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Hut Group misadventure offers lesson in control to wannabe Zuckerbergs
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It’s good to know Matthew Moulding has retained his sense of humour amid current troubles. At least one assumes he was joking when he said his sudden desire to shed his “golden share” is somehow related to the first a...
BBC boss offers to meet black executive after claims he was blocked from job
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The BBC director general, Tim Davie, has offered to meet a prominent black media executive who, it is claimed, was blocked from a senior job at the broadcaster after making public interventions on race. Marcus Ryder s...
Small firms’ fury as Amazon offers £3,000 sign-up bonus to attract Christmas staff
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Amazon is offering signing-up bonuses of up to £3,000 in areas of Britain with labour shortages, to attract workers in time for the Christmas surge in demand. The Food and Drink Federation says there is a “battle for ...
US offers payments, relocation to family of Afghans killed in botched drone attack
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The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched US drone attack in Afghanistan in August during the final days before American troops withdrew from t...
Asos offers staff flexible work and paid leave during menopause
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Staff at the online fashion store Asos will be allowed to work flexibly, as well as take time off at short notice, while going through the menopause. It is one of several new policies being introduced by the clothing ...
‘Moral bankruptcy’: whistleblower offers scathing assessment of Facebook
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It might, as one senator put it, be remembered as “the big tobacco jaw-dropping moment of truth”. The truth-teller was former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen, appearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to testify tha...
Cristiano Ronaldo offers support to Perth-based football player in coma
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Manchester United stars Cristiano Ronaldo and Dean Henderson have offered support to a Perth-based football player who was critically injured in an alleged unprovoked attack. English striker Danny Hodgson, who plays f...
White House offers Nicki Minaj a phone call to answer vaccine questions
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The White House offered on Wednesday to connect Nicki Minaj with one of the Biden administration’s doctors to address her questions about the Covid-19 vaccine, after the Trinidadian-born rapper’s erroneous tweet alleg...
Anfield offers reminder of its magical power on Liverpool rollercoaster ride
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“Proper Champions League”. You said it, Jürgen. At times in the second half at Anfield, as the red and cream shapes spun and surged, exchanging darts and overloads, as the crowd generated that rolling surge of heat an...
‘It restores my soul’: pandemic offers unexpected boon to Guam indigenous language learners
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Antoinette Charfauros McDaniel, a 58-year-old retired professor in Ohio, is trying to study her mother tongue. CHamoru, Guam’s indigenous language, is dying, with just 20,000 of the 168,000-strong population of the is...
US Soccer offers identical contract proposals to women’s and men’s teams
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The US Soccer Federation said it had offered identical contract proposals on Tuesday to the players’ associations for the men’s and women’s national teams, and the governing body said it would refuse to agree to a dea...
Amazon offers $3,000 sign-on bonuses to US delivery and warehouse workers
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Amazon is offering sign-on bonuses of up to $3,000 (£2,165) in some locations as it aims to hire 125,000 delivery and warehouse workers across the US amid a recruitment frenzy. The online retail and tech giant said it...
Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion law takes effect
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The cloud-based software giant Salesforce is offering to help relocate employees out of Texas following the state’s enactment of its extreme new abortion law. Referring to the “incredibly personal issues” that the law...
Amazon offers to pay college fees of 750,000 frontline US workers
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Amazon has offered to pay the cost of college tuition fees for 750,000 of its frontline workers, the latest move by a major US company to offer perks to attract and retain staff amid a labour shortage. The company, wh...
Melbourne clinic offers ivermectin despite it not being approved as a Covid treatment
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A medical clinic in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs has been offering patients off-label prescriptions for the anti-parasite drug ivermectin to treat Covid-19, despite a lack of evidence for its use in treating the virus....
England face record run chase to beat India but Hameed offers hope
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As the shadows lengthened on the fourth evening, eventually engulfing the outfield at the Oval to end a day of glorious sunshine, England’s opening pair of Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed made an encouraging start to wha...