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It’s going to get harder for Android apps to track users who’ve opted out of receiving personalized ads, the Financial Times reports, after Google announced changes to how it’ll handle the unique device identifiers that allow marketers to track them between apps. Starting later this year, Google is cutting off access to these “Advertising IDs” after a user opts out, and will show developers a “string of zeros” in its place. The news was announced in an email to Play Store… Source link

TipRanks Billionaire Ray Dalio Pulls the Trigger on 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks There are experts out there in the stock market whose investing moves command respect. They’ve earned this through the long-term cultivation of a reputation for true savvy in finding solid returns – and few of these experts have the stature of billionaire financier Ray Dalio. Dalio got his start trading commodity futures on Wall Street, and in 1975 he founded Bridgewater Associates from his New York City… Source link

Google announces several updates that will help provide site owners and advertisers with relevant data when cookies aren’t available. The new privacy-safe tracking methods, which don’t involve Google’s controversial FLoC technology, rely on consented first-party data and machine learning. These new solutions are designed to help marketers succeed in a world with fewer third party cookies and identifiers, by introducing ways to measure conversions and unlock helpful insights while… Source link

Verizon, like every other company must continually find new pathways for growth going forward. That’s why several years ago they acquired both AOL and Yahoo. I never saw the benefit and thought it was a big mistake. Now, several years later, apparently Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg agrees. Verizon is selling AOL and Yahoo for about half what it paid. They are selling to the owner of the Venetian casino in Las Vegas. Not sure what they see with this purchase, but at least… Source link

DK Metcalf didn’t embarrass himself in his professional track debut. The Seattle Seahawks wide receiver showed on Sunday that he doesn’t have world-class speed but he’s also more than merely football fast. In his first track meet since he began training to try to make next month’s U.S. Olympic Trials, Metcalf failed to advance out of his semifinal heat at the Golden Games and Distance Open in Walnut, Calif. Metcalf’s time of 10.37 seconds was very respectable given his size and limited… Source link

Bloomberg A $1 Trillion Liquidity Surge Is Morphing Into a Leverage Boom (Bloomberg) — It was supposed to be a temporary buffer — more than $1 trillion of debt taken on by U.S. companies last year to ride out the economic devastation caused by Covid-19.But with the economy rebounding and interest rates still near all-time lows, it’s becoming increasingly tempting for corporations including Home Depot Inc. and Verizon Communications Inc. to spend those cash cushions on acquisitions and… Source link

The Internal Revenue Service is on track to send the monthly advanced payments for the Child Tax Credit (CTC) starting in July, according to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig. The payments are worth up to $300 per child. The agency is also launching a portal where taxpayers will be able to update their information by July 1. “We will launch by July 1 with the absolute best product we are able to put together,” Rettig told the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday. “We might need to adjust… Source link

Topline Google’s plan to block online tracking tools on its Chrome web browser has reportedly caught the eyes of the U.S. competition watchdog after the tech giant’s advertising rivals complained they will no longer be able to collect data on web users—the investigation adds to Google’s mounting antitrust woes at home and abroad as regulators seek to grapple with the power of large tech companies.   U.S. competition authorities are reportedly looking into… Source link

Nest Hub 2 with Sleep Sensing Google Google on Tuesday unveiled the second-generation Nest Hub, a smart display and speaker that can track your sleep using a built-in radar sensor. It launches on March 30 for $99 but customers can order it beginning Tuesday. This is the latest way Google is trying to make its smart home hub stand out from similar devices sold by Amazon and Facebook, and it’s the first to offer sleep tracking. The second-generation Nest Hub looks similar to the first model, which… Source link

“Google, please don’t do this,” wrote the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, in a blog post. In the post, EFF technologist Bennett Cyphers argued that, depending on how small each cohort is and the ability for clever companies to cross-reference that data with other available information — such as your email address — it may well be possible for third parties to figure out who you are, anyway. Source link