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Google Wallet spreads holiday cheer with cute animations when you tap and pay

Google Wallet spreads holiday cheer with cute animations when you tap and pay

Snowglobes, snowmen, and snowy scarved cats We’ve been blessed with the occasional Easter egg from Google Wallet (neé Google Pay, Android Pay, and… Google Wallet), mainly in the form of special animations that take place after you’ve tapped and paid with your watch or phone. For the holidays this year, the company is back at it again with a series of post-transaction vignettes for us shoppers to enjoy. Specifically, these animations take place once a… Source link

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Stocks surge as investors cheer on slightly cooler CPI data

Stocks surge as investors cheer on slightly cooler CPI data

Stocks rallied Wednesday as Wall Street breathed a sigh of relief over a lower-than-expected CPI reading for July that showed inflation eased to an annual 8.5% last month. The benchmark S&P 500 jumped 2.1% while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 535 points, or about 1.6%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite surged 2.9%. July’s CPI report showed prices moderated last month, edging lower for the first time since early 2021 in a hopeful sign for investors that Federal Reserve officials may… Source link

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Browns fans cheer Deshaun Watson after suspension announced

Browns fans cheer Deshaun Watson after suspension announced

James Washington was supposed to help soften the blow of the offseason departure of Amari Cooper. Now he’ll have to wait to make his Dallas Cowboys debut. The fifth-year wide receiver who joined the Cowboys from the Pittsburgh Steelers as a free agent sustained a foot fracture at training camp on Monday. He needs surgery and is expected to miss up to 10 weeks, according to multiple reports. His absence will further stretch a Cowboys receiving corps that expected to start Week 1 against the Source link

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4 things to cheer as Omicron makes its dramatic entrance: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Thursday, December 2, 2021 ‘The economic impact of COVID seems to be diminishing’ The Omicron variant of COVID-19 made its first domestic appearance on Wednesday, with one recorded case, a person who had traveled to South Africa and mildly symptomatic, being found in California. The news was enough to send stocks into a tailspin — again —… Source link

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2 things to cheer in August’s jobs letdown — and one big worry: Morning Brief

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, September 7, 2021 With unemployment down and pay up, Delta variant is clearly ‘scaring off customers’ The usual summer doldrums — and one particularly implacable virus — clearly took its toll on U.S. job creation last month. The market’s most closely watched high-frequency data series was an unmitigated letdown in August, with new… Source link

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Ottawa cheer coach resigns after alleged racist rant

Ottawa University said it has “reluctantly” accepted the resignation of cheer coach Casey Jamerson after Jamerson allegedly made racist remarks toward a Black cheerleader who was subsequently removed from the team. Cheerleader Talyn Jefferson said she was kicked off the cheer squad earlier this month because of her hairstyle and an incident between herself and Jamerson at practice. Jefferson, 20, told the Kansas City Star in an interview that she had stood up for herself after Jamerson… Source link

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