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Another day, another training camp practice for the entire league. Some of the biggest questions were answered this week, especially for Seattle Seahawks wideout D.K. Metcalf, who signed a three-year, $72 million deal Thursday. There are few major deals left on the table, though, including San Francisco 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel, Cincinnati Bengals safety Jessie Bates and Los Angeles Chargers safety Derwin James. Another safety, Bills’ Micah Hyde, avoided major injury this week after… Source link

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has zero reason to worry about competing with another team in North Texas, but that’s not going to stop him from speaking his mind. Dallas mayor Eric Johnson made headlines earlier this week when he once again suggested the NFL give the Dallas-Fort Worth area another franchise. Johnson had previously floated the idea of an NFL expansion team coming to town, but he had a different idea this time. In reaction to news of a brewing Chargers ownership fight, Johnson… Source link

Yahoo will launch a series of metaverse activities in Hong Kong to explore the use of immersive advertising technologies, the US internet company said on Wednesday, a day after Facebook owner Meta Platforms announced similar plans. According to Yahoo’s announcement, the company wants to hold virtual concerts and exhibitions on popular metaverse platform Decentraland, featuring local idol groups and artists. It also plans to release a limited amount of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). “Yahoo Hong… Source link

A man in Phoenix is losing hundreds of dollars each day after shaving nearly 50 cents off per gallon at his gas station to help customers weather skyrocketing fuel prices. Jaswiendre Singh, who runs the business at the corner of Osborn Road and 20th Street, showed Arizona’s Family on Wednesday that he buys gas from a supplier for $5.66 per gallon but sells it for just $5.19 per gallon. Singh started offering discounts as early as March, decreasing the gas station’s purchase price by 10… Source link

The owner of an ice cream shop in Mashpee told The Wall Street Journal that he’s struggling to hire employees.Jens Kalaene/picture alliance via Getty Images Customers in a 45-minute line for a Massachusetts ice cream parlor, the owner told the WSJ. He told WSJ he expected the shop to be busy, but didn’t think there’d be no job applicants. The owner added that it was a “scary” position to be in ahead of peak summer season in June. The owner of an ice cream shop in Massachusetts said that… Source link

Minnesota Timberwolves team owner Glen Taylor is meeting with Tim Connelly, the Denver Nuggets president of basketball operations, this weekend in the team’s continued quest to bring him into the front office, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Saturday. The Timberwolves want to make Connelly one of the league’s highest-paid executives, per the report. Connelly has reportedly already met with Marc Lore and Alex Rodriguez, who became minority owners of the Timberwolves and Minnesota Lynx… Source link

OAKLAND, Calif., May 9 (Reuters) – Dating apps maker Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) sued Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday, calling the action a “last resort” to prevent Tinder and its other apps from being booted off the Play store for refusing to share up to 30% of their sales. Match’s lawsuit is the latest to target Google’s allegedly anticompetitive conduct with the Play store, joining ongoing cases brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, dozens of U.S. state attorneys general and… Source link

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

Apollo Global Management is thinking about taking part in a bid for Twitter, a Wall Street Journal report said Monday (April 18). This comes after the $43 billion bid from Elon Musk, the current richest man in the world and the CEO of Tesla. Twitter, despite being a popular platform, has had issues trying to grow, the report said. Apollo is one of the biggest buyout firms in the world. It has held discussions already about backing a potential deal for Twitter. That could give Musk or someone… Source link

Twitter Inc. TWTR, +7.48% is expected to turn down Tesla Inc. TSLA, +1.96% Chief Executive Elon Musk’s offer for the social-networking company, and private-equity powerhouse Apollo Global Management Inc. APO, -1.27% is considering whether to join in a bid, according to a Monday afternoon report. The Wall Street Journal reported after U.S. markets closed that leaders of Apollo, which owns the remnants of… Source link