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Georgia picked up where it left off at the end of the 2021 college football season on Saturday. Yeah, the Bulldogs had 15 players taken in the NFL draft and five in the first round after beating Alabama for the national title in January. But it was clear in Georgia’s 49-3 win over Oregon that there are plenty of capable replacements on the roster and that the offense could be even better in 2022. Jalen Carter commanded double teams on the defensive line and looks poised to make headlines… Source link

Google has quietly launched a pilot for apps to offer new payment options on Android devices in Australia, Europe, India, Indonesia and Japan, following pressure from regulators across the globe to open up alternative payment systems. On Friday, Google opened enrolment to developers of non-gaming apps to allow them to trial user-choice payment options for users in the five locations, with caveats, including that Google will reduce its service fee by 4% for transactions. That brings down the… Source link

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Our society is not just divided along political lines — media, culture, and even coffee shops have become delineated between red and blue. So perhaps it is inevitable that these fissures would come to the world of investing. I’m speaking about the growth of so-called ESG investing — which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance — and the growing backlash against this trend. Battle lines are being formed in the heretofore apolitical, clubby world of money management. The roots… Source link

The entrance to Google’s U.K. offices in London. Olly Curtis | Future Publishing | via Getty Images Users around the world are reporting outages on Google’s search engine, according to DownDetector.com. In the U.S., more than 40,000 people reported that Google was down for them around 9.20 p.m. ET, though the figure has since fallen. People in the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore also reported issues with Google, which is owned by Alphabet. Google was trending on Twitter briefly, with… Source link

The standoff between China and Taiwan (and the U.S.) has heightened tensions to their highest level in decades but — so far at least — economic observers haven’t seen a worst-case scenario. The island’s crucial semiconductor industry has dodged a direct hit and, while China currently has Taiwan effectively blockaded, that is expected to end this weekend. But White House officials and other observers say that doesn’t mean Taiwan’s economy and world markets are getting off scot free…. Source link

More than a third of Danny Garcia’s 39 professional bouts have been against men who at some point in their career held a world championship (in one case, an interim world title). He’s gone 12-3 in those fights with four knockouts, evidence that this is a guy who wasn’t appreciated enough during his prime. Garcia never got the truly huge fight against either Floyd Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao, but his résumé is a road map of the best 140- and 147-pounders of the last decade. He was one… Source link

Bed Bath & Beyond has one foot in the grave and may be at risk of being pulled six feet under, one former retail CEO warned. “Bed Bath & Beyond is in a world of hurt because they have burned an enormous amount of available cash, their business has no forward momentum, and now as we all know they have an enormous leadership gap that they will have to fill,” Mark Cohen, Columbia University professor of retail studies and former long-time CEO of Sears Canada, said on Yahoo Finance Live (video… Source link

Nearly a year ago to the day at the Tokyo Olympics, Tobi Amusan finished the women’s 100 meter hurdles medal race in arguably the worst place you can finish at a major track and field event: fourth. On Sunday during the last session of the 2022 World Athletics Championships, Amusan, a Nigerian who was an NCAA champion at Texas-El Paso, had the evening of her life. Running in the first of three semifinal heats, Amusan stunned the crowd and track fans by posting 12.12 seconds, breaking the world… Source link

The beautiful thing about track and field is that your one true challenger is the clock or measuring tape. But in the case of Sydney McLaughlin, the clock really is her only challenger. The 22-year-old American lined up for the medal race in the women’s 400 meter hurdles on Friday night at the World Athletics Championships with the second- and third-fastest women in history also running — and she left them in her wake. Already the world record holder, McLaughlin didn’t just lower that time,… Source link