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Yahoo has promoted Elizabeth Herbst-Brady to lead its Global Revenue and Client Solutions and as part of that team, Josh Partridge has risen to the position of head of EMEA where he will be responsible for driving growth for the media company across each market. Source link

Have you ever eaten food out of a dented can? It doesn’t taste dented – honest! It tastes like undented food! (I could go for an undented sandwich right now.) There’s just something about that dent that turns people off. It is tough to stack dented cans, and a sharp dent might allow bacteria in – or what I call, “flavor!” – but still, people should see there’s value in DCF (dented can food)! This article series is meant to point out some dented-can discounted players… Source link

  One of the best things on FantasyPros is the Expert Consensus Rankings (ECR). Fantasy Football rankings are subjective, and as such, they vary from site to site and expert to expert. So as you are doing your pre-draft preparation, it is good to get as many opinions as possible, hence the value of the ECR. Once draft day comes and you are in your draft room, though, you can often be swayed by the default rankings on the platform you are using. Those rankings are typically… Source link

A new bipartisan bill announced Wednesday seeks to bring more competition to the app store market currently dominated by Apple and Google. The Open App Markets Act, led by Sens. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., would shake up the business model of both company’s app stores and the structure of their mobile operating systems. The bill targets, in part, the in-app payment systems for companies that own app stores with more than 50 million… Source link

Big Tech is once again in Washington’s crosshairs. On Friday, President Biden called on the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to enforce existing rules and establish new ones that could interfere with the market domination of America’s biggest tech firms. The executive order from Biden calls on the FTC to establish stricter rules over mergers, making it harder for larger tech companies to swallow up their smaller competitors — just like Facebook has with Instagram and… Source link

Hindenburg Research, an investment research firm with a focus in activist short-selling which also publishes reports on alleged fraud by other companies, has chosen DraftKings (DKNG) as its next target. Shares were down around 7% after Hindenburg announced that it would be taking a short position on the American sports betting operator. “This report is written by someone who is short on DraftKings stock with an incentive to drive down the share price,” a statement Yahoo Finance received… Source link

HONG KONG—Huawei Technologies Co. on Wednesday launches its self-developed operating system for mobile phones, the company’s latest bid to break free of U.S. suppliers and an attempt to challenge Google’s dominance in smartphone software. The Chinese tech giant plans to launch its new operating system, known as Harmony OS, across a large number of its smartphones during an online-only event, as well as unveil smart devices that will also run the company’s latest homemade software. … Source link

Germany’s competition regulator is investigating whether Google is dominant enough to be subject to the country’s new digital-competition law, broadening its efforts to brandish new powers against companies including Amazon.com Inc. and Facebook Inc. Germany’s Federal Cartel Office said Tuesday that it has opened a probe into whether Google, the main unit of Alphabet Inc., is of “paramount significance for competition across markets.” That… Source link

Bloomberg HNA Group Assets Attract Interest From Fosun, JD.com (Bloomberg) — Fosun Group and an arm of JD.com Inc. are among suitors considering investing in domestic operations of HNA Group Co. as the indebted Chinese conglomerate is reorganized after being placed under government control, people with knowledge of the matter said.Ping An Insurance Group Co., Juneyao Airlines Co. and Air China Ltd. have also been studying HNA’s assets, the people said, asking not to be identified because… Source link

Google rolled out a slew of updates for its Anthos cloud platform, debuting new capabilities designed to make it easier for customers to manage multi-cloud deployments. The company launched Anthos in April 2019, and subsequently debuted a telco specific version of the platform, Anthos for Telecom, in March 2020. Richard Seroter, director of outbound product management at Google Cloud, told Fierce the upgrades in its Anthos 1.7 release fall into two primary categories: those aimed at… Source link