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Costco (COST) has turned into the ultimate safe-haven investment (yet again) as markets have gotten uprooted due to the Russian war on Ukraine. Shares of the warehouse giant have gained about 8% since the war began in late February. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite are down slightly during that same span. Walmart’s stock (WMT) is up 5% The buying activity likely reflects several factors. First is that Costco is a mostly U.S.-focused operation, meaning less relative geopolitical risk to the… Source link

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian speaks at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco on April 9, 2019. Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google’s cloud division has formed a group to build business around blockchain applications, following efforts to grow in retail, health care, and other industries. Success could help Google further diversify away from advertising and become more prominent in the growing market for computing and storage services delivered from remote third-party data… Source link

Police in Nashville are seeking Tennessee Titans defensive end Bud Dupree for questioning regarding an alleged fight at a local Walgreens.  The Metro Nashville Police Department released a statement on Monday that they received a call about a fight at the Walgreens Sunday evening. Per the statement, the alleged fight involved Dupree, “persons with him” and two store employees. It was sparked when a male employee began to take video of Dupree on his phone, per the statement. Dupree was not… Source link

Employees at two Boston-area Starbucks locations began steps to form a union earlier this month, days after one store in upstate New York became the company’s first union-represented cafe. Workers at stores on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston and Harvard Avenue in Brookline sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson last week about their intent to unionize. “We see unions as the best way to make Starbucks a place to have a sustainable career and a true partnership,” the letter stated. “We… Source link

A new exchange traded fund (ETF) is trying to capture the white-hot market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in one financial product.  But the catch is that it won’t actually own any NFTs, crypto assets or related derivatives. Listed under the symbol “NFTZ” by issuer Defiance ETFs, the Defiance Digital Revolution ETF launches Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange’s Arca platform. The fund owns shares in publicly traded blockchain-related companies like Coinbase (COIN), in addition to those… Source link

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) – Google has temporarily locked down an unspecified number of Afghan government email accounts, according to a person familiar with the matter, as fears grow over the digital paper trail left by former officials and their international partners. In the weeks since the Taliban’s swift takeover of Afghanistan from a U.S.-backed government, reports have highlighted how biometric and Afghan payroll databases might be exploited by the new rulers to hunt their enemies.

Google and Mukesh Ambani’s Jio are hoping to crack one of the world’s largest untapped smartphone markets, launching a device they hope will be cheap enough to convert 450m Indians on “dumb” handsets into smartphone users. The JioPhone Next, a successor to Ambani’s earlier-generation JioPhone, has been designed by the companies to run a custom version of Android. It will offer a blend of Google and Jio apps, with voice assistance in multiple Indian languages for… Source link

COPENHAGEN, June 28 (Reuters) – Denmark’s media industry is banding together to negotiate payments for news with Google and Facebook, the first attempt in Europe to collectively pursue claims with the tech giants. Representatives of 29 Danish media companies, including state broadcaster DR, partly state-funded TV2, as well as most major newspaper publishers, will gather on Friday for their first meeting. “We believe that a collective management of our rights will make for the best and most… Source link

Q: For people that use Yahoo! or AOL email, what happens to their accounts now that Verizon has sold these assets? Will they need to seek out new providers? How does this work for consumers?   — Connie G., Hobe Sound  A: In May 2021, Verizon sold its equity share in both AOL and Yahoo! to Apollo Global Management for approximately $5 billion. In addition to the main brands involved, the sale also included entities like TechCrunch and Engadget, as well as a number of AOL and… Source link

The pandemic has sparked a shift in ideology about work, with demand for flexible hours and remote options on the rise. One way some companies have responded is by hiring workers outside the U.S. The shift is seen especially in startups, which can’t compete with Big Tech in the Bay Area but want to hire top talent. Clover Health (CLOV) is among those companies, as it has hired some employees in Hong Kong. In a recent LinkedIn post, Toy responded to questions from a reporter asking him “to… Source link