He’s racked up the wins and the championships at an impressive pace, but professional boxing hasn’t always gone swimmingly for Teofimo Lopez. The former undisputed lightweight champion has been one of the sport’s most gifted fighters, but he’s been plagued by demons that have always left more questions than answers. He suffered his first, and only, loss to George Kambosos last year, fighting despite a medical condition known as pneumomediastinum, which can be fatal. He should have pulled out… Source link

The Securities and Exchange Commission is sending a letter to U.S. public companies asking firms evaluate their disclosure obligations, including a “specific tailored disclosure,” about how recent crypto bankruptcies and broader financial distress across the digital asset market may have hit their business. The letter is intended to illustrate the type of comments the securities agency might send to public companies. “In meeting their disclosure obligations, companies should consider the… Source link

Disney’s ad tier officially launched Thursday as the media giant looks to curb accelerating streaming losses. “We expect Disney to generate anywhere from about $500 million to even up to $1 billion dollars in ad-supported revenue on the Disney+ product in their first year of operation,” Geetha Rangathan, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, told Yahoo Finance Live. Rangathan said ad-supported revenue rise by up to $3 billion over the next three years, reiterating her confidence in the media… Source link

Elon Musk, the tech mogul and Twitter CEO, and Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist, recently released a trove of internal emails from Twitter. The documents revealed the company’s efforts to suppress news on their platform and spurred a fierce polemic about the effects of big tech and social media on American society. Frank McCourt, the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, has recently been tackling these challenges. Last year, he founded Project Liberty, a company that promotes… Source link

The logo of Google Chrome shown on a smartphone. Thomas Trutschel | Photothek via Getty Images I currently have 47 tabs open on Google Chrome. If you’re like me, you’ll want to hear about a new update. Over the next few weeks, Google is rolling out two Chrome performance settings to save memory and battery power. The update will be available for Windows, macOS and ChromeOS desktop users with the release of Chrome 108. Here’s what’s coming and how to make sure you download the updates. Energy… Source link

Bold bets on high-flying technology stocks from Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest have destroyed an estimated $1.3 billion in shareholder wealth over the past decade, a Morningstar analysis published this week found. And these losses don’t take into account the sharp declines seen across ARK’s suite of investment offerings so far this year. According to Morningstar, the bulk of these losses came primarily from two of ARK’s actively managed vehicles last year: the ARK Genomic Revolution ETF (ARKG) and… Source link

Enlarge / The Waze user icons. We feel for ya, little blue Waze icon above the “W. Waze Is Waze in trouble at Google? The Wall Street Journal broke the news last night that Google is merging the 500-person Waze team into Google’s “Geo” division, aka Google Maps. Waze’s current CEO, Neha Parikh—who has only been at the helm since 2021 after the long-term CEO, Noam Bardin, quit Google—will step down after a… Source link

Bam Adebayo and the Miami Heat square off with the LA Clippers Thursday night. The NBA brings a limited slate consisting of just three games Thursday. The night will tip off with the Heat playing the Clippers, who will be on the second leg of a back-to-back set. Two bad teams from Texas will then face off when the Spurs host the Rockets. Finally, the night will conclude with Damian Lillard and the Trail Blazers hosting Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets. Let’s break down some players to… Source link

People walk past a billboard advertisement for YouTube on September 27, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Sean Gallup | Getty Images The Department of Justice warned the Supreme Court against an overly broad interpretation of a law shielding social media companies from liability for what users post on their platforms, a position that undermines Google’s defense in a case that could reshape the role of content moderation on digital platforms. In a brief filed Wednesday led by DOJ Acting Solicitor General… Source link

SAO PAULO, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google Pay has received approval to operate as a payment institution in Brazil, Latin America’s largest economy, the country’s official gazette showed on Thursday, allowing it to initiate payment transactions. Payment initiators, according to Brazil’s central bank, initiate a transaction ordered by the final user but never manage the payment account, nor hold the funds of the transactions. A press spokesperson for Google confirmed the central… Source link