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After preaching patience during the initial weeks of the season, I need to change my tune. In roughly one week, the MLB season will be one-third of the way to the finish line. And although the roughly 70 percent of games that remain as of today give fantasy managers plenty of time to make progress, we have entered a key phase of the season where tough decisions need to be made on each roster member. Here are some big names to acquire and a few overachievers to send packing. Players to… Source link

The logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren Israel’s government said on Monday it had signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (AMZN.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military. A month ago, AWS and Google won a tender, beating out Microsoft (MSFT.O), Oracle (ORCL.N) and IBM (IBM.N) for… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at the company’s 20201 Google I/O conference. Google Google announced a slew of updates to its developer products Tuesday at its first Google I/O event since 2019. Though Google makes most of its money from advertising, the annual event is a way to excite its developer ecosystem with updates ranging from software and artificial intelligence moonshots to shopping features. The company cancelled the annual developer conference last year due to the Covid-19… Source link

Bloomberg CNN Dodges Risk of MSNBC Tie-Up as AT&T Opts for Discovery (Bloomberg) — For months, Wall Street has called on AT&T Inc. to shed its media assets, including CNN, arguing that investors prefer companies with a singular focus.On Monday, AT&T finally relented, announcing that CNN and its corporate siblings will be joining forces with Discovery Inc., home of networks like HGTV, Food Network and TLC.For CNN, the deal could provide a number of strategic advantages — and avoids the… Source link

Wall Street is slicing and dicing the investment thesis on AT&T following its blockbuster sale of WarnerMedia to Discovery on Monday, and is coming to the conclusion there is really no reason to be optimistic on the stock in the medium-term.  Shares of the soon-to-be telco plunged as much as 7% in Tuesday trading as investors questioned the long-term outlook for the company.  “For AT&T investors, while we view this transaction, and the February announcement that it would sell DirecTV, as… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A logo of Italy’s Lega Serie A is seen in Milan, Italy, December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo/File Photo MILAN (Reuters) – Serie A said on Monday Google agreed to remove from its content platform some video apps illegally enabling users to watch live games as a part of a deal between Italy’s top flight soccer league and the web giant to curb online piracy. Serie A stepped up efforts to curb online piracy in recent years to protect the value of its TV rights, which made most… Source link

Bloomberg AT&T Merges Media Assets With Discovery in $130 Billion Deal (Bloomberg) — AT&T Inc. agreed to spin off its media operations in a deal with Discovery Inc. that will create a new entertainment company, merging assets ranging from CNN and HBO to HGTV and the Food Network.The transaction values the combined entity at about $130 billion including debt, based on WarnerMedia’s estimated enterprise value of more than $90 billion.AT&T will receive $43 billion in cash, debt securities and… Source link

A logo of Italy’s Lega Serie A is seen in Milan, Italy, December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo/File Photo Serie A said on Monday Google (GOOGL.O) agreed to remove from its content platform some video apps illegally enabling users to watch live games as a part of a deal between Italy’s top flight soccer league and the web giant to curb online piracy. Serie A stepped up efforts to curb online piracy in recent years to protect the value of its TV rights, which made most of the revenue of… Source link

FILE PHOTO: A logo of Italy’s Lega Serie A is seen in Milan, Italy, December 17, 2019. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo/File Photo MILAN (Reuters) – Serie A said on Monday Google agreed to remove from its content platform some video apps illegally enabling users to watch live games as a part of a deal between Italy’s top flight soccer league and the web giant to curb online piracy. Serie A stepped up efforts to curb online piracy in recent years to protect the value of its TV rights, which made most… Source link

Bloomberg The World Economy Is Suddenly Running Low on Everything (Bloomberg) — A year ago, as the pandemic ravaged country after country and economies shuddered, consumers were the ones panic-buying. Today, on the rebound, it’s companies furiously trying to stock up. Mattress producers to car manufacturers to aluminum foil makers are buying more material than they need to survive the breakneck speed at which demand for goods is recovering and assuage that primal fear of running out. The… Source link