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Twitter cofounder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has rarely lacked candor in describing the company he once led. In his latest assessment of the state of the social media platform, Dorsey said he regrets letting the app become a company at all. “The biggest issue and my biggest regret is that it became a company,” Dorsey wrote in a recent tweet, replying to a question as to whether Twitter turned out the way he had originally wanted it to. Dorsey elaborated further on what his original vision… Source link

In this edition of the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, Matt Harmon and Frank Schwab talk about the former NC State running back, including how he’ll be fighting for targets in Indianapolis. Video Transcript MATT HARMON: This one’s interesting. Because Colts head coach Frank Reich said it himself, if I was a fantasy owner, if I was going to be in a fantasy league, I think I’d pick Nyheim this year. Obviously, Nyheim Hines. From James Boyd. You’re already shaking your head, Frank. There’s… Source link

Illinois is just about set to tee things up for the start of the 2022 season. On Saturday, the Illini will face Wyoming to open a new year of college football. Entering that game, Illinois will be around a 10-point favorite against the Mountain West program. Sam Cooper with Yahoo! Sports also provided a breakdown and prediction for that game. According to Cooper, Wyoming’s loss of some key offensive pieces to the transfer portal makes it a long shot the Cowboys will be able… Source link

George Foreman has been accused of sexual assault by two women. (Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images for Houston Sports Awards) Former boxing heavyweight champion George Foreman has been accused of sexually assaulting two women when they were teenagers and below the age of consent during the 1970s in a pair of lawsuits, according to The New York Times. The two women, now in their early 60s, reportedly both claim to have met Foreman when they were under 10 years old. One accuser’s father was… Source link

Top trending after-hours tickers on Yahoo Finance: Affirm (AFRM): Shares dropped more than 14% after its first quarter and full-year 2023 revenue guidance missed estimates. Affirm sees first-quarter revenue of $345 to $365 million and full-year revenue of $1.63 billion to $1.73 billion. Affirm CFO Michael Linford wrote in the earnings release, “In light of the uncertain macroeconomic backdrop, we are approaching our next fiscal year prudently while maintaining our focus on driving… Source link

In the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, Matt Harmon and Frank Schwab break down the crowded backfield in Kansas City with Clyde Edwards-Helaire, Jerk McKinnon and Isiah Pacheco, and debate which, if any, of the RBs are worth a draft pick for fantasy managers. Video Transcript [BUMPS, BAT HITTING BALL, NET SWISHING] MATT HARMON: CEH has kind of moved, at least for me in my rankings, from a post dead zone running back to sort of firmly in the running back dead zone I’ve got him at running back… Source link

President Biden’s move to cancel student debt was long-expected — but the scope of the effort was not. The expectation of $10,000 in student loan cancellation was widely reported in the lead-up to Wednesday’s news, but the final package included an additional $10,000 in forgiveness for Pell Grant recipients. The administration also laid out a cap on income-based repayments that could be felt for decades to come. “It’s a game-changer,” President Biden said Wednesday in unveiling the… Source link

The coaching star of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” this season was supposed to be Detroit Lions head man Dan Campbell, he of both the equally oversized frame and personality. The gravelly voice. The unpredictable twists in his speeches. The willingness to do up-downs with the players. The guy is, unquestionably, a unique force of personality that producers must have hoped would somehow make a three-win team for a franchise with one playoff victory in 65 seasons worth watching. And Campbell has… Source link

The Los Angeles Angels are for sale. Arte Moreno, who has owned the team since 2003, will seek a buyer for a franchise that currently employs two of this generation’s most dazzling talents and plays in the country’s second-largest market. Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and a foothold in the Los Angeles area. It would all sound much more appealing if Moreno’s tenure hadn’t turned into a blueprint for how to waste superstar talent by neglecting, bungling or outright refusing to invest in… Source link

Esther George, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, joined Yahoo Finance on the sidelines of the annual Jackson Hole symposium discuss the Fed’s firefight with inflation amid recessionary concerns. Below is a transcript of her appearance, taped on August 24 and aired on August 25. — BRIAN CHEUNG: Yahoo Finance on site here, the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. I’m sitting down here with Kansas City Fed President Esther George. President George, how are you? ESTHER GEORGE:… Source link