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Injuries hit hard over the weekend Luis Robert landed on the IL with a hip strain. He’s batting .316 but otherwise off to a relatively slow start. Still, a lengthy loss of Robert would be crushing to fantasy managers. Outfield replacements could include Tyler O’Neill (29% rostered) in shallow leagues and Mike Tauchman (3%) in deeper formats. Dustin May is set for an MRI on Monday after leaving Saturday’s start with a “shooting sensation” through his right arm. This is brutal, as May… Source link

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Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL businesses to Apollo for $5 billion

Website pages from Yahoo! Inc., left, and AOL Inc. are displayed on a computer monitor. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Verizon will sell its media group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion, the companies announced Monday. The sale allows Verizon to offload properties from the former internet empires of AOL and Yahoo. Verizon will keep a 10% stake in the company and it will be rebranded to just Yahoo. The sale will see online media brands under the former… Source link

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Dogecoin Now Valued Higher than Twitter and Ford

TipRanks Ride the Crypto Boom with These 3 Stocks Some 15% of the American public owns some form of cryptocurrency – and a large part of that group jumped on the bandwagon in the last two years. The digital currencies – Bitcoin is the most famous, but there are scores of others – offer users a distinct set of advantages, based on their blockchain technology. First, the crypto coins are secure – as a digital technology, blockchain is notoriously difficult to break. Second, the coins… Source link

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This Chinese Battery Company Has Produced More Billionaires Than Google Or Facebook

Robin Zeng, founder and chairman of Contemporary Amperex Technology. (Photo by Paul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images) picture alliance via Getty Images A little known but fast growing Chinese maker of batteries for electric vehicles now has more billionaires on Forbes’ list than just about any other public company. A whopping nine billionaires have fortunes of $1 billion or more based on their stakes in Contemporary Amperex Technology (known as CATL). Shares of the firm,… Source link

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Buffett calls SPACs ‘a killer,’ says they hurt Berkshire’s ability to do deals

Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) CEO Warren Buffett has strong feelings on his competition from SPACs when it comes to Berkshire Hathaway’s dealmaking ability. “It’s a killer,” he said at the 2021 Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholders meeting. A SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company (also called a blank check company), goes public without a business plan. The SPAC manager will conduct due diligence on any number of privately-held enterprises to find a candidate. But if one cannot be… Source link

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Verizon sells AOL and Yahoo for about half of what it paid

Verizon has sold its AOL and Yahoo properties to Apollo Global Management in a deal said to be worth $5 billion, about half of the nearly $9 billion Verizon originally paid for the pair. Verizon will maintain a 10 percent stake in the company, now known as Yahoo and led by CEO Guru Gowrappan. The deal, which includes Verizon’s ad tech business, was heavily rumored over the last week and is still subject to closing conditions. Once complete, it’ll bring an end to Verizon’s troubled… Source link

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