Visitors try out the new family water slide on June 30, 2020 at the Aqualand Moravia World of Water … [+] leisure park in Pasohlavky, south of Brno, Czech Republic. – The water slide suitable for kids and adults is 242 meters long, was made in Canada and people go downhill and also uphill like on a roller coaster. (Photo by Radek Mica / AFP) (Photo by RADEK MICA/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images Data is flowing faster. As we have noted here recently, modern business is now… Source link

There was a lot of complaining when Sean O’Malley, who was ranked 12th at bantamweight at the time, was given a bout against No. 1-ranked Petr Yan on the main card of UFC 280 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. There should be no more complaining. The man known as “The Suga Show” pulled out a gritty, gutty and bloody split decision over Yan, the former champion in a Fight of the Night type of battle. Judges had it 29-28 for O’Malley and 29-28 for Yan. O’Malley did the… Source link

Clemson found a way to get it done. In a battle of ACC undefeateds, the fifth-ranked Tigers found themselves trailing No. 14 Syracuse 21-10 at halftime. Nothing was going right for Clemson. The offense kept making mistakes and the defense gave up two long Syracuse touchdown drives. But things changed in the second half. Clemson shut out the Orange in the final two quarters and stormed back to win 27-21. With the win, Clemson improved to 8-0 on the year, took sole possession of first place in… Source link

When the US first banned sales of certain tech products to Chinese tech firm Huawei three years ago, it crippled a once-proud national champion and sent ripples across the US semiconductor industry. In the quarters following that export ban in May 2019, top American chipmakers reported a median revenue decline of 4% to 9%. The Biden administration’s latest tech controls threaten to accelerate those losses, throwing the global semiconductor sector into disarray. And Chinese companies… Source link

Serena Williams, tennis legend and venture-capital investor, took the stage with business partner Alison Rapaport Stillman this week at TechCrunch Disrupt, noting that winning looks different in VC-land than it does on the tennis court. “Usually when you’re investing as early stage as we are, seed and pre-seed, you don’t get 100% winners,” Williams told the audience. “Sometimes winning isn’t about having a unicorn or a $500 million company,” she added. “Sometimes winning looks different, but… Source link

Taylor Swift’s brand is a bonafide business — and her new album proves it. On Friday, the singer-songwriter released her fourth studio album in three years, titled “Midnights.” The album generated so much demand that it crashed the Spotify (SPOT) platform upon its debut with nearly 8,000 outages reported on Downdetector shortly after midnight. Prior to the album’s release, Swift delivered an intentional marketing campaign complete with viral TikTok videos, which have amassed more than 80… Source link

Chipotle said it’s maxed out the total number of followers it can have on the latest app gaining popularity, BeReal. “That’s something that has just really taken off lately, my understanding is we’ve maxed out all our followers,” on the social media app, CEO Brian Niccol said at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit.”We have to continue to figure out how we evolve that platform.” Yahoo Finance reached out to BeReal for comment, but the company was not able to provide clarity about just how many… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Basketball series. This is my first article of the new season! I’m happy I was assigned to write at the end of the week because we finally have some basketball to evaluate. Writing in the first few days can be difficult, but this is the best time to play. We’re at the point where we understand what these rotations will look like, but the DFS prices haven’t changed enough to react to those massive alterations. That has me ecstatic to break this… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Hockey series. Saturdays in October are great for sports. In the mix, though, there is plenty of hockey. The NHL has nine games on the docket starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT or later. Here are some players to target, and to avoid, for your DFS lineup. GOALIE Jake Oettinger, DAL at MON ($34): Oettinger is off to a red-hot start to the season. In each of his three starts he’s allowed only one goal. Montreal has been a little friskier offensively that I… Source link

Kanye West, who now is legally known as Ye, is buying conservative social media company Parler, a move following Instagram and Twitter’s decisions to suspend the rapper’s accounts over a series of widely condemned antisemitic posts. In an interview during Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit on Monday, Former Trump adviser Gary Cohn described Ye’s recent offensive posts as “just unacceptable.” “I’ll say the same thing about Kanye West’s remarks as I said to the President of the… Source link