We are on the precipice of restarting the 2019-20 NBA season, a monumental undertaking at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando’s Walt Disney World during a global pandemic. History will be made inside the league’s so-called “bubble,” which houses 22 teams at three hotels within 15 minutes of the three arenas where the eight remaining regular-season seeding games and the playoffs will be held. It is easy to forget where the league left off in March, considering the… Source link

We are on the precipice of restarting the 2019-20 NBA season, a monumental undertaking at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando’s Walt Disney World during a global pandemic. History will be made inside the league’s so-called “bubble,” which houses 22 teams at three hotels within 15 minutes of the three arenas where the eight remaining regular-season seeding games and the playoffs will be held. It is easy to forget where the league left off in March, considering the… Source link

During Wednesday’s tech antitrust hearing, Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) tore into Google CEO Sundar Pichai over the company’s dominance in search and its use of data to monitor would-be competitors. “It is Google’s business model that is the problem,” Cicilline said, alleging a pattern of anti-competitive behavior that allowed Google to grow while smaller businesses were crushed. “Our documents show that Google evolved from a turnstile to the rest of the web to a walled garden… Source link

Heather Locklear, sounding sharp and on her game, reminisced about some of her old roles on the Fake Doctors, Real Friends With Zach and Donald podcast. The 58-year-old Melrose Place and Spin City star talked about Scrubs, of course, with co-hosts Zach Braff and Donald Faison, but also some earlier roles, including on T.J. Hooker with “intimating” William Shatner and in The First Wives Club, a movie role she ended up requesting be uncredited due to what she said was an unscripted moment… Source link

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., questions Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai over Google’s artificial intelligence work in China. Google CEO Sundar Pichai came under fire from lawmakers on Capitol Hill during a highly-publicized hearing on Wednesday for the company’s decision to pull out of bids for lucrative government contracts following employee backlash – while still carrying on some operations in China. When questioned about decisions to end a bid for the lucrative $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud… Source link

Kodak (KODK) — which vaulted back into the spotlight via a multi-million deal with the federal government to make medical ingredients — associates itself more with chemicals than the cameras and photos that made it famous, CEO Jim Continenza told Yahoo Finance on Wednesday. The company’s stock skyrocketed by over 500% intraday, taking Wall Street by surprise after mostly flatlining in recent years. Kodak was once a household name, but the digital revolution that turned smartphones into… Source link

WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational Memphis, TennesseeTPC Southwind – Par 70 – 7,277 yardsField – 78 entrantsPurse – $10.5M The Preview A lack of firepower in the field at last week’s 3M Open allowed Michael Thompson to pick up his first win on the PGA Tour since 2013, but the condensed schedule now heats up for the home stretch as TPC Southwind hosts an exclusive 78-man, no-cut structure for the WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational ahead of 2020’s first major at TPC Harding Park next week. The… Source link

Stocks were higher amid an eventful Wednesday, during which Big Tech executives began testifying before Congress and the Federal Open Market Committee will release its July monetary policy statement. A host of quarterly corporate earnings results also continued to flow. Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Facebook (FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Google-parent Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai began their appearance before the House Judiciary Committee shortly after… Source link

Google One, Google’s subscription program for buying additional storage and live support, is getting an update today that will bring free phone backups for Android and iOS devices to anybody who installs the app — even if they don’t have a paid membership. The catch: While the feature is free, the backups count against your free Google storage allowance of 15GB. If you need more you need — you guessed it — a Google One membership to buy more storage or delete data you no… Source link

Long term investing can be life changing when you buy and hold the truly great businesses. And highest quality companies can see their share prices grow by huge amounts. Just think about the savvy investors who held Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) shares for the last five years, while they gained 315%. And this is just one example of the epic gains achieved by some long term investors. Also pleasing for shareholders was the 51% gain in the last three months. The company reported its financial… Source link