Plenty of us have been on more virtual calls than we’d care to remember over the past year, but now there’s one we can all look forward to, thanks to Yahoo Fantasy’s latest groundbreaking feature, Draft Together! What is Draft Together? Draft Together allows fantasy players the chance to use video chat when drafting. With virtual communication becoming the new norm, using Draft Together is a way to bring the spirit of in-person drafting, even while socially distanced. Leaguemates can chat and… Source link

by: Addy Bink, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Jun 1, 2021 / 03:42 PM EDT / Updated: Jun 1, 2021 / 03:42 PM EDT FILE – This Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows a sign on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google was quickly negotiating generous deals with big and small Australian media companies to pay for news as the Parliament considers forcing digital giants into such remuneration agreements, a minister said on Wednesday,… Source link

SoFi’s (SOFI) long-awaited IPO on Tuesday isn’t the first time CEO Anthony Noto has had a splashy deal day.  Noto is a former tech analyst and investment banker at Goldman Sachs who spent more than 12 years at the firm (1999 to 2008, then a return from 2010 to 2014 after a stint in between as the NFL’s CFO). He played a key role in Twitter’s IPO while at Goldman — he then joined CEO Jack Dorsey at the company as chief operating officer for an almost four-year period. Given that extensive… Source link

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that deleting a sitemap won’t prevent URLs from being crawled in the future. This topic is discussed in the latest episode of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube. Mueller addresses a question asking if it’s possible to turn off or delete a sitemap from Google Search Console. Deleting a sitemap is possible, and it’s not hard to do either, but if the intention is to stop Googlebot from crawling the URLs then site owners will have to employ a… Source link

SAN JOSE — Google has added a key piece to the puzzle it is assembling for the land to develop a new transit-oriented neighborhood in downtown San Jose. The tech titan has bought a church site at 56 S. Montgomery St. in downtown San Jose, paying about $11.7 million in cash for the property, according to documents filed on May 28 with Santa Clara County officials. Google has been assembling properties and gaining approvals from city officials for a mixed-use neighborhood called Downtown… Source link

With the U.S. labor market likely to bounce back strongly this summer from a surprisingly tepid April showing, the risks of an overheating economy remain on the rise.  “I do think there is a very good chance it [economy] will overheat,” said Jefferies Chief Financial Economist Aneta Markowska on Yahoo Finance Live. “I expect us to reach a roughly 3% unemployment rate by the end of next year.” As Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung explains in the latest edition of Yahoo U, there is no official… Source link

The Alphabet Workers Union launched a campaign Tuesday to push Google to allow employees to use their chosen names on ID badges. The move comes after Phares Lee, a transgender man who works at a Google data center in South Carolina and is employed by security subcontracting firm G4S, asked to have his deadname removed from his badge and was denied. Lee came out as transgender during his initial interview with G4S. “I was assured [Google] was inclusive, yet when I asked about a badge in… Source link

TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 7%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Let’s talk about defending your portfolio. It’s a common impulse for most investors, when the economy starts to turn sour. We’re in a growth phase now, with economic activity rebounding strongly from the corona-crisis shutdowns, and with reopening getting into full stride, economists are predicting up to 8% GDP expansion this year. But there are clouds on the horizon. Inflation is rising, and the April jobs report was,… Source link

With our calendars having flipped to June, this is the perfect time to recap some of the best and worst performances from the month of May. There should be some nuggets in this article that shape your lineup and streaming decisions as we start June action. Top offenses (May OPS in brackets) Blue Jays (.813), Astros (.786), Red Sox (.771): These are your lineups to avoid at the moment. Some observers will say that Blue Jays will flounder when they shift from Dunedin to Buffalo, but I don’t… Source link

After winning just one match, bad luck has ended Petra Kvitova’s time at the French Open. The Czech tennis player announced on Tuesday that she’s withdrawing from Roland-Garros due to a freak ankle injury she sustained on Sunday during her post-match media conference. “It is with great disappointment that I announce my withdrawal from Roland Garros. During my post-match press requirements on Sunday I fell and hurt my ankle. Unfortunately, after an MRI and much discussion with my team, I have… Source link