Yahoo Mobile, one of Verizon’s prepaid brands, is shutting down and giving customers an “amazing option” for cell phone service. That option happens to be Visible, another one of Verizon’s prepaid brands. Visible is the all-digital brand, targeting Millennials, and while it might sound a little peculiar to recommend a hip digital brand to old-time Yahoo diehards, their services aren’t that different when it comes down to it. Yahoo Mobile started sending email messages to customers… Source link

Mexico fans during a friendly against Honduras on June 12th in Atlanta. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Mexico’s men’s national soccer team must play its first two home 2022 World Cup qualifiers in empty stadiums as punishment for some of its fans’ insistence on yelling a homophobic slur during matches. The “p***” chant has plagued Mexican soccer for years. Officials refused to reckon with it until recently. The Mexican soccer federation (FMF) promised to crack… Source link

A couple of years ago, I became a big believer in what I call “spot streaming.” In this article, I’ll explain the theory and practical components of this strategy. Roster spots have value. This means that a player who is using a spot on your roster (whether in the starting lineup or on your bench) has to have some immediate or long-term value to you. One of the biggest mistakes fantasy managers make is stubbornly holding onto players who aren’t helping their teams and have little… Source link

Russia’s online retailer Ozon’s logistics center outside the town of Tver. Ozon is Russia’s pure-play e-commerce stock. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images Text size Vladimir Putin has worked long and hard to foster the impression that he is Russia. Investors believe him. Russian stocks wax and wane with… Source link

In May, the Biden administration reversed course and decided to back the idea of waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. The move was meant to ensure more of the world can become inoculated. “Extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said at the time. David Ricks, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly (LLY), told Yahoo Finance that “this is a counterproductive move.” “It just… Source link

The worst result, after buying shares in a company (assuming no leverage), would be if you lose all the money you put in. But on the bright side, if you buy shares in a high quality company at the right price, you can gain well over 100%. For example, the Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) share price has soared 226% in the last half decade. Most would be very happy with that. And in the last month, the share price has gained -0.7%. See our latest analysis for Yandex To paraphrase… Source link

Evening commuters make their way toward a New Jersey Transit train platform at Penn Station in New York City. Drew Angerer | Getty Images Alphabet‘s Google told Reuters this week it is developing an alternative to the industry standard method for classifying skin tones, which a growing chorus of technology researchers and dermatologists says is inadequate for assessing whether products are biased against people of color. At issue is a six-color scale known as Fitzpatrick Skin Type (FST), which… Source link

A sign is seen at the entrance to the Google retail store in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City, U.S., June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton BRUSSELS, June 18 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google could face its biggest regulatory threat, with EU antitrust regulators set to open a formal investigation into its lucrative digital advertising business before the end of the year, said people familiar with the matter. It would mark a new front by the EU competition enforcer against… Source link

Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang made a strong case for the ARM merger at the Six Five Summit and CogX conference. The executive also talked about U.K. opportunities and investments. Nvidia stock jumped 4.76% on Thursday to close at $746.29. Huang told the CogX conference that the merger would combine ARM’s CPU capabilities with Nvidia’s artificial intelligence capabilities to create new ideas. “The U.K. has every reason to be proud of Arm and its achievements and contributions to the… Source link

It’s a common sight: Ads from that time you Googled flights to Cancún, or visited Nike to look for new running shoes, following you around the Internet. Much of that tracking is made possible by cookies — little bits of code that jump off websites and lodge themselves in your browser, allowing new sites you visit to see where you’ve been before. Facebook and Google, the two most profitable advertising companies in history, use cookies to show ads across the Web based on info gathered… Source link