Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes exits Robert F. Peckham U.S. Courthouse with her attorneys after the first day of federal court hearings, in San Jose, California, U.S. May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Kate Munsch A battle over who ends up on the jury that decides the fate of former media darling and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Elizabeth Holmes, is heating up in the months before her criminal trial is set to begin. In a motion filed Monday, federal prosecutors accuse Holmes’ of “gamesmanship” for… Source link

The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has bowed to pressure from rivals and will let them compete for free to be the default search engines on Android devices in Europe, widening a pledge to EU antitrust regulators two years ago. The move by the world’s most popular internet search engine comes as the 27-country bloc considers rules that… Source link

Bloomberg TPG-Backed PropertyGuru Eyes $2 Billion Thiel SPAC Deal (Bloomberg) — Bridgetown 2 Holdings Ltd., the blank-check company backed by billionaires Richard Li and Peter Thiel, is in advanced talks to merge with Singapore’s online real estate firm PropertyGuru Pte, according to people with knowledge of the matter.The special purpose acquisition company has been in discussions with PropertyGuru on the potential deal, which could be announced as soon as next month, said the people, who… Source link

A huge internet outage has affected large swaths of the internet, including major sites like Amazon, Reddit, Twitter and Twitch, along with news sites including the New York Times and The Guardian. The source of the problem is the Fastly content delivery network (CDN), which has confirmed a global disruption. On its status page, Fastly said “we’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services.”  Other affected sites include Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk,… Source link

Former US president Donald Trump said he doesn’t like bitcoin ‘because it’s another currency competing against the dollar.’ Photo: AP Cryptocurrencies continue a bout of volatility as they plunged on Tuesday morning, after former US president Donald Trump said bitcoin was a “scam”. “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam,” he told Fox Business. “I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar… I want the dollar to be the currency of the world. That’s what… Source link

The exhibition boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and YouTuber Logan Paul generated plenty of conversation among other professional fighters. A big topic of the conversation among them was the amount of money the fighters earned. Mayweather told Yahoo Sports before the bout that he expected to make between $50 million and $100 million for the fight. At the news conference afterward, he said he got $30 million alone for the ads on his ring attire. Paul said before the fight he expected to… Source link

Andrew Benefield lived the baseball dream on Monday. The Dallas Baptist redshirt freshman stepped up to the plate with two outs in the seventh inning of an NCAA baseball tournament game against Oregon State. The bases were loaded as his Patriots trailed, 5-2. The winner would advance to the Super Regionals. The loser would go home.  When Beavers pitcher Joey Mundt sent a first-pitch fastball over the plate, Benefield responded with this: Umpire runs out of patience  Yep, that’s a go-ahead grand… Source link

The inevitability of the College Football Playoff expanding has been embraced around every corner of the sport. From the academic ivory towers to the athletic departments to the locker room, an evolution of some type has long been an expectation. The next three weeks offer a critical period in charting what the future of the College Football Playoff will look like. A pair of CFP meetings are expected to decide a specific recommendation, with a final decision, details and television contract… Source link

Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NBA playoff tracker, your daily one-stop shop for all the latest game results from each NBA playoff series. Here’s a look at Monday’s games. It took them a while, but Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns took over on Monday night — and did so with authority. The Suns surged ahead in the fourth quarter to take a commanding 122-105 win over the Denver Nuggets in Phoenix to take the early 1-0 lead in their Western Conference semifinals series. Chris Paul, Suns surge in 4th… Source link

Bitcoin’s price has fallen to its lowest point in over a week as traders stare down prospects of shifting U.S. monetary policy and continued tightening of regulation of cryptocurrencies in China. At 20:00 UTC on Monday, the price of the world’s foremost crypto began declining from around $35,466 to a low of $33,221. Prices were up slightly on the hour, and one bitcoin was changing hands for roughly $33,793 at the time of publication. The move marked the largest single daily loss for the… Source link