Wall Street seems to love this comeback story. Disney (DIS) stock soared early Monday, rising as much as 9% in early trading, after the media giant announced that former CEO Bob Iger will return to lead the company as its chief executive officer, effective immediately. Iger replaces Bob Chapek, who has stepped down from his position after less than three years on the job. Wall Street analysts, at first glance, appear optimistic the decision will improve the fortunes for a stock that has lagged… Source link
Read More »Here’s how Elizabeth Holmes may try to avoid prison as long as possible
Elizabeth Holmes has at least one more opportunity to stay out of prison after a judge on Friday sentenced the once-aspiring biotech entrepreneur to 11 years and three months behind bars for defrauding a group of investors in her collapsed blood-testing startup, Theranos. Holmes’ freedom is dependent upon an expected appeal of her case, which her lawyers must file within two weeks. Once an appeal is filed, Holmes can request to remain out of custody while her appeal is considered by the 9th… Source link
Read More »Yahoo’s Cookieless Identity Solution, Yahoo ConnectID, Continues to Gain Rapid, Strong Industry Support
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Yahoo today announced the continued scale of its cookieless identity solution, Yahoo ConnectID, with five new interoperability partnerships, including Annalect’s Omni ID, Alliant, AdPredictive, ShareThis, and Tealium. The new partners will now support Yahoo ConnectID as advertisers and publishers seek a privacy-first solution to driving campaign personalization, performance and measurement. “Two industry changes are accelerating adoption of Yahoo… Source link
Read More »Your Google Searches Are Quietly Evolving. Here’s What’s Next
Changes to the way Google handles search rankings are intended to push up content from real people, not content farms optimizing content for search engines, and that works in tandem with other efforts like improving results for product-review pages, Sullivan says. Not that there’s anything wrong with SEO, the practice of optimizing web pages so they’ll rank higher in search engines. “It helps us locate and understand relevant content,” Sullivan says, “SEO isn’t some special method… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Single-Game Preview for Poland vs. Mexico
Tuesday’s single-game Yahoo slate features a matchup between Poland and Mexico which could be vital for either team’s chances at reaching the knockout stage alongside group favorite Argentina. For detailed stats and odds, check out the Yahoo Fantasy Soccer: Mexico vs Poland Cheat Sheet CASH GAME STRATEGY He’s expensive, but with goals being worth eight points on Yahoo, it’s hard to ignore Robert Lewandowski ($32) as your superstar for Tuesday’s match. He has the best odds to score at +140, with… Source link
Read More »Twitter is imploding. What if digital tools like maps and Google suffered a similar fate?
Instead of providing the most direct route, your maps app routes you by a company’s advertisers on the way to your destination. An apps store is littered with malware and scams. A trusted search engine refuses to return results for competitors’ products. If that kind of digital apocalypse seems like a paranoid fantasy, maybe you haven’t been paying attention to what’s been going on at Twitter, where the implosion of the blue-check system as we know it has made it nearly impossible to… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Hockey: Monday Picks
This Thanksgiving week, the NHL is all over the place schedule wise, with days either having only a couple – or no – games, or being packed to the brim. Monday, fortunately, is the latter. There are 10 games on the slate. Here are some players to target, and to avoid, for your DFS lineups. GOALIE Juuse Saros, NAS vs. ARI ($25): Saros’ numbers are surprising, given that he came into this season with a career .920 save percentage. However, over his last six games the Finn has a .916 save… Source link
Read More »Stocks waver to start holiday-shortened week
U.S. stocks were mixed at Monday’s open as Wall Street barreled into a holiday-shortened trading week. Equity and bond markets will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday and end trading at 1 p.m. ET on Friday. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) sank 0.2%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) added roughly 80 points, or 0.3%. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) declined 0.4%. Shares of Disney (DIS) roared 9% to start the day after the media giant made a surprise announcement late Sunday… Source link
Read More »Stock market news live updates: November 21, 2022
U.S. stock futures pulled back in early trading Monday as Wall Street barreled into a holiday-shortened trading week. Equity and bond markets will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday and end trading at 1 p.m. ET on Friday. Futures tied to the S&P 500 (^GSPC) sank 0.5%, while futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) fell 80 points, or 0.2%. Contracts on the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) declined 0.8%. Shares of Disney (DIS) roared 9% pre-market after the media giant made… Source link
Read More »Russia’s Yandex to open a development centre in Serbia – Jobs for 800 people
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic met with the representatives of the Russian IT company Yandex, which announced the opening of the company’s development centre in Serbia, which will employ over 800 engineers who will work on the latest IT solutions, the Government of Serbia has announced. At the meeting with the Yandex delegation, led by the head of the international policy department Maksim Kozlov, it was… Source link
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