Week 14 was a mix of blowouts and down-to-the-wire games. Unfortunately, like most weeks this season, injuries played a big part in a lot of Sunday’s outcomes. Today, we are going to touch on all this and more. Here are my takeaways from Week 14. King Kamara King Kamara, we have missed you so. Our liege, Alvin Kamara, finally returned in Week 14 after missing four games due to a knee injury. Prior to getting injured, he was fifth in receiving yards per game (39), fourth in receiving touchdowns… Source link
Read More »Former NFL CB Phillip Adams had ‘severe’ CTE when he allegedly killed 6 people and himself
Phillip Adams, a former NFL cornerback who was accused of shooting six people to death before killing himself in April, had “unusually severe” chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative brain disease associated with head trauma and concussions. The results of Adams’ brain examination were announced Tuesday by Dr. Anne McKee, a neuropathologist who serves as director of Boston University’s CTE Center. She compared Adams’ brain to the brain of Aaron Hernandez, the former New… Source link
Read More »Google Calendar update prevents unwanted invitation spam
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Read More »Apple and Google’s mobile duopoly likely to face UK antitrust action – TechCrunch
The U.K.’s antitrust watchdog has given the clearest signal yet that interventions under an upcoming reform of the country’s competition rules will target tech giants Apple and Google — including their duopolistic command of the mobile market, via iOS and Android; their respective app stores; and the browsers and services bundled with mobile devices running their OSes. So it could mean good news for third-party developers trying to get oxygen for alternatives to dominant Apple and… Source link
Read More »Matt LaFleur was great hire for Packers
The highest winning percentage of any coach with at least 50 NFL games belongs to Guy Chamberlin, who won .784 percent of his games from 1922-27. John Madden is the modern-era leader at .759. Only four coaches ever are over 70 percent. Matt LaFleur’s winning percentage sits at .800 through 45 games. After the Arizona Cardinals‘ loss on Monday night, LaFleur also leads the team that owns the No. 1 seed in the NFC with four games to go. He has been really good. When we talk about the Green… Source link
Read More »Apple, Google Hold ‘Vise-Like Grip’ on Smartphones, U.K. Regulator Says
LONDON— Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google hold a “vise-like grip” over how people use mobile devices, Britain’s antitrust regulator said Tuesday, and said it was assessing whether it would try to loosen what it said was their control over smartphone ecosystems. The preliminary report is among several, nonbinding research efforts by the U.K. and other antitrust regulators in Europe into… Source link
Read More »Omicron variant and threat of higher interest rates cause investors to hoard cash: BofA
While traders are making bank chasing Apple to a $3 trillion market cap, many in the market are adding cash to their accounts amid heightened concerns around the Omicron variant and a more hawkish Federal Reserve. Bank of America’s monthly fund manager survey out Tuesday found cash allocation among investors surged 14 percentage points in December from November. Fund managers were net 36% overweight cash, the highest allocation to the asset class since May 2020. Besides cash, investors also… Source link
Read More »Apple, Google have ‘vice-like grip’ over mobile devices, U.K. regulator says
The U.K. competition regulator said Tuesday that its interim report has found that a duopoly of Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google limits competition and choice, and that the firms are “exercising a vice-like grip” over mobile devices. The Competition and Markets Authority said its report into mobile ecosystems suggests users are losing out because of the companies’ control. It had launched a probe in June over concerns that Apple AAPL, -2.07% … Source link
Read More »Google-backed neobank Open acquires Finin for $10 million – TechCrunch
Open has acquired consumer neo-banking startup Finin for $10 million as the Bangalore-based, Google-backed business-focused neobanking platform looks to broaden its offerings and deepen relationships with banks. The deal involves both cash and stock, the two said. Launched in 2019, Finin is among the first consumer-focused neobanking startups in India. The startup, which had raised about $1 million from Unicorn India Ventures and others, will see key executives… Source link
Read More »UK regulator says Google and Apple have ‘vice-like’ grip on consumers
LONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) – Google (GOOGL.O) and Apple (AAPL.O)hold a “vice-like” grip over how people use mobile phones, stripping any meaningful choice from the system for customers, Britain’s competition regulator said on Tuesday. The Competition and Markets Authority said it had provisionally found that the two groups were able to leverage their market power to create largely self-contained ecosystems. An ability to determine which apps are available on their systems could also lead to… Source link
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