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☆ Binance's chief compliance officer weighs in on the Nigerian trial of one of its executives
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailBinance's chief compliance officer weighs in on the Nigerian trial of one of its executivesNoah Perlman, chief compliance officer at Binance, discusses the latest in the legal battle between Nigeria and one of the company's executives.

Persons: Noah Perlman Locations: Nigeria

☆ A new 'Hellboy' reboot is reportedly being released in August, but the lack of publicity has fans worried
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

"The Crooked Man" is based on the creepy, stand-alone tale of the same name from the comics, and Mignola confirmed that it finished filming in May 2023. This has led some fans to speculate, albeit without evidence, that Millennium Media was making it to keep the rights to the franchise. AdvertisementThis has led some fans to speculate, albeit without evidence, that Millennium Media is making it to keep the rights to the franchise. Commentby from discussioninHellBoyRepresentatives for Millennium Media and Ketchup Entertainment did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment. Advertisementto be clear: there is exactly *ZERO* AI used on hellboy: the crooked man.

Persons: —, Mike Mignola's, Ron Perlman, Guillermo del Toro, David Harbour, Mignola, Taylor, Leah McNamara, Jefferson White, Jack Kesy, Adeline Rudolph, Joseph Marcell, ike, omics, ake, evert, rian, aylor, rian T aylor Organizations: Service, Millennium Media, Entertainment, Business, Office Mojo, Media Locations: Spanish

☆ Brad Paisley and Howard Gospel Choir to be the entertainment for state dinner as Bidens highlight US-Kenya ties
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-22 | by ( Betsy Klein | Samantha Waldenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

US President Gerald Ford dances with Britain's Queen Elizabeth II during a state dinner in Washington, DC, in 1976. Jason Reed/Reuters The White House's State Dining Room is seen ahead of a state dinner honoring French President Emmanuel Macron in 2018. Paisley first performed at the White House in 2009 during the Obama administration as part of a music series. “Tomorrow night we’ve created an experience that will feature the beautiful scenes of the White House and the Washington Monument that few get to enjoy,” White House social secretary Carlos Elizondo said. Event planner Bryan Rafanelli also helped the White House plan for the state dinner.

Persons: Brad Paisley, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, William Ruto, Rachel Ruto, “, Howard, “ Brad Paisley, Dr . Biden, Ruto’s, Biden, Ruto, ” Biden, George W, Bush, Gerald Ford, Queen Elizabeth II, Ricardo Thomas, Gerald R, Franklin D, Roosevelt, Enrique Penaranda, Penaranda, Matthew Costello, George R, Nikita Khrushchev, He's, Nina, Dwight D, Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower, Costello, John F, Kennedy, Habib Bourguiba, Jackie, Moufida, Bill Allen, Lyndon B, Johnson, Errol W, Barrow, Carolyn, Richard Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev, Charles Tasnadi, Betty Ford, Jordan's King Hussein, David Hume Kennerly, Betty Sherrill, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Jimmy Carter, Deng Xiaoping, Cho Lin, Carter, Nancy Reagan, Indira Gandhi, Mikhail Gorbachev, Joe DiMaggio, Ronald Reagan, Reagan, Boris Yeltsin, Naina, George H.W, George H.W . Bush, Barbara, Dirck Halstead, Singer Whitney Houston, Nelson Mandela, Ron Sachs, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Mandela, Zindzi, Wally McNamee, Corbis, Bill Frist, Lynne Cheney, Dick Cheney, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Laura Bush, Prince Philip, Itzhak Perlman, Saul Loeb, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Manmohan Singh, Gursharan Kaur, Pete Souza, White, Obama, Singh, Jason Reed, Emmanuel Macron, Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Macron, Brigitte, Jabin, Scott Morrison, Joshua Roberts, Paisley, ‘ Wake, Martin Luther, ’ ”, ” Jill Biden, we’ve, Carlos Elizondo, Cris Comerford, Bryan Rafanelli, April’s, Fumio Kishida, Yuko Kishida, CNN’s Sam Fossum Organizations: Washington CNN —, Howard Gospel Choir, White, CNN, Kenyan, Ford Presidential Library, United, White House, Historical Association, Washington Post, Getty, Barbados, AP, Indian, New York Times, Singer, South, Trump, Australian, Paisley, Japanese Locations: Kenya, United States, ”, Ghana, Africa, Russia, Namibia, Washington , DC, Bolivian, Soviet, George H.W ., toasts, Nashville, Washington

☆ Living drugs that reprogram patients’ immune cells show early promise against hard-to-treat brain tumors
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Only 3% to 5% of people who are diagnosed with this type of brain tumor will be alive three years later. Now, an experimental therapy that reprograms a person’s own immune cells to attack these tumors is showing some exciting promise. Doctors first harvested immune fighters called T-cells from his blood and then genetically modified them in a lab so they’d recognize and bind to specific proteins on the surface of the brain tumor cells. After a single 10-milliliter infusion of about 10 million CAR-T cells, Fraser’s tumor began to shrink. Three-quarters of the participants had had their brain tumors come back at least twice.

Persons: ”, Otis Brawley, –, they’ll, ” Brawley, Tom Fraser, Brigham, Debbie Fraser, Fraser, He’s, Marcela Maus, ” Fraser, Maus, “, ” Maus, Christine Brown, ’ Brown, ” Brown, hasn’t, Brown, Dr, Donald O’Rourke, “ They’re, O’Rourke, ” O’Rourke, Sanjay Gupta, you’re, they’re, it’s Organizations: CNN, Johns Hopkins University, American Cancer Society, City of Hope Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts General, Mass, New England, of Medicine, Doctors, Mass General Cancer Center, Tv3, Cell Therapeutics Research, of, Nature, Penn, Excellence, University of Pennsylvania Perlman School of Medicine, CNN Health Locations: City, Duarte , California, Massachusetts, Rochester , New York, Boston, of Hope, Hope

☆ Ron Perlman on His Movies & TV Shows: 'Hellboy,' 'Sons of Anarchy,' 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith'
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-09 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

"I'm pretty sanguine, as it all went way, way better than I could have possibly drawn up." Do you have any defining memories of being on set with Guillermo del Toro? It took seven years for del Toro to convince anybody to finance a comic book franchise with me in it. Working with Del Toro is as irreverent an experience as you can get. On whether he’d return for a ‘Sons of Anarchy’ follow-upRon Perlman as Clay Morrow in "Sons of Anarchy."

Persons: Ron Perlman, he's, Smith, Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, Toby Hellinger, Toby, Perlman, Guillermo del Toro, couldn't, Guillermo del Toro Ron Perlman, Hellboy, del Toro, Del Toro, Einstein, who's, they're, spry, Marx, Liz, would've, I’ve, We've, Clay Morrow, “, ”, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, you've, Jax, Theo Rossi, Clay, I'm, ’, Linda Hamilton, Catherine, Vincent, CBS You've, there's, I've, let's, bro, Reinhardt, It’s Organizations: Business, Sony Pictures, Marx Brothers, CBS Locations: Lake Como, Hollywood, donnybrook

☆ The 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' reboot is nothing like the original movie — and that's what makes it must-watch television
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-02 | by ( Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

If you were among the many who wondered why anyone would make a "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" reboot, this time without Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, when the project was announced in 2021, you'd be forgiven. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," co-created by Donald Glover and Francesca Sloane (who previously worked with Glover on "Atlanta") remixes the film's premise. AdvertisementThis central relationship is the true hook of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," a show that's more about cultivating intimacy and vulnerability than it is espionage. While a previous iteration of the series starred "Fleabag's" Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside Glover, it's hard to imagine "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" without Erskine. All eight episodes of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" are streaming now on Prime Video.

Persons: Smith, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, you'd, Pitt, Jolie, Donald Glover, Francesca Sloane, Glover, John, Jane Smith, Maya Erskine, Jane, David Lee, Erskine's Jane, Glover's John Smith, they've, Sarah Paulson, Michaela Coel, Paul Dano, Toby, Ron Perlman, Fleabag's, Phoebe Waller, it's, Erskine, Glover's John, Erskine elucidates, David Fleming's unnerving Organizations: Service, Business, New, New York City Locations: New York City, New York

☆ The 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' showrunner enlisted her father-in-law, who happens to be Ron Perlman, to play a 'baby man' on the show
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | Palmer Haasch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read preview"Mr. & Mrs. Smith" showrunner Francesca Sloane brought on her father-in-law, Ron Perlman, to appear in the series opposite Donald Glover and Maya Erskine. Perlman guest stars in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" as Toby, a man with an almost certainly unethical past who's being pursued by assassins. AdvertisementMaya Erskine, Donald Glover, and Francesca Sloane at the premiere of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" in New York City. "We wanted for that individual part to be somebody who plays badass roles all the time and is always the scarier, on-their-feet character," Sloane told BI. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" premieres on Prime Video on Friday, February 2.

Persons: —, Smith, Francesca Sloane, Ron Perlman, Donald Glover, Maya Erskine, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Glover, Erskine, Perlman, Toby, John, Jane, Guillermo del Toro's, Clay Morrow, Hannibal Chau, Sloane, Marion Curtis, StarPix, Video Perlman, Ron, — Sloane Organizations: Service, Business, New, New York City, BI Locations: Toro's, New York City, New York

“The Bear” had a bearish night indeed, fully dominating the comedy category in its first season, winning the top prize and three acting awards. And the chaotic, darkly humorous “Beef” was the other big victor, winning best limited series, with leads Steven Yeun and Ali Wong becoming the first Asian Americans to win in their categories. Oliver tried to test the new system after winning best scripted variety show: “I’m not leaving without being played off by Anthony Anderson’s mom. You said maybe, if I win!”A BIG BEAR HUG, ER, KISSCould “The Bear” replicate its success from the Golden Globes? Yes, chef, with Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri winning for best actor and best supporting actress in a comedy, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach winning a supporting actor award.

Persons: Cousin Greg, ”, Roy, Steven Yeun, Ali Wong, Quinta Brunson, “ Abbott, ” “, Ally McBeal ”, Natasha Lyonne, Tracee Ellis Ross, Lucy ”, John Oliver beseeching, Sarah Snook, Kieran Culkin, Anthony Anderson, Mom Doris, . Anderson, Jo Koy, Anderson wasn’t, Anderson, Mister Rogers, ” Anderson, Jesus, Doris Bowman, Bowman, “, Jennifer Coolidge, Oliver, Anthony Anderson’s, Bracco, Michael Imperioli, “ Ally McBeal ”, Ellen Pompeo, Katherine Heigl, Chandra Wilson, Sandra Oh, –, Ted Danson, Kelsey Grammer, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt, Norm, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, “ Martin ”, Matthew Macfadyen, Wamsbgans, Snook, ” Nicholas Braun, ” Snook, Shiv Roy, ” Kieran Culkin, Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri, Ebon Moss, Bachrach, Moss, Matty Matheson, Matheson, BURNETT, Carol Burnett, Christina Applegate, Burnett, ” Applegate, Brunson, Abbott, Isabel Sanford, Norman, —, Martin Luther King Jr, Edebiri, Niecy Nash, Betts, “ Dahmer, Jeffrey Dahmer, Nash, “ I’m, Glenda Cleveland, Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor Organizations: “, Golden Globes, Liverpool football, HBO, Globes, WIN, WHO, Netflix Locations: Philadelphia

Joseph Ataman/CNNAfter many foreign workers fled Israel following the October 7 attacks, farmers were forced to abandon crops or rely on volunteers for the harvest. Inbar’s remaining foreign workers quietly motor up and down the rows of zucchini. Hamas fighters torched the barns holding hay for the dairy cows on Kibbutz Alumim, riding unopposed into the settlement before massacring foreign workers and attendees of the nearby Nova music festival. “The foreign workers run the farm, they do all the milking,” farm manager Stevie Marcus said of the working of the farm before October 7. Joseph Ataman/CNNStanding among Inbar’s zucchini, tech worker Avi Leibovich - volunteering on a day off from his day job - said he came to help Israeli farms survive.

Persons: Thais, Nattaphong Duangchan, Matan, Yosi, Joseph Ataman, Avi Dichter, ”, Lior Simcha, Stevie Marcus, Yosi Inbar, it’s, Benjamin Netanyahu, Inbar, “ We’re, Lisa Perlman, Inbar’s, Avi Leibovich, Danny Parizada, hadn’t, Mei –, Mei, “ Organizations: CNN, Hamas, Palestinian, West Bank, Milk Producers Association, United Nations Office, Humanitarian Affairs, of Housing, Brothers, Sisters, Volunteers Locations: Thai, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Thailand, Thailand’s, Sri Lanka, Israel’s, Egypt, United States, Nova, Kibbutz Alumim, Gaza City, Tel Aviv

☆ Layoffs hit Recurrent Ventures as the company shifts resources toward video and 'new formats.' Read a leaked memo outlining its future plans.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Dan Whateley | Sydney Bradley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Recurrent Ventures, a private-equity-backed digital media company, is letting go of staff across several editorial brands, a company spokesperson confirmed to Insider. The company operates publications that cover topics like science, outdoor living, and automobiles, including Popular Science, Field & Stream, The Drive, and Dwell. Among Recurrent's brands, Popular Science, a legacy science and technology magazine, was heavily impacted by Monday's cuts. "As consumer trends shift it's important we prioritize investment in new formats," the Recurrent spokesperson told Insider. "Like most media companies, Recurrent is adapting to the evolving landscape of its audience," the spokesperson said.

Persons: Alex Vargas, Andrew Perlman, Perlman, MEL, Conde Nast, Alex, I'm, I've Organizations: Popular Science, Axios, GM, Service, Corporate, Commerce, GMs

☆ The Cost of Being Disabled in New York City Housing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Claire Perlman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Winning, then losing, the housing lotteryFor many disabled New Yorkers, the city’s affordable housing lottery seems like the answer. Under city guidelines, only 5 percent of units are set aside for tenants with mobility disabilities and 2 percent for people with hearing or vision disabilities, and zoning laws don’t allow any crossover. “They don’t understand the gravity of what they’re doing.”Sabrina Bennett, 38, has been applying to the housing lottery for more than a decade, before she became disabled from a spinal cord condition in 2012. She now uses a wheelchair or a walker to get around, and is living with her husband in supportive housing through the city’s shelter system until she can find an accessible apartment she can afford. She’s hoping she finds something through the housing lottery, but she has already been in the shelter system for five years.

Persons: Méndez, ”, “, ” Sabrina Bennett Organizations: Yorkers

☆ The 'Barbie' movie turning into a global phenomenon helped boost sales for the plastic doll – but not by as much as you might expect
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" movie pushed up sales for the iconic doll, Mattel execs say. Global gross billings in the quarter were up 14%, but this wasn't enough to offset poor performance in the first half of 2023. AdvertisementAdvertisementGreta Gerwig's "Barbie" blockbuster helped boost sales for the plastic doll following a poor performance in the first half of the year. North America made up around 58% of Barbie's total gross billings, and saw a much bigger rise — gross billings were up 26% to $349.9 million in the quarter. Global gross billings were down 6% in the year to September compared to the same period in 2022.

Persons: Greta Gerwig's, Mattel, —, Barbie, Ynon Kreiz, Kreiz, Barbie repositions Mattel, Gross, Anthony DiSilvestro, Mattel execs, Ruth Handler —, Rhea Perlman Organizations: Global, billings, Service, Mattel Locations: Hollywood, billings, America

☆ Binance to sell Russia business for undisclosed amount
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance said on Wednesday it will sell its Russia business to newly-launched exchange CommEX, becoming the latest company to pull out of Moscow since the country began its war against Ukraine. Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, did not disclose financial details of the deal. The company said it will have no ongoing revenue split from the sale, nor will it maintain an option to buy back shares in the business. Binance also said that all the assets of its existing Russian users were safe and that there will be an orderly process for the migration of users. CommEX is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange backed by crypto venture capitalists, according to its website.

Persons: Binance, Noah Perlman Organizations: Ukraine, Binance, Renault, Shell, Kremlin Locations: Russia, Moscow, Ukraine, McDonald's

☆ Binance to Exit Russia With Sale to New Crypto Exchange CommEX
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Binance to Exit Russia With Sale to New Crypto Exchange CommEXOperating in Russia isn't "compatible with Binance's compliance strategy," the crypto exchange said. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg News)Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is exiting Russia by selling its operations there to a new crypto exchange known as CommEX. “As we look toward the future, we recognize that operating in Russia is not compatible with Binance's compliance strategy,” said Noah Perlman, Binance's chief compliance officer.

Persons: Gabby Jones, ”, Noah Perlman Organizations: Russia, New Crypto, Bloomberg Locations: Russia

☆ UBS' favorite value ETF combines active management with a low fee
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-04 | by ( Jesse Pound | In Jesse-Pound | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Investors looking to shift into value stocks after the first-half rally should take a closer look at a low-cost, actively managed fund that is showing signs of momentum, according to UBS. ETF strategist David Perlman said in a note to clients Tuesday that the Avantis U.S. Large Cap Value ETF (AVLV) makes sense for investors who want cheap stocks without sacrificing quality. AVLV 3M mountain This Avantis value ETF has rallied over the past three months. The Avantis ETF comes with an alluring price tag: an expense ratio of 0.15%. "This process has led to a value tilt that's been closer to more traditional value indices than deeper value strategies.

Persons: David Perlman, Perlman, it's, Phil McInnis, McInnis Organizations: UBS, Avantis Investors, Russell, Apple, JPMorgan Chase, Exxon Mobil Locations: U.S, AVLV

The pews were full at a Shabbat service at the Sixth & I synagogue in Washington in November 2018, held in memory of the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting. Over the nearly five years since 11 people were murdered in a Pittsburgh synagogue, the deadliest antisemitic attack in the country’s history, the question of justice has loomed, unresolved. Soon, the jury in the federal trial will make a decision that is central to that question of justice: whether Robert Bowers, the man who carried out the attack, should be condemned to death. Talmudic jurisprudence is strongly averse to the death penalty, Rabbi Kalmanofsky said, but Jewish citizens should understand that this is ultimately a decision in the hands of a secular justice system. And while rabbinical tradition holds that the death penalty should be extremely rare, he said, it acknowledges “that sometimes there are incredibly exigent circumstances.”

Persons: Robert Bowers, Jonathan Perlman, ” Miri Rabinowitz, Jerry Rabinowitz, Jeremy Kalmanofsky, Rabbi Kalmanofsky, ” Organizations: The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle, New, U.S, Attorney, Conservative Locations: Washington, Pittsburgh, The Pittsburgh

☆ ‘Let’s Call Her Patty’ Review: Unseen Depths of an Uptown Matriarch
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Naveen Kumar | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Patty’s maternal relationships with Cecile and Sammy are the play’s sources of conflict (Patty’s offstage husband, Hal, we’re told, is “fine”). The matriarch is little more than an amalgam of stereotypes; that there is truth to them is hardly a revelation. But the play does little to question or disrupt the preconceived notions it assumes New York audiences will have about “an Upper West Side lady” like Patty. If this is a character study, Patty’s pungent, messy center is largely withheld from view. Unfortunately, Cecile is kept at arm’s length from a story in which she seems to have the most compelling inner life.

Persons: Cecile, Sammy, Hal, we’re, Patty, she’s, “, Perlman, Margot Bordelon, Goldman’s Cecile Locations: York

☆ Barbie's founder jokes in the 'Barbie' movie about getting in trouble with the IRS. Here's what actually happened.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-31 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

The fictional Ruth Handler jokes in Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" about getting in trouble with the IRS. The real-life Handler was indicted for conspiracy and making false financial statements to the SEC. "I am Mattel," Handler, played by Rhea Perlman says in the movie. Under the settlement, around $30 million was paid to shareholders and the Handlers surrended two million Mattel shares. Handler wrote that she was "convinced" that the US Attorney's Office went after her "so aggressively" because of her gender.

Persons: Ruth Handler, Greta Gerwig's, Handler, Rhea Perlman, Barbie, Elliot, Ruth Handler's, Seymour Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Robert Takasugi Organizations: IRS, SEC, Service, Mattel, New York Times, betweeen, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bank of America, Mattel VP, Los Angeles Times, US Attorney's Locations: Wall, Silicon

☆ Universal under investigation after it trimmed trees that shaded SAG-AFTRA protesters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —The Los Angeles City Controller’s office is investigating after NBCUniversal severely trimmed a row of trees outside its studios where members of SAG-AFTRA were picketing company executives, eliminating shade during a searing heatwave. Our Office is investigating the tree trimming that occurred outside Universal Studios where workers, writers, and actors are exercising their right to picket. The trimmed trees are LA City managed street trees. “Quick shoutout to the good people at @UniversalPics for trimming the trees that gave our picket line shade right before a 90+ degree week,” he wrote. “We understand that the safety tree trimming of the Ficus trees we did on Barham Blvd.

Persons: Kenneth Mejia, Chris Stephens, ”, NBCUniversal, Mejia, Ron Perlman, Instagram, “, ” Perlman, There’s, Pinkerton Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles City, SAG, Universal Studios, LA City, Twitter, Guild of America, Alliance, Television Producers, Disney, Warner Bros, Universal Pictures, ”, Los Angeles Public Works Department, National Weather Service, WGA, Labor Locations: LA, Los Angeles, America

☆ Warburg Pincus names Asia real estate chief Perlman as president
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Kane Wu | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

July 20 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Warburg Pincus on Wednesday named its Asia head of real estate Jeffrey Perlman as successor to Timothy Geithner as president. Geithner, who was U.S. Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration and had headed the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, will become the chair of the New York-based investment firm. "Now is the ideal time to put in place a plan for the next generation of leadership at the firm," Warburg CEO Chip Kaye said. Warburg Pincus has already raised more than the targeted $16 billion in its global flagship private equity fund, said a person with knowledge of the matter. Founded in 1996, Warburg has more than $83 billion in assets under management and its portfolio spans more than 250 companies.

Persons: Warburg Pincus, Jeffrey Perlman, Timothy Geithner, Geithner, Obama, Warburg, Chip Kaye, Kaye, Perlman, Pritam Biswas, Niket, Kane Wu, Arun Koyyur Organizations: Wednesday, Treasury, Federal Reserve Bank of New, Reuters, Ou Asset Management Co, HK, Industrial Development JSC, Thomson Locations: Asia, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, York, China, Ou, Southeast Asia, Pacific, Bengaluru, Hong Kong, Lincoln

☆ Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Dream Job
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Willa Paskin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Someone more cynical than Gerwig might have been less moved by Mattel’s corporate epiphany, 60 years into existence, that Barbie could sustain being a size 6, but cynicism is clearly not Gerwig’s way. The movie sidesteps whatever role Barbie might play in perpetuating a narrow, idealized femininity; instead it gives this particular Barbie a crash course in modern misogyny. After decades of fretting about girls’ wanting to be as perfect as Barbie, Gerwig serves up a Barbie struggling to be as resilient as us. This woman is played by the 91-year-old, Oscar-winning costume designer Ann Roth, a friend of Gerwig’s. If I don’t have that scene, I don’t know what it is or what I’ve done.”

Persons: Barbie, ”, “, Gerwig, Ruth Handler, Rhea Perlman, Ariana Greenblatt, Ann Roth, Gerwig’s, —, ‘, ” Gerwig Organizations: Mattel Locations: Barbieland, Los Angeles

☆ Publishers Clearing House to refund customers $18.5 million in FTC settlement for 'deceptive' practices
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Greg Iacurci | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

The Publishers Clearing House offices in Jericho, New York on Jan. 30, 2019. Bill Perlman/Newsday RM via Getty Images)How 'dark patterns' can trap consumersSara Adair shows off the oversized check for $1 million her husband Mark received from the Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol in South Boston, Massachusetts, on April 1, 2022. Dark patterns are a "manipulative" and unlawful design trick, examples of which include pre-checked boxes, hard to find and read disclosures, and confusing cancellation policies, the FTC said. When it included disclaimers or clarifying information, the text was in small, light font and overlooked by consumers, the FTC claimed. In addition to sweepstakes, PCH also sells merchandise and magazines.

Persons: Bill Perlman, Sara Adair, Mark, Craig F, Walker, Samuel Levine, PCH Organizations: Clearing, Newsday, Getty, Publishers, Boston Globe, FTC, Amazon, Consumer, Firms Locations: Jericho , New York, South Boston , Massachusetts, FTC's

☆ ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Review: Here Come the Grease Monkeys
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-08 | by ( Amy Nicholson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“Transformers: Rise of the Beasts,” a goofy seventh installment that rattles along well enough until the wheels fall off, ballyhoos an evolution: a biomechanical gorilla who calls himself Optimus Primal. In fairness, these metaphysical questions were explored in the futuristic and bizarrely engaging ’90s cartoon “Beast Wars: Transformers” and its spinoff “Beast Machines: Transformers,” which felt like sipping on a spiked juice box in an ashram. When that Optimus Primal was asked if he was robot or animal, he mystically intoned, “Both … and neither. Only then can you truly say, ‘I am transformed.’”But also in fairness, those shows and this movie share zero DNA. “I don’t get ‘Beast Wars,’” Lorenzo di Bonaventura, one of this film’s producers, once said.

Persons: Optimus, mystically intoned, ’ ” Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Steven Caple Jr, Simpson, Peter Cullen, Ron Perlman, Colman Domingo, Peter Dinklage Organizations: Optimus, Machines

The exchange offers spot and derivatives trading and a host of services from non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to crypto loans and asset management. FINANCESBinance's global trading platform, Binance.com, is by far the world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange. Last year it processed crypto trades worth about $65 billion a day, Binance said, dominating the crypto trading landscape with more than half of the market, CryptoCompare data shows. Binance last year extended its reach beyond the crypto sector in 2022, investing $500 million in Tesla boss Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. A top Binance executive told the Wall Street Journal in February that the company expected to pay penalties to resolve U.S. investigations.

Persons: Changpeng Zhao, Binance, Zhao, Yi He, Yi, Noah Perlman, Morgan Stanley, Richard Teng, Teng, Elon Musk's, Cristiano Ronaldo, Tom Wilson, Hannah Lang, Marguerita Choy, Nick Zieminski Organizations: U.S . Securities, Exchange Commission, SEC, U.S . Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Binance, Reuters, Twitter, Lazio, Argentina national, of Nations, U.S, Justice, Wall Street, Thomson Locations: WASHINGTON, U.S, Shanghai, Tokyo, Malta, Cayman Islands, Canadian, China, United States, Italian, London, Washington

☆ Carol Burnett's birthday special' is an elegant (and hilarious) event
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Hulton Archive/Getty Images Burnett peeks at a portrait of herself that was being painted by artist Dmitri Vails in 1963. CBS/Getty Images Burnett interacts with the audience of her new variety show, "The Carol Burnett Show," in 1967. CBS/Getty Images Burnett, left, and Cher perform a skit on "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" in 1972. CBS/Getty Images Burnett poses with her memoir "One More Time" at a book signing in Beverly Hills, California, in 1986. Will Hart/NBC/Getty Images Carol Burnett Square was unveiled in Los Angeles in front of her alma mater, Hollywood High School, in 2013.

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