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It was February, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just back from paternity leave, sitting in on his first M team meeting since returning. M team meetings are where Facebook global management comes together — managers from engineering, product, sales, you name it — to talk about what’s going on with the company. And on that day, Fidji Simo and Maher Saba, who respectively run product and engineering for Facebook’s media projects, spoke about the company’s video efforts, Live in particular. Читать дальше...

Michelle Rial / BuzzFeed News

It was February, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was just back from paternity leave, sitting in on his first M team meeting since returning. M team meetings are where Facebook global management comes together — managers from engineering, product, sales, you name it — to talk about what’s going on with the company. And on that day, Fidji Simo and Maher Saba, who respectively run product and engineering for Facebook’s media projects, spoke about the company’s video efforts, Live in particular. Читать дальше...

Women and cars carrying students in school uniform will be exempted during the second phase of the odd-even vehicular scheme starting April 15, Delhi transport minister Gopal Rai said on Wednesday. CNG vehicles would also remain exempted from the restrictions during the second phase.

Women and cars carrying students in school uniform will be exempted during the second phase of the odd-even vehicular scheme starting April 15, Delhi transport minister Gopal Rai said on Wednesday. CNG vehicles would also remain exempted from the restrictions during the second phase.

Universal Truckload Services Inc. said on Wednesday it expects per-share earnings to range from 24 cents to 27 cents for the 2016 fiscal first quarter, compared with the 27 cents per share a year ago. That would be just below the 28 cents per share FactSet consensus. The logistics and transportation company said operating revenue for the quarter is expected to range from $258 million to $268 million, compared with the $263.6 million a year ago. The FactSet consensus on revenue is $267 million. Читать дальше...

The Patna-born mining mogul Anil Agarwal plans to convert his group Vedanta Resources Plc into a GE-like institution -- a board-run conglomerate run by best professionals -- as he does not see his children taking over the mantle from him.

Blockchain tech will be used by financial services firms in two years' time but mainstream adoption will take longer, according to Blythe Masters.

Het Rotterdamse advocaten- en notariskantoor Ploum Lodder Princen (PLP) wil dat er een onafhankelijk onderzoek komt naar aanleiding van beschuldigingen die zijn geuit tegen het kantoor. Dat onderzoek zou moeten worden uitgevoerd door de wettelijke toezichthouder Bureau Financieel Toezicht (BFT). De naam van het kantoor dook op in de Panama Papers.

Facebook today announced it is implementing new tools for its users to discover, share, interact with and personalize live video broadcasts,...

Stuart had read fellow teachers' blogs and incorporated some of her own ideas to form a sort of hybrid system that she proposed to administration before this school year. Using the nonprofit site donorschoose.com, she was able to buy the creature comforts and swap them in for tables and chairs during winter break. There's been a lot of learning opportunities through the new seating," Stuart said, "and a lot of it ties in with the new learning standards. Each morning, when Stuart picks sticks with... Читать дальше...

A new Fiduciary Rule from the Obama administration requires financial advisers to always act in the best interest of their client.

Mumbai, Apr 6 () For the convenience of passengers during summer vacations, Western Railway has decided to run a weekly Superfast Special train between Bandra Terminus to Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, officials said today.

Stock futures are slightly higher in a bounce from one of the steepest drops we've seen in recent days. 

New Delhi, Apr 6 () The country needs better quality seeds to increase production of potatoes and meet rising domestic demand, Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh said today. Potato production stood at 48 million tonnes from an area of 20.

Lenny, a new imprint at Random House, will publish titles selected by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner.

Janet Jackson just made a big announcement on her Facebook, implying that she might be pregnant! “Hey you guys on August 31 I launched the Unbreakable World Tour,” the 49-year-old entertainer said in her video message. “First I just want to thank all the fans for coming out to see the show. We’re in the [...]

“You’re one in a million” is the cliched compliment of pop songs and Valentine’s Day cards. But if you live with one of the rarest medical conditions in the world, is there anything you wouldn’t do to know you’re not so unique — that there’s someone else out there just like you? Wednesday night, TLC […]

Two weeks after the worst attack on his country’s soil since World War II, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel tells CNN there are “successes” and “failures” in the fight against terrorism. “In this fight against terrorists,” he said, “against these enemies who are hiding, who are more and more professional in their way, in the […]

Republican elites may be increasingly confident that a contested convention can stop Donald Trump — but many of their voters aren't at all keen on the idea.

IMF boss Christine Lagarde says Britain voting to leave the EU in June’s referendum is one of many threats to the global economy.

The bizarre photobombs may have origins in Nazi propaganda.

In the two months since Facebook made its video broadcasting tool available to all users, the social network has found people are 10 times more likely to write a comment under a live stream than an ordinary video.

A jury awarded $2.1 million Tuesday to a former Los Angeles police detective who claimed she was so mistreated and harassed after taking a medically ordered leave that she suffered irreversible harm and could no longer work.