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INDIANAPOLIS — Thank goodness for Steph and Sabrina. And Jaylen Brown. Apparently the league’s superstars are now too cool and perhaps too afraid to put themselves out there in front of the world on Saturday night. Apparently they’ve forgotten what the “Star” means in “All-Star Saturday night,” choosing to sit out signature events, preferring to look cool on the sidelines. Heck, they don’t even allow themselves to get excited anymore. They’re too cool to cheer? It’s been… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The Dodgers needed Shohei Ohtani. They still need a few other pieces  Yahoo Sports Source link

At this year’s Monterey Car Week, Lincoln (F) is celebrating a big milestone – in style. The brand, now in its 100th year, will be a featured marque at Sunday’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance and will show off its Model L100 electric concept vehicle. The electric vehicle (EV) concept is a massive vehicle with a completely configurable, luxurious interior that reimagines what it will be like to be transported in an autonomous future. Ford CEO Jim Farley believes this is Lincoln’s… Source link

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Warren Buffett needed just two weeks to put together Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s $11.6 billion takeover of Alleghany Corp, its largest acquisition in six years, even as he balked at paying the insurer’s banking fee, a regulatory filing on Monday shows. Alleghany said its Chief Executive Officer Joseph Brandon met with Buffett for dinner in New York City on March 7, where after some “casual conversation” Buffett offered $850 per share in cash for the… Source link

Australia could be next to mandate a choice screen in a bid to break Google’s dominance of the search market. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is recommending it is given the power to “mandate, develop and implement a mandatory choice screen to improve competition and consumer choice in the supply of search engine services in Australia”. A new report by the country’s competition watchdog concludes that interventions are needed to boost competition in the… Source link

When her contract with Nike (NKE) was up for renegotiation, American Olympian Colleen Quigley chose to leave the athletic apparel giant for a different type of deal with Lululemon (LULU). “I’ve been with Nike since 2015 when I graduated from Florida State University… and joined the team out here in Portland, then had a great five-year run with them,” Quigley said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “But I think when I got to the end of that, I just decided that they weren’t giving me… Source link

Bloomberg Microsoft Sales Jump on Cloud; Shares Slip on Lofty Forecast (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. reported quarterly sales and profit that topped analysts’ estimates for a ninth straight quarter, lifted by booming cloud-computing demand. This time, investors weren’t satisfied.Sales in the period ended March 31 rose to $41.7 billion, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker said Tuesday in a statement. That compared with the $41.1 billion average estimate of analysts polled by… Source link

Bloomberg Saudi Arabia in Talks to Sell Aramco Stake to Global Energy Firm (Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said the kingdom is in talks to sell a 1% stake in state oil giant Saudi Aramco to a “leading global energy company” as he forecast a rebounding economy in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.The kingdom is looking at the potential sale — which could be worth about $19 billion, based on the company’s market value — as a way to lock in customer demand for the… Source link

The New York Times The Death of George Floyd Reignited a Movement. What Happens Now? George Floyd had been dead only hours before the movement began. Driven by a terrifying video and word-of-mouth, people flooded the South Minneapolis intersection where he was killed shortly after Memorial Day, demanding an end to police violence against Black Americans. The moment of collective grief and anger swiftly gave way to a yearlong, nationwide deliberation on what it means to be Black in America…. Source link