Google has announced a $1bn (£871m) deal to buy the London development Central Saint Giles, calling the move a show of confidence in the return to more office working. The US tech firm currently rents space in the brightly coloured development designed by the architect Renzo Piano, which is located in the centre of the capital, near Oxford Street. The building – with its distinctive red, green, orange and yellow facade – includes 408,000 sq ft (38,000 sq metres) of office space, as well… Source link

Let’s examine DFS value plays for the six-game wild-card round, so you can pay up for the stars you want to fit into your Yahoo lineup. Quarterback Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady are on this slate. It’s quite easy to land on one of the NFL’s premier fantasy passers in the wild-card round. Even Dak Prescott at $32 against a pass-funnel 49ers defense looks like a pristine play. If you’re looking to drop down a bit in value, there are some middle-tier candidates. It’s pretty hard… Source link

Media top headlines January 13 In media news today, Associated Press tells staff to ‘avoid emphasizing COVID case counts, the Economic Council director urges the media to focus on wage increases instead of inflation, and the mainstream media drags Rand Paul for clashing with Dr. Fauci. Yahoo is rejecting a digital ad from Republican Senate candidate Jim Lamon for touting the widely-used anti-Biden expression.  Lamon, a businessman and Army veteran running in the GOP primary in Arizona,… Source link

Stock futures rose Thursday evening to steady after a tech-driven selloff during the regular trading day. Contracts on the Nasdaq gained after the Nasdaq Composite sank by 2.5% during the earlier session.  Investors this week have been weighing concerning signs of lingering price pressures across the U.S. economy against assertions from key central bank officials that the Federal Reserve is ready to take action to bring down inflation.  In Fed Governor Lael Brainard’s hearing before the… Source link

Adam Mossoff is a patent law expert at George Mason University who has testified before Congress on the STRONGER Patent Act and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The U.S. International Trade Commission ruled on January 6 that Google infringed Sonos’ patented innovations in wireless speaker technology. This may sound like an obscure legal ruling about a complicated fight over intellectual property. But it confirms a problem that threatens America’s innovation… Source link

U.S. markets have largely shaken off Omicron fears, witnessed by the pop in cruise line stocks Thursday despite a general market sell-off. But surging COVID-19 infections in China, beyond the early pandemic peak, are leading one strategist to warn of an underpriced risk to inflation that could weigh on stocks. At a recent Yahoo Finance Plus webinar, Bianco Research President Jim Bianco argued that China’s zero tolerance COVID policy could lead to a nationwide shutdown — causing economic… Source link

Amazon’s (AMZN) stock has had a rough 12 months. While the S&P 500 has gained as much as 24% and Microsoft (MSFT) has jumped 48%, Amazon’s stock has risen just 4%. But at least one analyst believes the stock is set for a rebound in the second half of 2022. “This is a company that faced a lot of inflation and supply chain risks in the back half of the last year,” Evercore ISI’s Mark Mahaney told Yahoo Finance Live. “I think all of those will be absorbed into the business model or… Source link

The House select committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot has subpoenaed the parent companies of Google and Facebook as well as social media giants Twitter Inc. and Reddit, the panel’s chairman said Thursday. “Two key questions for the Select Committee are how the spread of misinformation and violent extremism contributed to the violent attack on our democracy, and what steps — if any — social media companies took to prevent their platforms from… Source link

Volkan Furuncu | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The House select committee investigating the deadly Capitol riot has subpoenaed social media giants Twitter, Reddit and the parent companies of Facebook and Google, the panel’s chairman said Thursday. The bipartisan committee had asked for a trove of records last summer from those and other social companies, but said it received “inadequate responses” from some of the largest platforms. The committee again demanded that Google parent company… Source link

At some point in failure, an NFL general manager like the Indianapolis Colts‘ Chris Ballard has to step to a microphone and show the firmest of grasps on the team’s situation. Think of it as the anti-Joe Judge moment, where someone in power holds a mirror up to their team and and bluntly reflects what everyone else can see — from the franchise owner, to the coaching staff, to the fan base that is pulling its hair out. Ballard had that moment Thursday, when he all but said what some in the… Source link