Google strikes $98 million deal with French publishers, leaving independent media angered

Google has agreed to pay $US76 million ($98 million) over three years to a group of 121 French news publishers to end a more than year-long copyright spat, documents show. Key points: Agence France-Press and other media outlets are angry about the deal which they say is unfair and opaque Australia is seeking to impose a digital media code of conduct that would force Google to pay for news Under the French deal publishers will have to sign up for the Google News Showcase platform, recently… Source link

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Yahoo DFS Basketball: Saturday Picks

Saturday slates tend to be big ones, but this one is tiny for some reason. We have just five games in total, with four fixtures making up the night slate. The different play styles in these matchups are fascinating, though. We have a Brooklyn-Golden State game that could be one of the highest-scoring games of the season, while the New York-Houston and Utah-Miami matchups could be defensive struggles. With all that in mind, let’s get into it! Guards Stephen Curry, GS vs. BKN ($48) Can anyone… Source link

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Biden’s plan to make nice with Big Oil

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

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Google to provide 100,000 Black women with career, digital skills training

article Google is helping 100,000 women of color impacted by unemployment by teaming up with organizations like The Links Inc., a non-profit volunteer service. (Courtesy of Google) Google is aiming to help the employment crisis women of color continue to face during the pandemic. The tech giant on Friday announced an initiative to provide 100,000 Black women with career development and digital skills training by spring 2022. During the COVID-19 pandemic, women have accounted for 56% of… Source link

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Why this bitcoin-owning senator wants Elon Musk to move to Wyoming – Yahoo Finance

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

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Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm Protest Nvidia’s Acquisition of Arm Ltd. – Yahoo Finance

Bloomberg A Crypto Kid Had a $23,000-a-Month Condo. Then the Feds Came (Bloomberg) — Stefan Qin was just 19 when he claimed to have the secret to cryptocurrency trading.Buoyed with youthful confidence, Qin, a self-proclaimed math prodigy from Australia, dropped out of college in 2016 to start a hedge fund in New York he called Virgil Capital. He told potential clients he had developed an algorithm called Tenjin to monitor cryptocurrency exchanges around the world to seize on price… Source link

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Google My Business & Local SEO in 2021 [Podcast]

On today’s Search Engine Journal Show LIVE, Loren Baker and Greg Gifford will be going over what’s important and what’s changing for Google My Business and Local Search in 2021. First off, they discuss the recent add-ons for Google My Business for auto dealers when it comes to inventory. Second, the ability to sync Google My Business and Google Merchant Center to highlight products available at different locations. Then they get deeper into things like Service Areas, safety precautions,… Source link

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Yahoo! Sports lists 2 potential NFC North landing spots for JJ Watt

By nearly every measurable metric, 2020 was the worst year on record for basically anyone who isn’t an immortal. Between COVID’s impact on the lives of far too many people, to the economic fallout inherent when you have zero federal oversight or assistance (I’m not pushing my political beliefs, rather parroting the reality of a situation in which hospitals and states had to compete with one another for life saving equipment), to the even more unshakeable and annoying virus… Source link

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Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports

Live stream will be available after this brief ad from our sponsors February 12, 2021 Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports This week on the Gridiron and Beyond, Bob Socci sits down with Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports. They discuss the messages Tom Brady sent to his new teammates in Tampa Bay. Why NFL owners continue to overlook qualified candidates of… Source link

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CDC to unveil school reopening guidance; U.S. purchases 200 million more vaccine doses

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unveiled a centralized school reopening plan Friday that includes safety and mitigation practices such as physical distancing and masking, as well as using new measures such as “podding.” Podding includes keeping the same students together (as in a pod) to reduce students’ possible exposure to the virus. But questions about access to critical resources like better ventilation, testing and masks, remain unanswered. During a press… Source link

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