Stop letting random musings on bitcoin from Tesla CEO Elon Musk influence your decisions on how to trade the cryptocurrency and remain focused on the fundamentals, said one crypto expert When Yahoo Finance Live asked Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein if traders should ignore Musk’s comments on bitcoin, Sonnenshein said, “yes.” Grayscale bills itself as the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, managing various crypto ETFs. As usual, traders in bitcoin (BTC-USD) were far from ignoring… Source link
Read More »Former Google CEO talks data privacy, the future of health tech
In a wide-ranging and forthcoming interview, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO who helped steer the tech giant’s foray into health care, opened up about a host of issues facing the future of medicine. Among the topics Schmidt touched on in a half-hour conversation at the STAT Health Tech Summit: his upcoming role as the board chair of the powerful Broad Institute, why synthetic biology is a critical field to watch, the fraught debate over patient data privacy and health systems, and why… Source link
Read More »Dave Nadig Talks Up Crypto ETF Expectations
There’s been a lot of noise in the world of cryptocurrency this year and plenty of signs of a dedicated ETF. Joining the “ETF Report” with hosts Alexis Christoforous and Kristin Myerson Yahoo Finance, ETF Trends’ CIO and Director of Research, Dave Nadig, speaks to what to expect as far as a fund is concerned. As of now, Nadig believes the fall may be the best time to expect some official announcement of a crypto ETF. Six months from when the Toronto exchanged started trading on the… Source link
Read More »Google Lightning Talks: The State of SEO
A video in Google’s Lightning Talks series, titled the state of web search engine optimization, presents data on how websites are following standard SEO practices. Aleyda Solis, SEO consultant and founder of Orainti, joins Lightning Talks as a guest presenter as she goes over the main learnings from the SEO chapter of the 2020 Web Almanac. The Web Almanac is a comprehensive report on the state of the web, which is backed by data and trusted experts. Solis authored the SEO chapter of the 2020… Source link
Read More »Microsoft in talks to buy AI firm Nuance Communications for about $16 billion
InvestorPlace Exxon Mobil Will Keep Paying Its Dividend, And May Be Worth 30% More Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE:XOM) is not going to lower its dividend no matter what it costs the company. That point came out loud and clear from the company’s latest earnings conference call. This means that XOM stock will continue to have a “strong” dividend yield of about 6.15%. It’s worth at least 32% more, or $74.63 per share, based on its historical dividend yield. Source: Harry Green / Shutterstock.com… Source link
Read More »Tom Lydon Talks China Buys And Infrastructure Potential
Joining the “ETF Report” with host Alexis Christoforous on Yahoo Finance, ETF Trends’ CEO, Tom Lydon, was on hand to talk about where the record amount of ETF flows has been heading over the past couple of quarters, in addition to China’s recent tech stock decline, and the potential for infrastructure. Finishing the first quarter of 2021 with close to $240 billion in new assets, Lydon explains how that puts the market on pace for a trillion-dollar year in ETFs, which would be… Source link
Read More »Phil Jackson talks Knicks, Carmelo Anthony
Phil Jackson is nearly four years removed from his failed tenure as president of the New York Knicks. It appears he has a long list of people to blame for that failure. The former Chicago Bulls and Los Angeles Lakers coach opened up about his time at Madison Square Garden in an episode of “The Curious Leader” podcast, hosted by Coby Karl, one of Jackson’s former Lakers players and the son of George Karl. The one-hour, 43-minute podcast touched on a number of topics, with the discussions… Source link
Read More »Microsoft in Talks to Buy Discord for More Than $10 Billion
TipRanks AI Is Booming: 2 ‘Strong Buy’ Stocks That Stand to Benefit The COVID pandemic may be receding, but it has left a mark on across multiple aspects of our lives. From mask mandates to travel restrictions, we chafe at some of the changes – but in the business world the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has dramatically expanded in the past year. This was probably inevitable – but AI brought advantages in coping with the pandemic for companies that could make use of it,… Source link
Read More »Lakers star Anthony Davis talks ventures, looking to All-Star LeBron as ‘reliable resource’
Despite an injury in the middle of the season for Los Angeles Lakers forward Anthony Davis, the NBA star is continuing to build his brand, both on and off the court. Davis has with major partnerships with companies like Michelob Ultra (BUD), Ruffles (PEP), and is getting advice from some of the best in the arena. The latter presented him with the unique opportunity to be able to “own your own ridges…to have your own chip…that was pretty cool,” he told Yahoo Finance in a recent… Source link
Read More »Microsoft’s Talks Mesh Platform at Ignite, Google Expands Workspace and More News
PHOTO: Adobe As is typical of Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, the company revealed a number of product announcements that can take weeks or months before organizations get access to them. This year was no exception. The company announced a number of updates to Teams, gave Microsoft 365 and Azure a lot of attention and plotted its course for the next year as its digital workplace momentum continues. One announcement that stood out above them all so far — and this is an… Source link
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