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Yahoo Inc. has hired Darin Bassin to become its new chief legal officer and corporate secretary starting Oct. 10, according to an internal company memorandum viewed by Bloomberg Law. Bassin joins Yahoo from Paramount Global, where he’s spent nearly the past two years as general counsel and executive vice president of corporate development for the media company’s streaming group. “Darin is an exceptional leader with extensive experience as a general counsel in the digital and media… Source link

U.S. Health Sec. Xavier Becerra supported a surprise comment over the weekend from President Joe Biden, who declared the pandemic over. “The president is correct,” Becerra told Yahoo Finance Monday. “He’s made it clear that Americans are still dying in the hundreds every day from COVID, and so we have to stay at this. The vaccines are the most effective way for us to stay protected,” Becerra added. On CBS’s 60 Minutes, Biden said, “The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re… Source link

Emoni Bates, current basketball player at Eastern Michigan and former top recruit with Memphis, was arrested in Michigan on Sunday night following a traffic stop and arraigned Monday morning on at least one gun charge. According to the Detroit Free Press, Bates was stopped by the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday evening at 10:43 after he failed to stop at an intersection. The police said they located a gun in the car during the investigation and arrested Bates, who was held in jail… Source link

Deion Sanders is the only person to play in both the Super Bowl and the World Series, not to mention the only player to ever hit a MLB home run and record an NFL interception in the same week. On Oct. 11, 1992, he played in an NFL game and suited up for a MLB game … on the same day … in two different cities. That probably beats the time at Florida State when he won the 100 and 200 meters in a morning track meet and then started as a center fielder for the Seminoles’ baseball team that… Source link

September 19, 2022 According to Yahoo News, job candidates are hiring proxies and paying up to $150 an hour to sit in job interviews. A story published on Yahoo News reported the reasons for the use of proxies range from candidates being nervous or underqualified for the job to criminals that are trying to steal data to damage a company’s reputation. The trend has been noticed… Source link

The NFL announced on Monday that Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans has been suspended for one game without pay after he was ejected from Sunday’s tension-filled game for playing a role in a massive, benches-clearing brawl. Evans is being suspended for violating the NFL’s unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct rules. The brawl, which happened a few minutes into the fourth quarter with the score 3-3, began when New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore made a… Source link

Apple released its latest iPhone lineup last week. While many folks were excited to get their hands on a new device, their elation may have been tempered by some problems with the camera system. It seems that several prominent third-party apps have compatibility issues with the iPhone 14 Pro’s rear camera unit. Users have reported problems including shaking, rattling and mechanical noises emanating from the device when using apps like Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat, as 9to5 Mac reports. It… Source link

Mark Cuban says baby boomers went from “fighting the man” to becoming what they’d hated in the 60s and 70s. Last week, the billionaire said on a podcast that he believes Gen-Z is the “greatest” generation. Cuban said Zoomers have a greater consideration for mental health and are changing the workplace. Billionaire investor and baby boomer Mark Cuban dubbed his generation “disappointing” in a tweet on Sunday. The 64-year-old billionaire made the comment in response to another Twitter user who… Source link

U.S. stocks were firmly lower early Monday after all three major indexes logged their worst week in three months. The S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and tech-heavy Nasdaq were each off by roughly 0.6% at the start of the trading session. Meanwhile in the bond market, the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury note spiked to 3.49%, its highest level since 2011, while the 2-year Treasury note inched past a 15-year high of 3.9%. Investors are gearing up for the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy… Source link

Two-and-a-half years into the pandemic, millions of Americans are still suffering from long-term effects of COVID-19, otherwise known as Long COVID. The health impacts are clear, What’s not clear is the impact on the economy and the workplace. “I’m desperate to get back to work, but I still can’t work at a desk or talk for more than 20-30 minutes without needing to rest for hours at a time,” Charlie McCone, a 32-year-old based out of San Francisco, told Yahoo Finance. “I feel like… Source link