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Per the usual, it has been a year of twists and turns for the tech sector. Companies such as Zoom (Yahoo Finance Company of the Year) and Slack (which will soon be part of Salesforce) have become household names and vital communication tools with people stuck inside during the COVID-19 pandemic. Demand for notebook computers has gone through the roof with employees working from home, benefiting companies like Dell and HP. The shift to the cloud has only accelerated this year in large part… Source link

Every time Mitchell Trubisky’s failures get brought up, a mention of Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson will typically follow. Not that you haven’t heard this already, but Trubisky was drafted ahead of Mahomes and Watson in 2017. The Chicago Bears took him second overall, and that decision changed the fortunes of multiple franchises. Mahomes has become the best quarterback in the NFL. Watson isn’t far behind. Trubisky hasn’t been Watson or Mahomes, to say the least. Trubisky had a rough… Source link

The Big Ten and Pac-12 seasons will carry on into championship weekend, and now we know which matchups are on the schedule. Let’s start with the Pac-12, which will host its championship on Friday night in Los Angeles at the Coliseum. The title game will feature Washington, the Pac-12 North champion, and USC, the Pac-12 South champion. The game will kick off at 5 p.m. locally, 8 p.m. ET. Of note is the location of the Oregon vs. Colorado game: Los Angeles. The conference wants to have its two… Source link

Happy Saturday and welcome to the inaugural edition of the Verge Weekender, a short recap of some of the stories we covered this week on The Verge. The big event of the week was Disney’s investor day, where the company announced new Disney Plus series WandaVision, showed trailers for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the much-anticipated series Loki; as well as slew of new Star Wars series on Disney Plus, including Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Star Wars:… Source link

Of the Big Four tech companies, Google was the first to be targeted by the federal government this year, but that likely wasn’t the end of the legal actions against the search giant. The Justice Department lawsuit, filed in late October with 11 state attorneys general, centers on Google’s conduct in the search market. Separate probes by the DOJ and states into Google’s power in digital advertising markets continue, as does the Justice Department’s review of Google’s… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Alex Smith on leg gash: “I could see the blood pumping out” If you were planning to eat dinner at halftime of Monday’s Washington-Pittsburgh game, you may have experienced an unexpected change of plans. Late in the second quarter, images appeared of Washington quarterback Alex Smith‘s lower left leg, which had blood streaming from a gash in his shin, in a way that (but for the burgundy [more] Source link

Ohio State will play Northwestern in the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 19. The conference said Wednesday afternoon that it was amending its six-game minimum rule to allow Ohio State to get into the title game. The No. 4 Buckeyes are 5-0 and saw Saturday’s game against Michigan canceled because the Wolverines are unable to play due to COVID-19. The change was first reported by Yahoo Sports earlier Wednesday. From the Big Ten: “The Big Ten Conference Administrators Council, which includes… Source link

Here’s the ending of the column at the beginning. It’s going to work out for Ohio State. The Big Ten is going to make sure it works out for Ohio State. Heck, even Michigan’s athletic director wants it to work out for Ohio State. That’s the easy part. The Buckeyes will be accommodated amid this most uncertain of Big Ten weeks, with games canceled and COVID-19 news popping at SEC speed. The Big Ten wants and needs to figure out the best way to help Ohio State reach the College Football… Source link

This photograph taken on September 28, 2017, shows a smartphone being operated in front of GAFA logos (acronym for Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon web giants) as background in Hédé-Bazouges, western France. Damien Meyer | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Britain’s antitrust watchdog threatened on Tuesday to impose heavy fines on big tech companies if they fall foul of new competition rules. Google, Facebook and other firms of “strategic market status” could face fines of up to 10% of their… Source link

Fox Business Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. LONDON — Britain plans to create a new watchdog to police Big Tech companies including Google and Facebook to counter their market dominance and prevent them from exploiting consumers and small businesses. The U.K. government said Friday that it’s setting up a “Digital Markets Unit” next year to enforce a new code of conduct governing the behavior of tech giants that dominate the online advertising… Source link