The penalty is very high, $140 million. Gawker media has to pay to celebrity wrestler Hulk Hogan for publishing (in 2012) a short clip from sex-tape involving Hogan and his friend’s wife. The incident occurred in 2006 and was taped without Hogan’s konwledge by the then husband of Heather Clem, the woman in the affair. Her (then) husband is a radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge. (more…)
Question is, what the ‘political donors’, or contributors who are very active during election time, get in retun (to their investment)?
The answer is: favour. (more…)
November is just few months away. Two top candidates are getting busier with their campaigns. Election market is very hot at the moment. It’s all about going into the Oval Office. (more…)
Yahoo is unlucky. Even the smartest and youngest CEO and a Google veteran Marissa Mayer could not save it. She was hired in 2012 with the sole purpose to bring Yahoo to a powerful position to compete with the search giant Google and social media Facebook. But far away from achieving any success, the company is now on its way to ‘non-existence’. The ‘doomsday’ just arrived. Yesterday telephone company Verizon acquired Yahoo’s operating business for approximately $4.83 billion in cash. (more…)
Fiction writer Kathleen Maher, the oldest of five, grew up in a suburb of Chicago. She already authored two books, ‘Diary of a heretic’ and ‘Underground Nest’. It’s my pleasure today to talk to Kathleen on her books, specially about the ‘Diary of a Heretic’ – a wild ride of Malcom Tully through sex, food, money and religion. (more…)
That will be a respectful decision. Believe me.
I was always wondering about Elizabeth Holmes, and admiration, of course, I had for all what she achieved through her work: a blood-testing technology which is fast and comfortable than the tradional long-needle, founding of Theranos, then a rank in Forbes list. All within 30. That’s marvellous. A big woooow. Itelligent, hard- working and ambitious. And of course, very gifted and lucky. That’s how all my thoughts swirled around the founder of Theranos. (more…)
Mobile call from one of Manik Mian’s fellows breaks his sleep everyday at 3:30 a.m., not the rising rays of the sun peeping through the window. He is 60. (more…)
Juliet McMains is an associate professor in the University of Washington Dance Program and author of “Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce,” published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. She answered a few questions about her work and the book. (more…)
