Image copyright Quibi The mobile-first streaming service Quibi launched in the US on Monday, despite concerns the coronavirus outbreak might impact its viewership. The company has raised $1.8bn (£1.47bn) for the project intended to rival Netflix and YouTube. Quibi’s shows are 10 minutes or shorter and movies are broken into segments. It has lined up […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mike Horn says we can all grow our personal resilience The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to professional explorer and motivational speaker Mike Horn. “I was bitten by a snake and lost my eyesight, and all the
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The NBA has told teams that they may not conduct or attend any workouts with draft-eligible players during the league’s coronavirus hiatus By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer April 7, 2020, 1:15 AM 2 min read 2 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article The NBA has told teams that they may not
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A top White House adviser starkly warned Trump administration officials in late January that the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death. The warning, written in a memo by Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade adviser, is the highest-level alert known to
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In a veiled swipe Monday at the Trump administration, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon blamed poor planning for the COVID-19 crisis. In an annual letter to shareholders, Dimon said, “As a nation, we were clearly not equipped for this global pandemic, and the consequences have been devastating.” Dimon predicted a “bad recession” as the fallout. The worst-case
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WASHINGTON — In an extraordinary broadside punctuated with profanity, the Navy’s top leader accused the fired commander of the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt of being “too naive or too stupid” to be in charge of an aircraft carrier. He delivered the criticism to sailors who had cheered the departing skipper last week. Hours after the
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Your mom isn’t the only one who’s developed a huge crush on Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) during the coronavirus pandemic. On Monday, YouTube star Randy Rainbow dedicated his latest parody song to New York’s chief executive — saying toward the end of the song that he identifies as “a Cuomosexual.” The video has become so
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Image copyright Getty Images More than 100 global organisations are calling for debt payments of developing countries to be dropped this year. These countries include the world’s poorest economies which are struggling with the impacts of coronavirus. Major charities including Oxfam and ActionAid International are asking for the debt relief which would free up more
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DETROIT — Fresh off the train and only 18 years old, Al Kaline ran into an immediate roadblock trying to join the Detroit Tigers. Called up to the majors, he couldn’t get past the security guards at Briggs Stadium. “I finally convinced them I was the guy who just signed a bonus contract for the
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The body of one of two Kennedy family members who went missing last week when their canoe capsized in the Chesapeake Bay was recovered on Monday, the authorities said. The Maryland Natural Resources Police said on Monday night that it had found the body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, a granddaughter of Robert F.
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