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Share Tweet Share Email The Yahoo Academy has revealed the forty top emerging leaders who have scored coveted spots in Yahoo’s talent building program. Now in its ninth year, the program is the longest-running industry talent building initiative in the country. Nominations flooded in from senior leaders in brands, advertising and media agencies across Australia and New Zealand. The 2022 cohort features talent from major and indie agencies as well as brand marketers directly, who will receive… Source link

NBC announced on Thursday that they’ve tapped Maria Taylor to replace Mike Tirico as host of “Football Night in America,” the pre-show that airs before “Sunday Night Football.” “Maria is the perfect choice to carry the legacy forward of anchoring the most-watched studio show in sports,” NBC Sports Executive Producer Sam Flood said in a statement. “Football Night in America” needed a new lead after Mike Tirico, NBC’s ubiquitous sports host, was moved over to SNF play-by-play. He’s taking… Source link

Wells Fargo thinks this one asset may be ‘the next big play’ — for nervous investors, it could also serve as a much-needed safe haven According to Wells Fargo, the rest of 2022 looks good for the price of gold. Thanks to hot inflation, geopolitical uncertainty and a crashing stock market, the banking giant sees gold as the next big opportunity for investors — particularly in relation to bitcoin. “On the store-of-value front, bitcoin has been getting much of the attention lately, but we… Source link

Disney (DIS) reported second quarter financial results after the bell on Wednesday that missed on both the top and bottom lines, although net additions for its fledging streaming platform Disney+ came in at 7.9 million, well above estimates of 4.5 million. The surprise upswing caused shares to climb as much as 5% in after-hours trading; however, Disney quickly erased those gains during the company’s earnings call in which CFO Christine McCarthy warned on both a tough economic environment as… Source link

Joel Embiid and the Sixers hope to push the series back to Miami for a Game 7. The home team has dominated, winning every game in both these two series. The Game 5s were particularly ugly, with Phoenix and Miami winning by a combined 65 points. We’re hoping that these games are closer because that led to one of the lowest-scoring slates of the season on Tuesday. Injury Report Core Plays Joel Embiid (C – PHI): $48 Embiid looked disinterested in Game 5, but there’s no way that’ll… Source link

The NFL’s highest-priced pickups this offseason weren’t all laser-armed quarterbacks, explosive edge rushers or dynamic receivers. Some of the sport’s signature voices have landed more lucrative television contracts than all but the NFL’s most well-paid players. With newcomer Amazon needing to make a splash after acquiring the rights to “Thursday Night Football” and ESPN eager to add badly needed star power to its Monday night booth, two deep-pocketed suitors accelerated the… Source link

Rivian (RIVN) shares are popping today, a small respite for the electric adventure vehicle maker’s investors, following the release of its first quarter financial results. Although the company reported a revenue miss for the quarter ($95 million vs $131.2 million expected), it did post a narrower EPS loss than the Street was expecting on an adjusted basis ($1.43 loss vs 1.45 loss expected). While Rivian reaffirmed its production forecast of 25,000 vehicles for the year, reported over 90,000… Source link

PHILADELPHIA — Lightning-quick Sixers guard Tyrese Maxey has already established himself as one of the elite sprinters and transition bucket-getters in the league. But the second-year guard isn’t too quick to forgive the teams that passed him by in the 2020 NBA draft. And one of the teams he thought would select him is the team he’s facing now in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs with a must-win Game 6 for the 76ers at 7 p.m. ET Thursday. “I thought Miami would take… Source link

Associated Press Review: ‘Top Gun’ sequel a welcome trip to the danger zone More than 30 years after Cruise smirked his way to the cocky heights of the ’80s as the maverick Navy pilot codenamed Maverick, he effortlessly picks up the character in a new chapter of “Top Gun” that is an absolutely, thoroughly enjoyable ride — a textbook example of how to make a sequel. “Top Gun: Maverick” satisfies with one foot in the past by hitting all the touchstones of the first film — fast… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Today’s newsletter is by Ethan Wolff-Mann, a senior writer. Follow him on Twitter @ewolffmann. The chorus of those wanting a weaker labor market is getting louder and louder. After the recent job numbers were released last week, Bank of America analysts said in a note they are essentially “rooting against the home team” and hope the numbers stop… Source link