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Mark Cuban speaks onstage during the 2025 SXSW Conference and Festival at Hilton Austin in Austin, Texas, on March 10, 2025.Julia Beverly | Wireimage | Getty ImagesMark Cuban is launching a new $750 million private equity fund focused on sports franchises, called Harbinger Sports Partners.As sports valuations soar and teams look for new capital, the professional leagues have increasingly opened the door to private equity investment. In August, National Football League owners became the last major sports league to approve private equity investment, allowing up to a 10% stake by select firms.HSP says it will focus its investments on acquiring…

In 2016, just a year after its launch, MySwimPro earned Apple’s App of the Year designation in the watch category. Fares Ksebati, the app’s co-founder and CEO, says that while there was no monetary price for that honor, “it gave us a lot of momentum.”Nearly a decade later, things are going swimmingly for Ksebati and the company: MySwimPro brought in over $2.5 million in revenue in 2024 and counts over 15,000 active paid subscribers as of March 2025.Running the company has been an opportunity for Ksebati to share his passion for swimming with thousands of athletes around the world while…

Alexander Spatari | Moment | Getty ImagesSince ChatGPT’s big public debut already close to three years ago, Google has faced persistent questions about its decades-long hold over internet search traffic. That concern surfaced again in recent weeks after a top Apple executive alluded to a decline in search traffic on iPhone (where Google is the default search engine in the Safari browser) during court testimony. Amid a stock slide, Google was quick to issue a statement saying its search business was fine. In an earlier panic over ChatGPT, Google founder Sergey Brin spoke out to say he has full confidence…

Van Dijk will collect the trophy and begin another special round of celebration when Crystal Palace visit Anfield next Sunday – Liverpool’s first league lift with fans present since 1990.Speaking to Men in Blazers, the captain was asked if he would identify one single difference that catapulted the Reds to the title after Slot took over from Jürgen Klopp.“I can’t put it on one single thing, to be absolutely honest with you,” he replied. “Obviously we all know the club had to replace a manager that was obviously such an influence on the success that we had throughout all those…

Welcome to The Radar, a Sky Sports column in which Nick Wright uses a blend of data and opinion to shed light on need-to-know stories from up and down the Premier League. This week: 💪 Bruno’s durability for Newcastle🔴 Havertz missed by Arsenal🔎 An underrated Brentford player?Brilliant Bruno’s relentlessnessBruno Guimaraes delighted Newcastle supporters when he was spotted blowing a kiss to Enzo Fernandez after scoring their second goal in last weekend’s 2-0 win over Chelsea. Sunday 18th May 4:15pm Kick off 4:30pm The Brazil international showed his usual blend of quality and industry in the game, helping set up the…

AAron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty ImagesCollege commencement is a time of optimism for newly minted graduates. But this year, there’s also more uncertainty about the economy and employment — and grads in some unexpected majors may find they have a leg up.Majors in nutrition, art history and philosophy all outperformed STEM fields when it comes to employment prospects, according to a recent analysis of labor market outcomes of college graduates by major by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.For computer science and computer engineering, the unemployment rate in those fields was 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively — notably higher…

Mike Novogratz’s crypto firm Galaxy Digital started trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under the ticker GLXY. The stock opened at $23.50 per share on the U.S. exchange.Galaxy Digital, which has been traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange since 2020, shifted its shares to the Nasdaq through a direct listing — a move that follows a grueling, multiyear battle with U.S. regulators.Novogratz told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday that Galaxy’s value now hinges on two high-growth areas: crypto and artificial intelligence.”These are the two most exciting growth areas in markets, right. AI and the infrastructure needed for AI to exist…

Lisa Su has been the CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) for 10 years, taking the company from a struggling chipmaker to a $190 billion artificial intelligence powerhouse — and boosting her net worth to $1 billion in the process.The turnaround wasn’t easy, but Su faced the challenge head on, she said during a commencement speech at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 10. The best piece of career advice she ever received was to “run towards the hardest problems,” said Su, 55. “That’s where you find the biggest opportunities, where you learn the most, where you set yourself apart, and…

Chelsea are interested in signing United States teenager Lily Yohannes this summer, sources have told ESPN.The reigning Women’s Super League (WSL) champions have held an interest in the 17-year-old for some time, sources said, but no formal offer has been made yet due to the midfielder’s age.Yohannes, who plays for Dutch side Ajax, turns 18 on June 12. She has one year left on her contract, which runs until 2026.She faced Chelsea in the quarterfinals of last season’s Champions League, when the club was still under the management of now-USWNT head coach Emma Hayes.Lily Yohannes has drawn interest from Chelsea. Brad…

Andersen Ross Photography Inc | Digitalvision | Getty ImagesWall Street is warning that the U.S. Department of Education’s crack down on student loan repayments may take billions of dollars out of consumers’ pockets and hit low income Americans particularly hard.The department has restarted collections on defaulted student loans under President Donald Trump this month. For first time in around five years, borrowers who haven’t kept up with their bills could see their wages taken or face other punishments.Using a range of interest rates and lengths of repayment plans, JPMorgan estimated that disposable personal income could be collectively cut by between…