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Google parent Alphabet Inc. disclosed that Larry Page, co-founder and current board member, has sold more than $80 million worth of shares, a couple of days after the stock shot up on the back of a blowout earnings report and stock-split announcement. Both the Class C shares and more-active Class A shares rose 0.4% in premarket trading. In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission after Friday’s closing bell, the internet search giant said… Source link

The number of job openings and quits each held at historically elevated levels in December, with worker leverage remaining high as labor demand persisted.  Vacancies across the U.S. totaled 10.925 million at the end of 2021, the Labor Department said in its latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS). This compared to 10.775 million openings in November, according to the revised monthly print. Consensus economists had anticipated December vacancies would come in at 10.3 million,… Source link

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele during the Latin Bitcoin conference on November 20, 2021.Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images El Salvador has bought 410 bitcoin for $15 million, the country’s President Nayib Bukele tweeted Friday. “Some guys are selling really cheap,” he wrote, as crypto continued to sell off. Bitcoin has plummeted over the last week and is down almost 50% from its November record high. El Salvador purchased 410 bitcoin worth $15 million as the cryptocurrency’s price plunged,… Source link

Did you know that Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady co-founded an NFT agency? Well he did! It’s called Autograph, and you won’t be surprised to find out that it’s doing pretty well.  The company told TechCrunch on Wednesday that it had just completed its Series B funding round and had raised $170 million from venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, among several others. Both firms have been investing in cryptocurrency related projects and Autograph is the… Source link

Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google, has paid $65 million for Enchanted Hill, a prized piece of undeveloped land in Beverly Hills that was owned by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, according to people familiar with the situation. The deal, which closed in December, marks the end of a more than three-year push to sell the roughly 120-acre property, which came on the market asking $150 million in 2018.  Source link

Thanks to a huge performance on Sunday afternoon, Rob Gronkowski will get to cash in a $1 million bonus check. The Buccaneers tight end had seven receptions for 137 yards in Tampa Bay’s 41-17 win over the Carolina Panthers on Sunday, which earned him a pair of $500,000 contract incentives. The 32-year-old entered their regular season finale in Tampa with 48 catches and 665 receiving yards on the season. He was seven catches shy of 55, which triggered an automatic $500,000 bonus, and 85… Source link

Whether you are playing in the biggest tournament of the week on Yahoo! or prefer to play in smaller GPPs, there are some general positional strategies that you can implement in any size tournament. These concepts include stacking, finding pivots off of popular players, and looking for leverage in other spots. While it’s important to implement these into your lineup-building approach, the foundation of any tournament lineup is a solid core, usually players that you would use in cash… Source link

Charlie Munger just doubled his bet on tech giant Alibaba to $71.5 million — try these 3 China plays instead to diversify your exposure Warren Buffett is famous for getting “greedy when others are fearful.” And his right-hand man Charlie Munger isn’t opposed to going against the herd, either. Best known as Berkshire Hathaway’s vice chairman and Buffett’s long-time business partner, Munger also serves as the chairman of Daily Journal, a newspaper publisher with a sizable stock portfolio of… Source link

Advertising technology provider Smartly.io Solutions Oy said it is buying Ad-Lib.io, a company that offers creative tools for various Google platforms, for more than $100 million, as it seeks to widen its offerings beyond social media. Newsletter… Source link

Google is giving four of its top execs a significant pay bump, raising their salaries from $650,000 to $1 million, just weeks after the company told staffers it wouldn’t automatically adjust salaries to account for inflation. The new executive salaries were disclosed in an SEC filing. The executives receiving the $1 million base salaries are chief financial officer Ruth Porat, senior vice president Prabhakar Raghavan (who is in charge of Google search); senior vice president and chief… Source link