Author: Max Smith

Reading time: 2 minutesYufan Chai, Manin Huang, Alaina Rhodes A team of 3 university students Hawaii At Manoah Shidler College of Business, students won a national government litigation challenge and each received a $1,000 scholarship. You-Fan Chai, Manying Huang, and Alaina Rhoades spent months analyzing data for a selected city (Denver, Colorado) to create a “citizen-centric report” for that city. “Winning this competition was really surreal and a great learning experience,” Chai said. “This contest allowed us to test our skills in finding the information we needed about Denver, Colorado.” According to Chai, the team used Canva and CapCut to…

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New language will be reviewed 3 days before closing. ATLANTA — A Georgia House committee on Monday is scheduled to consider a sports betting bill that could advance ahead of the legislative session scheduled for Thursday. When the House Higher Education Committee convened, it learned that much of the bill passed by the Senate had been rewritten. Sports betting is a constitutional amendment and requires two-thirds approval, so there is a major hurdle to overcome. Although it passed in the Senate, the House remains the biggest hurdle. State Rep. Marcus Wiedauer (R-Watkinsville) put a friendly hand on his colleague's shoulder…

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‘We deliver outcomes, we create stickiness with our customers and we really stay as a long-term player,’ HCLTech executive Amit Jain says. Amit Jain, executive vice president and global head of cybersecurity at HCLTech, wants to see more resources from vendors to help with the lack of cybersecurity professionals as part of what he calls “a 360-degree relationship.” Coming off the India-based solution provider’s newly announced partnership with cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike, HCLTech sees ways for vendors to better support the services-led partners that foster customer loyalty and make sure products are stood up properly, Jain told CRN in an interview.…

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5:18 PM ET, March 25, 2024 Baseball has a dark past with gambling. From CNN's Jacob Leff 1919 World Series game between the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds, played at Redland Field in Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati Reds/MLB/Getty Images Baseball has a troubled history with gambling. The most famous or infamous case is the “Black Sox Scandal.” During the 1919 World Series, the heavily favored Chicago White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds 5-3 in a best-of-nine series. But a year later, eight White Sox players were accused of colluding with gamblers to intentionally lose the Fall Classic. They were…

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Yahoo Finance's Jennifer Schoenberger speaks with Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsby about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's recent press conference and how Goolsby sees the economy in the coming months. The main points of discussion are the following:#1: Inflation indicators are “opaque”Goolsby said recent key measures of CPI and core PCE “remained higher than we would expect” in February, but have fallen recently. For Goolsby, these measurements, while encouraging, indicate that “we're in a bit of an uncertain time” regarding CPI and core PCE data.#2: Three rate cuts “side by side”Mr. Schoenberger asked Mr. Goolsby whether the Fed's decision to cut…

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“I would go right in and change my financial passwords,” Martin Yarborough said of the attack. FORT WORTH, Texas — Cybersecurity experts like Martin Yarborough are warning property owners across Tarrant County. Yarborough said property owners in Tarrant County need to take immediate action after the Tarrant Appraisal District announced it was attacked by hackers with ransomware. “I'm going to monitor my credit,” Yarborough said. “I'm going to go right away and change the financial passwords I have for my bank accounts and bill payments. I make them very complex.” According to TAD, someone hacked the agency's systems on March…

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Apple (AAPL) is facing regulatory pressure following reports of several investigations, from an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to a European Union investigation into Big Tech companies. ing.Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani, who has an outperform rating with a price target of $220 per share, joined Yahoo Finance Live to discuss how Apple could potentially recover and Debating whether the iPhone manufacturer can get out of the difficult and difficult situation faced by itself is in the middle.Daryanani said the EU investigation poses “more headline risk than fundamental risk” and that he does not believe…

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