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Isaiah Thomas signs deal with Nuggets’ G League team

Isaiah Thomas is ready to make his return to the NBA. Thomas signed a deal with the Denver Nuggets’ G League affiliate, the Grand Rapids Gold, on Monday, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Thomas is set to compete in the G League Showcase in Las Vegas starting on Sunday. The event is a single-elimination tournament designed to give G League players a chance to play in front of NBA scouts at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. Longtime NBA guard Jason Terry is in his first season… Source link

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Roku and Google reach a deal for the continued distribution of YouTube and YouTube TV on Roku devices – TechCrunch

After months of nasty contract disputes, Roku this morning announced it’s come to an agreement with Google which will allow it to continue to carry both YouTube and YouTube TV on its platform. Roku declined to share the specifics of the deal terms, beyond saying it’s a multi-year extension that covers both services. For Roku and Google customers, however, that means they don’t know which party won the battle or what that means for Google’s access to Roku’s user data. During… Source link

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Nvidia’s $40 billion Arm deal is all but dead — but it’s not a huge loss

Graphics card giant Nvidia’s (NVDA) plans to buy Arm, which licenses chip designs, looks all but dead after the Federal Trade Commission sued to block the deal on Thursday. The move is just the latest blow to the $40 billion deal and would seem to strike the final blow to a deal that would have been one of the largest chip industry mergers in history. Nvidia’s stock, however, was up slightly on the news late Thursday, though it was down Friday along with the broader market. That could… Source link

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Google signs deal to buy power from Orsted’s German offshore wind farm

COPENHAGEN, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Danish offshore wind developer Orsted (ORSTED.CO) on Tuesday said it has secured a 12-year power purchase agreement with Google (GOOGL.O), which aims to power all its data centres and offices using solely carbon-free electricity by 2030. The U.S. tech giant will take 50 megawatt (MW) of output from Orsted’s planned 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 wind farm in the German North Sea. While making it possible for big firms to source green power, such deals also provide a… Source link

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Australian mining billionaire to help publishers strike content deal with Google, Facebook

Google logo and Australian flag are displayed in this illustration taken, February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to reuters.com Register SYDNEY, Nov 22 (Reuters) – Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest’s philanthropic organisation will help 18 small news publishers in the country to negotiate collectively with Google and Facebook (FB.O) to secure licensing deals for the supply of news content. Forrest’s Minderoo Foundation on Monday said… Source link

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Nvidia’s latest earnings report is the ‘nail in the coffin’ for $40 billion ARM deal

Nvidia’s (NVDA) $40 billion deal to purchase the U.K.-based chip developer ARM from SoftBank is all but dead. That’s at least what Susquehanna senior equity analyst Chris Rolland took away from Nvidia’s leadership during the company’s Q3 earnings call on Wednesday. “I think some of the commentary [on Wednesday] kind of puts the final nail in the ARM coffin here,” Rolland told Yahoo Finance Live. Nvidia initially made the $40 billion deal public in September 2020 with expectations… Source link

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Google signs 5-year deal to pay for news from AFP

The Google logo displayed on a smartphone screen. Kirill Kudryavtsev | AFP | Getty Images Alphabet Inc’s Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse for its news content as part of broad five-year partnership announced Wednesday that marks one of the biggest licensing deals struck by a tech giant under a new French law. News organizations, which have been losing ad revenue to online aggregators such as Google and Facebook, have complained for years about the tech companies using stories in… Source link

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Google signs 5-year deal to pay for news from AFP

The logo of Google is seen in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann OAKLAND, Calif., Nov 17 (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google will begin paying Agence France-Presse for its news content as part of broad five-year partnership announced Wednesday that marks one of the biggest licensing deals struck by a tech giant under a new French law. News organizations, which have been losing ad revenue to online aggregators such as Google and Facebook (FB.O), have complained… Source link

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‘We don’t have any magic bullets’ to deal with chip shortage

Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang doesn’t see the global chip shortage coming to an end anytime soon. The head of the largest chip maker by market cap, Huang is fresh off his virtual keynote at Nvidia’s GTC conference where he announced advances in the company’s metaverse and AI efforts. But Nvidia still makes the bulk of its revenue, about 47% in Q2, from the sale of its gaming cards. And those continue to be in short supply due to the pandemic-induced chip crisis. “I think that through… Source link

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