NFL free agency begins Wednesday at 4 p.m. Eastern time. And if you’ve been off the NFL grid for two days, that official start will be more exciting than it really is. The NFL’s so-called legal tampering period started Monday and there was a frenzy to lock up the top free agents. By the time Wednesday rolled around, 17 of the 25 free agents from Yahoo Sports’ top 25 on Monday had agreed to deals. That doesn’t mean free agency is over. Teams will still be searching for veteran help and there… Source link
Read More »Pinterest announces a new ad deal with Google as it approaches 500M MAUs
Image Credits: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Igor Golovniov / Getty Images Pinterest announced a new ad deal with Google as the company aims to ramp up its ad revenue. Google is the social platform’s second third-party ad partner after Amazon signed a multiyear deal with Pinterest last year. The company talked about the Google partnership during the earnings call for Q4 2023, where it posted results below analyst expectations. Pinterest’s revenue for the period was $981… Source link
Read More »How Google Approaches Supplier Diversity
In their efforts to increase their purchases from diverse suppliers, major companies have encountered a problem: They cannot find enough with sufficient scale and capabilities to meet their needs. This article explores a solution that Google and others have adopted: pairing the diverse supplier with an established supplier in a formal mentoring relationship. For decades, major companies have aspired to help close the wealth gap in the United States by intentionally… Source link
Read More »Stocks tumble as earnings season approaches
U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday to start the week, led by losses in shares of technology companies as investors braced for the start of earnings season and fresh inflation data due out Wednesday. The Nasdaq Composite shed 2.3%, and the S&P 500 slid 1.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 160 points, or 0.5%. Monday’s moves follow an up week for stocks that saw all three benchmarks log weekly gains despite closing flat after Friday’s jobs report. Meanwhile, the euro fell closer toward… Source link
Read More »Lockout negotiations sour as opening day deadline approaches
JUPITER, Fla. – The deadline set by Major League Baseball to ensure a 162-game season and save the scheduled March 31 opening day is now close enough you could measure the time left to get a deal in hours, not days. If there is no deal by Monday, the league has said that it will start canceling regular season games, and has publicly avowed that those games will not be rescheduled and players will not be paid for them. So to say it was a bad sign that bargaining ended Saturday with the… Source link
Read More »Bitcoin Hits $25K for First Time Ever, Approaches $26K
Benzinga Benzinga’s Bulls And Bears Of Christmas Week: Airbnb, Apple, Netflix, Nike, Tesla And More * Benzinga has examined the prospects for many investor favorite stocks over the past week. * The week’s bullish calls included big tech stocks and a telecom giant. * A top electric vehicle maker and recent hot IPOs were among the bearish calls.The big U.S. indexes ended the shortened trading week leading up to Christmas with marginal gains, despite word of a new strain of COVID-19 and the… Source link
Read More »These states suffer from the weakest job recovery as election approaches
TipRanks 3 High-Yield Dividend Stocks Offering at Least 8%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ America goes to the polls on Tuesday (well, actually, America has been early voting for a few weeks, now), and while Democrat Joe Biden has a solid lead in the polls, there is some of evidence that President Trump may still win a second term. Finally, with all of the early voting, mass absentee ballots, and possible extended counting deadlines, we might not know on Tuesday night who the winner is.It’s a… Source link
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