Bitcoin (BTC) appears set to challenge record highs in the wake of this week’s dovish Federal Reserve meeting. One expert, however, is calling caution, based on his observation of price charts as bitcoin rose from lows near $43,000 seen earlier this month. The chart pattern has taken the shape of what’s known as a rising wedge, a sign of uptrend fatigue. “My concern is growing that we might run into a rising wedge scenario,” Patrick Heusser, head of trading at Swiss-based Crypto… Source link

Before their first-round game against Arkansas on Friday, eight Colgate players took a knee during the national anthem. It wasn’t broadcast on TV, but the moment was captured in a photo by Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde. It’s unclear if any Colgate players have taken a knee before other games this season. Before their first-round game against No. 1 Illinois, No. 16 Drexel took a knee during the anthem as well.  Following Drexel’s loss, coach Zach Spiker spoke about his players’ decision to… Source link

“Data-Driven Thinking” is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today’s column is written by Allison Schiff, senior editor at AdExchanger. It’s part of a series of perspectives from AdExchanger’s editorial team. When the big platforms say “jump,” the ad industry warily asks, “how high?” Apple and Google are both old pros at making unilateral changes to their ad policies that throw mobile developers into… Source link

PHOTO: Bruno Figueiredo Digital ads require extensive planning to ensure the campaign persuades customers to click without going over the marketing budget. But many of the tools now available for marketers to follow the progress of ad campaigns explore basic metrics that may not play a significant role in ROI. Marketers need solutions which can quickly display the metrics that have the greatest influence on ROI. Google has gradually updated its advertising scheduler, Performance… Source link

TipRanks Analysts Say ‘Buy the Dip’ in These 3 Stocks Smart stock investing shouldn’t be emotional, but investors are only human, after all, making it difficult to follow a rational trading strategy. Investors should remember the advice of Warren Buffett: “We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” What Buffett is advocating is the oldest of market advice: buy low and sell high. Taking this into consideration, we set out on… Source link

Google says it is doubling down on the office. The Alphabet Inc GOOG, +0.53%.  unit said it would spend $7 billion this year on expanding its footprint of offices and data centers across the U.S., including pouring $1 billion into its home state of California. The search-engine giant said it would hire at least 10,000 new full-time staff over the course of the year in anticipation of a post-pandemic recovery in the U.S. The spending… Source link

Five more attorneys general joined a lawsuit against Google (GOOG, GOOGL) this week accusing it of “antitrust evils” tied to its ad tech business, escalating one of three antitrust cases faced by the search giant in the U.S. The move follows revelations earlier this month that the Biden administration will add high-profile big tech critic Tim Wu and nominate prominent antitrust scholar Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Despite the increased regulatory pressure, Google Chief… Source link

Although fantasy baseball is a complicated game, those who win their leagues are typically the ones who figure out their pitching staff without making excessive investments. For this reason, the pitcher selections you make on draft day are your most important ones. With fewer pitchers than hitters on a roster, each pitcher factors greatly into overall ratios and cumulative totals. There is little room for error with pitcher picks, which is why I will steer clear of the following nine hurlers Source link

Yandex (NASDAQ and MOEX: YNDX), one of Europe’s largest internet companies and the leading search and ride-hailing provider in Russia, today announced that a data breach had been discovered during routine screening by Yandex’s security team. An internal investigation revealed that an employee had been providing unauthorized access to users’ mailboxes for personal gain. The employee was one of three system administrators with the necessary access rights to… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Equity traders frustrated by recent sleepy volumes are getting a big liquidity boost. Stock transactions spiked Friday amid a quarterly event colloquially known as quadruple witching, when options and futures on indexes and equities expire. As of 11:05 a.m. in New York, volume on S&P 500 stocks was 24% above the average for that time of day over the past 30 sessions as the benchmark almost erased an earlier loss of 0.7%. The event usually brings single-day volumes that rank… Source link