There have been 85 previous editions of the Masters Tournament but for DFS purposes all we care about is the 86th running. That takes place this week at Augusta National. There have been a few minor tweaks to the course since last year but that is usually the case as they continue to modify in order to keep up with modern-day standards. What we do know from previous Masters is that big hitters have a nice advantage here and performance in other big events is often a good pointer to future… Source link

Rents have been going one way over the last year — up. Typical rent in the U.S is about $1,883 per month, $283 per month higher than in February 2020, according to Zillow. Making matters worse, a spike in mortgage rates is pricing would-be first time home buyers out of the market, and into the rental pool, exacerbating the upward pressure on rents amid ever tighter inventory. Research compiled by Stessa, a real estate software company, shows the coastal states have the highest rents. Hawaii,… Source link

Activist short-seller Spruce Point Capital Management is taking aim at medical device company Stryker (SYK). Spruce Point unveiled its latest attack on Wednesday, saying Stryker has overpaid for recent acquisitions, has used questionable accounting practices and has executive compensation that isn’t aligned with shareholder interests. The activist has called on Harvard Business School dean and Stryker audit committee member Srikant Datar to evaluate its findings with “independent forensic… Source link

Boeing engineers huddle over a computer to work on an aircraft design. (Boeing Photo / Bob Ferguson) The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split. Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft are all getting a share of the business, Boeing announced today. In a LinkedIn post, Susan Doniz, Boeing’s chief information officer and senior VP for information technology and data… Source link

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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 Wednesday, April 6, 2022 If you buy an advertisement during the Super Bowl, you will get millions of eyeballs. But some of those eyeballs will likely belong to federal regulators. Which brings us to Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler on Monday (yes, two months later), responding to the flurry of crypto ads from this year’s… Source link

Google Docs is getting support for emoji reactions, allowing you to respond to text with a simple symbol rather than a fully written comment. In an announcement post, the company says the feature supports all the emoji available in the latest release, which includes gender-neutral options and sillier symbols like melting face and biting lip. A gif released by Google shows how the emoji reaction feature will appear as a third option alongside “Add Comment” and “Suggest Edits” when… Source link

Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. European markets were muted on Wednesday as investors focus on the latest insights into the Fed’s policy tightening. Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images European stocks were in the red on Wednesday as investors focus on fresh western sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and the latest insights into the Federal Reserve’s policy tightening. The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) lost ground after closing higher the previous session,… Source link

Google has urged Chrome users to update as yet another emergency security fix is released. Here’s what you need to know. A little over a week ago, I warned readers that Google had issued a very rare emergency update for all 3.2 billion Chrome users. Rare because this was a security update that patched a solitary security vulnerability. As for the emergency, Google confirmed that an exploit had been seen in the wild and that means attacks were already underway. Fast forward to now and… Source link

At its Cloud Data Summit, Google today announced the preview launch of BigLake, a new data lake storage engine that makes it easier for enterprises to analyze the data in their data warehouses and data lakes. The idea here, at its core, is to take Google’s experience with running and managing its BigQuery data warehouse and extend it to data lakes on Google Cloud Storage, combining the best of data lakes and warehouses into a single service that abstracts away the underlying storage… Source link