Twitter sent employees an email Thursday notifying them that layoffs would begin on Friday morning, according to multiple news reports including The New York Times. The email told employees not to come into the office on Friday as the layoffs begin. The cuts will affect roughly half of Twitter’s workforce, according to The Times, which cited an investor and internal messages. “In an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path, we will go through the difficult process of reducing our global… Source link
Read More »Nets suspend Kyrie Irving 5 games after PG doesn’t apologize for posting antisemitic video
The Brooklyn Nets have suspended Kyrie Irving five games without pay, the team announced Thursday, after a turbulent week in which the All-Star posted a link to an antisemitic video on Twitter and declined to apologize. After reportedly spending the last several days trying to help Irving understand the film contained “deeply disturbing antisemitic hate,” the Nets said they were “dismayed” Irving had failed to say he holds no antisemitic beliefs when asked on Thursday and such a failure made… Source link
Read More »Nets suspend Kyrie Irving 5 games after PG doesn’t apologize for posting antisemitic video
The Brooklyn Nets have suspended Kyrie Irving five games without pay, the team announced Thursday, after a turbulent week in which the All-Star posted a link to an antisemitic video on Twitter and declined to apologize. After reportedly spending the last several days trying to help Irving understand the film contained “deeply disturbing antisemitic hate,” the Nets said they were “dismayed” Irving had failed to say he holds no antisemitic beliefs when asked on Thursday and such a failure made… Source link
Read More »Warner Bros. Discovery, Starbucks, PayPal and more
Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD): Shares fell 2% in extended trading after the company’s revenue and subscriber growth fell short. Sales for the quarter totaled $9.82 billion, weighed down by a slowdown in advertising. WBD swung to a loss of $2.31 billion, compared to net income of $156 million a year ago. HBO, HBOMax and Discovery+ added 2.8 million subscribers during the quarter, missing the street’s estimates despite the success of its “Game of Thrones” spinoff. Starbucks (SBUX): The… Source link
Read More »Google Workspace moving away from unlimited free storage in January
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State’s free Google Workspace for Education accounts will no longer support unlimited storage beginning in January. Instead, the University will be allocated a shared storage pool for all users. This change is being driven by Google, which is eliminating the unlimited free storage. In preparation for the reduced storage capacity, the Penn State IT Office 365 team has been working with Google Drive power users to help reduce the volume of their stored data. The… Source link
Read More »Stocks tumble after Powell’s slower but higher cues
U.S. stocks fell lower Thursday as Wall Street reeled from assertions by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell that hopes for a policy pivot were “premature” after the central bank delivered a fourth consecutive interest rate hike of 75 basis points. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) sank 1.1% after the index plunged 2.5% in the previous session, its worst loss on a Fed day since January 2021, per Bloomberg data. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) shed 150 points, or 0.5%, and the technology-focused… Source link
Read More »Tinuiti Wins Google Premier Partner of the Year Award in International Growth
Tinuiti, a Premier Google Partner, takes home top industry award for leading brands into new global markets and driving successful international expansion NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Tinuiti, the largest independent performance marketing firm across Streaming TV and the Triopoly of Google, Meta, Amazon, today announced it has won the Google Premier Partner of the Year Award in International Growth. Tinuiti Wins Google Premier Partner of the Year Award in International… Source link
Read More »5-star prospects Rob Dillingham, A.J. Johnson from Kanye West’s Donda Academy transfer, leaving program in shambles
In October 2021, Kanye West launched Donda Sports Academy and it quickly became an elite high school prep basketball team that was playing in top tournaments and showcases around the country. Five-star prospects Rob Dillingham and Zion Cruz were the first high-major prospects to join the team and soon others followed. West — also known as Ye — showed up periodically throughout the season and would sit courtside watching his young squad. Fast forward one year and West’s venture into the… Source link
Read More »World Series Game 5 Picks
This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. Cristian Javier put forth a masterful performance against the Phillies in Game 4, evening up the World Series at two games apiece. Now a pivotal Game 5 brings a matchup between Justin Verlander and Noah Syndergaard. Verlander did not pitch well in Game 1, allowing five runs across five innings. Syndergaard was originally scheduled to pitch Game 3, but a rainout gave the Phillies an opportunity to rework their rotation, and they… Source link
Read More »UN Reports ‘Progress’ on Talks to Allow Russian Fertilizer Exports
Negotiations underway to unblock exports of fertilizer from Russia have made “important steps forward,” one of the main United Nations negotiators said on Thursday, while acknowledging that there was still a way to go. Russian grain and fertilizer exports continue to face issues over sanctions imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, despite two agreements signed on Jul. 22 that called for sanctions to spare agriculture-related products and grant safe passage for Ukrainian… Source link
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