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AT&T (T) CEO John Stankey has a message to rival T-Mobile: Cut the nonsense when advertising to seniors. “They issued some statements and went out into the market with some communications that were inaccurate and not true,” Stankey told Yahoo Finance Live at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference this week (video above). T-Mobile (TMUS) — long seen as a clever marketer of its wireless brand — recently launched a campaign dubbed “Verizon and AT&T Ban Senior Discounts.” The… Source link

The Milwaukee Brewers released pitcher Luke Barker this week, and he’s not happy about it. It’s not the fact that he was released that got to him, however. That happens in baseball all the time. It was that he was designated for assignment and released just hours after he underwent Tommy John surgery. “Unfortunately, this means my time as a member of the Milwaukee Brewers organization has come to an end,” he wrote on Twitter on Thursday night. “I’ll let others decide whether… Source link

After telling Hope Solo that she “hated” playing for the U.S. Women’s National Team late in her career, Carli Lloyd clarified her criticism of the program’s “culture.” She’s not happy with some teammates she said were more concerned with their “brand” than the team. Lloyd announced her retirement from the USWNT after the Tokyo Olympics last summer following a storied career that included two Olympic gold medals and two World Cup championships as the program’s third-leading goal scorer of all… Source link

After apparent silence between the two since CJ McCollum arrived in New Orleans, Zion Williamson has reached out to his new teammate. McCollum was traded to the Pelicans earlier this month and played just five games with the team before the All-Star break. McCollum then revealed during the All-Star events on Saturday night that he had yet to speak with Williamson — who is still injured and has yet to play this season. “I haven’t had conversations with him directly,” McCollum said on… Source link

Dwayne Johnson has a response to Vin Diesel‘s request that they join forces again onscreen for the final “Fast & Furious” movie. In an interview with CNN, published Wednesday, the “Jungle Cruise” star, 49, was asked about an open Instagram letter directed to him from Diesel, in which the 54-year-old cajoled Johnson to rejoin the franchise for part 1 of the finale due out in 2023. The two actors have had well-documented tension that boiled over while making 2017’s “The Fate of the Furious” and… Source link

By Lewis Krauskopf and Manojna Maddipatla (Reuters) – Positive clinical trial results for Merck & Co’s experimental antiviral COVID-19 pill reverberated through the healthcare sector on Friday, sending the drugmaker’s stock price soaring while denting high-flying shares of vaccine companies and makers of other coronavirus therapies. Merck shares jumped as much as 12.3% and hit their highest level since February 2020 after data showed the company’s pill molnupiravir… Source link

A 3D printed Android mascot Bugdroid is seen in front of a Google logo in this illustration taken July 9, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Google says Android exceptional success story of competition EU says Apple not a rival because of smaller market share Court verdict may come next year LUXEMBOURG, Sept 27 (Reuters) – Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google on Monday criticised EU antitrust regulators for ignoring rival Apple (AAPL.O) as it launched a bid to get Europe’s… Source link

Google and Microsoft engineers might collaborate on the Chromium browser code, but that hasn’t stopped corporate politics between the pair. Google has launched a scathing attack on Microsoft today, accusing it of trying “to break the way the open web works in an effort to undercut a rival.” Google is upset about what it believes is an attack by Microsoft to undermine the company’s efforts to support journalism and publishers. In January, Google threatened to remove its search… Source link

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott completely lifted the state’s mask mandate on Tuesday despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich isn’t happy about it. Abbott announced on Tuesday that residents are no longer required to wear a face mask in public and that all businesses can open at full capacity starting next week, according to The Dallas Morning News. Though new case numbers are declining nationally, the pandemic is far from over — and Texas is among the… Source link

Microsoft has moved to capitalise on Google’s threat to shut its search engine in Australia, throwing its weight behind efforts to make Big Tech pay for news content and offering to transfer small businesses to its rival service Bing at no cost. The Seattle-based company on Wednesday slammed Google’s threat to exit Australia over the news media bargaining code and said it fully supported a draft law aimed at forcing technology groups to pay news providers for… Source link