Earnings season is heating up this week. Even with one fewer trading day as markets are closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday, investors will come back from the holiday weekend to a prolific lineup of fourth quarter reports from market heavyweights such as Goldman Sachs (GS), Proctor & Gamble (PG), Netflix (NFLX) and United Airlines (UAL). The period kicked off in earnest last week with lackluster results from major U.S. banks. JPMorgan (JPM), Wells Fargo (WFC), and… Source link
Read More »Seven playoff teams = too much football?
Coming into this past weekend, we only had 13 NFL games left until September, so complaining about any of them seems a little ungrateful. But let’s be honest … several of the allegedly “super” wild-card matchups in the NFL playoffs stunk like those Thanksgiving leftovers you just discovered in the back of the fridge. Sure, two of the games came down to the last possession. But two others were all but unwatchable from the jump. The Bucs and Bills hung a combined 58 points – Tampa Bay 31,… Source link
Read More »Jake Gyllenhaal and Guy Ritchie thriller to double Spain for Afghanistan
Guy Ritchie’s new action thriller, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is set to shoot in Alicante, Spain later this month, doubling it for Afghanistan. The Amazon film centres on Sergent John Kinley (Gyllenhall) and local interpreter Ahmed who are the remaining survivors of an ambush during a patrol in Afghanistan. After Ahmed has carried injured Kinely to safety with the local militias on their tail, Ahmed and his family are denied access to the US as promised. Kinley returns to the warzone with… Source link
Read More »Google Honors Betty White on Her 100th Birthday with Rosy Tribute
Betty White would’ve turned 100 Monday, and Google is honoring the TV legend in a unique way. When you type her name into the search engine, rose petals flutter on the screen, along with a message that reads, “Thank you for being a friend.” It’s a tribute to her role as Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls,” whose legendary theme song includes the well-known and oft-repeated line, “Thank you for being a friend.” Google shows its love for Betty White on her 100th birthday.Via Google
Read More »China bans public from attending events
China will not permit ticket sales to any individuals at the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games, a move Olympic officials say is designed to prevent COVID-19 spread within the country. The decision, which comes weeks before thousands of international athletes and officials are slated to arrive in China for the Olympics, is a sharp departure from previous plans to allow Chinese citizens into the events. Chinese Olympic officials had decided in September that no international visitors would… Source link
Read More »Make dropped pins more accurate in Google Maps with these tips
QUESTION: What can I do to make dropped pins more accurate in Google Maps? ANSWER: Dropped pins — which is done by pressing on any point in a map view — are very helpful for locations that don’t have a physical address, such as a remote hiking area or in regions of the world that don’t have physical addresses displayed on every building. Google has invested heavily in developing Google Maps, but it can only be as accurate as you and your device will let it. Precise Location Setting The… Source link
Read More »Check your bank statements as bogus Google charges continue
PHOENIX — Why are bogus Google charges still ending up on credit card accounts across the country? What’s being done about it? We’ve been asking Google and the banks for months. Yet, the scam continues affecting more people. And some of them say they’re having a hard time getting these fake charges removed. “I looked at the balance and was like ‘what’,” says Jeannine Gailey. It’s her Citibank card balance and it’s much higher than what she expected. “I knew I hadn’t spent much money… As I… Source link
Read More »Dak Prescott’s postgame blunder was even worse than squandering the clock
Dak Prescott should be ashamed of himself – and not because of the errors in judgment that squandered the final seconds off the clock in the wild-card playoff loss that ended the season for the NFL’s biggest tease, the Dallas Cowboys. No, the Cowboys quarterback ought to check himself for suggesting that frustrated fans at Jerry World were in the right for dangerously hurling trash at the officials who called it like they saw it. “Credit to them,” Prescott said during his postgame news… Source link
Read More »Russia fines Google for not deleting banned content
Letters spell the word “Alphabet” as they are seen on a computer screen with a Google search page in this photo illustration taken in Paris, France, August 11, 2015. REUTERS/Pascal Rossignol MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) – A Moscow court on Monday said it had ordered Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O) to pay 4 million roubles ($52,526) for not removing access to content banned in Russia, the latest in a string of fines for the U.S. tech giant. Russia upped the ante late last year in its efforts to… Source link
Read More »Refs a factor in Cowboys & Raiders losses while Bills, Chiefs & Bucs dominate
Five of the six Wild Card games are in the books, and they certainly did not finish without controversy. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab recap the five weekend games from 2022’s Wild Card slate, opening with the Dallas Cowboys‘ 23-17 loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Were the referees really at fault for the timing of the final play? Should Mike McCarthy lose his job for this playoff collapse? Can the SF run game be Green Bay’s achilles heel in the second round? Charles & Frank discuss it… Source link
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