Salesforce Chair and Co-CEO Marc Benioff and his team are serious about expanding profit margins after years of making big acquisitions of Mulesoft, Tableau, and Slack. “For us, I think that the market doesn’t fully appreciate how committed we are to growth and margins,” Benioff told Yahoo Finance Live at the software giant’s Dreamforce conference in San Francisco before reeling off several recent initiatives by the company. Benioff also didn’t rule out making large deals in the future, Source link
Read More »Rams star Aaron Donald doesn’t want to talk about the helmet-swinging brawl with Bengals
Aaron Donald doesn’t want to talk about the wild helmet-swinging brawl he was involved in last month. The Los Angeles Rams star, who was seen seemingly at the center of the fight during a joint practice between the Cincinnati Bengals last month, didn’t want to get into any specifics on Monday afternoon. [It’s fantasy football season: Create or join a league now!] His attention, he said, is only on their season opener against the Bills. “I’m happy nobody got hurt in the practice and… Source link
Read More »The NFL wants Jon Gruden’s lawsuit to go away; here’s why it’s important it doesn’t
We can confidently speculate on its reasons, but the NFL really wants Jon Gruden to shut up and go away. Which puts me in the supremely uncomfortable position of … having to root for Gruden to dig in and keep fighting the league? Ugh. What a downright icky realization. Let me explain: In court filings recently reviewed by reporter David Charns of KLAS, the NFL alleges that Gruden didn’t just send racist, sexist, xenophobic and/or anti-gay emails while he was with ESPN and writing to… Source link
Read More »White House reportedly doesn’t approve of Dennis Rodman’s plan to rescue Brittney Griner
If Dennis Rodman received “approval” for his plan to travel to Russia and help secure Brittney Griner’s release, it doesn’t look like it came from the White House. An anonymous senior official in President Joe Biden’s administration has told Reuters the White House is not a fan of Rodman’s plan, and believe it could actually hurt Griner’s chances of being released. “It is public information that the administration has made a significant offer to the Russians and anything other than negotiating… Source link
Read More »‘There doesn’t seem to be much fundamental reason for the activity’
The renewed push higher in meme stocks this month is unlikely to be a carbon copy of the frenzied activity seen in early 2021, one strategist explained. “That might have been a once-in-a-lifetime move with what we saw in the past,” Ihor Dusaniwsky, managing director at S3 Partners, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “What we’re seeing is just reemergence of the meme stocks on different time periods, where you’ve got this retail base that’s moving the stock up. Institutions are long and… Source link
Read More »Elon Musk doesn’t have ‘a leg to stand on’: veteran tech analyst
Elon Musk “doesn’t have a leg to stand on” in what could become a long courtroom battle with Twitter (TWRT), says one veteran stock analyst. “After a careful reading of Twitter’s lawsuit against Elon Musk, we flipped our view. We were formally skeptical about Twitter, now we’re skeptical about Elon’s position,” Barton Crockett of Rosenblatt Securities told Yahoo Finance Live. Twitter filed a suit in Delaware against Musk earlier this week after the CEO of Tesla (TSLA) Source link
Read More »Kevin Durant’s trade request doesn’t absolve him of blame for the biggest failure in NBA history
The Brooklyn Nets were supposed to destroy the NBA, setting records on the scoreboard and in the vibes department. Instead, the Nets were destroyed from within, the biggest disappointment in NBA history. Worse than the 2004 Los Angeles Lakers, worse than the 2013 Lakers that were supposed to give the NBA world a dream Finals against the dynastic Miami Heat. Both Lakers squads were star-studded in name only, the best players slightly removed from their primes. It speaks to the nomadic nature of… Source link
Read More »Brian Flores lawsuit sure doesn’t seem ‘without merit’
I am not now, nor have I ever been, a lawyer. No interest. But I do have a love for words and language, so I’m sure I know what the phrase “without merit” means. Does the NFL? Within moments of Brian Flores filing his civil lawsuit against the league and its teams alleging years of racial discrimination in hiring practices, the NFL sent an email blast to every media member in its address book, a three-sentence statement that ended by claiming Flores’ suit is “without merit.” I’m a firm believer… Source link
Read More »SpaceX president refused to discuss Elon Musk’s sexual misconduct settlement in a companywide email, but said she doesn’t believe the allegations against Musk
Elon Musk and Gwynne Shotwell.Angela Weiss, Amanda Edwards via Getty Images SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell defended Elon Musk following sexual misconduct claims. The top female executive said she didn’t believe the allegations against Musk, which Insider first reported. In a companywide email obtained by CNBC, Shotwell said she would “never” comment on legal matters. SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell defended founder Elon Musk in an employee email last week following Insider’s… Source link
Read More »What you hear in DC doesn’t reflect what’s going across the US: Fmr. US Surgeon General
Since leaving his post as U.S. Surgeon General in the Trump administration, Dr. Jerome Adams has taken to Twitter and other social media to advocate for better masking, testing strategies and other widely supported public health issues. Now executive director of Purdue University’s Health Equity Initiatives, Adams says working outside of the political realm allows him to more clearly express his own opinions and help on more of a grassroots level. “I’m proud of the work that I was able to… Source link
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