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Breadcrumb Trail Links News The latest business news as it happens Ottawa and Google have reached a deal regarding how much the search giant will pay to Canadian media companies in an apparent settlement of an ongoing dispute over the Online News Act. Photo by Richard Drew/The Associated Press Article content Today's top headlines Article content 4:55 p.m. Market close: Bond yields fall on signs Federal Reserve is in 'sweet spot' Advertisement 2 THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles from Barbara Shecter, Joe O'Connor, Gabriel Friedman, Victoria Wells and others. Daily content from Financial Times, the world's leading global business publication. Unlimited online access to read articles from Financial Post, National Post and 15 news sites across Canada with one account. National Post ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comm...

Copyright © AFP 2017-2023. All rights reserved. A doctored image has been shared on social media that appears to show leading Bangladeshi opposition politician Khaleda Zia scribbling words on a blackboard to mock street protests. The manipulated photo was circulated amid demonstrations in October against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina . The original image actually shows Zia at a school back in 1993 helping a pupil learn the Bengali alphabet. A Facebook post from October 28 falsely claims Zia was writing Bengali words that describe protest movements as a "dead horse". The manipulated image appears to show her beside a young boy as she produces a vowel and a consonant from the Bengali alphabet and examples of words that begin with them. These examples are "andolon", meaning protest movement, and "kochu hobe", which roughly translates as dead horse. The Facebook post says in Bengali: "The date was the 28th. 'Aa' for andolon, 'K' ...

This year, Venture Capital firm Atomico released the ninth edition of its annual 'State of European Tech' report. It offers many interesting insights into the state of employment in the European tech scene based on a detailed survey and in-depth interviews. It included a deep dive into the state of the public markets, IPOs and M&A to understand liquidity prospects for companies and their investors. Here are some of the key points detailed: Exit activity has been quiet since the market's peak in Q4 2021. However, 2023 saw the $2.6 billion listing of German cloud infrastructure provider IONOS Group and the ill-fated $1 billion IPO of UK fintech CAB Payments, followed by the gigantic $55 billion IPO this year to test a 're-opening' of the IPO window. However, this exists within a broader valuation reset that included liquidity challenges.  The ongoing liquidity crunch for LPs creates heightened pressure on VC GPs to deliver distribu...

There's a political cartoon going around that shows John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy sitting on a couch watching a speech by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The two hold their palms to their heads and moan that their legacy is being twisted and ruined. This has the situation completely backward. It isn't RFK Jr. who is rejecting the Kennedy brothers' legacy, but President Joe Biden and the modern-day Democrats. It's been said many times — and it happens to be true — that if JFK were alive today and he were espousing the ideas of his 1,000-day presidency, he would be a Republican. JFK was a staunch Cold War anti-communist/socialist. He espoused lower tax rates, was pro-life, served our country in uniform valiantly, was patriotic, was a hawk on protecting First Amendment civil liberties, and he and his brother, who served as attorney general, took on union and government corru...

Google Maps has added "a fresh color scheme, including a different look for parks and city blocks," writes SFGate. "But it's the changes to the app's all-important road maps that are rankling online commentators..." Previously, highways and freeways were depicted in bright yellow, which stood out against a stark white grid. Now, the app shows every road in various shades of gray, with major thoroughfares like Interstate 80 and Highway 1 showing up darker and thicker than other roadways. Raynell Cooper, an employee at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, called the new look "cartographically disappointing" in a Monday post to X, formerly known as Twitter. He added, "major local roads and limited-access highways (freeways) are basically indistinguishable." TechRadar has a side-by-side comparison of the old and new color schemes, quoting one Reddit who says the new one is a bit harder to read quickly. ...

SCOTT COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - On November 7, 1992, 19-year-old Mischelle Lawless went out for a night with friends and never made it home. No doubt you've heard something about the Lawless case. There's been an arrest. A trial. A conviction. And then the release and exoneration of an innocent man 16 years later. Back in June, a Scott County judge appointed a special prosecutor to take a new look at the Lawless case. We recently sat down with him, and his investigator. They believe they offer the last, best chance to catch Mischelle's killer; and they need your help to do it. "The sole focus in this should be on the victim and her family. And not on anything else." Lawless Special Prosecutor Allen Moss and Investigator David James talk to Kathy Sweeney about their approach to the case at Moss' Cape Girardeau, Mo. law office. (KFVS) Keeping the focus on Mischelle Lawless in order to find her killer kept Cape Girardeau attorney Allen Moss out of the spotlight, until...