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Don’t expect a mass layoff announcement from Apple (AAPL) despite global economic weakness weighing on iPhone and Mac sales, says Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives. That’s in large part because Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t overhire during the pandemic, unlike many of Apple’s rivals. “Apple never hired at the pace of these other tech giants,” Ives said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “You’ll see cost-cutting around the edges, but Cupertino — I mean, they’re tacticians…I think it just shows… Source link

Scott Rolen became the rare third baseman to make the Baseball Hall of Fame. (REUTERS/Mike Blake) It took six tries, but St. Louis Cardinals great Scott Rolen is heading to the Hall of Fame. Rolen received the news that he would be enshrined in Cooperstown on Tuesday. He is the only member of the 2023 Hall of Fame class voted in by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America this year. Rolen barely got in, receiving 76.3% of the vote. Players need 75% of the vote to be enshrined in… Source link

Sundar Pichai, CEO, Alphabet Lluis Gene | AFP | Getty Images Days after Google announced the largest round of layoffs in the company’s 25-year history, executives defended the job cuts and took questions from a concerned workforce during a town hall meeting on Monday. Google CEO Sundar Pichai led the companywide meeting and told employees that executives will see their bonuses cut. He pleaded with staffers to remain motivated as Google faces heightened competition in areas like artificial… Source link

Terry Hall of the Specials performing at the Rock Against Racism show, Potternewton Park, Leeds, July 4, 1981. (Photo: David Corio/Redferns) Terry Hall, frontman for one of the most influential British new wave bands of the 1980s, the Specials, has died after a short, undisclosed illness, according to his bandmates. He was 63 years old. “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing, following a brief illness, of Terry, our beautiful friend, brother and one of the most brilliant… Source link

NFL analyst and Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw revealed on Sunday that he had been diagnosed with cancer twice in the past year. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez) NFL Hall of Famer and Fox analyst Terry Bradshaw revealed on Sunday morning that, after being diagnosed twice in the past year, he is now cancer free. Bradshaw said on Fox’s NFL pregame show that he was diagnosed with bladder cancer in November and underwent surgery. Then he said doctors found a tumor in his left neck in March that was a rare… Source link

2022 Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony – Tip-Off Celebration and Awards Gala ASSOCIATED PRESS – George Karl lost 19 of his first 21 games as an NBA coach. Tim Hardaway spent hours dribbling alone in an unfinished basement when it was too cold to go outside in his native Chicago. Theresa Grentz’s family lost all its belongings in a 1970 house fire, leaving her with only the yellow pajamas she was wearing at the time. There were no signs that basketball immortality awaited any of… Source link

It was impossible for Swin Cash to evaluate her impact in the basketball world in real time, as she was focused on winning games, championships and swatting unsuspecting layup attempts to the third row. But every now and again, she’ll get a picture she once signed, or a direct message from social media as a reminder how ingratiated she was on the scene. “It’s a picture of me looking young as hell, a shot of someone at a Boys and Girls Club with this kid,” Cash told Yahoo Sports. “And… Source link

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman plans to travel to Russia to help negotiate the release of WNBA champion Brittney Griner, NBC News reported. Griner remains wrongfully detained, according to the U.S. government, and was sentenced earlier this month to nine years in prison on alleged drug charges. Her team has already appealed while U.S. and Russian diplomats discuss potential prison exchanges. There is no clarity where or who Rodman “got permission” from to work on the case. “That girl” he… Source link

By all accounts, the Arizona Cardinals have done something unprecedented in the NFL’s history of elite quarterback contracts. And it’s not the $230.5 million total commitment in Kyler Murray’s record-setting deal. Nor is it the $160 million in guaranteed money or the $46.1 million average salary. All of those numbers had the league buzzing last week. But it’s another, much smaller number that had jaws hitting the floor on Monday. Four. More specifically, four hours. A time increment… Source link

Davante Adams hasn’t shied away from comparing Derek Carr and Aaron Rodgers in the past, and he continued to praise his Las Vegas Raiders quarterback and teammate in their first training camp together. Adams, who was traded from the Green Bay Packers to Las Vegas earlier this offseason, called Carr a Hall of Famer when asked about his own transition from Rodgers to Carr. “Any time you change quarterbacks from a Hall of Famer to a Hall of Famer … it’s going to be a little bit of an… Source link