News Around the Globe
By Elisa An unlikely figure helped set the spark for SoftBank Group’s $9 billion deal to take WeWork public. Adam Neumann, WeWork’s co-founder and ousted chief executive, met in November …
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By Salo Scholastic has pulled a popular children’s book written by the author of the “Captain Underpants” series author – for promoting “passive racism.” The publisher announced that it will …
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By Connelly Venezuela’s government accused Facebook of “digital totalitarianism” for freezing President Nicolas Maduro’s page for 30 days after he posted what the social network deemed misinformation about COVID-19. The …
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By Steigrad US regulators have ordered Tesla honcho Elon Musk to delete a 2018 tweet that said Tesla workers would lose their stock options if they voted to unionize, calling …
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By Manskar Anyone buying a car from Tesla in the US can now pay for it with bitcoin, CEO Elon Musk said. Musk broke the news on Twitter about six …
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By Manskar GlaxoSmithKline fired Moncef Slaoui – the feds’ former coronavirus vaccine czar – from one of its subsidiaries after an internal probe found he had sexually harassed one of …
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By Manskar Facebook disabled more than 1.3 billion fake accounts in the final three months of last year as part of its efforts to tackle misinformation, the company said. The …
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By Manskar YouTube star David Dobrik has left the board of his photo-sharing app Dispo after a former member of his online comedy crew was accused of rape. Dobrik’s departure …
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By Brown A senior Teen Vogue staffer who opposed Alexi McCammond’s hiring as editor-in-chief over troubling tweets as a teen had herself repeatedly dropped the N-word in online posts, according …
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By Manskar The feds have filed criminal charges against a prolific Swiss hacker who took credit for breaking into more than 150,000 security cameras run by a Silicon Valley startup. …
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By Manskar Visa’s stock price slid as the card giant confirmed that the feds are probing whether it has used anticompetitive practices to maintain its dominance in the debit-card market. …
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By Alexandra Amazon is looking to expand its burgeoning advertising business and its next stop is the digital media’s biggest show. The Jeff Bezos-led company said that it will join …
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By Manskar A SpaceX engineer who called himself “MillionaireMike” has pleaded guilty to insider trading using information he bought on the dark web, the feds said. James Roland Jones faces …
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By Steigrad Disney said that its two California theme parks, Disneyland and Disney California Adventure Park, will finally reopen at the end of next month. The parks, which have been …
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By Manskar Nokia said it plans to slash up to 10,000 jobs over the next two years as it forges ahead with a corporate restructuring. The layoffs are part of …
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By Alex Alphabet’s Google will cut the service fee that it charges developers on its app store by half for the first $1 million in revenue they earn every year, …
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By Manskar Jack Ma’s clash with Beijing may have pushed him out of the public spotlight – but it didn’t stop him from taking to the skies. The billionaire Alibaba …
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By Manskar A mysterious crypto investor who goes by the pseudonym “Metakovan” is the acquirer who reportedly paid more than $69 million for “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” a so-called …
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By Lapin Roman Catholic leaders in Long Island have drawn blowback for advising the faithful not to take the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine because the shot is produced using …
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By Manskar Bitcoin’s market value crossed the trillion-dollar mark once again Tuesday as the cryptocurrency’s recent rally regained some momentum. The price of the world’s biggest digital coin climbed about …
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