A version of 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, January 13, 2023 Today’s newsletter is by Alexandra Semenova, markets reporter at Yahoo Finance. Follow Alexandra on Twitter @alexandraandnyc. Read this and more market news on the go with the Yahoo Finance App. Inflation slowed for a sixth-straight month in December, data out Thursday showed. This downtrend in price increases… Source link

If you were hoping to kick back and dig into some NHL action Friday, your choices are limited. There are only three games on the slate. Hey, some hockey is better than none. Here are the players to target, and to avoid, for your DFS lineups. GOALIE Vitek Vanecek, NJD at ANA ($31): This is the one-and-only choice for goalie Friday. In a sea of questionable choices, Vanecek has a 2.37 GAA and .913 save percentage. The Ducks are maybe the NHL’s worst team, and they are 31st in goals per game at… Source link

Google and Nvidia have contacted US financial regulators about Microsoft’s proposed $69bn takeover of Activision Blizzard, according to Bloomberg (paywall). Sources told the website both Google and Nvidia had “expressed concerns” to the Federal Trade Commision (FTC), which sued to block the deal in December. The FTC has argued the buyout, which would grant Microsoft ownership of the likes of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft and Candy Crush, would reduce competition… Source link

Lisa Marie Presley in 2012. (Photo: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni) Lisa Marie Presley has died after suffering a cardiac arrest at her home in Calabasas, Calif., on Thursday morning. The singer-songwriter, humanitarian, and only child of rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Elvis Presley was 20 days shy of her 55th birthday. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Lisa Marie’s mother, Priscilla, confirmed in a statement Thursday… Source link

What is going on at Google Cloud? Today, Jon, Kevin and Amir had an important story about an executive shakeup involving the departure of Google’s top sales executive in the U.S., Kirsten Kliphouse. You may recall that Google Cloud, after 10 years of trying, is still a distant second to Amazon and Microsoft in the business.  Google didn’t much like the story and started telling people it was wrong. When we pushed it on why, the company said it was inaccurate because the person… Source link

Alyssa Thompson is staying in Los Angeles with Angel City, and all it took was some NWSL Draft history to make it happen. With the first overall pick of the 2023 NWSL Draft, Angel City made the Harvard-Westlake forward the first high school athlete to hear her name called first in the league’s 10-year history. Thompson’s selection was widely expected after Angel City acquired the first overall pick from NJ/NY Gotham FC last week in a deal that saw it trade its natural No. 5 pick and a… Source link

Google and Nvidia have both reportedly joined Sony in raising concerns to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding Microsoft’s planned $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, according to a Bloomberg report. The two companies reportedly contend that by acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft would gain an unfair advantage in the cloud, subscription, and mobile gaming markets. That said, one source told Bloomberg that Nvidia at least is not expressly opposed to the acquisition,… Source link

Yahoo Sports’ Matt Harmon, Scott Pianowski and Frank Schwab explain why Brock Purdy‘s success looks a lot like when Tom Brady came in for Drew Bledsoe in 2001. Video Transcript SCOTT PIANOWSKI: What’s fascinating to me is that the Niners have thrown the ball a lot fewer, a lot less, since Purdy took over for Garoppolo. But all the efficiency stats are just as good. The YPA is similar. The rating is similar. I don’t feel like Brock Purdy holds them back. I realize that they don’t want to maybe… Source link

Google argued that if the Supreme Court rules to scale back a liability shield for internet companies, the decision could lead to more censorship and hate speech online, according to a brief filed Thursday.  The filing showcases Google’s argument in a case facing the high court that centers around Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial provision that protects companies from being sued over content posted by third parties.  “Gutting Section… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Porsche considers implementation of Google tech in cars  Yahoo Finance Source link