A’s president apologizes for low quality minor league food

Oakland A’s president Dave Kaval has apologized for the quality of food served to the organization’s minor league players. Kaval issued the apology Tuesday night after photos players posted went viral on social media, drawing comparisons to the infamous “Fyre Festival” meals that were panned in a pair of 2019 documentaries.  The Twitter account for Advocates for Minor Leaguers called out the A’s for meals featuring a sandwich with a single slice of processed cheese and a sparsely filled… Source link

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Mohamed Sanu steps up with 49ers missing wideouts

Sanu steps up with 49ers missing plenty of wideouts at OTAs originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea SANTA CLARA — Five wide receivers who should win spots on the 53-man roster were not on the practice field Wednesday during the 49ers’ second week of organized activities. The shortage of available pass-catchers left the door open for the most-experienced receiver on the 90-man roster to see a lot of action come his way. Brandon Aiyuk (groin), Richie James (hamstring) and Travis Benjamin… Source link

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Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team – TechCrunch

Almost exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take over the lead of Search, Assistant and Maps. Now, sources familiar with the hiring tell us, the company has hired Christopher Phillips, who was previously the chief product and technology officer at SiriusXM, to lead its geo team, which is responsible for products like Google Maps, Google Earth and Google Maps Platform, the company’s… Source link

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AMC Is Now Worth More Than Half the Companies in the S&P 500

(Bloomberg) — The moonshot surge in the shares of AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. has vaulted it into the ranks of some of the world’s most valuable companies. The company has gone from a small cap to a large cap in the space of a few months. A 95% gain amid a retail-trading frenzy on Wednesday left the movie-theater chain with a market capitalization of $31.3 billion. That makes it more valuable than half of the companies in the S&P 500 Index. AMC is now worth more than Tyson Foods Inc…. Source link

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Stock futures drift higher ahead of jobs data

TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 7%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Let’s talk about defending your portfolio. It’s a common impulse for most investors, when the economy starts to turn sour. We’re in a growth phase now, with economic activity rebounding strongly from the corona-crisis shutdowns, and with reopening getting into full stride, economists are predicting up to 8% GDP expansion this year. But there are clouds on the horizon. Inflation is rising, and the April jobs report was,… Source link

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Elon Musk’s reputation hits low on Twitter after attacking bitcoin

Elon Musk’s repeated criticisms of bitcoin (BTC-USD) appear to have come at a cost — at least when you look at how people are feeling about him on Twitter. According to data from sentiment tracking company Awario shared exclusively with Yahoo Finance, the positive-to-negative sentiment of tweets about Musk reached a new low in May, falling significantly around the same time cryptocurrency prices plunged after Musk started criticizing bitcoin and announced Tesla would no longer accept it as… Source link

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Google Tightens ‘Limit Ad Tracking’ Policies For Android Ad ID

Google will zero out the Android Advertising ID – literally – when users have opted out of personalized advertising starting later this year. The company notified mobile developers Thursday about the switch. Currently, users who have opted out of tracking and personalized advertising are still tagged by the Android ID when they open an app, since that ID is used for non-advertising use cases such as attribution, analytics and fraud detection. But beginning later this year, the… Source link

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Offering free childcare and beer, Biden makes renewed push for July 4 vaccination goal

WASHINGTON — With just over a month left for the White House to reach its goal of having 70 percent of Americans either fully or partially vaccinated by the July 4 holiday, President Biden announced new measures to galvanize the nationwide inoculation effort. June will be a “national month of action,” the president said, with some pharmacies remaining open all night on Fridays to administer shots and childcare centers waiving fees for parents going for their vaccinations. “America is… Source link

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Federal Reserve to begin winding down corporate bond holdings

TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 7%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Let’s talk about defending your portfolio. It’s a common impulse for most investors, when the economy starts to turn sour. We’re in a growth phase now, with economic activity rebounding strongly from the corona-crisis shutdowns, and with reopening getting into full stride, economists are predicting up to 8% GDP expansion this year. But there are clouds on the horizon. Inflation is rising, and the April jobs report was,… Source link

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