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Google has announced that it’s bringing back the Wallet app as a place to manage payment cards, gift cards, rewards cards, passes, and more. Wallet used to be a standalone app before it was folded into Google Pay. Now, the company is making it a separate app again, saying that consumers and companies alike are pushing for digital cards. Wallet will be the app you use to store and manage your debit and credit cards on Android. (You’ll be able to use it across Google’s ecosystem in… Source link

Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O 2022, is virtually set to kick off today. The conference is a hub for developers looking to network, but the rest of us are watching to see if Google will unveil new product announcements and major updates. We don’t know exactly what’s going to be announced this year, but we have some good guesses. Some of those guesses include a new Pixel Watch and a midrange Pixel 6A, which could include a new processor and camera sensor and major… Source link

What to make of the markets right now? Last week brought more losses in what’s been a volatile year for stocks. The five straight weeks of market declines marked the longest such streak in over a decade. More ominously, they came in along with a number of other disturbing data points. The April jobs numbers, released on Friday, came to 428,000 jobs added for the month, superficially strong and well above the 391,000 expected. But the labor remains depressed, and the total number of workers,… Source link

Because college athletics is incapable of writing its own rules, investigating its own scandals or even controlling its own boosters (not to mention coaches) it has turned toward Washington to be saved from its inertia, inaction and incompetence. Yes, they are begging Congress for help; a desperate move for a desperate business model. Earlier this week, the commissioners of the SEC and Pac-12 lobbied politicians for federal legislation so they are no longer stuck with a kaleidoscope of state… Source link

JPMorgan says this is the only sector seeing ‘quality, growth and momentum scores’ improve all at the same time Energy stocks are some of the top performers in the market. But according to JPMorgan, more gains are on the horizon. “Energy is the only sector that is seeing quality, growth and momentum scores improve simultaneously while maintaining an attractive value and income profile,” JPMorgan’s chief U.S. equity strategist Dubravko Lakos-Bujas writes. Strong commodity prices have… Source link

Google is hoping to make its performance reviews less of a burden to employees by making it so they only happen once a year instead of twice a year, requiring less paperwork, and changing the way employees are rated. According to a report from The Information, 47 percent of Google employees didn’t think that their time was well spent with the previous performance review system. It’s often hard to point to how internal changes can affect end users, but Google, as a company, has a… Source link

It’s a good time to be a receiver. There is a land rush to get receivers, which became very clear over the first two days of the NFL draft. Star receivers are being given enormous second contracts, causing some teams to make trades they don’t want to make. To get ahead of paying a receiver $25 million per year, plenty of teams are hoping to hit one in the draft. Or teams looked at the 2021 Cincinnati Bengals, who drafted Ja’Marr Chase fifth overall when they already had two good receivers, and… Source link

The richest Americans are quickly coming off of the sidelines as the 2022 midterm elections heat up, according to newly released filings from the Federal Election Commission. An analysis by Yahoo Finance of the data running through March 31 finds that super PACs (Political Action Committees) have received over 30 checks so far this year of at least $1 million each. And Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman and Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison each gave eight-figure donations to Republican… Source link

Air Canada said on Monday it flew 100,701 customers on April 15. (Xinhua/Zou Zheng via Getty Images) Air Canada (AC.TO) flew more than 100,000 passengers in one day for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, another sign that the airline’s recovery is underway as travel demand returns. The Montreal-based airline said on Monday that it flew 100,701 customers on April 15. The last time Air Canada carried more than 100,000 passengers on its planes in a single day was on March 13, 2020,… Source link

While U.S. lawmakers have offered at least a dozen overlapping bills to regulate their own stock trades, it wasn’t until Thursday that a senator detailed plans for a final push to pass the legislation this year. “We need to be able to come back two weeks from now and have a consolidated vision in the Senate,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) said of work to be done during the upcoming Easter recess. “Otherwise we are going to miss this opportunity.” With election season right around the corner, he… Source link