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The Portland Trail Blazers will look for a new coach after their first-round exit. The Blazers agreed to part ways with head coach Terry Stotts on Friday, sources told Yahoo Sports senior NBA insider Chris Haynes. Stotts’ exit ends a nine-season tenure in Portland, in which the Blazers reached the playoffs eight times. Five of those playoff berths ended in the first round, though, including the last two trips. The Blazers’ most recent exit came on Thursday, with the team falling to the Denver… Source link

With the NBA playoffs days away, TNT and longtime analyst Chris Webber have reportedly parted ways.  The New York Post reports that Webber and the network agreed to a split on Thursday. The two sides did not conduct negotiations on a new contract leading up to the split, according to the report.  Webber had worked as a color commentator and occasional studio analyst at TNT since 2008. He joined the network shortly after the conclusion of his 15-season NBA career.  Chris Webber is reportedly… Source link

Ending a struggle between two tech titans stretching over more than a decade, the Supreme Court held in a 6-2 opinion that Google’s copying of key portions of the Application Programming Interface (API) of Oracle’s Java SE software, constituting 11,500 lines of computer code, was fair use. In determining that Google’s copying of the API constituted fair use, the Court, on April 5, reversed a 2018 Federal Circuit decision that held otherwise. The background of the case and the Federal… Source link

Official Release May 3, 2021 – As a WNBA Changemaker, Google Commits to Helping Women’s Basketball and Sports by Developing Innovative Marketing Activations, Robust Storytelling and Enhanced Google Product Experiences – – As Part of the Partnership, Google Collaborates with ESPN and WNBAto Deliver “25 for 25”: 25 Regular Season Games on ESPN networksfor the 25th Season of the WNBA – – Google Becomes Associate Sponsor of ESPN’s… Source link

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Bloomberg One of World’s Greatest Hidden Fortunes Is Wiped Out in Days (Bloomberg) — From his perch high above Midtown Manhattan, just across from Carnegie Hall, Bill Hwang was quietly building one of the world’s greatest fortunes.Even on Wall Street, few ever noticed him — until suddenly, everyone did.Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time — a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive… Source link

Google’s 210 N. Carpenter St. Office in Chicago. | Photo: Google Google isn’t just one of the largest tech companies in the Bay Area, it’s one of the world’s largest companies in general. But that’s not stopping it from getting even bigger. On Thursday, Google announced its major U.S. expansion plans for the year of 2021. This involves investing more than $7 billion into its offices and data centers across 19 states. It’s also planning to create at least 10,000 new… Source link

“I believe a lasting economic recovery will come from local communities, and the people and small businesses that give them life,” Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and its parent company Alphabet, said in a news release. “Google wants to be a part of that recovery. That’s why we plan to invest over $7 billion in offices and data centers across the U.S. and create at least 10,000 new full-time Google jobs in the U.S. this year.” Source link

LaMarcus Aldridge has played his last game as a member of the San Antonio Spurs. Spurs head coach and president Gregg Popovich revealed Wednesday that Aldridge and the team have mutually agreed to part ways, per ESPN’s Tim McMahon: Pop on LaMarcus Aldridge: “We’ve mutually agreed for him to work on some opportunities elsewhere.” Aldridge will not be back with the Spurs. — Tim MacMahon (@espn_macmahon) March 11, 2021 According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, San Antonio is working on… Source link

The Les Miles era of Kansas football has come to an end. Miles, the longtime college head coach who won a national championship at LSU but amassed just a 3-18 record over two seasons at Kansas, has parted ways with the university. Kansas announced the news on Monday night, saying it was a mutual decision between the two parties. The school said the terms of its separation from Miles “will be released in the coming days.” The news comes just days after Miles was placed on administrative leave… Source link