MLB might be playing a 162-game schedule with fans in attendance, but that doesn’t mean COVID-19 is no longer a threat to its 2021 season. The Washington Nationals experienced some 2020 deja vu on Wednesday, when general manager Mike Rizzo revealed that an unidentified player had tested positive for COVID-19, according to Jesse Dougherty of The Washington Post. Additionally, five other members of the team — four players and a staff member — have been quarantined after contact… Source link

by: Felicia Bolton, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Mar 31, 2021 / 12:20 PM HST / Updated: Mar 31, 2021 / 12:20 PM HST CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — Google announced several new features coming to Google Maps. But the feature users are finding most fascinating is the one that allows you to use augmented reality to find your way indoors at large public places like malls, airports, stadiums and transit centers. Live view for Google Maps first… Source link

Stock futures traded little changed Wednesday evening after a record-setting day on Wall Street. Contracts on the S&P 500 hugged the flat line, after the blue-chip index reached a record intraday high during the regular session, and closed out its best monthly gain since November. Nasdaq futures edged up after technology stocks lifted the index higher by more than 1.5%. In late trading, shares of electric-vehicle stocks including Workhorse Group (WKHS) and Plug Power (PLUG) increased as… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks on stage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Stephen Lam | Reuters Google, one of the first major U.S. companies to send employees home last year because of the coronavirus, is setting new remote work guidelines as it speeds up plans to get staffers back to the office. As millions more Americans get vaccinated by the day, Google is accelerating reopening plans in some parts of the U.S. on a volunteer basis… Source link

Google must allow workers at one of its data centers in South Carolina to talk about their pay and inform them of their rights to organize under a settlement it reached with the National Labor Relations Board. Alphabet Inc. GOOGL, +0.78% GOOG, +0.64% and subcontractor Modis E&T have agreed to post notices telling employees, among other things, that they have the right to form, join or assist a union; discuss pay and working… Source link

Joining the “ETF Report” with host Alexis Christoforous on Yahoo Finance, ETF Trends’ CEO, Tom Lydon, was on hand to talk about where the record amount of ETF flows has been heading over the past couple of quarters, in addition to China’s recent tech stock decline, and the potential for infrastructure. Finishing the first quarter of 2021 with close to $240 billion in new assets, Lydon explains how that puts the market on pace for a trillion-dollar year in ETFs, which would be… Source link

Former Google senior director of U.S. public policy Adam Kovacevich weighs in on Congress’ section 230 hearings and what we can expect from them. Google will begin welcoming some of its U.S. employees back to the office on a voluntary basis over the next month. A spokesperson for the company told FOX Business that select offices in the U.S. will begin reopening at limited capacity based on specific criteria, including vaccine availability and downward trends in COVID-19 cases. “Because… Source link

Eric Lindquist brings you his Opening Day MLB DFS picks for Round 1 of the MLB Yahoo Cup Daily Fantasy Baseball | Fernando Tatis Jr. 3/31/21 Happy Opening Day, and welcome to the MLB Yahoo Cup Hot Corner! This free-to-enter, single-entry contest will consist of 27 rounds where the top 1,075 overall entries and the top 70 entries per round share $10,000, with $1,000 to first and $50 to first per round. Scoring will be cumulative across all rounds, with your seven lowest scores dropped at the… Source link

Bloomberg Big Oil’s Secret World of Trading (Bloomberg Markets) — It was a bleak moment for the oil industry. U.S. shale companies were failing by the dozen. Petrostates were on the brink of bankruptcy. Texas roughnecks and Kuwaiti princes alike had watched helplessly for months as the commodity that was their lifeblood tumbled to prices that had until recently seemed unthinkable. Below $50 a barrel, then below $40, then below $30.But inside the central London headquarters of one of the… Source link

Wednesday, March 31, 2021 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Buying Discord could make Microsoft the gaming behemoth it’s always wanted to be Microsoft (MSFT) is considering dropping a cool $10 billion on video game chat app Discord, according to recent reports. If the software giant does take the plunge, it could help… Source link