Bloomberg Melvin Capital Dusts Off From GameStop Fiasco With 22% Gain (Bloomberg) — Gabe Plotkin spent the first half of January defending his hedge fund’s portfolio from a Reddit mob, the second half trying to convince investors he can survive a 53% loss, and early February explaining to Congress what happened.Now with the public spectacle subsiding, the most concrete sign is emerging yet that his Melvin Capital Management might actually manage to thrive anew. After adjusting strategy,… Source link
Read More »Pacers guard, ex-Sixer T.J. McConnell sets insane NBA record in one half
Ex-Sixers fan fave T.J. McConnell sets insane NBA record originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia Former Sixers cult hero and current Indiana Pacers guard T.J. McConnell is known for his pesky style of play and his penchant for forcing turnovers in the backcourt. He’s the guy you love to have on your team and hate to play against. And now he owns a truly wild NBA record. McConnell racked up nine – NINE – steals in the first half of Wednesday night’s game against the Cavaliers, setting a… Source link
Read More »Joe Montana admits Tom Brady is the NFL’s GOAT
There was plenty to take away from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ Super Bowl championship last month, but by far the loudest story to emerge from Tampa was the further solidification of Tom Brady‘s legacy. By winning a title under a coach not named Bill Belichick, Brady removed what would have been one of the biggest counterarguments against his status as the NFL’s consensus greatest of all time had he retired with the New England Patriots. Brady now has seven rings with two different teams, five… Source link
Read More »Google On How to Use Search Console’s Crawl Stats Report
What is Web Crawling? What is the Search Console Crawl Stats Report? How to Access the Crawl Stats Report In Summary Google Search Console’s new crawl stats report is thoroughly explained by Search Advocate Daniel Waisberg in a new training video. The crawl stats report in Search Console received a major update a few months ago. If you haven’t had a chance to look at the new report, now is a good time to get familiar with all the insights that have been added. Google’s new video breaks down… Source link
Read More »Philadelphia Fed President Patrick Harker speaks with Yahoo Finance [Transcript]
Patrick Harker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, spoke with Yahoo Finance to discuss challenges to the labor market and where Fed policy is headed next. Below is a transcript of his appearance on March 3, 2021. – BRIAN CHEUNG: Well thank you so much for joining us this afternoon, President Harker. I just want to start off the conversation with broadly speaking, how is the vaccine rollout going in your district? And what do you have as an updated economic outlook as we… Source link
Read More »Google’s User-Tracking Crackdown Has Advertisers Bracing for Change
A move by Google to rein in tracking of web users drew mixed reviews in the ad world, with some executives expressing cautious optimism the change will be good for consumers and others worrying it will increase the tech giant’s industry stranglehold. The Alphabet Inc. GOOG -2.37% company announced Wednesday that its ad tools would no longer support individual tracking of users across websites starting in 2022. Taken with a similar… Source link
Read More »Your next stimulus check may be in jeopardy now
Your next stimulus check may be in jeopardy now Congress is moving toward another big vote on the third round of stimulus checks, for up to $1,400. But a new compromise could keep you from getting a payment this time. President Joe Biden has reportedly OK’d a plan from Senate Democrats to change the eligibility rules, to “target” the stimulus checks away from Americans with higher incomes. That means millions of previous recipients wouldn’t get cash in the new go-round. Senate Majority Leader… Source link
Read More »Daily Crunch: Google swears off ad-tracking
Google says it’s focusing on privacy-friendly approaches to ad targeting, Okta acquires Auth0 and a flying taxi startup raises $241 million. This is your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2021. The big story: Google swears off ad-tracking While Google had already announced it would be phasing out support for third-party cookies in Chrome, it went further today by declaring that “once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across… Source link
Read More »White Sox unlikely to carry three catchers, highlighting backup battle
Three catchers unlikely for Sox, highlighting backup battle originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago As Tony La Russa and White Sox pitchers keep raving about the job every catcher in camp is doing, the idea of carrying three backstops isn’t a crazy one. But it doesn’t sound like that will be happening. “There is a lot of catching talent in this camp,” La Russa said before Wednesday’s spring game, a 6-5 loss to the Kansas City Royals. “Because of the quality of that talent, we thought about… Source link
Read More »Google’s FLoC Is a Terrible Idea
The third-party cookie is dying, and Google is trying to create its replacement. No one should mourn the death of the cookie as we know it. For more than two decades, the third-party cookie has been the lynchpin in a shadowy, seedy, multi-billion dollar advertising-surveillance industry on the Web; phasing out tracking cookies and other persistent third-party identifiers is long overdue. However, as the foundations shift beneath the advertising industry, its biggest players are determined to… Source link
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