Oscar Statue at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on February 23, 2019 in Beverly Hills, California. Rodin Eckenroth Four years after it introduced major changes to its voting and recruitment rules, the organization behind the Academy Awards still has a diversity problem. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2016
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Toward the end of NBCUniversal’s two-hour long presentation of its Peacock streaming video service Thursday, the media and entertainment company dropped a revealing piece of information that rival companies haven’t made available. Comcast’s NBCUniversal estimates its streaming service will generate average revenue per user (ARPU) per month of $6 to $7. This is an aggregate
Jeff Bezos CEO of Amazon. Joe Klamar | AFP | Getty Images There’s an exclusive club on Wall Street and it might let Amazon back in this year. The so-called trillion-dollar club, which includes tech giants Apple, Microsoft and now Google-parent Alphabet, is the group of companies with a market value of $1 trillion or
Senior couple going through their financial bills while paying them online on a terrace. Focus is on woman. skynesher Retirement income is often thought to come from three sources: Social Security, pensions and savings. That combination is often called a three-legged stool, a metaphor for the money retirees use to support themselves once they are
A motorcade of hearses carrying the bodies of the eleven Ukrainian victims of the Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 plane disaster moves along a road before a memorial ceremony at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kiev, Ukraine January 19, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko KIEV (Reuters) – The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when
The National Oncology Particle Therapy Centre in Milan, Italy, where state-of-the-art particle therapy is a technique used to treat cancer, using hadrons, protons, proton therapy and carbon ion treatment to irradiate tumors. BSIP | Universal Images Group | Getty Images America’s war on cancer is about to get another tool in its arsenal. The country’s
People shop at the newly opened Amazon Go Store on May 07, 2019 in New York City. The cashier-less store, the first of this type of store, called Amazon Go, accepts cash and is the 12th such store in the United States located at Brookfield Place in downtown New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images
The insistent refrain “new all-time record” has been played so often recently that it sounds like a broken record. For readers born after the age of vinyl, the term refers to when the needle gets stuck in a groove, repeating a phrase over and over until you either move the arm or throw the record
Getty Images Earlier this month, scores of high school seniors submitted their applications to college. Now comes the worst part: waiting. In the wake of a college admissions scandal and as the super-low admission rate at many top colleges receives widespread attention, the business of getting in to college is more intense than ever. However,
Prejudice has hampered attempts to build a statue to the Elephant Man, his biographer has claimed. Jo Vigor-Mungovin, who traced Joseph Merrick’s grave, has been trying to raise the estimated £100,000 cost for a monument in his native Leicester. But progress has been slow with critics saying the idea was a “freak show” and the
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. Fast-casual restaurant chains like Chipotle Mexican Grill and Sweetgreen have been stealing customers from full-service restaurant chains like Outback Steakhouse and IHOP. To fight back, some casual dining chains have been launching spinoff restaurants that copy that business model. Fast-casual restaurants are smaller in size, with less seating
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., January 31, 2018. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The new year is not even three full weeks old, and already half a trillion dollars has been added to the S&P 500‘s value. Some investors worry either the economy has to
Confetti falls as Lyft CEO Logan Green (C) and President John Zimmer (LEFT C) ring the Nasdaq opening bell celebrating the company’s initial public offering (IPO) on March 29, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. The ride hailing app company’s shares were initially priced at $72. Mario Tama / Getty Images TE Connectivity This week, Wells
Tip 1: Put your savings on autopilot When it comes to saving, the first step is to make it a habit. Many financial advisors recommend beginning with an emergency fund, which is the key to keep from reaching for a credit card when something unexpected pops up, such as a broken appliance or a medical
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors are investigating the discovery of a burned-out vehicle containing the charred bodies of 10 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero, authorities said late on Friday. Police made the grisly discovery on a country road in the municipality of Chilapa de Alvarez after locals saw the vehicle on fire
A year ago, Boeing posted record revenues topping $100 billion with hopes of delivering a chart-topping number of airplanes in 2019, including hundreds of 737 Max jetliners. The news isn’t going to be so rosy on its fourth-quarter earnings call this year. Those bestselling planes were grounded worldwide in March after the second of two
CEO Of Netflix, Reed Hastings, attends the red carpet during the Netflix presentation party at the Invernadero del Palacio de Cristal de la Arganzuela on April 4, 2019 in Madrid, Spain. Juan Naharro Gimenez | Getty Images Here are the most important things to know about Tuesday before you hit the door. 1. Netflix reports
David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management, said Friday he still likes this bull market, which is the longest on record. ”I love riding a horse that’s running,” Tepper told CNBC’s Joe Kernen in an exclusive email. ”We have been long and continue that way.” The current bull market started in March of 2009. Since then, the S&P 500
Conversations with kids can be adversarial at the best of times. Combine teens, money and something they want, and you’ve got all the ingredients for a situation. If your family hasn’t been in the habit of holding regular financial chats, the risk is even higher for the talk to turn negative, says Thomas Henske, a
America aims to take another step on Sunday towards being able to send its own astronauts into orbit again. California’s SpaceX company will practise what to do in the event that one of its rockets carrying a human crew fails shortly after lift-off. If the test is completed successfully, it should clear the way for
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