Perhaps the most appropriate reaction to the miserable jobs report Friday was “Oh,” tweeted by Pantheon economist Ian Shepherdson. As the U.S. economy has shown signs of ramping up, consensus expectations for the April jobs numbers were high. But instead of the 1,000,000 new payrolls expected, only 266,000 new jobs were posted. A whopping miss. Now, the unemployment rate is 6.1% instead of the expected 6.0%, and last month’s jobs numbers were revised downwards as well, to 770,000 from… Source link
Read More »Google v. Oracle, Fair Use and the Decreasing Value of Code Over Time | Pillsbury – Internet & Social Media Law Blog
Earlier this month, in what many consider the copyright case of the decade, the Supreme Court released its much-anticipated decision in Google v. Oracle. In it, the Court ruled that Google’s copying of 11,500 lines of declaring code from Java SE for use in Google’s Android platform, was fair use. Having recently reviewed the history of the fair use defense in copyright infringement cases, we now turn to the case itself. Background of Google v. OracleBefore Sun Microsystems (now… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin Dominance Sinks Below 50% for First Time Since 2018
Bitcoin (BTC) dominance, or the ratio of the largest cryptocurrency’s value to the overall market capitalization of digital assets, slipped below 50% for the first time since 2018, according to the data sites CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko. The ratio was 48% as of 15:44 coordinated universal time (11:44 a.m. ET) and came as ether (ETH), the native cryptocurrency of the Ethereum blockchain and the second-largest overall, surged to a new all-time high. Bitcoin’s market value is about $1.02… Source link
Read More »“Now’s The Perfect Time” For An SEO Side Hustle
Google’s John Mueller says the launch of the Page Experience update creates opportunities for SEOs to start side hustles, provided they level up their skills accordingly. In a response to an SEO on Reddit, Mueller states: “now’s the perfect time to level up and get paid well for it.” Mueller is referring to advancing one’s skillset to meet the demand for SEO talent that will be created by the Page Experience update. Site owners everywhere will soon find themselves needing to optimize… Source link
Read More »Get Organized! Google photos: Time is running out | The St. Clair Times
In November, I gave you a heads-up about changes coming to Google Photos. Since its inception, Google Photos has been free and has not counted against your 15 GB of free storage. The change coming, as of June 1, is that photos you upload to Google Photos will start to count against your 15 GB limit. So what happens if you hit the 15 GB limit? The answer is easy. You can buy more storage. The cost is a whopping $1.99 a month for 100 GB. Pay for a whole year… Source link
Read More »It’s time to notice Tesla’s Autopilot death toll
Tesla is proving something other automakers dare not attempt: New technology + foolish drivers = death. Tesla (TSLA) and its audacious CEO, Elon Musk, deserve credit for revolutionizing electric vehicles and changing the paradigm of the stodgy auto industry. But Musk has sped ahead recklessly on another technology: the self-driving feature known as Autopilot, which has alarmed safety experts and contributed to an unprecedented pileup of deadly crashes. In the latest sensational Tesla crash, a… Source link
Read More »Google Earth adds time lapse video to depict climate change
The Google Earth app is adding a new video feature that draws upon nearly four decades of satellite imagery to vividly illustrate how climate change has affected glaciers, beaches, forests and other places around the world. The tool unveiled Thursday is rolling out in what is being billed as the biggest update to Google Earth in five years. Alphabet’s Google GOOGL, -0.20% says it undertook the complex project in partnership with several government… Source link
Read More »It’s time to play defense as the bull market in stocks turns two: Analyst
Bloomberg LG, SK Reach $1.8 Billion Settlement to End EV Battery Spat (Bloomberg) — Two South Korean electric-vehicle battery makers reached a last-minute settlement in a bitter U.S. trade dispute, sparing President Joe Biden from choosing between undermining intellectual property rights or dealing a politically toxic blow to his climate agenda.SK Innovation Co. agreed to pay 2 trillion won ($1.8 billion) to LG Energy Solution, a unit of LG Chem Ltd., according to a statement from the two… Source link
Read More »‘This is the single worst time to be a passive investor’: veteran value investor
TipRanks JPMorgan Says These 2 Stocks Could Surge Over 80% After a volatile first quarter, Q2 has kicked off in style, and the major indexes sit at – or hover near – all-time highs. The government bond market has also been steadying as yields have pulled back after rising higher earlier in the year, soothing investor fears that inflation could get out of hand. Moreover, the economic recovery seems to be gathering steam at a faster pace than anticipated. “We had been expecting the data to… Source link
Read More »Russia’s Yandex seeks more time to respond to allegation it broke competition law
TipRanks Keep on Buying These 3 EV Stocks, Says Analyst Following Conference Investors are always on the lookout for the next big thing, the next industry that will bring the great returns. Predicting what stock sector will blast off is an inexact science, at best; but like politics, stocks run downstream from culture. And right now, culture is all-in for clean energy and electric cars. Observing the electric vehicle (EV) stock sector for Colliers Securities is industry expert Michael Shlisky…. Source link
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