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If you have the right skills, finding a job in the surging cryptocurrency field may be as easy as ordering a McDonald’s Big Mac from a drive-thru. But that doesn’t mean you should jump on any opportunity. With the crypto job shortage continuing as investment banks such as J.P. Morgan and other players outside of financial services seek out key talent, job seekers are in the driver’s seat right now.  Neil Dundon, founder of Crypto Recruit (which provides job placement services for the crypto… Source link

Student-athletes in various states are already profiting from their name, image, and likeness (NIL) after new state and national rules marked a massive shift in college sports. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) approved an interim policy that allowed college athletes to monetize their NIL for the first time beginning on July 1, 2021, following various states that passed legislation allowing the same. “This is huge,” Kam Buckner, a Democratic member of the Illinois House… Source link

The death toll in the collapse of a beachfront condo in Surfside, Fla., increased to 20 on Friday after two more bodies were pulled from the rubble overnight. One of them was the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava made the grim announcement at a press conference Friday morning. “Last night we discovered two additional victims,” Cava said. “Tragically, one of those victims was the 7-year-old daughter of a city of Miami… Source link

Loop Capital Markets analyst Anthony Chukumba was among the first analysts on Wall Street to drop coverage of GameStop in February as the rise of meme traders overran the stock and sent it to dizzying new heights for no real fundamental reason.  But despite a new management team and board arriving to GameStop in recent weeks, don’t look for Chukumba to be re-launching coverage anytime soon.  “I will never cover GameStop ever again, there is just no point,” Chukumba said on Yahoo Finance… Source link

Yahoo Sports recently released its 2021 consensus fantasy football rankings. The analysts involved in the rankings are Andy Beherns, Scott Pianowski, Dalton Del Don, Liz Loza, and Matt Harmon, the creator of Reception Perception. It’s only July, but the interest in fantasy football starts increasing in the coming weeks. The Scott Fish Bowl draft (a fantasy industry league created for charity that consists of hundreds of contestants) is beginning early in July. Many outlets, including… Source link

(Bloomberg) — International Business Machines Corp. President Jim Whitehurst is stepping down after three years at the century-old technology company. The shares fell the most in five months. The departure marks one of the first major corporate reshuffles under Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna, who took the helm last year and has moved quickly to reshape IBM and return it to growth. Whitehurst, 53, is the former CEO of Red Hat Inc., which IBM announced it was acquiring in 2018 in a $33… Source link

On July 5, Jeff Bezos will officially step down as CEO of the company he founded in 1994. Amazon (AMZN) will continue to exist, of course: It’s one of the most highly valued publicly traded companies in the world with a market capitalization of $1.7 trillion. But Bezos’ decision to leave the post, nevertheless, marks a new era for the e-commerce giant. The richest person on Earth, Bezos kick started the e-commerce revolution, forcing rivals like Walmart (WMT) to jump into the arena or be… Source link

Grayscale has announced that it has updated its Digital Large Cap Fund to include Cardano (ADA) Grayscale has announced that it has added Cardano (ADA) to its large cap fund. The ADA holdings now make it the third-largest holding in the fund, behind bitcoin and ethereum. The company exposure to ADA is currently 4.26%. With bitcoin making up 67.47% and ethereum making up 25.39%. In fourth place is bitcoin cash with 1.03%. In an announcement on Twitter, Grayscale commented on the addition of ADA,… Source link

After news broke that Richardson tested positive for marijuana and may miss the Tokyo Olympics this month, Twitter went wild. U.S. sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson is being shown love and support from many in the Black community on various social media platforms after news broke that she tested positive for marijuana and may miss the Tokyo Olympic Games. It remains unclear if Richardson will be suspended, how long the suspension could be, if she will appeal and how it will affect the… Source link

The U.S. economy added back jobs for a sixth straight month in June, with job growth picking up speed alongside the reopening economy.  The U.S. Labor Department released its June jobs report Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Change in non-farm payrolls: 850,000 vs. 720,000 expected and an upwardly revised 583,000 in May Unemployment rate: 5.9% vs. 5.6% expected and 5.8% in May  Average hourly… Source link