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Investor and entrepreneur Anshu Sharma — formerly Storm Ventures, now CEO of privacy-focused SkyFlow — asked on Twitter today about the connection between interest rates and technology valuations: Ignore the compliments; Sharma was merely trying to bait Jeff and me into engaging with his question. Which worked, as you can tell. Sharma is someone with […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) – The relationship between tennis players and the media needs to evolve and the sport must also do more to help the younger generation deal with negative comments on social media, Roger Federer said. The issue of players’ mental health came into the spotlight after Japan’s Naomi Osaka withdrew https://ift.tt/3hYByhD from […]

September 27, 2021 Justin Herbert drove Los Angeles to a touchdown with 32 seconds remaining Sunday as the Chargers upset the Kansas City Chiefs 30-24 in a wild AFC West division matchup at Kansas City, Mo. An interception by Alohi Gillman enabled the Chargers to take possession at their 41 with 1:42 remaining. The pick […]

September 27, 2021 By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton retook the lead in the Formula One championship with his 100th win in Russia on Sunday but engine concerns are hanging over the Mercedes driver’s bid for a record eighth title. Team mate Valtteri Bottas took a hit and started 16th on the grid […]

September 27, 2021 By Steve Keating KOHLER, Wisconsin (Reuters) – It took nothing less than a U.S. Ryder Cup win to bring a truce to golf’s biggest feud on Sunday as Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka celebrated the victory over Europe with a hug while their team mates belted out the 1970s hit, “Why Can’t […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) – Andrey Rublev and Alexander Zverev clinched the Laver Cup for Team Europe with a 6-2 6-7(4) 10-3 win over Team World’s Reilly Opelka and Denis Shapovalov on Sunday in Boston. Team Europe entered the final day of the event needing one victory from any of the four scheduled matches to […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) – Lee Westwood said he has plenty of golf left in him but that his singles victory on Sunday may have been his final Ryder Cup match after Europe were thrashed 19-9 by the United States at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. The 48-year-old Englishman, with his son Sam on the bag, […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) – Anthony Joshua’s stunning defeat to Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk means there is unlikely to be a world heavyweight unification fight between Britons Joshua and Tyson Fury, promoter Frank Warren said. Joshua was unable to counter the superior boxing skills of Usyk as he suffered his second professional defeat to lose his […]

September 27, 2021 For the first 26 weeks of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, a big question was whether Denny Hamlin would win a race this season. That question has been replaced by two others. How many races will the Joe Gibbs Racing driver win this year? And is he now the favorite to […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) – Kwon Soon-woo became the first South Korean to win on the ATP Tour since Lee Hyung-taik in 2003 after the 23-year-old defeated Australian James Duckworth 7-6(6) 6-3 in the Astana Open final on Sunday. Kwon trailed 6-3 in the first set tie-break before saving three set points in the ATP […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) – Four-times Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka looks set to return to tennis shortly after getting “that itch” to play again. Osaka said at the U.S. Open earlier this month that she would take a break from the game to concentrate on her mental health following a third round defeat by […]

September 27, 2021 By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Parliament members on Monday rejected three attempts by some lawmakers to block the European Union’s proposed rulebook for sustainable investments, as Brussels edges towards completing the first part of the landmark rules. The European Commission in April proposed the first section of the EU’s sustainable […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) -England all-rounder Moeen Ali has announced his retirement from test cricket, the country’s cricket board said on Monday. Moeen, who made his test debut in 2014, scored 2,914 runs in 64 tests at an average of 28.29 and picked up 195 wickets with his off-spin. Moeen said in a statement that […]

Brett Lovelady Contributor Share on Twitter Brett Lovelady is the founder of Astro Studios, now a part of PA Consulting, a design-driven company that empowers designers and strives to capture the value of design in the product, brand, experience and company creation process. Around 90% of startups ultimately fail, and the reasons leading to failure […]

September 27, 2021 By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) – Following Europe’s Ryder Cup thrashing by the United States at Whistling Straits former captain Colin Montgomerie summed up neatly the challenge facing the next incumbent in the job. “I don’t envy whoever is in charge in Rome,” the Scot, whose team won a thriller at Celtic […]

September 27, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Sara Cox said her historic debut as a Premiership referee could not have gone any better after earning rave reviews for her handling of Harlequins’ win against Worcester on Saturday. The 31-year-old became the first female referee to officiate in an English top-flight game and said her breakthrough would […]

September 27, 2021 (Reuters) – Instagram has hit pause on a new app it is creating for kids, the photo-sharing service owned by Facebook Inc said on Monday, in a move that comes amid growing opposition for the project. Instagram Kids had been touted as requiring parental permission to join, and was supposed to provide […]

September 27, 2021 By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wells Fargo & Co will pay $37.3 million to resolve U.S. government claims it fraudulently overcharged commercial clients on foreign exchange services, the latest in a string of scandals over the bank’s treatment of customers. Monday’s settlement resolves U.S. Department of Justice civil fraud charges […]

September 27, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard said Monday the U.S. had fallen behind its peer central banks in building the risks of climate change into the supervision of banks, highlighting a potentially core priority should she be promoted to vice chair of supervision at the Fed or even to the […]

September 27, 2021 By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Democrats who control the U.S. Senate were bracing for a likely loss on Monday in a vote on a bill to fund the federal government and lift the nation’s debt ceiling, as President Joe Biden’s party fought over the details of his sweeping […]