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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Inflation, earnings, govt. shutdown: What to watch next week  Yahoo Finance Source link

Enlarge / Like it never even happened. Aurich Lawson / Getty Images Google Stadia is scheduled for execution this week. The service dies on January 18, and while there will be tons of spurned developers and hours of lost game progress in its wake, the shutdown of Stadia is going about as smoothly as it can go. After refunding every game purchase made on the service, Google is now responding to calls to open up… Source link

Google Stadia is officially shutting down on January 18, and the team behind the video game streaming service has gifted the world Worm Game, the final title that will be released for the platform and one that was used to test many of Stadia’s features before it launched. Worm Game can be played now by anyone with a Google Chrome browser, and it is very much inspired by the classic game Snake. It’s not the most advanced game graphically, but it does have multiple levels, the ability to change… Source link

Google is increasingly looking like a giant that has a hard time innovating. Driving the news: Google’s decision to shut down Stadia, its three-year-old cloud-based gaming service, marks the company’s latest failure to turn a technical breakthrough into a growing business. Why it matters: Google faces a long-term fight with the rest of Big Tech’s giants — Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Meta — for talent and revenue. The big picture: From its earliest days Google built a culture that embraced… Source link

If history is any guide, then investors shouldn’t sell all their stocks and move into cash and gold amid fear of another government shutdown.  “History shows that U.S. government shutdowns generally have not meaningfully impacted equity returns,” points out David Kostin, Goldman Sachs chief U.S. equity strategist, in new research. Kostin crunched the numbers, and they support his view.  The S&P 500 posted median returns of -0.1% on the dates of budget authority expiration, 0.1% during the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — A Covid outbreak that has partially shut one of the world’s busiest container ports is heightening concerns that the rapid spread of the delta variant will lead to a repeat of last year’s shipping nightmares. The Port of Los Angeles, which saw its volumes dip because of a June Covid outbreak at the Yantian port in China, is bracing for another potential decline because of the latest shutdown at the Ningbo-Zhoushan port in China, a spokesman said. Anton Posner, chief… Source link

Yahoo Mobile, one of Verizon’s prepaid brands, is shutting down and giving customers an “amazing option” for cell phone service. That option happens to be Visible, another one of Verizon’s prepaid brands. Visible is the all-digital brand, targeting Millennials, and while it might sound a little peculiar to recommend a hip digital brand to old-time Yahoo diehards, their services aren’t that different when it comes down to it. Yahoo Mobile started sending email messages to customers… Source link

TipRanks JPMorgan Bets on These 3 Stocks; Sees Over 50% Upside Potential It’s time to check in with the macro picture, to get an idea of just where markets are headed in the coming months. That’s what a JPMorgan global research team, headed up by Joyce Chang, has been doing. The JPM team starts by noting the sell-off in US Treasury bonds last week, pushing up yields as investors acted in response to inflationary fears. However, the rise in bond yields steadied on Friday, and Chang’s team… Source link

SYDNEY—Google threatened to shut down its search engine in Australia if a proposed law requiring tech giants to pay publishers for news isn’t changed. The warning escalates the long-running battle pitting the Alphabet Inc. unit and Facebook Inc. against the Australian government, whose efforts to compel tech companies to pay publishers is being widely watched globally and could offer a model for other countries. Last year, Facebook said it would restrict Australian… Source link

Yahoo has put the final nail in the coffin for its social media platform Yahoo Groups, announcing on Monday that the 20 year-old service will shut down on Dec. 15, 2020. Yahoo Groups, which was aimed to help users stay connected to their community and friends, has seen a “steady decline in usage over the last several years,” the Yahoo Groups team shared with users in an email. “Over that same period we’ve witnessed unprecedented levels of engagement across our properties as… Source link