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Initially known as Google Places for Business, Google My Business is an important tool for businesses looking to leverage location-based marketing. It is a free marketing tool from Google that enables business owners to manage the visibility of their business on search engines. GMB is best suited for businesses looking to… Source link

In this article we will take a look at the some of notable stocks that moved this week. You can skip our detailed analysis of these stocks and go to read Why These 5 Tech Stocks Moved This Week. This week has been a roller coaster ride for the market given China’s Evergrande situation and the Fed meeting. It has also been an eventful week for stocks such as salesforce.com, inc. (NYSE:CRM), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook Inc…. Source link

“Alisa”, the voice assistant from Russian tech firm Yandex, is now available for Russia’s VTB Bank (MCX: VTBR). She’ll be able to inform consumers about the products, tariffs and the banking platform’s services. She can also go over loan applications and offer advice or suggestion on how to keep savings profitable. In order to use the service, you just have to tell Alice: “Start the skill” VTB Assistant.” As reported by Finextra, this may be done from the Yandex app via a… Source link

Beijing’s latest moves to crackdown on various sectors in the Chinese economy is spooking some investors, and one short seller believes that this is simply the start. “I know the bulls wanted to say: ‘It’s just going to be the education stocks,’ and then it was the crackdown on gaming,” short seller Dan David told Yahoo Finance Live (video above).  In the last few months, the Chinese government under President Xi Jinping has started tightening regulations across various sectors such as… Source link

(Reuters) – China’s top securities regulator defended their crackdown on various industries in a private meeting with Wall Street executives, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday. Investors’ concerns over the regulatory crackdown has led to sharp sell-offs on China’s share markets, reducing the market capitalisation of some of its largest companies including Alibaba Group Holding Limited. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Vice Chairman Fang Xinghai explained during the meeting that… Source link

Google Cloud is having some success when it comes to landing ad tech companies as new customers, but the companies that choose Google to manage their computing infrastructure are making a tricky bargain.  Google recently struck deals with 33Across, a publisher monetization company, and a crypto-marketing startup, Permission.io, to help power their businesses. In this way they are relying on the No. 1 internet ad company, while also competing in areas that overlap. This dynamic… Source link

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has turned to familiar Democratic faces in the final days of a campaign to keep his job.  President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Senator Elizabeth Warren have all lent their voices to give the embattled governor a boost against a Republican-led effort to remove him from office. But if Newsom emerges victorious on Tuesday, he may have some big name tech executives, particularly Netflix (NFLX) co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings to thank. With a… Source link

As the full implications of Texas’s SB 8 abortion law come into view, internet infrastructure companies have become an unlikely focal point. Multiple hosting and domain registration providers have declined to offer services to an abortion ‘whistleblower’ site for violating terms of service related to collecting data about third parties. The site, which aims to collect tips on people who have received, performed or facilitated abortions in Texas, has been down for more than a week.

As the full implications of Texas’s SB 8 abortion law come into view, internet infrastructure companies have become an unlikely focal point. Multiple hosting and domain registration providers have declined to offer services to an abortion ‘whistleblower’ site for violating terms of service related to collecting data about third parties. The site, which aims to collect tips on people who have received, performed or facilitated abortions in Texas, has been down for more than a week.

Russian tech company Yandex said a cyberattack on its servers this summer was the largest known distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the history of the Internet. In a September 9 blog post, Yandex said it had identified a powerful new botnet, a network of computers infected with malware and controlled without the owners’ knowledge, that has also carried out DDoS attacks in other countries. A DDoS attack is a hacking attempt to disrupt the traffic of a targeted server or network… Source link