#Shamrock Capital-owned Adweek promotes two top editors

#Shamrock Capital-owned Adweek promotes two top editors

“#Shamrock Capital-owned Adweek promotes two top editors” Adweek, owned by an investment firm tied to the late Roy Disney, has promoted Lisa Granatstein to chief content officer and Stephanie Paterik to editor-in-chief and EVP. Paterik will oversee digital news as well as the 41-year-old magazine famous for its media Hotlist, which has cut its print…

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#Silver Spike Acquisition shares soar amidWeedMaps merger

#Silver Spike Acquisition shares soar amidWeedMaps merger

“#Silver Spike Acquisition shares soar amidWeedMaps merger” Shares of blank-check company Silver Spike Acquisition Corp. took off Thursday after it announced plans to merge with cannabis review platform WeedMaps. Investors sent the stock up as much as 42 percent after the company, formed last year to raise money to buy real businesses, said it has…

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#Hackers steal Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine info from EU agency

#Hackers steal Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine info from EU agency

“#Hackers steal Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine info from EU agency” Pfizer and BioNTech say hackers stole information about their coronavirus vaccine from the European Union’s drug regulator. The European Medicines Agency confirmed Wednesday that it was hit with a cyberattack as it reviewed the two companies’ COVID-19 shot for possible approval later this month. The…

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#Post’s Hunter Biden reports ‘suppressed’ by media

#Post’s Hunter Biden reports ‘suppressed’ by media

“#Post’s Hunter Biden reports ‘suppressed’ by media” Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald said Thursday that potential wrongdoing by President Joe Biden’s son, exposed by The Post, was “suppressed prior to the election” by most other media and Big Tech. In a column he self-published online, Greenwald specifically cited a Post article that revealed emails from…

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#Comic Michelle Buteau talks infertility, racism and sex

#Comic Michelle Buteau talks infertility, racism and sex

“#Comic Michelle Buteau talks infertility, racism and sex” 2020 was supposed to be Michelle Buteau’s year.  In September, the comedian released a comedy special, “Welcome to Buteaupia,” on Netflix. This week, the 43-year-old published her first book, a series of autobiographical essays called “Survival of The Thickest” (Gallery Books).  “I worked so hard to drop…

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#Airbnb stock price more than doubles in blockbuster IPO

#Airbnb stock price more than doubles in blockbuster IPO

“#Airbnb stock price more than doubles in blockbuster IPO” Airbnb’s stock price more than doubled Thursday in a blockbuster market debut that capped the vacation-rental giant’s comeback from the coronavirus crisis. Airbnb’s shares started trading on the Nasdaq at $146 apiece and soared as high as $165, marking a roughly 143 percent surge from the…

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