Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Social media is a great way for entrepreneurs and small businesses to engage with their customers by sharing useful content, company updates, promotions and responding to questions. Most importantly, customers can easily share this information with their network of friends and family.For many small businesses, this helps generate a significant portion (over 40%) of their annual revenue. While most social media platforms come equipped with tools and buttons for easy sharing, more and more consumers are turning to a practice known as dark social.Dark social refers to sharing online content and social…
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It hasn’t been a good year for people who care about climate change. A hoped-for peak in carbon emissions has failed to emerge, meaning we continue to warm the planet at an accelerating rate (see “Humanity has warmed the planet by 1.5°C since 1700”). Meanwhile, the election of Donald Trump for a second term as US president is likely to see the country retreat on climate action, with his pledge to “drill, baby, drill” for new oil and gas supplies. Similar sentiments towards fossil fuels come from Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, who has called the natural resources of…
The two former Georgia election workers who won an almost $150 million defamation judgment against former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani want him held in civil contempt for continuing to falsely accuse them of committing election fraud in the 2020 election.In papers filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., attorneys for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss say Giuliani has continued to make false claims about them online despite a court-approved deal in May where he “agreed to be bound by a permanent injunction prohibiting him from repeating the same or similar statements to the statements adjudged to be false and…
A London-born teenager nicknamed “God’s influencer” for his online skills will be made a saint in April.Carlo Acutis, who died of leukaemia in 2006 at the age of 15, will be the first millennial – a person born in the early 1980s to late 1990s – to be canonised by the Catholic church.Pope Francis previously cleared the way for him to be made a saint by attributing a second miracle to him in May.The teenager has also been labelled “the patron saint of the internet” for his work recording miracles online and running websites for Catholic organisations.He was previously beatified…
Russia has begun mass production of mobile nuclear bunkers. This is in response to Ukraine’s use of Western US and British missiles to attack deep inside Russia to destroy its conventional capability so NATO can launch an invasion by March/April 2025. This has coincided with Mr Putin’s change of Russia’s doctrine to lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons to include the use of conventional weapons by Ukraine. Russia’s defense ministry said Ukraine attacked an ammunition stockpile in the Bryansk region using missiles supplied by the US military’s MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS). Russia has also ordered the production of its…
Credit: Screenshot via The Late Show with Stephen Colbert President Bill Clinton recently raised some eyebrows by suggesting what criteria would be involved in electing America’s first female President. He thinks it’s less likely that his own party—the Democrats—will produce the first woman Commander-in-Chief, despite several attempts so far. In a recent interview with CBS’ Tracy Smith, Clinton was asked if he thought America wasn’t ready for a female President. Because, ya know, the spectacularly unqualified Kamala Harris’s loss can only be explained by sexism. Or something. “Maybe,” the former President replied. Things grew a little more interesting when Clinton…
Tori Spelling’s motel and RV days are over as she moves into a luxurious new home.The “Beverly Hills, 90210” star made waves last year for downscaling from her usual celebrity lifestyle amid her divorce from Dean McDermott. Their separation sparked financial trouble speculations when the actress moved her five kids into a remote vehicle home.Tori Spelling’s woes continued with a sudden hospitalization for an undisclosed condition. While 2023 seemed to test the TV personality and her family, this year has been filled with positive changes, from Spelling’s willingness to declutter her storage units and her new home in Calabasas.Article continues…
“CLOSER TO A DIRECT CONFLICT” Maxim Starchak, a specialist on Russian nuclear policy at Queen’s University in Canada, said that the Kremlin’s doctrine “lowers the threshold” for nuclear weapons use. But it also “introduces ambiguity”, he said. “On the one hand, Russia speaks about the possibility of using nuclear weapons in case of a territorial threat, but on the other hand, the scale of such a threat is not clear.” Setting aside the nuclear question, Starchak said, the recent arrival of North Korean troops on the Russian side, and the US-supplied missile launches on the Ukrainian side “are certainly an…
The sight of the Sydney newspaper’s front page was enough to make one gasp aloud. Virat Kohli’s face, above folded arms, gazed back from The Daily Telegraph, the photograph taking up the entire top half of the page. A small image of Pat Cummins sat in the bottom left corner. The most arresting feature, however, was the gold headline in Hindi with an English translation underneath: Fight for the ages. The rest of the page was split evenly between the two languages with a message from Australia’s Test captain while on the back page was an article on India’s opening…
During the 2015-16 season, the Boston Celtics took the 23-0 Golden State Warriors to double overtime before losing, 124-119. Tuesday night, they didn’t miss their chance to hand the undefeated Cleveland Cavaliers their first loss. The Cavs made a furious second-half comeback in their 120-117 loss, cutting a 21-point Boston lead to two points multiple times, but never led after taking an early 4-3 lead. They stayed in the game by forcing 13 Celtics turnovers and grabbing 12 offensive rebounds, but ultimately, they had no answer for Boston’s three-point shooting. Specifically, Donovan Mitchell and Darius Garland had no answer. Mitchell…