Bezos to say she’d been underpaid, The New York Times said. A subsequent investigation found that Amazon was systematically underpaying some workers on leave. A spokesperson told The Times that Amazon was still identifying underpaid workers. An email sent to Jeff Bezos from an Amazon worker who was on leave triggered an internal investigation that exposed flaws with the company’s payroll system, The New… Source link

Stock futures opened higher Thursday evening, extending gains as investors awaited a key report on the labor market’s recovery. Contracts on the S&P 500 ticked up after the index logged a third straight session of gains during Thursday’s regular trading day. The move to the upside came after Senate leaders said they reached an agreement on raising the government borrowing limit into December, helping avert a default as soon as this month.  With concerns over the government debt ceiling… Source link

I love Google and YouTube. They do more for Hispanics than do college libraries and are faster and more convenient. Every article I write, every commentary I make has roots in Google. No more libraries. An internet connection to Google and YouTube, Google for research and YouTube for distribution, and I’m in business. While they earn off of me and people like… Source link

Former CIA Director and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday called for the criminal prosecution of sources who spoke to Yahoo News for a story detailing proposals by the intelligence agency in 2017 to abduct WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and discussions within the Trump administration and CIA to possibly even assassinate him. Pompeo, appearing on Megyn Kelly’s podcast, was asked to respond to the Yahoo News story, which was based on interviews with 30 former U.S…. Source link

Google on Thursday filed a writ petition in the Delhi High Court against the Competition Commission of India following the leak of a damning confidential report detailing the watchdog’s interim fact-finding in an antitrust probe. The report, which Google has yet to formally receive or review, said the American giant had abused the dominant position of Android in India to illegally hurt competitors in the world’s second-largest internet market. The Indian… Source link

Microsoft’s 85% share of the productivity business within the U.S. government market is part of a harmful “monoculture” that stifles innovation, according to a new report commissioned by Google and the Computer & Communications Industry Association. Between the lines: The report is the latest example of Google and Microsoft going after one another since the companies scrapped a pact to avoid direct attacks. The big picture: Microsoft’s huge share of the office productivity suite market isn’t… Source link