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NPR’s Ayesha Rascoe talks with John Ourande > of Sports Business Journal about the bidding war among tech companies to acquire broadcasting rights for the NFL. AYESHA RASCOE, HOST: A bidding war is brewing between the world’s largest tech companies. Apple, Amazon and Google are all pushing to acquire the rights for the same service. And we’re not talking about an app or website. We’re talking about football, baby. The three tech giants are pushing to… Source link

As Russia continues its assault on Ukraine, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) is keeping a close eye on Russia’s movements across the military, cyber, and information domains. With more than seven years of experience monitoring the situation in Ukraine—as well as Russia’s use of propaganda and disinformation to undermine the United States, NATO, and the European Union—the… Source link

MarketWatch The third richest man in the world behind Musk and Bezos is a college dropout whose fortune has surged $60 billion this year With a total net worth of $137 billion, Indian-born Gautam Adani’s extraordinary wealth gain in 2022 has far surpassed that of any other billionaire, many of whom have seen their fortunes drop this year, according to Bloomberg’s running tally. The world’s richest, Tesla (TSLA) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk, has seen a loss of $18.9 billion this… Source link

(Bloomberg) — President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine set Russia’s economy back four years in the first full quarter after the attack, putting it on track for one of the longest downturns on record even if less sharply than initially feared. Most Read from Bloomberg In a bleak tally of the war for Russia, an economy that was picking up speed at the start of 2022 swung into a contraction during the second quarter. Data on Friday showed gross domestic product shrank for the first… Source link

Enlarge / Just a few of the many Google messaging logos. Can you name them all? Ron Amadeo Google has been unable to field a stable, competitive messaging platform for years and has thoroughly lost the messaging war to products with a long-term strategy. At least some divisions inside the company are waking up to how damaging this is to Google as a company, and now Google’s latest strategy is to… beg its competition… Source link

Comment on this story Comment The occasion was lunch. The setting was an ornate room off the Senate chamber. The hosts were some of the top Republican lawmakers in the country and the strategists responsible for filling their campaign coffers. Their guest, on a Wednesday in May, was Google’s top lawyer, invited to explain the company’s approach to email spam and answer charges that the tech giant was suppressing Republican solicitations. Amid a chorus of complaints, Sen. Charles E. Grassley… Source link

All Russian businesses have been affected by the fallout from the war and Western sanctions, but “perhaps the most dramatic events have unfolded at Yandex,” writes TheBell, a respected Russian online publication, in its English edition. While founder Arkady Volozh and head Tigran Khudaverdyan were sanctioned by the European Union, “compromises with the authorities have led the country’s leading IT company into a trap.” Yandex is now divided internally, as “some top managers… Source link

After hovering near the $5 mark for a while, the average price of gas could fall to $4 per gallon by mid-August, analysts predict. Gas prices have been retreating from their highs last month for a couple of weeks now. AAA reports the average price per gallon currently stands at $4.75 nationwide, a 16-cent drop from a month ago. Wednesday’s drop of 2.8 cents per gallon was the second largest single-day drop in the last decade. The decline comes on the heels of a Twitter feud between Jeff… Source link

Russia-backed troops driving through Lysychansk, Ukraine, on Monday.Credit…Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters BAKHMUT, Ukraine — With Luhansk Province firmly in Russia’s grasp after weeks of brutal fighting, the country’s military forces on Tuesday were already setting their sights on the next target. On the outskirts of Bakhmut, a key supply hub for Ukrainian forces, the Russian Army was ramping up its shelling as an apparent prelude for an inch-by-inch offensive into the province of… Source link

Russian tech entrepreneur Tonia Samsonova in London on June 19, 2022. Samsonova resigned from Yandex in protest of the company’s refusal to run objective news stories about the Ukraine war. (Mary Turner/The New York Times) What a difference a war makes. Just a few months ago, Yandex stood out as a rare Russian business success story, having mushroomed from a small startup into a tech colossus that not only dominated search and ride-hailing across… Source link