#Japan’s ruling party wants more women at meetings

#Japan’s ruling party wants more women at meetings

“#Japan’s ruling party wants more women at meetings” TOKYO – Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, long seen as a homogeneous redoubt of elderly men, now wants more women at its key meetings – provided they don’t do the talking. The party, in power for most of the time since 1955, has proposed allowing five female…

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#News Corp and Google reach global news sharing deal

#News Corp and Google reach global news sharing deal

“#News Corp and Google reach global news sharing deal” News Corp., the parent company of the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal, said it has reached a three-year agreement to provide content from its news sites around the globe to Google in exchange for “significant payments” from the search giant. The deal appears…

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#Disneyland to reopen in Hong Kong this week

#Disneyland to reopen in Hong Kong this week

“#Disneyland to reopen in Hong Kong this week” Disney theme parks are about to hit an important milestone. The Mouse House said Wednesday that it will reopen Hong Kong Disneyland on Friday, marking the return of the majority of Disney theme parks since the onset of the pandemic a year ago. The Hong Kong theme…

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#SpaceX valuation reportedly soars to B in funding round

#SpaceX valuation reportedly soars to $74B in funding round

“#SpaceX valuation reportedly soars to $74B in funding round” Elon Musk’s rocket-building company SpaceX reportedly snagged a roughly $74 billion valuation in a private fundraising round that wrapped up last week. SpaceX raised $850 million in equity funding at $419.99 per share, according to CNBC — just a penny shy of the $420 price that…

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#Martin Scorsese trash talks streaming services

#Martin Scorsese trash talks streaming services

“#Martin Scorsese trash talks streaming services” Don’t bite the hand that streams you? Following in the footsteps of other auteur filmmakers who engage in Netflix-bashing, iconic director Martin Scorsese has eviscerated streaming platforms for supposedly devaluing the “art of cinema” due to a lack of “curation.” The legendary “Goodfellas” director — already a noted non-fan…

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#Trump’s dilapidated former Atlantic City casino demolished

#Trump’s dilapidated former Atlantic City casino demolished

“#Trump’s dilapidated former Atlantic City casino demolished” The last remnant of former President Trump’s once-glamorous Atlantic City casino empire was demolished early Wednesday. At 9:08 a.m., the former Trump Plaza casino was razed in a controlled explosion, crumbling “like a deck of cards” as Fire Chief Scott Evans had earlier predicted. Overall, it took the…

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