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Bloomberg China Stocks Slump as Vaccine IP Waiver Proposal Hits Drugmakers (Bloomberg) — China’s key equities index fell on Thursday following the Labor Day break, led by a slump in drugmakers after news that the U.S. will support a proposal to waive intellectual-property protections for Covid-19 vaccines.The CSI 300 Index dropped 1.2%, while the Shanghai Composite Index slipped 0.2% at close. The tech-heavy ChiNext Index fell 2.5%. The health-care subgauge was the worst performer on the… Source link

Share This Story, Choose Your Platform! Verizon recently announced that they would be selling Yahoo! and AOL to a private equity firm for about half the amount they bought the two properties for.  And so the Yahoo saga continues — and with this news, we have almost come full circle. If you are looking for more details about the history of this situation, you can find that here. For now, here’s a quick timeline of events: The early 2000s: Yahoo! is the king of the search engines 2003:… Source link

Verizon announced this week that it will sell its AOL and Yahoo assets to Apollo Global Management, Inc. for $5 billion. Verizon will retain a 10% stake in the company, which will be known as Yahoo when the transaction closes. The deal allows Verizon Media to pursue other growth areas, which it hopes will benefit its employees, advertisers, publishing partners and approximately 900 million monthly active users around the world. “We are excited to be joining forces with Apollo,”… Source link

The Guardian I watched Arizona’s unprecedented election audit – here’s what’s happening Experts say the effort, trundling along slowly in Phoenix, is unreliable and dangerous Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas in Phoenix examine and recount ballots from the 2020 election. Photograph: Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images Sign up for the Guardian’s Fight to Vote newsletter Happy Thursday, I’m writing from Phoenix, where I’m spending the week covering a remarkable GOP audit of the 2020… Source link

Closing your account is a two-step process: securing any information that you might want, and then shutting the account down for good.  Once you close your account you’ll lose access to all of your data and content, including emails, calendars, Yahoo Fantasy Teams, and Finance portfolios. But that information can be easily archived before your delete your account. It’s easy to transfer old emails to most other email services. For instance, if you want to move Yahoo emails to a Gmail account,… Source link

Yahoo Life Videos Motherless Mother’s Day: How one woman has created a healing space for those who grieve Every May, companies blast out commercials urging people to buy gifts for Mother’s day. The day is meant to honor the role mothers play in our lives, but for those who have suffered a loss, it can be a painful reminder of the void that remains. Alicia Forneret lost her mother in 2016, and feels the weight of the holiday every year. “I know how challenging it is to get to this weekend,… Source link

Bloomberg Biden Tax Rule Would Rip Billions From Big Fortunes at Death (Bloomberg) — Jeff Bezos has an ex-wife, a girlfriend, four children and billions of reasons to watch whether Joe Biden’s tax overhaul wins congressional approval.The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s heirs may have to pay more than $36 billion if the president succeeds in closing a loophole that helps the rich transfer much of their fortunes tax-free at death.Under current rules, whoever inherits the Amazon shares Bezos… Source link

Quail Hollow Club returns this week to host another Wells Fargo Championship. The course is one of the longest on TOUR. It’s loaded up to 7,521 yards as a par-71 layout. Distance is a clear advantage when you get a course that long. There are two stats I will focus on this week and both of them bake in power as part of the equation. I want to find golfers that can stripe it off the tee and also attack from long range on approach (200+ yards). Let’s jump into the numbers to see if any value… Source link

Earlier this week, Verizon announced it is selling AOL and Yahoo to private equity group Apollo for a hefty $5 billion, backing off its foray into media and advertising technology (adtech) and retrenching to its core competence as a mobile telco. This news should come as no surprise.  When Verizon acquired AOL in 2015 and then Yahoo in 2017 for approximately $9 billion combined, the industry reaction was mixed (and rightly so):  Pro: Verizon getting into the media business was a sign… Source link

Axios Biden considering LA Mayor Eric Garcetti for ambassador to India President Biden is considering naming Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to a high-profile ambassadorship, possibly India, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. Why it matters: The potential exit of the Democratic executive for the nation’s second-largest city would come as L.A. faces record homelessness and a court order to find shelter for a massive Skid Row population by the end of September. It could further… Source link