One Piece Spark

There’s only one way to build a cheeseburger and Google’s emoji has it all wrong, which was politely pointed out to Google over the weekend. It appears that this cheeseburger emoji is a serious situation because the head honcho at Google promised that the emoji for Google’s cheeseburger would be addressed first thing on Monday. In fact, the CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, said their team “would drop everything” they are doing and get on this cheeseburger emoji dilemma right away. So what is the problem with Google’s cheeseburger emoji? According to Twitter user Thomas Baekdal, the cheese is in the wrong place. Baekdal tweeted a screenshot over the weekend of the Google cheeseburger emoji along with Apple’s cheeseburger emoji to show a “glaring error” on the part of Google. That error: the cheese is in the wrong place. Once Baekdal’s tweet hit online, the masses backed him up. Google has its cheeseburger emoji with the cheese at the bottom at the very bottom underneath the bur...

Technology companies have been dominating the news and investors’ attention, and a series of earnings reports Thursday afternoon showed why. Four of the most valuable tech companies in the world Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, -0.05%  , Google parent company Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.00% GOOG, -0.08% , Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.17% and Intel Corp. INTC, +1.40% destroyed expectations for profit and revenue in third-quarter reports Thursday afternoon, collectively bringing in about $2.2 billion more profit and $19 billion more revenue than in the same quarter a year ago. Stock in those four companies jumped across the board in late trading, which would make them worth even more than the combined market cap of nearly $2 trillion they enjoyed at the end of Thursday’s trading session. Alphabet had perhaps the most astounding beat of the afternoon, as profit rose $1.12 billion and revenue $9.5 billion from a year before. The Google parent company reported third-quarter net income of $6.73 billi...