Monthly Archives: March 2021

Yahoo Fantasy Baseball ADP and rankings analysis for Rounds 4-6 of drafts

Using a mix of Yahoo’s average draft position (ADP) and staff rankings that create a composite score among three Yahoo analysts, we will present a road map through the first 100 picks to come off the board in a typical Fantasy Baseball draft. By breaking things down into segments of 10 picks at a time (as part of a larger three-part series) to highlight the safest bet, plus an underrated and overrated player, you are sure to come away with a more streamlined and less overwhelming way to… Source link

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Is Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) Using Too Much Debt?

The external fund manager backed by Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger, Li Lu, makes no bones about it when he says ‘The biggest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.’ It’s only natural to consider a company’s balance sheet when you examine how risky it is, since debt is often involved when a business collapses. We can see that Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) does use debt in its business. But is this debt a concern to… Source link

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Google Play drops commissions to 15% from 30%, following Apple’s move last year

Google will lower its Play commissions globally for developers that sell in-app digital goods and services on its marquee store, the company said, following a similar move by rival Apple late last year. The Android-maker said on Tuesday that starting July 1, it is reducing the service fee for Google Play to 15% — down from 30% — for the first $1 million of revenue developers earn using Play billing system each year. The company will levy a 30% cut on every dollar developers generate through… Source link

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Google cuts app store fees on first million in annual sales

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks during a conference in Brussels on January 20, 2020. Kenzo Tribouillard | AFP | Getty Images Google announced on Tuesday that it will cut Google Play app store fees to 15% on the first million dollars a developer makes on Google’s store per year. After developers cross the $1 million mark in sales for a year, Google will charge developers its standard 30% fee for in-app purchases and downloads. The move follows a similar decision from Apple in December, although Source link

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Google will reduce Play Store cut to 15 percent for a developer’s first $1M in annual revenue

Google is reducing its long-standing 30 percent cut, which it takes from each Play Store digital purchase for all Android developers around the world, on the first $1 million they make on the digital storefront each year, starting on July 1st. According to Google, that change means that 99 percent of Android developers that “that sell digital goods or services” will see a 50 percent reduction in fees. Google’s news follows Apple’s announcement of a reduced 15 percent fee last… Source link

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Billionaire Investor Howard Marks Warming to Bitcoin

Howard Marks, co-founder of alternative investment manager Oaktree Capital, says he has reconsidered his previous “dismissive” stance on bitcoin. The investor, who is worth $2.1 billion according to Forbes, previously said in a 2017 memo that cryptocurrency was “an unfounded fad.” The comment was “a knee-jerk reaction without information,” Marks conceded in a video interview with the Korea Economic Daily on Monday. While he’d previously considered bitcoin to have no intrinsic… Source link

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Texas tacks advertisers’ ‘cookie’ fight onto Google antitrust suit

An antitrust pile-on: Tuesday’s expanded complaint adds to Google’s antitrust struggles. The search giant faces three major antitrust suits from the Justice Department and state attorneys general targeting its core search and advertising businesses, as well as efforts in Congress to amend the antitrust law to better address online platforms and questions about an earlier antitrust probe during the Obama administration. C is for Cookies: Google said early last year that it would phase… Source link

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What the Tech? Google Incognito mode | What The Tech?

A judge says Google will have to defend itself in a $5 billion class-action lawsuit regarding privacy and the Chrome browser’s Incognito mode. If you’re using Incognito mode on the Google browser, you might think, or even be led to believe, you’re browsing history and internet visits are private and not being tracked. That is not true. No matter where you go… Source link

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Kyle Kuzma’s worst-ever free-throw attempt is amazing

Kyle Kuzma of the Los Angeles Lakers gave the TV announcers, and the entire Golden State Warriors bench, something they may have never seen before: an airballed technical foul free-throw attempt. During second quarter of the Lakers’ win over the Warriors on Monday night, Kuzma attempted a free throw on a technical foul that didn’t just miss, it really, really missed. It missed the rim, it missed the backboard, it missed everything. The commentators calling the game were pretty sure they’d… Source link

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