Monthly Archives: December 2021

Rocket Companies scoops up Truebill for nearly $1.3 billion in major fintech play

Rocket Companies CEO Jay Farner wasn’t kidding around when he told Yahoo Finance Live in November he was on the hunt for acquisitions to diversify his company and fetch a higher trading multiple for a stock that has been under pressure.  And Farner is looking to fast-growing fintech to help pull both those goals off.  The company said Monday it would acquire personal financial app Truebill for $1.275 billion in cash. Truebill was founded in 2015, and currently has 2.5 million members who use… Source link

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Should alcohol be limited at airport bars and banned on planes?

The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) most recent data shows cases of violent, unruly passengers increasing aboard flights. Airlines reported more than 5,600 cases of unruly passengers this year through Dec. 14 and more than 4,000 cases of “mask-related incidents.” “There are more than 5,000 incidents already that have been violent in nature on planes, and so many of them are tied to alcohol,” Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) told Yahoo Finance. Markey is on the Senate Committee on Commerce,… Source link

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Stocks, Futures Sink on Manchin Shock, Virus: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — Investor sentiment sagged Monday amid turmoil for President Joe Biden’s economic agenda and rising global omicron infections, spurring selloffs in stocks, equity futures and oil, while bolstering sovereign bonds. Most Read from Bloomberg U.S. futures and European shares all trimmed losses to about 1% after Moderna Inc. said its vaccine increased antibody levels against the variant. Treasuries pared an increase and the dollar held a jump from Friday, while crude oil slid on… Source link

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Yandex N : Helping to Save Endangered Language with Yandex Translate

Spoken across some of the world’s northernmost territories, Yakut is an indigenous language with fewer than half a million people currently using it in their everyday life. Listed as one of the endangered languages, Yakut is risking disappearing off the face of the earth and taking a unique culture and original group identity with it. Thanks to the passion, dedication and enthusiasm of one single individual, as well as support from the Yandex team, two… Source link

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The Congressman Who Doesn’t Use Google

“When I see something that I consider an injustice, I just don’t buy the product,” says Buck, sitting behind his desk in the Rayburn House Office Building. He wore a dark, lightly checked suit, his gray hair cropped close; he dipped into his oatmeal breakfast from the House carryout, a “Make America Great Again” hat on the shelf behind him. For the past nearly two years, Buck has been staging, or trying to stage, a one-person Capitol Hill boycott of a set of companies most of… Source link

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‘Family Guy’ brings back McGruff the Crime Dog

Family Guy took a bite out of the past on Sunday, with its own updated spin on a classic McGruff the Crime Dog commercial, first made popular in the early ’80s. In the episode, titled “Christmas Crime,” Brian the dog found himself in a bit of trouble and while trying to convince Mayor Wild West that he was one of the good guys, Brain claimed that he was briefly McGruff’s sidekick. That’s when the show cut away — in typical Family Guy fashion — to a classic McGruff PSA with Brian… Source link

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Tom Brady and Bucs shut out, stunned by Saints in Tampa

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE to see today’s piping-hot, fresh-outta-the-oven episode of THE RUSH with Liz Loza 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, December 20, 2021, and here’s what Liz is cookin’ up: The New Orleans Saints continue their regular season domination over the Buccaneers, shutting out Tom Brady’s squad in Tampa The Ravens lost on yet another controversial coaching decisions, leaving… Source link

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Omicron Fears Ignite Market Selloff Just as Traders Clear Books

(Bloomberg) — Monday’s Asia trading session took on a decisively risk-off tone: U.S. stock index futures fell, Treasuries gained and risk-sensitive currencies slid as investors fretted over fresh lockdowns to slow the new variant. Most Read from Bloomberg Senator Joe Manchin’s rejection of the U.S. spending package at the heart of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda heaped fresh fuel to the fire with market liquidity starting to thin as Christmas nears. “Markets this week and next… Source link

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Urban Meyer’s post firing interview reveals his flaws

There is one undeniable NFL coaching commandment: You cannot hide from your own shortcomings. You can deny them. You can ignore them. You can redirect them toward others or even lie about them. But eventually, the on-field product and the culture off it get chiseled into the epitaph hanging above your permanent record. And whatever you personally did to facilitate both will ultimately define your reputation. Urban Meyer might come to see that someday. That day is not today. That’s what… Source link

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NFL working-class heroes come through

This weekly NFL wrap column is called Booms and Busts. Perhaps Busts and Busts would be a better title this week. All sorts of big-name players went poof in Week 15, or weren’t available for fantasy use. Ah, but it’s the holidays. It’s time for happiness, positivity, good cheer. So let’s shine a light on some of the lesser-known players you might have opted for in Week 15, your working-class heroes. A working-class hero is something to be. Bills secondary options come through Start with Source link

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