Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, speaks during the WSJDLive Global Technology Conference in Laguna Beach, California, on October 25, 2016 Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s cloud-computing business has acquired Wickr, an encrypted messaging platform used by government agencies and enterprises, the company announced Friday. Terms of the deal weren’t
The health secretary’s appointment of a close personal friend as an aide would have gone through an “incredibly rigorous” process, a minister has claimed. Questions about Matt Hancock’s appointment of former lobbyist Gina Coladangelo surfaced after pictures in The Sun newspaper appeared to show the health secretary, who is married, kissing the aide in his
LadBible Group, the youth-focused digital publisher, is exploring a stock market listing or partial sale that would catapult its co-founder into the ranks of Britain’s super-rich. Sky News has learnt that LadBible, which was founded by Solly Solomou and Arian Kalantari in 2012, is working with Zeus Capital, the investment bank, on a review of
Almost £500m worth of drugs and precursors have been burned by Myanmar’s military authorities. Heroin, cannabis, methamphetamine and ketamine were among substances disposed of in the haul valued at £489m. Stockpiles were set ablaze in Yangon, Mandalay and Tauggyi, on the United Nations International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. Image: Heroin, cannabis, methamphetamine
Terrence Floyd posed questions to Derek Chauvin that many have asked in the 13 months since his brother George was murdered. “What were you thinking? What was going through your head?” he asked the former police officer during his statement in court. “Why didn’t you get up?” Chauvin gave no answers in his own brief
News RZA Announces New Album, Shares New Song: Listen “Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater” is taken from RZA vs Bobby Digital By Matthew Strauss June 25, 2021 Facebook Twitter RZA, photo courtesy of Infamous PR Facebook Twitter RZA has shared a new song that will appear on the album RZA vs Bobby Digital. On the
Universal’s F9 is off to a great start as expected having grossed $7.1M from 3,100 theaters that began showtimes at 7PM. The pic expands to 4,179 theaters today, the widest ever for a film being released during the pandemic. In more great news: F9 did more business last night than Hobbs & Shaw did in its Thursday previews which were $5.8M
Bones belonging to a “new type of early human” previously unknown to science have been found in Israel, researchers said Thursday, claiming to have shed new light on human evolution. Excavations in the quarry of a cement plant near the central city of Ramla uncovered prehistoric remains that could not be matched to any known
ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok app is displayed in the App Store on a smartphone in an arranged photograph taken in Arlington, Virginia, on Monday, Aug. 3, 2020. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images A former TikTok recruiter remembers that her hours were supposed to be from 10 am to 7 pm, but more often than not, she
It was never likely that Boris Johnson would fire one of his cabinet over an alleged affair. This afternoon Downing Street is busy attempting to shut down the Matt Hancock controversy and is making clear they regard the matter as closed. But there are plenty of grounds to think this issue won’t go away that
A relative of the Whitehall director alleged to have had an extramarital affair with Matt Hancock, the health secretary, is an executive at a private healthcare company which has won a string of NHS contracts. Sky News can reveal that Roberto Coladangelo – who is understood to be Gina Coladangelo’s brother – works at Partnering
European leaders have rounded on Hungary’s leader over a new law which they say discriminates people from the LGBT+ community. The legislation, which bans the “promotion” of homosexuality to young people, prompted Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to say Hungary has no business being in the European Union any more, vowing to bring the country
Former US police officer Derek Chauvin has been jailed for 22-and-a-half years for murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis last year. Chauvin, 45, was convicted of second and third degree murder and manslaughter in April over a case that made global headlines and sparked protests. Video showed the white police officer had his knee on the
For every great movie that we get to see on the big screen, there’s another one, or more than one, that never makes it. We’ve heard countless stories of films that sounded amazing, at least on paper, that never happened. Stuck in the middle of those two extremes are the movies that haven’t happened yet,
The feud between Jared Padalecki and his Supernatural family appears to be no joke. Padalecki has taken to Twitter hours after hitting out at his co-star Jensen Ackles for not involving him in negotiations about The Winchesters, a new Supernatural prequel in development at The CW. “Hey world, thank you for the love,” Padalecki began
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