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2024-09-12

Women’s sports are on an upward trajectory as fans, brands engage

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark, #22, drives to the basket against Atlanta Dream guard Destanni Henderson, #33, during a WNBA preseason game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana, on May 9, 2024. Brian Spurlock | Icon Sportswire | Getty Images The fervor and passion surrounding women’s sports aren’t going to go away, said Jessica Berman, commissioner of the National…

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2024-09-10

Oracle (ORCL) Q1 earnings report 2025

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Larry Ellison, chairman and co-founder of Oracle Corp., speaks during the Oracle OpenWorld 2017 conference in San Francisco on Oct. 1, 2017. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Oracle shares rose 13% Tuesday and are on pace to close at a record after the database software vendor reported fiscal first-quarter results that topped Wall Street estimates. Here…

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2024-09-03

Hotel key cards replaced by Apple, Google wallets

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Many hotel chains are racing to replace the plastic room key with digital options, including Apple Wallet and Google Wallet apps. Plastic hotel key cards have had a rough few years. During the pandemic, touch was taboo, so touchless trends accelerated. And cybersecurity concerns have mounted around hotel key technology. Earlier this year, researchers found a vulnerability in plastic hotel keys that…

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2024-09-01

Cord cutters getting political ad blitz as campaigns flood Roku, Hulu

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Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and former President Donald Trump Reuters Consumers who cut their cable cord in recent years are finding that there’s one thing about linear TV they can’t escape: political ads. With the U.S. presidential election less than 70 days away, campaigns are swarming streaming services like Roku and Hulu to such a degree that connected…

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2024-08-23

GM-owned Cruise will partner with Uber to offer driverless rides

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A Cruise autonomous taxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday Aug. 10, 2023.  David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Uber Technologies and General Motors’ Cruise have agreed to a multi-year partnership, under which the embattled autonomous vehicle company plans to offer driverless rides to Uber users as soon as next year. The Thursday announcement comes as…

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2024-08-22

RFK Jr. to drop out, endorse Trump over Harris

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Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., looks on during a campaign event to announce his pick for running mate at the Henry J. Kaiser Event Center on March 26, 2024 in Oakland, California.  Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to drop out of the presidential race on Friday and endorse Republican nominee Donald Trump,…

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2024-08-17

‘You know what to do in the stock market’

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Eric Schmidt, who led Google for a decade, told Stanford students that, while he’s not one to give investment advice, he sees an obvious play in the stock market that doesn’t involve buying shares of his former employer. Schmidt said, in a video that was posted by Stanford this week and subsequently removed, that big technology companies are planning…

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2024-08-05

Tech stocks see steep three-week slump, led by Amazon, Intel

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Signage outside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York on March 23, 2023. Stephanie Keith | Bloomberg | Getty Images With quarterly earnings from tech’s mega-cap companies largely in the rearview mirror, one thing is clear: Wall Street is nervous. The Nasdaq Composite slumped 3.4% this week, bringing its three-week slide to 8.8%. That’s the worst performance for the tech-heavy…

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