The Week 8 NFL main slate begins Sunday at 1:00 p.m. EDT and features 11 games. A pair of high-powered AFC West offenses will be on bye in Kansas City and the Chargers. Additionally, the London game returns in Week 8, with the Broncos and Jaguars facing off across the pond and outside the main slate. The Thursday Night Football (Ravens-Buccaneers), Sunday Night Football (Packers-Bills) and Monday Night Football (Bengals-Browns) matchups are also excluded. Yahoo will be running plenty of NFL… Source link

The news: Google’s parent company Alphabet fell short of investor’s expectations in its Q3 earnings. Alphabet’s growth has decelerated for five consecutive quarters, with revenues coming in at $57.5 billion, short of the anticipated $58.3 billion. The company’s shares have fallen 28% this year compared with the S&P 500’s 23% drop. Combined with Microsoft’s earnings report, showing the slowest growth in five years, the tech giants’ performance pulled the stock market down. As of… Source link

Google is promoting its Chrome browser with out-of-home and social ads to reach Formula 1 fans as the sport is becoming increasingly popular. During the United States Grand Prix Oct. 21 in Austin, TX, the brand advertised with signs at the airport and local concerts, and with Chrome-wrapped shuttle buses for attendees to take to the race. The tech giant put digital ads on social media with the Google Chrome branding, and had an on-site activation. “We want to start building… Source link

The NBA’s current lottery system incentivizes less-than-blessed franchises to do all they can to do as little as possible in order to be in the best position to draft someone like, say, Victor Wembanyama. The league has tried various initiatives to curb the scourge that is tanking — something NBA commissioner Adam Silver is so concerned about he addressed it to team employees with the Phoenix Suns recently — a franchise that seemingly has very little chance of such a worry. As… Source link

Share Tweet Share Email Yahoo has announced key appointments to its team in APAC to support the accelerated growth of its ad tech business in the region. Matt Farrington returns to Yahoo as APAC head of partnerships and investment. Sandra Lin comes on board as the new APAC head of DSP strategy. Kenneth Koh joins as head of DSP SEA. The latest appointments come amidst growing demand for Yahoo’s ad tech product solutions and services in APAC as brands strengthen their digital marketing… Source link

VettaFi vice chairman Tom Lydon appeared on Yahoo!Finance to discuss tech’s slide and the state of the markets. “For the first time in 20 years, we’re seeing active managers actually outperform some of their counterparts that they benchmark against,” @Vetta_Fi Vice Chairman @TomLydon says. “That’s good for the ETF business.” pic.twitter.com/y2WFhvFLdV — Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) October 26, 2022 Tech’s Slide and Active’s Rise “Coming out of… Source link

Ford (F) shares fell after reporting Q3 earnings that beat on the top line and re-affirming the bottom end of its full-year profit forecast, though the automaker took a big impairment from its Argo AI investment. For the quarter, Ford reported: Ford said it would be taking a $2.7 billion non-cash, pretax impairment on its investment in Argo AI, which TechCrunch reported would be shutting down, with engineers and other employees being absorbed by Ford and its Argo AI partner, Volkswagen. “In the… Source link

The Philadelphia Eagles aren’t satisfied with a 6-0 start. They want to get better. General manager Howie Roseman made another big move on Wednesday, trading for pass rusher Robert Quinn from the Chicago Bears, the team announced. Quinn has just one sack this season but posted 18.5 last season. He will add to an Eagles defense that was already pretty good. In exchange, the Eagles are sending the Bears a fourth-round pick. The Bears won on Monday night but are 3-4 and in the middle of a… Source link

Google’s move toward automation did not always meet with approval from agency executives when the company initially began its push to automate everything — from creative assets to media bidding. Most marketers — even vocal agency partners — hesitated to publicly acknowledge discontent, but Patrick Gilbert, COO at AdVenture Media … Source link

This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Wednesday, Oct., 26 2022 Even cloud giants like Microsoft can’t avoid the economic slowdown The economic slowdown has come for tech companies’ big cash cows: the cloud businesses that provide their clients with inexpensive computing power and applications. On Tuesday, Microsoft (MSFT) reported… Source link