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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Software giant Microsoft Corp is confident its search product Bing can fill the gap in Australia if Google pulls its search over required payments to media outlets, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Monday. Australia has introduced laws that would force internet giant Google and social media heavyweight Facebook Inc to negotiate payments to domestic media outlets whose content links drive traffic to their platforms. However, the Big Tech firms have called the laws… Source link

The Dallas Cowboys’ season may be over, but team owner and overall decision-maker Jerry Jones still has a lot to say about his franchise, including his injured quarterback Dak Prescott. During his weekly appearance on Dallas radio station 105.3 The Fan, Jones talked about the contract status of Prescott going into the offseason, what leverage the Cowboys may have in negotiations, and the “world record” attendance at AT&T Stadium this season. Jones says Prescott has leverage in… Source link

GlobeNewswire Africa Two-Wheeler (Motorcycle, Scooter & Moped) Market, Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025 Dublin, Jan. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Africa Two-Wheeler Market, by Vehicle Type (Motorcycle, Scooter & Moped), by Engine Capacity (up to 125 cc, 126 cc- 250cc, 251 CC- 500 cc and above 500 cc), by Country (Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Morocco, Others) Competition, Forecast & Opportunities, 2025” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. The… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks Set for Monster Growth in 2021 We’ve turned a new page on the calendar, Old Man ’20 is out the door, and there’s a feeling ‘21 is gonna be a good year – and so far, so good. The markets closed out 2020 with modest session gains to cap off larger annual gains. The S&P 500 rose 16% during the corona crisis year, while the NASDAQ, with its heavy tech representation, showed an impressive annual gain of nearly 43%. The advent of two viable COVID vaccines… Source link

New Orleans Pelicans coach Stan Van Gundy knows fighting social injustice and inequality can lead to some uncomfortable conversations. Van Gundy — who has used to Twitter account to speak out and educate others on racial and social issues — spoke about the difficulty of discussing white privilege with other white people in an interview with Marc J. Spears of The Undefeated. The key, according to Van Gundy, is explaining that just because a white person has privilege doesn’t mean that… Source link

TipRanks 3 “Strong Buy” Stocks That Are Still Undervalued After a year that most of us want to forget, 2021 is shaping up to start with stability and an even keel. The election is safely behind us, the new Biden Administration promises a ‘no drama’ approach, a closely divided and hyper-partisan Congress is unlikely to enact any sweeping legislation, reform or otherwise, and COVID vaccines are ready for distribution. It’s a recipe for a calm news cycle.Which makes it a perfect time to… Source link

Stock futures rose Wednesday morning, pointing to another session of gains as investors considered lawmakers’ final efforts to get a stimulus package through before year-end, and awaited the Federal Open Market Committee’s December monetary policy decision. Contracts on all three major indices headed toward a higher open, but came off overnight session highs after a much weaker-than-expected print on November retail sales, which showed a sharper drop in consumer spending than anticipated… Source link

Timnit Gebru speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2018. Kimberly White/Getty Images Subscribe to What Next on Apple Podcasts for the full episode. Earlier this fall, A.I. ethicist Timnit Gebru submitted a paper for consideration at an academic conference about predictive language models: on their environmental cost, and how they could learn racist and… Source link

While speaking at the Ronald Reagan Institute on Monday, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan discussed what he called the “exhausted majority” of Americans who he said are “fed up with politics” and feel ignored by politicians in Washington. Video Transcript LARRY HOGAN: A large majority of Americans are thoroughly convinced that our political system is fundamentally broken, that we, as a people, are tragically divided, and that Washington is completely dysfunctional. Most of us are sick and… Source link

Reuters: Yandex and TCS Group Holding, the parent company of Russia’s top online bank Tinkoff, have terminated talks on Yandex’s proposed $5.48B deal to buy Tinkoff  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) – Plans for Russia’s biggest corporate deal of 2020 collapsed on Friday after talks over a $5.48 billion cash … Source link