Tag Archives: Stance

[unable to retrieve full-text content]New inflation reading reinforces Fed’s higher-for-longer stance  Yahoo Finance Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia Revises Yandex Partition Terms Over Founder’s Anti-War Stance – Reports  The Moscow Times Source link

The Russian government has lowered the payout offered in the restructuring of tech giant Yandex following anti-war statements made by the company’s co-founder, Russian media reported Friday.  Sanctions over Russia’s war in Ukraine have forced Yandex, once the crown jewel of Russia’s tech sector, to split into two new companies, with one overseeing its operations in Russia and a second Amsterdam-based firm that will focus on new technologies for the international market. The… Source link

Dana White did not appreciate his ‘fun’ interview with GQ being taken out of context. (Photo by Amy Kaplan/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) UFC president Dana White hadn’t had a great rant in a while, but that changed on Tuesday during a 23-minute interview with Yahoo Sports. White erupted when asked about comments he made about fighter pay during a video last week with GQ. For the interview, GQ gave White questions from Twitter and he answered them. Most were innocuous — one asked if he… Source link

Back in April, Jim Harbaugh invited Colin Kaepernick to serve as an “honorary captain” for the University of Michigan spring football game. Kaepernick addressed the Wolverines team, flipped the pregame coin and then at halftime, right in the middle of Michigan Stadium, conducted a rare public passing workout in an effort to catch the eye of NFL scouts. Harbaugh’s action were well received by a certain segment of the public and not well received by a different segment of the… Source link

It’s been changing — slowly — but for decades NFL quarterbacks were almost exclusively white, by design. Fairly or unfairly, they were painted as their respective teams’ CEO, an extension of the owner class and head coaches. Maybe some of them wanted to speak up for things like human rights, civil rights and equality, but if they were more concerned with keeping their wealthy, white team owner happy, they kept quiet. The NFL’s overlords aren’t exactly known for being activists. For looser… Source link

PepsiCo is so bullish on its product pipeline and ability to pass through price increases to combat pesky inflation, it did something out of character on Tuesday.  The beverage and snack giant — typically conservative on how it guides the Street —took a first stab at guidance for the next 15 months on its third quarter earnings release Tuesday. “Normally we don’t talk about the following year until February [earnings]. Given the sort of open questions that were out there because of all… Source link

Google gave its clearest guidance yet regarding how the company will treat shared advertising identifiers once third-party cookies are removed from Chrome. And it’s not good news for ad tech companies that have championed universal ID programs. In March, Google’s director of product management for ads privacy and trust, David Temkin, confirmed in a company blog post that Google would not build alternate identifiers once third-party cookies are deprecated in Chrome, nor allow… Source link

You can’t keep bitcoin down.  That’s true in a lot of places around the world, from Belarus to Nigeria, where crypto is a workaround for dissidents and a substitute for unreliable monetary systems.   This article is excerpted from The Node, CoinDesk’s daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news. You can subscribe to get the full newsletter here.  Related: Tesla Just Helped Patch a Bug in This Open Source Bitcoin Payment Processor But it’s especially true… Source link

A long-simmering feud between tech giants reignited on Friday, with Microsoft Corp.’s MSFT -0.58% president lashing out at Google and the search juggernaut’s top lawyer firing back. The unusual public squabbling, which included the lawyer saying that Microsoft is criticizing Google to distract from its own role in two recent high-profile hacks, came against the backdrop of a congressional hearing about the impact of online platforms on… Source link