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Vaccinated Americans are ready to drop their masks after CDC shift. But they’re not ready to socialize with the unvaccinated.

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that fully vaccinated Americans are so unlikely to transmit COVID-19 or fall ill from the virus that they no longer need to wear masks in most indoor situations. According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, the CDC’s surprise shift could finally signal the beginning of the end of masking in the U.S. — while also ushering in a new era defined by growing divisions between vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans. The survey of… Source link

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Apple, Google Privacy Shift Helps Ad Firms Recover from Pandemic

Moves by Apple Inc. and Google that make it harder for brands to track billions of consumers are creating a money-making opportunity for advertising companies that were hit hard by the pandemic. Google is phasing out third-party online tracking cookies and Apple is requiring app owners to ask for explicit permission to track users across other companies’ apps. The changes make it harder for companies to follow our every move online, so marketers are devising new ways for brands to find out… Source link

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Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4bn in profits out of Ireland

Google shifted more than $75.4 billion (€63 billion) in profits out of the Republic using the controversial “double-Irish” tax arrangement in 2019, the last year in which it used the loophole. The technology giant availed of the tax arrangement to move the money out of Google Ireland Holdings Unlimited Company via interim dividends and other payments. This company was incorporated in… Source link

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Google Updates Cumulative Layout Shift Scoring

Google fixed a Core Web Vitals metric in order to make it more fair to certain kinds of sites. With about one month to go before Core Web Vitals becomes a ranking factor some may find it strange that issues in the calculations are still being updated. Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) Ever visit a web page and try to click a button or read the text, only to have the button shift places and the text march around the web page? Advertisement Continue Reading Below That’s called layout shift, when the… Source link

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‘We’ve seen a paradigm shift in how people search for travel’

The Telegraph On which mode of transport are you most likely to catch Covid? If you’re hoping to travel (either abroad or domestically) this summer, you may be pondering the best way to actually get to your holiday destination of choice. Transport safety has always been a big question, but since the pandemic, a new element has been added to this – what risk of infection do you expose yourself to aboard each one? While there hasn’t been a definitive answer to the question, it is possible… Source link

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Yellen Shift on Vast Treasury Cash Pile Poses Problem for Powell

(Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is giving Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell a bit of a headache when it comes to managing the money markets. Already low short-term interest rates are set to sink further, potentially below zero, after the Treasury announced plans earlier this month to reduce the stockpile of cash it amassed at the Fed over the last year to fight the pandemic and the deep recession it caused. The move, which aims to return its cash position at the central… Source link

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A ‘fundamental concern’ coming from the shift to green energy

President Joe Biden has ambitious plans when it comes to addressing climate change. He wants to eliminate net carbon emissions from the energy sector by 2035, and from the entire U.S. economy by 2050. The big shift away from the burning of oil, gas and coal that would necessitate will put many American out of job. The White House – as well clean energy advocates – try to point out, the likely net effect of the switch from fossil fuels to clean energy in coming years will result in more… Source link

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Redditors divided on shift to push up Silver – Yahoo Finance

TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks With 8% Dividend Yield Let’s talk portfolio defense. After last week’s social flash mob market manipulation, that’s a topic that should not be ignored. Now, this is not to say that the markets are collapsing. After 2% losses to close out last week’s Friday session, this week’s trading kicked off with a positive tone, as the S&P 500 rose 1.5% and the Nasdaq climbed 2.5%. The underlying bullish factors – a more stable political scene, steadily… Source link

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Buy now, pay later boom brings ‘shift away from credit to debit’

Americans are increasingly taking advantage of the buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) offerings thanks to a growing number of financial technology companies. Splitting payments — as opposed to bulk purchases on credit cards that would accrue interest until being paid — is built on the premise that there is a “shift away from credit to debit,” Nicholas Molnar, co-founder and U.S. CEO of Afterpay, an Australian BNPL startup with more than 11 million customers that operates with 64,000 merchants,… Source link

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Google expands S.F. office despite shift to working from home during pandemic

Despite closed offices and a hiring slowdown during the coronavirus pandemic, Google is still growing in San Francisco. It’s a small addition, picking up what would have been enough space for 300 employees in the days before social distancing protocols. But the Mountain View search giant’s move to expand its real estate holdings, already among the biggest in the Bay Area, comes as other tech companies … Source link

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