• A Russian court fined Google $20,604,600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s $20.6 decillion for you math nerds). The fine, for allegedly blocking access to Russian media outlets, literally exceeds all the money on Earth.
• Speaking of Google, it announced its quarterly earnings on Tuesday and shared with analysts that additional cost reductions would be coming following several rounds of layoffs over the past few months. The executives then addressed the issue with concerned employees during a town hall while wearing Halloween costumes. A man dressed as a starfish explained to employees that the leadership team was examining the issue of potential layoffs thoughtfully.
• Los Angeles Dodgers fans set a metro bus ablaze celebrating the team’s World Series win.
• New Jersey‘s largest newspaper, The Star-Ledger, will stop publishing its print edition early next year and transition to online only.
• The Miami Heat unveiled a statue of the team’s Hall of Fame player Dwyane Wade, and, well, it’s not good. It may be the worst likeness of an athlete since the infamous Cristiano Ronaldo bust.
• A 20-year-old rising star pro golfer, Jeffrey Guan, was struck in the face by a golf ball and has completely lost sight in his left eye.
• Thieves stole more than 24 tons of artisan cheese from a London cheese retailer in a crime local authorities are calling the “grate cheese robbery.”
• Women’s Tennis Association CEO Portia Archer is trying to defend holding the WTA Tour Finals in Saudi Arabia. “It’s difficult for me to say where we would ‘draw the line,’ so to speak,” Archer said of Saudi Arabia’s terrible women’s rights record.
• Former Denver Broncos wide receiver and longtime Denver sportscaster Mike Haffner died. He was 82.
• An age-old maxim – the Infinite Monkey Theorem – holds that a monkey given a typewriter and an infinite amount of time could reproduce the entire works of William Shakespeare. However, two mathematicians in Australia are trying to burst our monkey bubble by calculating that our universe would die a natural death before that could happen. Apparently “infinite” isn’t a term that is taught in Australian math classes.

Who won the week?

• The Denver-based social media agency VOCO has been acquired by Gravity Global. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
• The Denver-based trade group GoWest Credit Union Association appointed Madlynn Schreibvogel as its new vice president of public relations. Schreibvogel previously was with the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration.