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What Sheryl Sandberg's exit reveals about women's progress in tech
With the exit of Meta's top executive, Silicon Valley is losing one of its most visible and outspoken female executives, leaving few—some would say zero—similar peers in her wake
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Twitter to share data at heart of Musk deal dispute: report
Twitter chief executive Parag Agrawal has said that fewer than five percent of accounts active on any given day at Twitter are bots, but that analysis cannot be replicated externally due to the need to keep user data private
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Spotify aims for a billion users by 2030
Co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek, speaking at an investor day event in New York, said the ambitious goal could be achieved in part through an expansion of Spotify's portfolio of podcasts and audiobooks, while making the platform a one-stop shop for content creators
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Fate of Donbas rests in battleground Ukraine city: Zelensky
Moscow's forces are concentrating their firepower on the strategically important industrial hub as part of efforts to capture a swathe of eastern Ukraine
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Shanghai to lock down again and test 2.7 million as Covid fears linger
The city eased many restrictions last week, after confining most of its 25 million residents to their homes since March as China battled its worst Covid outbreak in two years
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The pandemic crushed teachers. After Uvalde, they wonder 'what's more?'
Schools had gotten off to a promising start—classrooms open, vaccines widely available, learning underway. And while some enjoyed normalcy, others found that this year being among their most difficult. For some, the news that 19 children and two teachers were shot to death at an elementary school in Texas was a final gut punch
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How Jared Kushner washed his hands off Donald Trump after Jan 6
While the former president's son-in-law had arguably been the most influential adviser to the president through four years, he chose at that pivotal moment to focus instead on his personal project of Middle East diplomacy
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Wells Fargo to pause diversity policy that led to fake job interviews
The decision to review the policy comes after a former employee in the bank's wealth management business complained he was being forced by his bosses to interview people for jobs that had already been promised to others, just to meet the "diverse slate" requirement
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Global crises cannot delay action on climate; need international unity: UN climate chief
Nations face a formidable collection of inter-related challenges, including the Ukraine conflict, energy, food and economic crises, as well as the continued impact of the Covid pandemic
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Relief, caution in Beijing as city lifts Covid dine-in curbs
Last month, the city of 22 million stopped people from eating out, closed gyms and sealed off dozens of subway stations to try and stamp out a coronavirus outbreak
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Elon Musk threatens to pull out of Twitter deal over fake accounts
Twitter was "actively resisting and thwarting" Musk's rights while he was completing a $44 billion deal to buy the social media service, the lawyers of the Tesla boss wrote in a letter