Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Late last month the Department of Justice filed a long-anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Google, accusing the company of engaging in anti-competitive practices. It’s the most aggressive challenge the DOJ has made against a tech giant since it accused Microsoft of anti-competitive practices in 1997. The lawsuit homes in on Google’s… Source link
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Beware of ‘a massive attack by hackers and identity thieves’: how to protect yourself
Yahoo Life is committed to finding you the best products at the best prices. The product written about here is offered in affiliation with Yahoo Life’s parent company, Verizon Media. Get ultimate password protection with a password manager like LastPass Premium. More How many times a day do you log into password-protected accounts like online banking, Netflix, or even Facebook? Do you ever wonder whether the passwords themselves are secure? Guess what, they’re probably not — all a hacker… Source link
Read More »Here’s who workers at America’s biggest employers are backing for president
Americans voting for a presidential candidate this year are less likely to have a job than those who cast ballots in 2016. Despite some recovery in the labor market since pandemic lows in April, the U.S. employment rate remains depressed amid a slowing recovery. In October 2016, the official U.S. unemployment rate was 4.9%, compared to 7.9% last month — though the actual jobless rate is thought to be even higher. With jobs top of mind for millions of Americans this election, Yahoo Finance… Source link
Read More »DoubleVerify Launches Authentic Brand Safety on Google’s Display & Video 360
NEW YORK, Nov. 02, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DoubleVerify (“DV”), a leading software platform for digital media measurement, data and analytics, today announced the launch of Authentic Brand Safety targeting on Google Marketing Platform’s demand-side platform (DSP), Display & Video 360. “At a time when it has never been more important for brands to align their values with their advertising buys, we are excited to bring the power of Authentic Brand Safety to Display & Video 360,”… Source link
Read More »This Bill Belichick decision ‘really disappointed’ Rodney Harrison
Rodney Harrison ‘really disappointed’ in one Belichick decision vs. Bills originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston Momentum can be powerful, but here’s the tricky thing about it: it’s incredibly fleeting. That was the case for the Patriots Sunday afternoon, when an aggressive decision by Bill Belichick didn’t pay off — and later on Sunday night, one of his former players — Rodney Harrison — ripped him for it. Here’s how it went down: in the third quarter, after forcing their first… Source link
Read More »Google Sheets: How to Highlight and Remove Duplicates
While working in Google Sheets, you may come across large spreadsheets where you have to deal with many duplicate entries. We understand the pain of dealing with duplicates and how difficult it would get if you were to highlight and remove entries one by one. However, with the help of conditional formatting, highlighting and removing duplicates becomes pretty easy. Follow this guide as we tell you how to find and remove duplicate entries in Google Sheets. Google Sheets: How to highlight… Source link
Read More »Peter King’s midseason NFL Power Rankings
Back in June, I did the fruitless annual 1-to-32 ranking of the NFL teams. Not sure which pick outraged the masses most, but it was either ranking Tampa Bay fifth or New England 21st. Looks like I was way off. Had the Bucs too low, and I might have had the Patriots too high. With 12 teams at the halfway point (the Bucs and Giants will make that 14 tonight), I’ve re-stacked the board here. (You’ll never guess 32.) After the highest-scoring first seven weeks of any NFL season, I’m… Source link
Read More »Biden leads Trump by 10 as voters fear a chaotic Election Day
On the eve of what threatens to be the most contentious and potentially confusing Election Day in modern memory, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden retains a double-digit lead over President Trump in the final Yahoo News/YouGov poll of the 2020 campaign — a 10-point margin that’s more than three times as large as Hillary Clinton’s final polling advantage in 2016. Yet most voters (51 percent) also expect Trump to refuse to concede if he loses the election — and more than… Source link
Read More »Black men are voting for Trump because of chauvinism: Former NAACP president
Black men who choose to vote for Donald Trump are doing so because of chauvinism, said former NAACP president Ben Jealous. While research indicates that more than 80% of Black voters will vote for Democrats, large differences remain between Black men and women. According to Pew Research, 87% of Black women identify as Democrat, compared to 77% of Black men. In the 2016 election, 98% of Black women voted for Hillary Clinton over Trump — compared to just 81% of Black men who voted for Clinton… Source link
Read More »U.S. Futures Climb as Oil Slides to Five-Month Low: Markets Wrap
TipRanks Wells Fargo: 3 Stocks to Snap up Now Wall Street hit some rough waters last week. With the Presidential elections only two days away, spiking COVID-19 numbers and hopes for a pre-election stimulus package dwindling, stocks posted their worst week since the height of the pandemic in March. All three of the major U.S. stock indexes also reported a second consecutive monthly decline. According to the pros on Wall Street, uncertainty is ruling the markets. That said, some strategists… Source link
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