Section: Business Insider (USA)
The 10 things in advertising you need to know today (AAPL)
ReutersGood morning. Here’s everything you need to know in the world of advertising today. 1. How “deceptive” sponsored news articles could be tricking readers — even with a disclosure message. A study found that 60% of readers do not notice the sponsor disclosure label placed at the top of paid-for articles. 2. The ad agency...
Ukraine tore down a giant statue of an iconic Russian leader and live-streamed it on YouTube
Reuters/Gleb GaranichKIEV (Reuters) – Exhaustive efforts to tear down Ukraine’s largest remaining monument to Vladimir Lenin bore fruit on Thursday when workers prised the late Soviet leader’s statue from its plinth in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhya. Since a pro-Western uprising ousted a Russia-backed president in 2014,...
All over the world, people are overcoming huge challenges to make a career in video games
YouTube/ScreenshotAt this week’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, a panel of game developers and critics gathered for the fourth annual #1ReasonToBe panel — as in, “the No. 1 reason to be” a woman or person of color who works in games and technology. The goal of #1ReasonToBe is to focus on the panelists’...
Russia’s motives for getting involved in Syria in the first place
Thomson ReutersRussian President Vladimir Putin announced March 14 that Russia had sufficiently achieved its goals in Syria since beginning airstrikes in September, and that it will gradually withdraw the bulk of its forces from the country, starting March 15. According to Putin, the process could take as long as five months. However,...
A look at the unlikely man who may be Syria’s best hope for peace
Denis Balibouse/ReutersDismissed by critics as a diplomatic dandy, hailed by allies as a creative consensus-builder, Staffan de Mistura takes the hot seat in Geneva on Monday as the man in charge of forging peace in Syria. In an impeccable suit and pince-nez spectacles, the Swedish-Italian diplomat looks as though he’d be more comfortable...
Russia’s military wants to buy five dolphins for $25,000 and no, they don’t want to disclose why
KremlinThe Russian Ministry of Defense has announced plans that it is seeking to buy five young and healthy dolphins, Russian news sources reported this week. According to the Russian media company TASS, the defense ministry is willing to pay upwards of $25,000 for the dolphins. Specifically, the Kremlin is looking to buy two females and three...
The US is planning to blame Iran for a cyber attack on dam in New York
Thomson ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration is planning to publicly blame Iranian hackers for a 2013 cyber attack against a small dam in New York state, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against the hackers, two of the sources said, and a public...
Trump’s proposal to ‘take out’ the families of terrorists would set a dangerous precedent
AP Photo/John MinchilloAs a retired military officer, I do not publicly endorse candidates. But as someone who served as a judge advocate, or military lawyer, for 34 years, I do think it can be helpful to examine in a nonpartisan way the legal aspects of Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric on the use of force against the Islamic State, or...
Lawyer of Ukrainian pilot who is on what she calls a ‘show trial’ in Russia says she might die in prison
Thomson ReutersMOSCOW (Reuters) – A hunger-striking Ukrainian pilot on trial in Russia over the killing of two Russian journalists could die before a Russian court sentences her as the state of her health is worsening, her lawyer said. Nadezhda Savchenko, 34, was captured by in eastern Ukraine in June 2014 during fighting between Ukrainian...
GREENPEACE: Locals are still eating radioactive food 30 years after Chernobyl
REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/FilesMOSCOW (Reuters) – Economic crises convulsing Russia, Ukraine and Belarus mean testing in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster has been cut or restricted, Greenpeace said, and people continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels. According to scientific tests conducted on...
