Spoiler warning: The following article contains the answer for Friday’s Wordle puzzle. There is no game on the internet bigger than Wordle right now. In the span of a few months, the very straightforward, but undeniably entertaining, game has racked up daily player counts in the millions and inspired a number of memes and knockoffs. The New York Times just purchased the game for a sum said to be in the low seven figures. Celebrities like Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Fry have posted their own… Source link

There’s at least one thing in Urban Meyer’s life that lasted a shorter amount of time than his stint with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Urban Chophouse, a steakhouse in Columbus, will be sold and rebranded, according to Ben Koo of Awful Announcing. The restaurant, which opened in May, is being sold to Shawn Shahnazi, a local restaurant owner. As part of the rebrand, Meyer’s name will be taken off the restaurant. Shahnazi will also hire a new chef and rework the menu. The restaurant got decent… Source link

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) – The Justice Department wants to depose some of Apple’s (AAPL.O) top executives as it prepares for a trial to determine if Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google broke antitrust law in how it runs its search business, a lawyer representing Apple said on Friday. In its complaint, the Justice Department accused Google of paying billions of dollars each year in exclusionary agreements with Apple, Samsung and others so that they will make Google’s search engine the default on… Source link

BEIJING — U.S. anti-doping chief Travis Tygart said Friday that the testing delay that allowed Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva to compete at the Olympics was “absolutely inexcusable” and “a catastrophic failure of the system that is so egregious, it almost seems intentional.” “I’m not saying that it is [intentional], because I don’t know that,” Tygart clarified in a phone interview. “But it never should’ve happened.” The International Testing Agency confirmed Friday that Valieva, the… Source link

Welcome to the NBA Yahoo Cup Picks for Round 18! The NBA has a seven-game slate tonight, and the pattern of the majority of games being under a 10-point spread continues. Five of the seven games are within 10 points, but only three games have a total above 225 points. Two of the players featured will come from those games, and one player will likely be worth playing even at his popularity in Yahoo fantasy basketball today. This is a free-to-enter, multi-round, single-entry Yahoo fantasy… Source link

Alphabet Inc’s Google made $147 billion in revenue from online ads in 2020, more than any other company in the world, with ads including search, YouTube and Gmail accounting for the bulk of its overall sales and profits. About 16% of its revenue came from the company’s display or network business, in which other media companies use Google technology to sell ads on their website and apps. The European Commission opened an investigation in June into whether Google favours its own online display… Source link

Yandex NV (YNDX) has fallen Friday morning, with the stock losing -3.81% in pre-market trading to 49.04. YNDX’s short-term technical score of 41 indicates that the stock has traded less bullishly over the last month than 59% of stocks on the market. In the Internet Content & Information industry, which ranks 139 out of 146 industries, Yandex NV ranks higher than 76% of stocks. Yandex NV has fallen 12.30% over the past month, closing at… Source link

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Viewers who tuned in to the English-language version of CNN on Chinese television one night shortly after the Olympic Opening Ceremony would have seen Jake Tapper excoriating China for its human rights violations and authoritarian rule. When Tapper mentioned Chinese president Xi Jinping, the screen was suddenly replaced with color bars and the message “No Signal Please Stand By.” The signal resumed moments later, as Tapper was wrapping up his remarks. Western… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, February 11, 2022 No rest for inflation weary consumers Alas, the wizard Gandalf could only hold the line for so long. After the government reported consumer prices ran white-hot in January, yields on the 10-year Treasury finally breached the psychologically-key 2% threshold on Thursday, which sent stocks into a fresh tailspin. Perhaps I… Source link

BRUSSELS, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) on Friday was targeted in an antitrust complaint by the European Publishers Council over its digital advertising business, potentially strengthening EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager’s investigation into the issue. Alphabet Inc’s Google made $147 billion in revenue from online ads in 2020, more than any other company in the world, with ads including search, YouTube and Gmail accounting for the bulk of its overall sales and profits. read more