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Week 4 NFL DFS Top Picks and Value Plays on Yahoo

Yahooooo! There are 13 games on the Yahoo main slate that begins at 1 p.m. ET on Sunday. This piece highlights my top overall plays, values, and best tournament plays for guaranteed prize pools (GPPs) at each position while using our Player Models. I will specifically be referencing the Bales Model. As news breaks throughout the week and we adjust our projections, player ratings in our Player Models will change. For updates, visit the models directly. Quarterbacks Top Play My top… Source link

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Top Netflix Hit ‘Squid Game’ Sparks Korean Media Stock Surge

(Bloomberg) — The latest smash hit from the Korean entertainment world “Squid Game” is also proving popular with investors, who have been snapping up shares of at least two companies related to the thriller series. Most Read from Bloomberg A dramatized survival game in the vein of “Hunger Games,” the show currently tops the global rankings on Netflix Inc., and is the first Korean drama to claim the No. 1 spot in the U.S. on the service, according to data from streaming ratings firm… Source link

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Ex-Google exec describes 4 top dangers of artificial intelligence

California’s Senate last week advanced a bill that would force Amazon (AMZN) to reveal details behind the productivity-tracking algorithm used in its warehouses; meanwhile, Facebook (FB) this week faced criticism over a Wall Street Journal report finding it knows its Instagram feed makes some teenage girls feel worse about themselves. These developments make up a backlash not necessarily against big tech, so much as its algorithms, which use artificial intelligence (AI) to adapt performance… Source link

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What top CEOs are saying about it

President Biden’s harder line on COVID-19 vaccinations has corporate America talking about what measures they may have to implement toward employees.  On Thursday, the president ordered new federal vaccine requirements for nearly 100 million people in the U.S. in an effort to control the Delta variant.  “We have been patient. But our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us,” Biden said in a speech at the White House.  The influential Business Roundtable — led by top… Source link

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Tinder CEO moves to Yahoo as top boss

Dating app Tinder’s chief executive officer, Jim Lanzone, is leaving the company to take over the top job at Yahoo, the online media company said on Friday. Separately, Match Group, the parent of Tinder, named Renate Nyborg as CEO of the dating app to replace Lanzone. ALSO READ TECH NEWSLETTER OF THE DAY Our top story today is a round-up of some interesting and significant developments at Tata Digital — specifically, its new acquisitions BigBasket and 1mg. … Source link

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Tinder CEO moves to Yahoo as top boss

Jim Lanzone, president and CEO of CBS Interactive, attends the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., July 10, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid Sept 10 (Reuters) – Dating app Tinder’s chief executive officer, Jim Lanzone, is leaving the company to take over the top job at Yahoo, the online media company said on Friday. Separately, Match Group, the parent of Tinder, named Renate Nyborg as CEO of the dating app to replace Lanzone. Reporting by Eva Mathews in… Source link

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Apollo Taps Tinder CEO Jim Lanzone for Top Yahoo Job

Apollo Global Management Inc. is naming Tinder Chief Executive Jim Lanzone the new CEO of Yahoo, the digital-media business it acquired from Verizon Communications Inc. earlier this year, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Lanzone will succeed Guru Gowrappan, the former Verizon executive who has overseen Yahoo since 2018 and continued running the company after Apollo agreed to purchase it for about $5 billion. Mr. Gowrappan will become a senior adviser… Source link

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Tinder CEO to take over as top exec at Yahoo

By Jordan Valinsky, CNN Business Yahoo has hired away Tinder’s top executive to become its new chief executive officer. Apollo Management Group, which recently bought the ailing search engine for $5 billion, announced Friday that Jim Lanzone will be Yahoo’s new CEO as of September 27. He’s succeeding Guru Gowrappan, who has led Yahoo since 2018 and will now shift to a senior adviser role. The move comes just four months after Verizon announced it would sell Yahoo to… Source link

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Putin Turns Up Heat On Russia’s Top Search Engine After Ban On Political ‘Smart Voting’ Search Results

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) and Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh TASS via Getty Images Billionaire Arkady Volozh, founder and CEO of Russian search engine Yandex, plans to challenge a ruling last week from an arbitration court in Moscow, which bans Yandex from showing results for the term “Smart Voting,” following a complaint from the Russian Federation. The term in question–Smart Voting–is part of an effort by the Russian opposition that has formed around the… Source link

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