Despite an offseason of mixed headlines for Jerry Jones — some controversial and others unflattering — the Dallas Cowboys owner continues to dominate in the financial arena. For the 12th straight year, Forbes has calculated the Cowboys as the most valuable franchise in the NFL, pegging the team’s worth at a whopping $8 billion. That’s a staggering 23 percent increase over last year, thanks in part to the league’s revenue rebound since the 2020 pandemic season and the recent $4.65… Source link

In legal business news this week, Yahoo Finance is watching for rulings by two federal judges. One involves a case over publishing industry market share, and another will decide how much of a search warrant affidavit authorizing the raid on Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home will be made public. We’re also following a mystery surrounding the reported departure of Tesla’s top legal executive, David Searle. The U.S. versus Big Books A federal judge’s decision in Washington, DC could derail or green… Source link

Google has been working on making its TV experience faster, more responsive, and less of a hassle for users. According to a post on its support forums on Monday, the company has been working on improving boot time, general performance, and the number of options for managing storage on both third-party TVs as well as its Chromecast with Google TV streaming puck. The company says that it’s made it so the Google TV homescreen loads faster, reducing the amount of time before you can pick… Source link

Internet users’ private messages, files, and photos of everyday people are increasingly being examined by tech companies, which check the data against government databases. While this is not a new practice, the public is being told this massive scanning should extend to nearly every reach of their online activity so that police can more productively investigate crimes related to child sexual abuse images, sometimes called CSAM.  We don’t know much about how the public gets watched in… Source link

For more business and finance explainers, check out our Yahoo U page. Every year in August, the Federal Reserve holds a small gathering of the world’s leading economists and policymakers against the backdrop of the Grand Teton Mountains in Wyoming. Only about 120 people attend the event every year, but the publicly-released papers and speeches — as well as media engagements by policymakers — have made the Kansas City Fed’s Economic Policy Symposium a landmark event for Fed watchers and… Source link

If Dennis Rodman received “approval” for his plan to travel to Russia and help secure Brittney Griner’s release, it doesn’t look like it came from the White House. An anonymous senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration has told Reuters the White House is not a fan of Rodman’s plan, and believe it could actually hurt Griner’s chances of being released. “It is public information that the administration has made a significant offer to the Russians and anything other than negotiating… Source link

EXCLUSIVE: The Black List and Google on Monday unveiled the joint creation of the Black List x YouTube Originals Black Voices Creator Fellowship. The inaugural fellowship will provide financial grants and creative support to four television writers who can write exceptionally and authentically about the Black experience, in developing proofs of concept for a television show pitch. “We are thrilled to partner with the Black List on a program that seeks to identify and nurture the next… Source link

This week in politics, Yahoo Finance will be watching whether the U.S. revives a 2015 nuclear deal with Iran and whether the Biden administration extends a payment pause for student loans. We’ll also be watching reactions to Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s speech at Jackson Hole, and to revised GDP numbers for the second quarter. Here’s more on three big stories in politics this week: 1. Iran deal talks: Axios is reporting that U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan will soon meet with his… Source link

The Yahoo Fantasy Football crew is identifying the specific players at each position they’re fading this draft season. It could be for any number of reasons: They’re not high on the player, the draft cost is too much or a situation is set up for disappointment. First up, the quarterback picks from Andy, Matt, Scott and Dalton. Not chasing the back-to-back MVP Andy Behrens: I haven’t given much serious consideration to Aaron Rodgers in drafts to this point (Yahoo ADP of 89.4, QB11), and I’m not… Source link

Later this fall, Google is expected to launch the Pixel Watch. Given Wear OS’s history, there’s understandably a lot of anticipation. Will the watch be good? Will it fail to deliver the promise of Wear OS 3? Honestly, those questions might be more appropriate for future iterations of the watch. For now, all Google has to do is create a smartwatch that does the basics well. Case in point, XDA Developers recently reported that Google seems to be hard at work addressing an egregious… Source link