Le’Veon Bell will not report to the Steelers, who left for Cleveland already, and has officially surrendered his Game 1 paycheck worth $853,000, sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Sources: Pelicans’ Davis parts ways with agent
Pelicans star Anthony Davis has parted ways with longtime agent Thad Foucher, sources told ESPN.
Todayâs weird kidsâ YouTube channels have nothing on the first season of PokĂŠmon
Yesterday, apropos of seemingly nothing, a tiny voice deep in the folds of my brain squeaked at me: âPika-pi,â it said. âPika, pika-chu.â Well-conditioned late-â90s child that I am, I was compelled to answer the call: I had to consume some PokĂŠmon.
It was only after I was eight episodes into the original series that I realized (no, really, I am not making this up for dramatic effect): the next day â today â was the 20th anniversary of the PokĂŠmon pilot airing in the US That âPika-piâ has been drilling into my skull for two decades, years after Iâd stopped giving a damn about new PokĂŠmon games (sorry, friends, 250 is my limit), and now here it was again, to passive-aggressively remind me of my encroaching mortality.
The question of…
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Rain playing havoc with Brickyard; possibly Mon.
The start of the Brickyard 400 on Sunday has been moved up because of the likelihood of rain, with Cup drivers expecting the race to be moved to Monday.
Trump renews call for Apple to make its products in the US
President Donald Trump suggested this morning that Apple should move its manufacturing plants to America as a way to avoid tariffs in the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China, following reports that the companyâs products could become more expensive.
The Trump administration began imposing a series of tariffs on goods from China this summer, but up until now, consumer electronics have been left off the list. That could soon change, as the latest proposed round of tariffs could include products from companies like Apple, Fitbit and Sonos. This week, Apple said that the tariffs would amount to a 25 percent tax on products like the Apple Pencil, AirPods, Apple Watch, HomePod, Mac Mini, and others (or individual components used in…
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Happy birthday, Google: this week in tech, 20 years ago
One of 1998âs biggest tech stories was the massive antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft. Itâs Monopoly Week on The Verge, so I wrote a bit about that lawsuitâs place in the â90s legal landscape. I also reviewed Antitrust, the 2001 thriller about a fictionalized Microsoft that murders software developers to steal their code.
But todayâs big news involves another incredibly important, potentially monopolistic tech company: Google, which was founded on September 4th, 1998. To celebrate, you can check out some âstickersâ from one of Googleâs earliest iterations. Or you can read on for news about celebrity chat rooms, flame mail, and a North Korean satellite.
Hello Google, goodbye Backrub
Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched the Google search…
How Tor.com went from website to publisher of sci-fiâs most innovative stories
In July 2008, science fiction publisher Tor launched a new website called Tor.com to promote its upcoming releases. But the site was designed to go beyond Torâs books. It was meant to provide coverage for books from other publishers as well as original fiction chosen by Tor editors.
Since its founding, Tor.com has gone from a simple website to a full-fledged publishing operation. In addition to publishing shorter works of fiction, it also publishes a range of novelettes, novellas, and even some short novels, with books like Nnedi Okoraforâs Binti and Martha Wellsâ All Systems Red earning considerable acclaim from the science fiction community. This week, the site published the anthology Worlds Seen in Passing: 10 Years of Tor.com Short…
Nike Sales Surged Following Controversial Colin Kaepernick Ad Campaign
Nike’s controversial new campaign featuring Colin Kaepernick is paying dividends.Â
Despite protests from some consumers who set their swoosh-embroidered shoes ablaze, the sportswear giant’s online sales have rocketed since releasing ads like this commercial narrated by the former 49ers quarterback.Â
Market Watch has further details:Â
After an initial dip immediately after the news broke, Nikeâs NKE, -0.12% online sales actually grew 31% from the Sunday of Labor Day weekend through Tuesday, as compared with a 17% gain recorded for the same period of 2017, according to San Franciscoâbased Edison Trends.
Some analysts predicted that Nike’s support of the NFL player who called attention to racial inequality by kneeling during the singing of the national anthem before games would lead to a sales slump. That’s not been the case so far.Â
âThere was speculation that the Nike-Kaepernick campaign would lead to a drop in sales, but our data over the last week does not support that theory,â said Hetal Pandya, co-founder of Edison Trends.
Nike stock has also held steady. Per Market Watch,Â
The stock was up 1% on Friday and remains in the black for the month. It has gained 29% in 2018, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.31% , which since 2013 has counted Nike as a member, has gained 5%, as the S&P 500 index SPX, -0.22% has risen about 8%.
Data from marketing technology company 4C Insights shows that in addition to financial growth, Nike saw a 1,678 percent uptick in mentions and comments on social media over Sunday and Monday as sentiment toward the brand dropped 38 percent.Â
âYou can be darn sure that Nike has done its research and knows what will move its product and who this campaign will resonate with,â said 4C Chief Marketing Officer Aaron Goldman. âThey are the ones [Nike has] decided will be its future customers, so, if others are getting upset, [Nike has] planned for that, and it doesnât care.â
If any team wanted to sign Kaepernick, now might be the ideal time to do so.Â