MMA Weekly Kevin Holland’s brutal knockout tops UFC 256 performance bonuses The UFC closed out its 2020 pay-per-view events with a fight card that suffered from several title bouts dropping off, but which delivered when it came to action come fight time. There were numerous candidates for the UFC 256 performance bonuses, including both the Fight of the Night honors and the Performance of the Night awards, for which fighters receive a $50,000 bonus. Performance of the Night: Kevin… Source link
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Are Tesla’s Shares Worth $90 or $780? Wall Street Can’t Decide
(Bloomberg) — For all the headline-making drama surrounding Elon Musk and his brainchild Tesla Inc., investors were rewarded handsomely for their patience this year. Now that the company is maturing into blue-chip status with its addition to the S&P 500 Index this month, what happens next may boil down to some simple questions: What type of company is Tesla exactly? And how should the stock be valued? Wall Street’s answers, however, are wildly different — Goldman Sachs has a price target… Source link
Read More »Oklahoma State RB Chuba Hubbard opts out
Chuba Hubbard’s tumultuous final year at Oklahoma State appears to be over. OSU coach Mike Gundy said on his pregame show ahead of Saturday’s game against Baylor that Hubbard wouldn’t be playing because he’s heading to the NFL. Mike Gundy just said on the radio that Chuba Hubbard isn’t playing and has “chosen to go to the NFL.” #okstate — Frank Bonner ll (@Frank_Bonner2) December 12, 2020 Hubbard was one of the most dynamic running backs in college football in 2019. He rushed 328 times… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Finance zings Nikola as worst company of the year
Yahoo Finance users voted Nikola Corp. (NASDAQ: NKLA) as the worst company of the year. And it wasn’t close. The battery-electric and fuel cell electric truck startup received five times more votes — 15% of 1,582 responses in a poll — than the second place company, which Yahoo Finance did not publicly name. Only one of five poll respondents said they think Nikola can recover. The inauspicious achievement joins Nikola with Boeing Aerospace Co. (NYSE: BA), which… Source link
Read More »Google used a 64-camera rig to train its portrait lighting AI
TipRanks 3 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks with Over 7% Dividend Yield It’s been up, up, and away for the markets since the end of September. Both the NASDAQ and S&P 500 are trading within 3% of their recent record high levels, after counting for daily fluctuations. It’s a clear sign of a bullish mood among investors.And that bullish mood is finding fertile soil among Wall Street’s stock analysts, who are not hesitant to make buy-side calls. There are some indications that the analysts are… Source link
Read More »Verge Weekender: Disney’s big day, Cyberpunk 2077, latest at Google, and our favorite gadgets
Happy Saturday and welcome to the inaugural edition of the Verge Weekender, a short recap of some of the stories we covered this week on The Verge. The big event of the week was Disney’s investor day, where the company announced new Disney Plus series WandaVision, showed trailers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the much-anticipated series Loki; as well as slew of new Star Wars series on Disney Plus, including Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Star Wars:… Source link
Read More »Tom Brady has no desire to play for cold weather team
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady appreciates one major thing about his new team: The weather. After spending 20 seasons with the New England Patriots, Brady has no desire to return to a cold weather team in the future, according to CBS Sports. Brady specifically called out the Northeast, telling fans, “You won’t catch me dead living in the Northeast anymore.” “It’s amazing just to be at this point in the season and to still be outside practicing today. It turned into a… Source link
Read More »How the pandemic drove college students and professors into ‘Zoom University’
Almost eight months into the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom has emerged as a staple of online learning among colleges across the country, with more than 700 colleges and universities now using the video communications platform. The San Jose-based company, which is Yahoo Finance’s Company of the Year, was in some ways prepared the unprecedented shift from on-campus to online learning. “Universities and the higher education space were some of the earliest adopters of Zoom,” the company’s… Source link
Read More »Ryan Newman: NASCAR driver is Google’s most-searched for athlete of 2020
The American topped the list ahead of NBA legend Michael Jordan and boxer Tyson Fury, who were ranked second and third respectively. Newman was thrust into the spotlight after surviving a dramatic crash at the Daytona 500 in February. He had been leading the final lap of the race when he saw his car spin and go airborne, flipping several times and landing in a fiery wreck. The 43-year-old driver was hospitalized for two days with serious but non-life-threatening injuries and said he had no… Source link
Read More »The Boston Tea Party’s Warning for Facebook and Google – BloombergQuint
One Patriot, for example, voiced the following objection: “The first Teas may be sold at a low Rate to make a popular Entry, yet when this mode of receiving Tea is well established, they, as all other Monopolists do, will mediate a greater profit on their Goods, and set them up at what Price they please.” Source link
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