It’s been a rough two years for the cruise industry, where fortunes have taken another downturn with the appearance of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, and in the wake of a recent recommendation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to avoid leisure travel on the high seas.  With new infections showing no sign of relenting anytime soon, the CDC has said cruises should be avoided, regardless of vaccination status. The CDC increased the travel warning for ships to level 4 — the… Source link

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Antonio Brown still has a lot to get off his chest about his time with the team. Brown gave his side of the story during an appearance on the Full Send Podcast on Friday.  Brown covered a number of topics, including his sideline altercation with Bruce Arians and frustration with his role. Brown also discussed his relationship with Tom Brady, which is more complicated than it appeared publicly. The most controversial quote about their relationship involved… Source link

GameStop’s (GME) reported plan to launch an NFT marketplace is “dead on arrival”, says one analyst.  “NFT’s are a real thing…the problem is GameStop,” Wedbush’s Michael Pachter told Yahoo Finance Live.  A Wall Street Journal report says the company hired more than 20 people to run the unit which will launch an NFT marketplace, a plan which the video game retailer has hinted at in the past. The report also states GameStop is working on creating partnerships with two crypto companies. “NFT’s… Source link

Bill Gates is using these dividend stocks in 2022 to generate a jumbo inflation-fighting income stream ⁠— you might want to do the same With elite investors like Michael Burry and Jeremy Grantham predicting a reckoning for today’s overheated stock market, it might be time to look at dividend stocks in 2022. Dividend stocks are a way to diversify a portfolio that may be chasing growth a little too obsessively. They generate income in good times, bad times and, particularly important… Source link

Whether you are playing in the biggest tournament of the week on Yahoo! or prefer to play in smaller GPPs, there are some general positional strategies that you can implement in any size tournament. These concepts include stacking, finding pivots off of popular players, and looking for leverage in other spots. While it’s important to implement these into your lineup-building approach, the foundation of any tournament lineup is a solid core, usually players that you would use in cash… Source link

In our initial look at 2022 fantasy football rankings, the Yahoo analysts reveal their first-round picks for next season. Jonathan Taylor was the unanimous consensus No. 1 choice, but the group split on where to go from there. Andy Behrens: Henry still deserves respect 1. Jonathan Taylor 2. Derrick Henry 3. Najee Harris 4. Austin Ekeler 5. Davante Adams6. Cooper Kupp 7. Dalvin Cook 8. Justin Jefferson 9. Alvin Kamara 10. Tyreek Hill 11. Christian McCaffrey 12. Ja’Marr Chase Dalton Del Don:… Source link

WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) – A U.S. trade court barred Google late Thursday from importing products that infringe home-audio company Sonos’ smart-speaker patents. The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed an August decision that Google audio products infringed five Sonos patents and banned Google from importing “networked speaker devices” and devices that can control them like mobile phones and laptops. The ruling says Google won’t be barred from importing products that it had… Source link

The crowd won. One more year it is.  Four-time WNBA champion Sue Bird announced she will return for another season, her 19th playing in the WNBA and 21st since being drafted, in an Instagram post on Friday. Free agency begins a week from Saturday.  The Seattle Storm, the only team Bird has ever played for professionally in the states, celebrated the return with their own graphic, writing “LET’S GOOOOOO” with a goat emoji. Within hours they had deleted it, presumably because free agency has not… Source link

The Google logo is pictured at the entrance to the Google offices in London, Britain January 18, 2019. REUTERS/Hannah McKay Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register NEW DELHI, Jan 7 (Reuters) – India’s competition watchdog on Friday ordered an investigation into Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) following allegations from news publishers, saying its initial view was that the tech giant had broken some antitrust laws. In its order, the Competition Commission of India (CCI)… Source link

ROME — Ever since he broke out of Rome’s Rebibbia prison 20 years ago where he was facing murder charges, Gioacchino Gammino had managed to evade capture. He fled to Spain, changed his name and cut off ties with his family, creating a new life for himself, at one point working as a chef in an Italian restaurant. But last month, Italian investigators finally tracked down Mr. Gammino, 61, in a town northwest of Madrid, thanks in part to an unlikely tool: Google Maps. “They say that fortune… Source link