Lightning star Victor Hedman couldn’t keep it together after U.S. President Joe Biden called Gary Bettman “Gary Batman” during Tampa’s White House visit. (Photo via Twitter/@greg_price11) During their Monday off, the Tampa Bay Lightning were honoured at the White House by U.S. President Joe Biden, a custom that has been extended annually to champions across various major North American professional sports leagues. In many ways, it was a nondescript event for the President, save for one… Source link

After a massive Pixel Watch leak this past weekend, you’d think that maybe Google would relax on the wearables front. Nope. With Google I/O just weeks away, a video teasing Google Assistant on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 has popped up on YouTube, and Google-owned Fitbit has officially started rolling out passive atrial fibrillation alerts on its suite of devices. We’ve known that Google Assistant was coming to the Galaxy Watch 4 (and therefore Wear OS 3) for months. The only thing we… Source link

U.S. stock futures were flat in extended trading Monday after markets staged a rebound to end higher in the earlier session as investors look ahead to a batch of mega cap tech earnings in the coming days. Contracts on all three major indexes were little changed after the Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered an intraday loss of nearly 500 points and closed in the green, snapping a five-day losing streak. The S&P 500 also bounced back from declines to close the trading session above… Source link

A familiar face is leaving NFL Network with her eyes set on one of the top openings in NFL broadcasting. “Good Morning Football” co-host Kay Adams has worked her last day with the show and is a candidate to host Amazon’s upcoming “Thursday Night Football” pregame show, Andrew Marchand of the New York Post reports. Adams has co-hosted the three-hour morning show on weekdays since 2016. With Amazon taking over streaming rights to “Thursday Night Football” broadcasts in the fall, Adams could be… Source link

Every month, new companies get dinged for sending money to the 147 members of Congress who tried to overturn the 2020 election, but none gets quite as much heat for its donations as Toyota (TM). The automaker has had a particularly tumultuous relationship with political donations since the U.S. Capitol attack on Jan. 6, and it’s now under renewed political pressure after Judd Legum reported in his newsletter Monday that Toyota had resumed donations to certain 2020 election objectors. The… Source link

Disney’s (DIS) showdown in Florida continues to weigh on the company and its embattled CEO, Bob Chapek. On Friday, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law the bill revoking Disney’s special district status. The move has largely been seen as a response to Disney’s unfavorable reaction to the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill. The controversial bill, which will go into effect on July 1, states, “Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may… Source link

The potential No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 NFL draft was born with the Christian name of Yuri. He played the trombone growing up. He wasn’t considered the best player (or even the second- or third-best …) on his college defense, even if his defense was really good. He hadn’t even started a college football game until last September. Yes, it’s fair to say that this year’s draft has a different feel to it than most years, starting at the very top. In a development that was unforeseeable… Source link

Republicans used to argue that government should get out of the way and leave businesses free to work their capitalist magic. Ronald Reagan is so passé. In Florida, Texas and other GOP states, Republicans are now enlisting businesses in culture-war politics and punishing them if they don’t go along. Disney is now in a standoff with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other state Republicans over a new law banning instruction on sexual orientation and gender identification among young… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy Twitter Inc. for $44 billion, using one of the biggest leveraged buyout deals in history to take private a 16-year-old social networking platform that has become a hub of public discourse and a flashpoint in the debate over online free speech. Most Read from Bloomberg Investors will receive $54.20 for each Twitter share they own, the company said in a statement Monday. The price is 38% more than the stock’s close on April 1, the… Source link

(Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks rose as dip-buyers emerged ahead of a busy week for Big Tech earnings. Most Read from Bloomberg The S&P 500 gained in a choppy afternoon session, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 climbed more than 1%. Twitter Inc. extended gains after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk agreed to buy the social networking platform. Alphabet Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Meta Platforms Inc. are all due to report. “This week may easily be a fork in the road of equities,” JC… Source link