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Google Actor Reese Witherspoon wears many hats. In addition to… Source link

Mark Zuckerberg said he wouldn’t know what to do with the $1 billion Yahoo offered to buy Facebook, a new book said. Zuckerberg said he’d probably just build another version of Facebook, per an “An Ugly Truth.” Lots of Facebook staff quit after Zuckerberg rejected Yahoo’s offer in 2006, the book said. … Source link

Google is opening up applications to a new program for developers of media apps that lets them keep more of what they earn — paying a lower 15 percent commission to Google in exchange for supporting certain platforms and features (via 9to5Google). The Play Media Experience Program is another way to get around the company’s 30 percent service fee, and it’s also an admission that the Google had already been cutting deals with some developers behind the scenes; Google is positioning… Source link

The window to book that next great travel deal is getting smaller. As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout ramps up, travel experts say rising demand is sending airfares and hotel rates higher, though most are still below pre-pandemic levels. “Don’t expect it to be empty planes and $30 airfares like we were seeing a year ago. But you can still get deals if you hunt for them,” said “The Points Guy” founder and CEO Brian Kelly. He told Yahoo Finance Live that inventory is becoming tighter with… Source link

Aljamain Sterling has no reason to hang his head. He has no reason to be embarrassed by the way he won the UFC bantamweight championship on Saturday at Apex. He has nothing to apologize for and he owes nobody, particularly not Petr Yan, a thing. Yan committed one of the most egregious fouls in UFC history on Saturday when he kneed Sterling in the head late in the fourth round of their title fight while Sterling’s knee was on the canvas. Under the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, which… Source link

A woman who borrowed a library book has made a surprising find inside. Professor Joey Neilsen tweeted his wife borrowed a book of poetry recently from the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries in the US city of Pittsburgh. But when she opened the book she found someone had already provided a bookmark – a dead snake wrapped in plastic. “So, um … weird question: is this your snake?” Professor Neilsen tweeted. “My wife checked out a book of poetry from CMU Libraries and it came with a… Source link