President Trump has called many things hoaxes over the years — the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s dealings with Russia, his impeachment, global warming — but on Monday he called into question the existence of an epidemic that has killed more than 135,000 Americans. During a flurry of activity on his Twitter account, Trump retweeted a message from game show host Chuck Woolery that claimed “everyone is lying” about the coronavirus as part of a plot to sabotage the economy and… Source link

Washington’s NFL franchise released a statement on Monday confirming news Yahoo Sports reported over the weekend that the team will officially change its name. The league had asked teams to begin scrubbing “Redskins” from their platforms over the weekend in anticipation of the change that ultimately came on Monday. No new name has been announced yet, as the team is trying to settle a trademark dispute. The move completes a swift about-face from Washington owner Dan Snyder, who previously… Source link

After slipping in the DSP rankings to Amazon over the past year, Google has reasserted its no. 1 status for self-serve, managed service and as advertisers’ preferred platform, according to the Q1 2020 Advertiser Perceptions DSP report released on Monday. The data is based on a survey of 347 brand marketers and agency buyers, split about evenly between the two. The interviews were conducted through the first half of March, so any DSP market fallout since the pandemic doesn’t… Source link

CEO Sundar Pichai announced the investment via livestream on Monday at the annual Google (GOOGL) for India event. “This is a reflection of our confidence in the future of India and its digital economy,” he said in a statement. “India’s own digital journey is far from complete. There’s still more work to do in order to make the internet affordable and useful for a billion Indians … from improving voice input and computing for all of India’s languages, to inspiring and supporting a whole new… Source link

Google said on Monday that it has partnered with CBSE, an Indian government body that oversees education in private and public schools in the country, to deliver by the end of this year a “blended learning experience” across 22,000 schools in the world’s second largest internet market. The Search giant, which today also announced plans to invest $10 billion in India over the course of five to seven years, said it will train more than 1 million teachers in… Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google Anindito Mukherjee | Bloomberg | Getty Images Alphabet Inc’s Google on Monday said it will spend around $10 billion in India over the next five to seven years through equity investments and tie-ups, marking its biggest commitment to a key growth market. The investments will be done through a so-called digitization fund, highlighting Google’s focus on the rapid pace of growth of apps and software platforms in India, one of the world’s biggest internet services… Source link

In life after COVID-19, the local restaurant scene may be no more than a KFC, McDonald’s, Burger King and one or two overpriced craft cocktail bars serving tapas which somehow managed to survive the financial distress from the pandemic. “We have to have a bailout [of the restaurant industry],” said celebrity chef and owner of restaurant Blue Dragon Ming Tsai on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade. “I don’t know if the government understands the severity of this problem. We may be… Source link

Presidential politics move fast. What we’re watching heading into a new week on the 2020 campaign: Days to general election: 113 ___ THE NARRATIVE These are among the darkest days of President Donald Trump’s presidency. Coronavirus infections are exploding, the economic recovery is in jeopardy and Trump may have undermined his own “law and order” message by commuting the prison sentence of his friend and political adviser. Emboldened Democrats are trying to guard against overconfidence,… Source link

Google controls products that aid in every step of that process, including the different pieces of software for advertisers and publishers that run auctions for ad space. Because publishers sometimes post their open ad space to multiple digital ad companies — including Google’s — the companies can compete with one another to see who can obtain the most money from an advertiser to use the slot. Google’s critics say it has achieved a level of dominance in the ad tech market that makes… Source link

ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski has reportedly been suspended without pay by ESPN for saying “f— you” to Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley in an email. Hawley had sent a letter to NBA commissioner Adam Silver, complaining about the social justice messages NBA players are allowed to wear on the back of their jerseys, and Woj was responding to a press release Hawley’s office had sent to him. Woj apologized publicly and to his ESPN colleagues, but it doesn’t appear that’s had an effect on his… Source link