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Associated Press Intuit to pay $141M settlement over ‘free’ TurboTax ads The company behind the TurboTax tax-filing program will pay $141 million to customers across the United States who were deceived by misleading promises of free tax-filing services, New York’s attorney general announced Wednesday. Under the terms of a settlement signed by the attorneys general of all 50 states, Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc. will suspend TurboTax’s “free, free, free” ad campaign and pay… Source link

Occasionally, NFL draft twitter can be wonderful. Tuesday was one of those days. Using a fuzzy, grainy and mostly illegible picture posted to Twitter by WFAA sports anchor Mike Leslie, a swath of fans, reporters and Dallas Cowboys-related websites spent hours Tuesday afternoon decoding the team’s draft board on social media. The end result was a remarkably entertaining thread that, by all accounts, appears to have decoded a large part of the top end of the Dallas draft board (which you can… Source link

Daniel Jones may have some competition in New York. The Giants reached a deal to bring in former Houston Texans quarterback Tyrod Taylor on Tuesday, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Taylor will sign a two-year, $17 million deal with the Giants in free agency on Wednesday afternoon, per the report. The Giants will mark Taylor’s sixth team in the league, and his third in three years. Taylor spent last season with the Texans, where he threw for 966 yards, five touchdowns and five… Source link

Amazon’s (AMZN) big stock split could pave the way for entrance into the 30-member exclusive club known as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. “We expect that the stock split should increase the accessibility of shares to a broader array of potential investors, and note that the split should allow for potential inclusion of Amazon shares in the Dow Jones Industrial Average,” said Wells Fargo analyst Brian Fitzgerald. Shares of the e-commerce giant rose 5% in pre-market trading on Thursday on the… Source link

New York Giants co-owner John Mara still believes in Daniel Jones. Mara offered a blunt assessment on why Jones deserves another chance to start, saying the Giants have “done everything possible to screw” him up. Mara said the team needs to surround Jones with better help. That will allow the team to make an “intelligent evaluation” of Jones’ play. Jones failed to live up to expectations after being selected with the No. 6 pick in the 2019 NFL draft. He showed some promise his rookie season,… Source link

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is on the war path this offseason. Jones expressed a desire to make multiple changes within the organization after the Cowboys lost their wild-card game against the San Francisco 49ers. Even head coach Mike McCarthy might be on the chopping block. But at least one thing will stay consistent. Jones intends to keep the horrible glare at AT&T Stadium that hurt the Cowboys during their playoff loss. Jones said there are 9,999 things he needs to change before… Source link

June Jones wanted to return to Hawaii and lead the football program again. In fact, he still wants the head job. Jones, though, declined Hawaii’s offer to return and lead the program to replace former coach Todd Graham on Friday night. The terms, he said on Twitter, simply weren’t acceptable. “No coach in their right mind,” he said, would accept the job that was presented to him. Jones said on Twitter that he was only offered a two-year contract and hinted that he was going to be told… Source link

Cowboys receiver Amari Cooper signed a five-year, $100 contract before the 2020 season. It made him the league’s highest-paid receiver in 2021 with a $20 million base salary and a $22 million cap number. Yet, Cooper tied for 39th in receptions (68), 34th in receiving yards (865) and tied for 37th in points among non-kickers (eight touchdowns). He wasn’t even the leading receiver on the team with CeeDee Lamb catching 79 passes for 1,102 yards. Cooper also didn’t enamor himself to Cowboys… Source link

Florida quarterback Emory Jones is looking to transfer. But he won’t leave the team until after the Gasparilla Bowl. Jones told Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel that he is going to play in the Dec. 23 Gasparilla Bowl between the Gators and UCF. He’ll then enter the transfer portal and look for a new school.  Jones played in all 12 games for Florida in 2021 after serving as the primary backup to Kyle Trask in 2020. He’s 209-of-309 passing for 2,562 yards and 19 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He… Source link

Internet, December 9, 2021. Yandex has become a constituent of the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. Yandex performed among the top 5% of companies (the 96 percentile) in the Interactive Media, Services & Home Entertainment (IMS) industry, while the scores for the Social Dimension placed the company among the top 1% of the peer universe. S&P Global experts particularly acknowledged Yandex’s HR practices, approaches to employee motivation and… Source link