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☆ How the Christ Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro became the symbol of Brazil
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

Perched on the Corcovado – a 2,300-foot-high granite outcrop looming above the city – the Cristo Redentor (Christ Redeemer) statue sweeps its arms out in a warm embrace, welcoming visitors to the city of samba. “It is he who finds me when I arrive in Rio.”For over a century, the statue has been a symbol of Rio de Janeiro. Christ Redeemer bags are his top sellers, tied with those sporting the Sugarloaf Mountain. Deemed one of the seven modern wonders of the world, the Christ Redeemer is Rio’s most visited attraction, says tour guide Cristina Arroio. Maybe that’s the ultimate miracle of the Christ Redeemer.

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☆ Madonna concert attracts 1.6 million to Brazil’s Copacabana beach
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-05 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

More than a million people thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert on Saturday, braving the heat to see the end of her “Celebration” world tour. The sand and oceanfront boulevard around Rio de Janeiro’s famed beach were filled for several blocks by a crowd the city estimated at 1.6 million. Rio’s state and city governments said they spent $3.9 million on the concert. Rio’s state and city governments said they spent 20 million reais ($3.9 million) on the concert, while the rest was financed by private sponsors. The authorities estimate the concert could bring about 300 million reais to Rio’s economy.

Persons: Mauro Pimentel, “, ” Madonna, Anitta, Pabllo, Rod Stewart, Taylor Swift Organizations: Rio de, Firefighters, Vogue Locations: Rio, AFP, Brazilian

☆ 'Black and Brown' influencers were harassed on a Topicals brand trip to France, the skincare company said
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Amanda Krause | Maria Noyen | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewA Black-owned skincare brand said influencers who traveled to France on a brand trip it organized experienced "racism and Islamophobia." Topicals said Monday that the incident occurred during a recent brand trip to the French Alps attended by "Black and Brown creators from the UK and US." AdvertisementThis past weekend, we hosted our third brand trip in Megève, France with a group of Black and Brown creators from the UK and US. At least one influencer on the trip shared their experience online, identifying the establishment. Muslim women dress modestly for many reasons, but a central one is to respect and deepen their relationship with God, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Persons: —, influencers, Topicals, Black, Brown, Rose Hollela, Nella Rose, Rose, Kanaan Pitan, Shaq Muhammad, Aiyana Lewis, Jéssica Pimentel, Modest swimsuits, God, Ange, Pierre Vivoni —, Corsica — Organizations: Service, Business, Spa, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters, Miss, Miss Universe Locations: France, Megève, Corsica, Miss Pakistan

☆ Meet the Disney heirs rallying behind Bob Iger
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Roy O. Disney's grandchildrenRoy O. Disney had one son with his wife Edna Francis — Roy E. Disney, a long time Walt Disney Company executive. Roy P. DisneyRoy P. Disney told NYT that activist investors "must be defeated." AdvertisementIn a 2010 interview, Roy P. Disney said he worked as an investor based in California. Joe Scarnici/Stringer/Getty ImagesWalter Elias Disney MillerWalter Miller is the co-founder of the Walt Disney Family Museum, which opened its doors in 2009. Tamara Diane MillerTamara Miller spent four years as the President of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Family Museum.

Persons: —, Roy, Walt Disney, Bob Iger, Nelson Peltz, Walt, Roy O, Disney, Edna Francis — Roy E, Roy E, Patricia Ann Dailey, Roy P, Disney Roy, George Pimentel, WireImage, Disney's, hasn't, Abigail Disney Abigail Disney, Ralph Orlowski, Burda Media Abigail Disney, she's, Abigail, Susan Disney, Susan Lord, Phillip Faraone, Tim Disney Tim Disney, Stefanie Keenan, Tim Disney, Diane Disney Miller, Sharon Disney, Diane Miller's, Ron Miller, Jennifer Goff, Tammy Miller, Joanna Miller, Walter Miller, Joe Scarnici, Stringer, Walter Elias Disney Miller Walter Miller, Joanna Sharon Miller Joanna Miller, grandpa, Joanna, Jim, Tamara Diane Miller Tamara Miller, Tamara Miller, Jennifer Miller, Goff Jennifer Miller, Goff Organizations: Service, Disney, Business, Walt Disney Company, Getty, New York Times, Burda Media, Yale, Stanford, Mouse, Bel, Harvard University, California Institute of, Arts, Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney Family Museum, Jim Hill Media, Walt Disney Family Locations: California, Munich, Germany, Columbia, Los Angeles

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A judge on Thursday conditionally released U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic last week on domestic violence charges. After the hearing, Tekashi 6ix9ine’s attorney, Waldo Pimentel, accused prosecutors of “fabricating” evidence against his client. Meanwhile, prosecutor Ana Andrea Villa Camacho explained why she had requested that Tekashi 6ix9ine remain held. It is the second time that Hernández is arrested in the Dominican Republic. Tekashi 6ix9ine had a multiplatinum hit song, “Fefe,” with Nicki Minaj in 2018.

Persons: SANTO DOMINGO, —, Tekashi 6ix9ine, Daniel Hernández, ”, Fátima Veloz, Tekashi, Waldo Pimentel, Ana Andrea Villa Camacho, Hernández, Nine Trey Gangsta, “, Nicki Minaj Organizations: Dominican Republic, Authorities, Nine, U.S . Locations: Dominican Republic, Dominican, Caribbean, U.S, U.S . East Coast, Florida

☆ A Meta exec explains what Threads posts get the most engagement, from sports to 'conversation starters'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

There, Pimentel spoke about the strategy behind Threads, and how her team is working to create communities within the app. Meta is still actively recruiting celebrities, sports stars, and influencers to create content and help build communities, Pimentel added. And some prominent X users, like tech reporter Casey Newton, are pivoting away from X to posting on Threads. "We see a lot more engagement on Threads on content that's a conversation starter. Sports content and a photography community are some examples of sub cultures growing organically on Threads, so far, Pimentel said.

Persons: Bridget Dolan, Jackie Pimentel, Pimentel, Meta onboarded, Connor Franta, Gary Vaynerchuk, Mark Zuckerberg, Casey Newton, We've Organizations: Meta, Twitter, YouTube, Business, NBA Locations: Los Angeles

☆ 'Shoppable short-form video is on fire': YouTube's head of shopping shares why the platform is betting on shorts to drive social commerce
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dolan spoke about how the tech giant is thinking about social shopping and why her team is betting on short videos to drive sales over livestreams. "Shoppable short-form video is on fire," Dolan said, speaking on a panel about creators and online shopping . "We had over 150 billion views in 2022 of videos with products tagged — shoppable videos on YouTube. Shopping shorts are growing a lot faster than shorts are growing." "Yes, they love the brand deals, and they love having those relationships, but this is the opposite," Dolan said of affiliate marketing.

Persons: Michelle Miller, Bridget Dolan, Jackie Pimentel, Dolan, It's, What's Organizations: YouTube, Connect, Meta, Business, Coachella, NFL Locations: Asia, Los Angeles

☆ Meet Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, a retired television host, a certified yoga instructor, and the mother of Justin Trudeau's 3 children
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Amanda Goh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Grégoire Trudeau reconnected with Trudeau when they were co-hosts of a charity event in 2003, but the pair only started dating a few months later. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau and Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau speak at the 2017 Juno Awards at Canadian Tire Centre. But I sent him an email the next day, and he never replied," Grégoire Trudeau recalled in her October 2011 interview with Diamond. I didn't delete it, I just decided, 'No, I'm better off not starting anything that I'm not willing to go through with,'" Trudeau told the Canadian magazine Maclean's in June 2005. The couple ended up getting engaged in October 2004, on what would have been Trudeau's late father's 85th birthday, per Maclean's.

Persons: Grégoire Trudeau, Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Canada Justin Trudeau, George Pimentel, Michel, Diamond, Trudeau wasn't, I'm, Mclean's Organizations: Canadian Tire Centre, Canadian Locations: Canada

☆ Cool-girl brand Aritzia made employees rate each other's appearances, discriminated against Black salespeople, and fostered a culture of fear, some ex-staffers say
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-24 | by ( Nichole Jankowski | Isabella Zavarise | Brianna Holt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +27 min

They said 54% of Aritzia employees and 60% of retail employees identified as BIPOC but declined to provide a breakdown of those statistics. Insider spoke with 53 current and former Aritzia employees, several of whom said that while the world of fashion is notoriously cutthroat, working at Aritzia was particularly grueling. Aritzia's spokesperson said the company's success was a "direct result of its high-performance culture." (In a statement of defense filed with the court on July 5, the store manager and Aritzia denied all allegations. A former Ontario store manager said that shortly after she was hired, the manager of store operations asked if she had a boyfriend.

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☆ NextEra shares tumble as revenue misses, head of key unit leaves
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Jan 25 (Reuters) - NextEra Energy Inc (NEE.N) on Wednesday posted mixed quarterly results, sending its shares sliding as the renewable power company announced the retirement of the head of its key Florida utility unit. NextEra's shares dropped 6% on Wednesday, making the company one of the day's biggest losers in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index. The company is the third-largest U.S. energy company by market value, trailing only oil and gas giants Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) and Chevron Corp (CVX.N). NextEra is banking on increased use of renewable energy like solar and wind for power generation amid a global push to shift to cleaner fuel sources. Natural gas prices averaged $6.10 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) in the October-December quarter, about 26% higher than the previous year.

It was totally avoidable.”Now, Bolsonaro is in Orlando, where he has supporters among the state's growing number of Brazilian Americans. After Bolsonaro's loss, unfounded claims of election fraud, reminiscent of those in the U.S., began to surface in Brazil. Bannon had said prior to the Brazilian election that Bolsonaro would lose only if “the machines” steal the election. Leading to the presidential elections in Brazil, Trump allies exported many of the former president's campaign strategies to the Latin American country. After Bolsonaro's October loss, tens of thousands of supporters began camping outside military facilities throughout Brazil to protest his loss.

In one of TikTok's latest trends, the Brazilian team's love of dancing, flair and adoration of funk carioca, also known as favela funk or baile funk, has inspired a new generation of listeners on the platform. Funk carioca is a hip-hop subgenre that draws on an array of international music genres including Afrobeat, samba, Miami bass and electro, among others. Funk music group Os Quebradeiras dance on a street decorated for the Qatar 2022 World Cup at Tijuca neighborhood, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Dec. 8, 2022. Mauro Pimentel / AFP - Getty ImagesVideos with the hashtags Brazilian funk have gathered more than 94.7 million views; Brazilian music has reached more than 46.9 million views; and Brazilian dance has received more than 121.8 million. The hashtag funk carioca has more than 540 million views by itself.

☆ Mexico's Pemex had a plan to fix its flaring problem, but abandoned it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Stefanie Eschenbacher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +10 min

The broken commitment, which has not previously been reported, highlights the struggles of Mexico's oil regulator to rein in Pemex, a powerful state monopoly that is always closely connected to the government. The oil company has in recent quarterly reports stressed it was making efforts to clean up its operations and bring down flaring and other waste. Earlier this year, under increasing international criticism, Lopez Obrador said Pemex would invest $2 billion to improve infrastructure to reduce flaring and methane emissions. The regulator said in 2020 the company wasted 37.7% of the gas from Ku alone through flaring, venting or otherwise. One source said the regulator fined Pemex again for recurrence in 2021 but the oil company started legal proceedings to annul the fine, which are still pending.

☆ EXCLUSIVE Mexican regulator has no record of Pemex reporting methane leak, documents show
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Stefanie Eschenbacher | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

A fuel burner is seen at Mexico's state-run oil monopoly Pemex platform "Ku Maloob Zaap" in the Northeast Marine Region of Pemex Exploration and Production in the Bay of Campeche April 19, 2013. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Garcia/File PhotoMEXICO CITY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Mexico's environmental regulator has no records of state oil company Pemex reporting a methane leak last December at the country's top oil field, according to the regulator's response to a freedom of information request filed by Reuters. The methane leak at the Zaap-C platform, which first appeared on Dec. 8, was uncovered by researchers led by Itziar Irakulis Loitxate from the Polytechnic University of Valencia. The methane leak from the Zaap-C platform was not among the 5,235 incidents ASEA disclosed to Reuters in its response. Pemex, the world's most indebted oil company, has acknowledged in public statements the challenges it faces in maintaining and repairing ailing infrastructure.

☆ Big business likes to trumpet ESG credentials. But a 'greenwashing' reckoning could be on the horizon
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Anmar Frangoul | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +8 min

Many of these claims are now viewed through the prism of ESG, or environmental, social and governance. But here's the rub: Definitions of ESG often vary and are hard to pin down. Over in the United States, scrutiny of claims about sustainability and ESG is also taking place. When contacted by CNBC, Vale — which has an "ESG Portal" on its website — referred to a statement issued on April 28. The debate surrounding greenwashing is becoming increasingly fierce, with the charge often leveled at multinational companies with vast resources and significant carbon footprints.

☆ Flexport is buying Deliverr from Shopify. Here's the pitch deck the startup used to raise its $40 million Series C and become an acquisition target for some of the biggest names in e-commerce.
▼ + stars: | 2020-02-05 | by ( Benjamin Pimentel | Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Flexport is acquiring fulfillment firm Deliverr from Shopify, the players announced last week. Deliverr, which was founded in 2017, aimed to give small sellers a leg up on Amazon. Here's the pitch deck Deliverr used to fundraise from backers including Flexport's Ryan Petersen. Karkaris's cofounder Harish Abbott will transfer to Flexport to oversee the transition reporting directly to Clark, when the deal closes. Here's the pitch deck Deliverr used to raise a $40 million Series C round from investors, including Activant Capital, 8VC, GLP, and Flexport founder Ryan Petersen.

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