Bloomberg Inside the Race to Avert Disaster at China’s Biggest ‘Bad Bank’ (Bloomberg) — It was past 9 p.m. on Financial Street in Beijing by the time the figure inside Huarong Tower there picked up an inkbrush and, with practiced strokes, began to set characters to paper.Another trying workday was ending for Wang Zhanfeng, corporate chairman, Chinese Communist Party functionary—and, less happily, replacement for a man who very recently had been executed.On this April night, Wang was… Source link

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE to see today’s piping-hot, fresh-outta-the-oven episode of THE RUSH with Jared Quay! We’ll let you know everything you didn’t know you needed to know about sports. Other stuff too. But mostly sports. It’s Monday, May 24th, 2021, and here’s what Jared’s cookin’ up: The Suns rise in the West and take down the Lakers in game 1 Hawks’ Trae Young spoils the return to the playoffs for the Knicks PLUS: Phil Mickelson sets a record at the PGA Championship THE RUSH… Source link

Google’s Martin Splitt offers last minute guidance to SEOs who are working hard to get ready for the Page Experience update. During a live appearance on the Search Engine Journal Show, Founder Loren Baker asks Splitt what he would say to anyone worried their site wont be optimized in time for the mid-June rollout. Splitt says there’s no reason to panic because the ranking boost provided by the Page Experience update is something Google refers to as a tiebreaker. It’s a lightweight ranking… Source link

PHOENIX — Los Angeles Lakers coach Frank Vogel accused Phoenix Suns star Chris Paul of a “dirty play” on LeBron James during Game 1 of the first-round playoff series. “I don’t know anything about that. I have absolutely nothing to say about that. We’re just playing basketball and competing,” Paul told Yahoo Sports after the Suns’ 99-90 victory to take a 1-0 series lead. “I’m just thankful we got the win, and I’m looking forward to Game 2.” The play in question occurred… Source link

Bloomberg Secretive Hedge Fund Ends Long Silence to Take On Japan Icon (Bloomberg) — It was the rarest of public appearances. At Toshiba Corp.’s extraordinary general meeting in March, a lawyer, who didn’t give his name, talked for four minutes about why shareholders’ rights should never be infringed.He was speaking on behalf of Effissimo Capital Management Pte, a secretive hedge fund that had avoided the spotlight for almost 15 years. Now it was coming out into the open, if only… Source link

Larger publishers seem to appear more often in search results, sometimes multiple times in the response to a single query. But is it an unfair advantage? See how single companies perform against large publishing conglomerates today. Do Large Publishers Have an Unfair Advantage in Google Search? A client asked recently if we could report a competitor for double-serving in organic search results. (If you’re not familiar with this Google Ads policy, it prohibits a company from trying to gain an… Source link

In a career full of memorable moments, Phil Mickelson’s now signature one fittingly came with a wedge in his hand. He’d arrived at the final round of the PGA Championship with a 1-stroke lead that no one thought would hold. Not with the major assassin Brooks Koepka walking alongside. A rocky start (two bogeys in his first three holes) only reaffirmed the prevailing sentiment that at 50 years old, Mickelson contending at a major was a fun story that would end with a fizzle. Then came the… Source link

A mass shooting at a party has left two people dead and more than 12 injured. Police were called to a party in Fairfield, in the US state of New Jersey, on Saturday about 11.50pm (local time). “When troopers arrived, they discovered that a 30-year-old man and 25-year-old woman sustained fatal gunshot wounds, and 12 other adult victims were also shot and were already transported to area hospitals with various injuries,” police said. Two people were fatally shot during a house party in New… Source link

Microsoft Corporation (NYSE: MSFT) was formed in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, as they rushed to create an operating system for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. The Altair 8800 was arguably the first microcomputer that kicked off the computer revolution, and with it came Altair Basic, a licensed version of Microsoft Basic. Microsoft Basic was the company’s first licensed commercial product, as it licensed various versions to Apple Computers (NASDAQ: AAPL), Commodore, and IBM (NYSE: Source link

The Phoenix Suns are playing playoff basketball again and a big part of that success is Chris Paul.  So when Paul went down with what looked at first to be a devastating shoulder injury in the second quarter against the Los Angeles Lakers, it took the air out of Phoenix Suns Arena. He quickly returned despite the official diagnosis of a right shoulder contusion and heard the love from fans both in the arena and sitting around TVs.  Chris Paul leaves Suns-Lakers in first half Paul fell to the… Source link