Tag Archives: Shifts

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google shifts culture, CEO notes ‘this is a business’  CNBC Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google lays off employees, shifts some roles abroad amid cost cuts  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Target Q4 earnings beat estimates, CEO strikes a cautious tone as consumer spending shifts  Yahoo Finance Source link

TechCrunch has learned that Russia search giant Yandex is to switch from using yandex.ru as its main front page for Russian-speaking users to ya.ru — a less trafficked domain it’s owned since 2000 that, historically, has only hosted a basic search engine page. Imagine if Google decided to de-emphasize google.com in favor of a less popular domain it also owns and you’ll get an inkling of how big a shift this looks to be for the Russian Internet landscape. (Albeit, a fuller… Source link

TechCrunch has learned that Russia search giant Yandex is to switch from using yandex.ru as its main front page for Russian-speaking users to ya.ru — a less trafficked domain it’s owned since 2000 that, historically, has only hosted a basic search engine page. Imagine if Google decided to de-emphasize google.com in favor of a less popular domain it also owns and you’ll get an inkling of how big a shift this looks to be for the Russian internet landscape. (Albeit, a fuller… Source link

The rise in leisure and travel stocks highlights a shift in consumer spending from goods to services as the pandemic winds down. “We see signs of goods demand cooling, particularly in big ticket items, while services benefit from strong pent-up demand,” Savita Subramanian wrote in a recent BofA Global Research note. Case in point, airlines such as United (UAL) and American (AAL) predict reaching profitability amid strong demand. Luxury hotel operator Marriott International (MAR) has been… Source link

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc on Monday said it would shift how it returns cash to shareholders, buying up more shares when prices are low, fewer when prices are high and instituting a dividend for the first time. Micron makes DRAM and NAND memory chips, which are needed for nearly all computing systems and whose price can fluctuate widely based on global supply and demand. This can cause swings in profits – and share prices – at most memory… Source link

Microsoft, as expected, has synchronized the release schedule of its Edge browser with Chrome’s, which Google had earlier announced would accelerate to an every-four-week cadence. “As contributors to the Chromium project, we look forward to the new 4-week major release cycle cadence that Google announced, to help deliver that innovation to our customers even faster,” the Edge team wrote in an unsigned March 12 post to a company blog. The week prior, Google had… Source link

Indian smartphone buyers can expect to see more Google Pixel devices in the near future. A Google executive tells Economic Times that the company plans to bring larger quantities of the Pixel 4a’s successor when it launches later this year, possibly in June. Google Pixel 4a ET also reports that Google is entertaining the idea of moving some of the Pixels’ production to India for domestic sales and export. Google doubled inventory for Pixel for India last year and this year the… Source link

Twitter is expanding its use of Google Cloud, moving more of its computing infrastructure from its own data centers to the cloud platform and using more of Google’s data tools to empower more of its staff to innovate. Google announced that the two are taking their few-years-long relationship to a new level Thursday. Related: Twitter Will Use AWS to Power User Feeds “As Twitter continues to scale, we’re excited to partner with Google on more… Source link