Pic: KupiVIP Russian internet-giant Yandex has announced that it is acquiring the online fashion retailer KupiVIP for integrating it in Yandex.Market, a platform for displaying products by retail and online stores. The acquisition is expected to help Yandex accelerate its entry into the apparel and footwear market. The deal will be completed in Q3 2021. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and the terms have not been disclosed. This year, Yandex plans to spend… 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 Thursday’s games. The Phoenix Suns picked up right where they left off on Thursday night. The Suns, after dominating in Game 5 on Tuesday, cruised to a 113-100 win over the defending champions Los Angeles Lakers on Thursday to close out their opening-round playoff series 4-2 at the Staples Center. The Suns jumped out early once again, and… Source link

The latest decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol to get big backing from venture capitalists is Impossible Finance for a multi-chain incubator project. In an announcement on June 3, the DeFi protocol declared that it had secured $7 million from over 125 institutional and angel investors. The round was co-led by True Ventures, CMS Holdings, Alameda Research, and Hashed. The list of additional investors was extensive and included Sino Global Capital, IOSG, Divergence, GBV, Lemniscap, Primitive,… Source link

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Bitcoin slipped 4% on Friday after Tesla boss Elon Musk was at it again – this time firing off a few tweets that appeared to lament a breakup with the cryptocurrency. Tesla’s big position in bitcoin and Musk’s large personal following often set crypto markets on edge whenever he tweets, and the price fell after he posted “#Bitcoin”, a broken-heart emoji and a picture of a couple discussing a breakup. Musk followed that up by posting a breakup comic strip… Source link

Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the second time in a month that a big tech company has been forced to make a staffing change in the wake of public outcry over an executive’s previous writing. The subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.  GOOGL, -0.97%   GOOG, -0.69% hired Kamau Bobb in 2018 as global lead of diversity strategy and research, a decade after he… Source link

Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Photo: Cayce Clifford for The Wall Street Journal Updated June 3, 2021 7:43 pm ET Google removed a senior member of its diversity team over anti-Semitic remarks in a 2007 blog post, marking the… Source link

Media top headlines June 3 The press gushing over Dr. Fauci’s leaked emails, Chris Mathews’ accuser getting hate mail and journalist Andy Ngo saying he was beaten up by Antifa last week round out today’s top media headlines One of the pressing questions that was asked at the White House briefing on Thursday was an “update” on whether or not a cat would be joining President Biden’s family.  After the Biden team previously teased that a feline would be joining the Biden family’s German… Source link

Stock futures opened slightly higher Thursday evening, ticking up as investors awaited a key print on the U.S. labor market. Contracts on each of the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq rose after declining during the regular trading day.  Traders are awaiting the May jobs report out Friday morning, which will offer another look at the strength of the labor market recovery and whether the economy has recovered enough to warrant a pivot in monetary policy stance from the Federal Reserve. Consensus… Source link

WASHINGTON — Last September, with COVID-19 vaccines still some three months from being made publicly available, the nation was recording about 40,000 new cases per day. In an interview with MSNBC, Dr. Anthony Fauci called that number “unacceptably high,” especially since people were bound to travel over the forthcoming Labor Day weekend. Shortly after that, cold weather would drive people indoors, where the virus would spread much more easily than it did in the open air. “I’d like to… Source link

SULLIVAN, IN. (WTWO/WAWV) — On this Memorial Day, it’s appropriate to share the story about a hometown hero. Don Bezy of Sullivan passed away a few months ago. Bezy, as he was known, is remembered as a successful businessman and a beloved family man. But during World War II he was a gunner on a B-25 serving in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, China, Burma, & India, and he flew 56 combat missions. Source link