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• Biden and Harris have been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2020

  11-12-2020 08:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
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  President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2020.
  The pair were chosen for the honor over finalists that included President Donald Trump, the movement for racial justice, and frontline health workers with Dr. Anthony Fauci.
  Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said that Biden and Harris received for the honor "for c
  
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• Facebook reportedly told its ad reviewers to ignore fraud and hacked accounts as long as 'Facebook gets paid'

  11-12-2020 08:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2019.
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  Facebook told workers to ignore fraudulent ads and hacked accounts as long as the company "gets paid," BuzzFeed News reported Thursday.
  BuzzFeed News' investigation revealed how Facebook consistently prioritized making money over protecting users from scams, hackers, and disinformation.
  Ahead of the US elections in November, F
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ripped into GOP Sen. Mike Lee after he blocked the creation of Latino and women's history museums during a dramatic Senate session

  11-12-2020 07:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said Americans didn't need "separate but equal" museums.
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  US Senator Mike Lee blocked two proposals that would establish new Smithsonian museums for American Latino and women's history.
  Both bipartisan bills passed the House of Representatives earlier this year, but the Republican senator said Americans didn't need "separate but equal" museums.
  Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez and GOP Sen. Susan Collins both pushed back at Lee during a dram
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slams Mitch McConnell for opposing $1,200 stimulus checks in Instagram live session

  11-12-2020 07:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., on Monday, August 24, 2020.
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  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over his opposition to stimulus checks on an Instagram livestream on Thursday night. 
  Ocasio-Cortez has repeatedly called for a $1,200 direct payment to be included in the relief bill Congress is aiming to pass during the lame-duck session.
  The freshman congresswoman also argued that Republicans
  
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• Idaho's GOP attorney general joins at least 4 other high profile GOP lawmakers in opposing Trump's long-shot Texas lawsuit to overturn 2020 election

  11-12-2020 05:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  US President Donald Trump golfs at Trump National Golf Club on November 21, 2020 in Sterling, Virginia.
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  A small group of House Republicans and Republican attorneys general have publicly disagreed with the latest election lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
  Republican attorneys general in Idaho, Ohio, and Georgia have declined to support the lawsuit.
  Sen. Mitt Romney called the lawsuit, "simply madness."
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• Attorney General Bill Barr reportedly knew about the Hunter Biden tax probes for months but kept them under wraps before the election

  11-12-2020 04:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  US Attorney General William Barr arrives for the event where US President Donald Trump signs an executive order on police reform, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 16, 2020.
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  Attorney General William Barr knew about two criminal investigations into Hunter Biden's financial dealings for months before the general election but kept them from the public, The Wall Street Journal reported.
  The news is a remarkable twist in Barr's tenure as
  
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• Disney announces price hike on its Disney+ streaming service as it reaches nearly 87 million subscribers

  11-12-2020 03:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A man looks at his phone as he passes by a screen advertising Walt Disney's streaming service Disney+ in New York
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  Disney will increase the price of its subscription to Disney+ by $1 to $7.99 a month starting in March. 
  Disney+ currently has 86.8 million subscribers. 
  The company anticipates 230 to 260 million subscribers to Disney+ by 2024. 
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  Disney will increase the price of its subscription to Disney+ by $1 to $7.99 a m
  
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• 'It's silly season': Airbnb and DoorDash's IPO rallies signal return of dot-com-era greed, strategists say

  11-12-2020 02:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square in New York on December 10.
  Photo by Kena Betancur/AFP/Getty ImagesAirbnb's and DoorDash's massive debut rallies suggest the IPO market is getting ahead of itself, top strategists said Thursday.Airbnb spiked 115% when it began trading publicly for the first time on Thursday. DoorDash closed 86% higher in its Wednesday debut.The first-day climbs revealed "euphoria and greed" last seen in the market during the dot-com bubble of the late
  
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• Airbnb is worth more than the 3 largest hotel chains combined after its stock popped 143% on its first day of trading

  11-12-2020 02:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Airbnb logo is displayed on the Nasdaq digital billboard in Times Square in New York on December 10, 2020.
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  Airbnb was worth more than the three largest hotel chains globally after its trading debut on Thursday.
  Airbnb's share price closed at $144.71, giving it a valuation of $86.5 billion — Marriott, Hilton, and Intercontinental were worth $84.1 billion combined when the markets closed Thursday.
  After a long awaited and uncertain road to its IPO
  
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• Majority of House Republicans support a lawsuit that aims to overturn the will of voters and hand 2020 election to Trump

  11-12-2020 01:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A protester in Pennsylvania holds a sign that reads "Count Every Vote."
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  A majority of Republicans in the House of Representatives have signed on to an amicus brief asking the US Supreme Court to effectively overturn the results of the 2020 election.
  The letter asks the Supreme Court to recognize the alleged right of Republican-led legislatures to ignore the popular vote and select electors who will support outgoing President Donald Trump.
  
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• What a future of hybrid working means for OOH

  11-12-2020 01:00
  
  Commuting patterns have been altered by the pandemic, but opportunities remain for brands to reach consumers through OOH media – just at different times of day and in new locations.
  
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• Shoppertainment: the platform opportunity

  11-12-2020 01:00
  
  Three quarters of Filipinos are now online shoppers, including around 1.5 million who have taken to e-commerce for the first time during the pandemic: it’s a major opportunity for platforms like Lazada.
  
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• New models of social influence

  11-12-2020 01:00
  
  The events of 2020 have broadened the influencer playing field and reorganized communities under different personality cults – more generous, pro-social and giving – and brands need to adapt accordingly, says strategy executive Ana Andjelic.
  
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• Marketers show more compassion in response to pandemic

  11-12-2020 01:00
  
  How best to communicate with worried consumers during the coronavirus pandemic is one of the central challenges facing marketers, and a new survey suggests the great majority of marketers in the UK have done just that – by being more...
  
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• Lessons from the Grand Prix: Band-Aid - WARC Media Awards Channel Integration

  11-12-2020 01:00
  
  Plaster brand Band-Aid won the Grand Prix for channel integration at the WMAs this week for a multiplatform campaign in Japan to appeal to young people hunting for their first jobs.
  
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• China grapples with fake traffic on live-streaming sites

  11-12-2020 01:00
  
  Live-streaming e-commerce is experiencing explosive growth in China and helping the country’s retail sector to recover from the impact of coronavirus, but experts have warned of widespread malpractice whereby fake traffic is purchased to boost...
  
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• Procter & Gamble deals agencies another blow

  11-12-2020 00:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hi! Welcome to the Insider Advertising daily for December 11. I'm Lauren Johnson, a senior advertising reporter at Business Insider. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday. Send me feedback or tips at [email protected]: We want to hear from public relations executives. Please take our anonymous survey and tell us what you want to read about the PR industry in in 2021.Today's news: P&G strikes another blow at agencies, Disney's top movie exec c
  
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• How to clone a hard drive as a backup for your Windows computer

  11-12-2020 00:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You can clone your PC's hard drive easily with a third-party program.
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  You can clone a hard drive to make a duplicate that you can use to replace a failed drive or get a new computer up and running quickly.
  Windows can't clone a hard drive automatically, but there are free and paid commercial programs that make the process easy. 
  You can clone any hard drive — the system drive, a data drive, and both SSDs and HDDs.  
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• A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16 pilot is dead after a fighter jet crash in Michigan

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  A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16.
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  A Wisconsin National Guard F-16 fighter jet crashed in Michigan during a routine training flight Tuesday night, the Guard said in a Facebook post.
  The Guard's 115th Fighter Wing announced Thursday afternoon that the pilot, who was initially missing after the crash, had died.
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  A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcon crashed in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during a routine training fligh
  
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• More Americans have now died from COVID-19 than the number of US soldiers killed in battle during World War II

  11-12-2020 00:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  American reinforcements, arrive on the beaches of Normandy from a Coast Guard landing barge into the surf on the French coast on June 23, 1944 during World War II.
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  The US saw 291,557 battle deaths during World War II, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
  The total number of confirmed COVID-19 deaths has surpassed that grim milestone. As of Thursday, 291,754 Americans have now died of this disease. 
  This means more Americans have died from COVID-19 than the num
  
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• An influential expert panel just gave its blessing to Pfizer's 2-dose coronavirus shot, teeing up the FDA to authorize the US' first COVID-19 vaccine

  11-12-2020 00:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Oil markets surged in the hours after Pfizer announced positive results from its coronavirus vaccine study.
  Dado Ruvic/Reuters
  A committee of more than 20 leading scientists and doctors just voted to encourage the FDA to grant emergency use authorization for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in the US.
  Their vote is not a final verdict, it's really just advice.
  Ultimately, it's up to the scientists working inside the FDA to decide whether or not to approve the two-dose vaccine candidate for an emergenc
  
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• An eruption on the sun didn't bring the aurora to Pennsylvania or Oregon this week, but more solar outbursts are expected soon

  11-12-2020 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The sun blows out a coronal mass ejection, February 24, 2015.
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  An eruption on the sun's surface sent plasma and charged particles speeding towards Earth this week.
  Forecasts suggested that this coronal mass ejection would reach our planet Wednesday as a solar storm that could interfere with radio, GPS, and power grids.
  There was a possibility the aurora borealis could be visible from Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon, but in the end, the northern lights didn't appear that far south.
  The s
  
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