Cameron Smith wins The Players Championship

Thanks to a pair of huge birdie runs, and a clutch shot at the island green, Cameron Smith walked off TPC Sawgrass a winner on Monday afternoon. Smith posted a 6-under 66 in his final round in a rare Monday finish on the PGA Tour to win The Players Championship, marking his biggest win to date and his second so far this season. Smith took home $3.6 million with the win, which was part of a $20 million purse for the tournament — the largest in the history of the Tour. “It’s unreal. A long,… Source link

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Google employees growing unhappy with pay and promotions, survey shows

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos. Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images As Google prepares to bring most employees back to the office, the company is facing a workforce that’s increasingly unhappy when it comes to key issues such as compensation and an ability to meet career goals. Google‘s annual employee surveys, internally called “Googlegeist,” show that a growing number of staffers don’t view their pay packages as fair… Source link

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Lawsuit claims Google’s ‘Order Online’ button directs customers away from restaurants’ sites

Google is facing a lawsuit from a Florida restaurant chain owner that accuses the company of directing users to “unauthorized” Google-branded food ordering webpages, where it uses restaurants names “without their approval,” as first reported by Ars Technica. A copy of the lawsuit alleges Google employs “bait-and-switch” tactics by placing its “Order Online” button at the top of restaurants’ profile panels on the search engine. The large blue button redirects users to a

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‘The Bond King’ author retells the rise and fall of Bill Gross

Nicknamed “the Bond King” by Fortune Magazine in 2002, Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) founder Bill Gross made both a name and a very profitable empire managing bond funds. At the height of his career, Gross earned over $300 million in net returns and had accumulated almost $500 billion in assets. Then it all came tumbling down. Gross stepped down from PIMCO following a widely-publicized internal conflict between him and fellow chief executive Mohamed A. El-Erian. More… Source link

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FOMC preview: The tightening begins this week – Yahoo Finance

On Wednesday the Federal Reserve will likely take the first steps in paring back its stimulus — by raising interest rates for the first time since the global pandemic began. High inflation makes it a near certainty that the central bank will move to “tighten” its policies of printing money, by raising the target federal funds rate (the benchmark for short-term interest rates) by 0.25%. The uncertainty for Fed policy lies in how aggressive the central bank will move after the first… Source link

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Ford to sell Explorer SUVs missing rear climate controls due to chip crunch

Ford (F) is taking an unusual approach to battle the ongoing semiconductor crunch afflicting global automakers — doing without them, for the time being. “We are working as hard as we can and offering ways for our customers to get their vehicles sooner during the global semiconductor shortage … Beginning soon, we will offer customers a way to get their Explorer more quickly, too, thanks to a specification change that will keep rear seat heating/air conditioning auxiliary controls up… Source link

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Fallout from Ukraine invasion could last for years

WASHINGTON — When he invaded Ukraine, Vladimir Putin almost certainly expected a quick, decisive conquest that would restore the Kremlin’s influence in Eastern Europe and burnish his own status as a Russian leader on par with Peter and Catherine the Great. Weeks later, Russia is a hobbled pariah, while the dogged Ukrainian resistance — led by charismatic President Volodymyr Zelensky — has attained admiration in much of the world. There is little doubt that the Russian army has the… Source link

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Fernando Tatis Jr.’s wrist injury alters fantasy draft value

Awful news broke Monday that Fernando Tatis Jr. fractured his wrist during the offseason and is likely to undergo surgery that will cost him up to three months. Tatis was going No. 1 overall in Yahoo fantasy drafts, but that honor now falls to Trea Turner. Tatis already had an ongoing shoulder concern and reportedly injured his wrist earlier in the offseason, which flared up again when he began to swing a few weeks back. Unfortunately for fantasy managers, MLB players and owners were not… Source link

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