Google Play named its best apps of 2021 and they reflect the year we’ve had. Lots of choices to help deal with pandemic induced stress including mindfulness apps, games and streaming services. Apps we featured: Balance personalized meditation app (get a free year, $70 value, if you sign up by the end of 2021) Rabit for forming new habits Blossom to identify plants and flowers by taking a picture of them Donut County for a fun, whimsical physics-based game good for… Source link

The logo for Google LLC is seen at the Google Store Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., November 17, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com Register MANILA, Dec 1 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google said on Wednesday it will ban political advertising on its platform in the run-up to Philippine elections in May next year to choose a successor to President Rodrigo Duterte. The move comes amid pressure on social media platforms… Source link

Qi Yuwu, Lawrence Wong and Mark Lee are among Yahoo Singapore’s top ten most-searched male celebrities of 2021. (Photos: Qi Yuwu/Instagram, Grail, Getty Images) From talented singers to troubled stars, this year’s most-searched Singapore male celebrities made us sit up and take notice. Here are Yahoo Singapore readers’ top ten most-searched male celebrities of 2021 and what made them search-worthy: Benjamin Kheng. (Yahoo Life Singapore file photo) 10. Benjamin Kheng In April this year, Source link

Bull markets, like the human investors that compose them, are mortal—and sometimes they die in a spectacular and bloody fashion. Trouble is, you never know for sure when a few days of big losses represent a mere dip (or to some, a buying opportunity) and what is the start of bigger decline. But there are at least four signs that appear when equities are approaching the abyss. Crashes hit with the scary impact of a Category 4 hurricane, ripping apart portfolios that people depend on to fund… Source link

Stock futures opened higher Tuesday evening to recover some losses after a selloff earlier, when more hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell compounded with lingering uncertainty around the Omicron variant and its impacts on the economy.  Contracts on the S&P 500 rose after the index closed lower by nearly 2% Tuesday afternoon. The S&P 500 closed out November with a monthly drop of 0.8%, with volatility over the past week wiping out prior gains following the discovery of… Source link

Apple (AAPL) shares closed at all-time highs on Tuesday, at $165.30. The stock was up more than 3%, as investors flocked to the iPhone maker amid a broader market selloff.  “It seems to be like a flight to safety trade,” Matt Maley managing director equity strategist Miller Tabak told Yahoo Finance on Tuesday.  Some analysts have also noted the company’s impressive cash flows would help it weather any future downturn. The stock’s upward movement came on the same day Fed Chair Jerome Powell Source link

John Wall‘s absence only benefits the Houston Rockets‘ ability to lose games. Unless you consider being paid $44.3 million to not play at some cost to his own legacy a benefit for the 31-year-old five-time All-Star. The Rockets and Wall met on Sunday to discuss his future, and they left with little more clarity beyond the veteran’s desire to resume playing to his capability. Public discourse on the issue — largely framed as a refusal from Wall to accept less than a starting job — has… Source link

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Twelve weeks are down and six remain in the regular season. The injury bug struck again in a big way last week, providing us with some value daily fantasy football plays to complement some higher-priced investments. We’re pairing Joe Burrow with Joe Mixon as a sneaky stack to headline our Week 13 Yahoo DFS lineup. Mixon has scored a pair of receiving touchdowns, so it’s not irresponsible to gamble on a third connection this week. Of course, we’ll mix in some… Source link

The volatile but never boring market for Bitcoin (BTC) has been whipsawed in recent days, as investors ponder whether there are better returns to be had in other cryptocurrencies, even as a new COVID-19 variant and the Federal Reserve’s policy outlook shake up the landscape. With news of the Omicron strain of COVID-19 unsettling investors, Bitcoin shed over 2% on Tuesday as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell dropped several hints that the central bank is growing more attentive to inflationary risks,… Source link