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Yes, there are some trade-offs to being insured by state-owned Citizens Property Insurance Corp.But despite them, there's little an argument that folks who rely on "the insurer of last resort" have been facing insurance rate hikes that rank among the lowest over the past two years.It's one reason, along with a growing reluctance by private-market insurers to continue insuring Florida homes, why the number of accounts covered by Citizens' has grown from 420,000 to 1.3 million since 2019.

Linda Yaccarino, NBCU's (now former) chair of global advertising, is leaving the broadcasting giant to become Twitter's new CEO.Yaccarino has deep connections in the advertising industry and is a strong choice to revive Twitter's flagging ad business - assuming Musk stays out of her way, says Lou Paskalis, chief strategy officer at Ad Fontes Media, in conversion with .

The German Cartel Office, Germany's antitrust regulator, says Google's data processing policies violate the country's digital competition law.Germany's antitrust regulations go further than the EU's Digital Markets Act to prohibit data from being shared internally by large companies with multiple consumer brands or services.

This week once again saw social timelines taken over by Spotify Wrapped, the audio service's year-end user roundup of the most-played music and podcasts.The organic marketing play is obvious - people widely share their Wrapped updates - but Spotify also spends on out-of-home activations, live events and digital media to amplify its organic edge.

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The Los Angeles Police Department is updating the cameras in its patrol cars to capture wider angles with higher resolution and allow for video to upload from the field to a station, in hopes of increasing transparency in police interactions, Chief Michel Moore announced.

The messages, in simple white text, flashed onto the walls of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters Thursday evening."Musk's Hellscape.""Launching to bankruptcy.""Worthless billionaire."Other messages called Elon Musk, who closed his $44-billion purchase of Twitter late last month, a "Space Karen" and "lawless oligarch."

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Monday a proposed rule that seeks to bolster consumer protections for borrowers seeking Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing for home renovations.These loans, which are often used to finance environmentally-minded renovations, like the addition of solar panels, have led to financial instability for some borrowers.

Blank-check firm Aurora Acquisition Corp. wants to extend the deadline for completing its merger deal with struggling digital mortgage lender Better.comby six months for the third time, further dimming the prospects for the deal to go through.Novator Capital-sponsored Aurora shareholders will vote on an undisclosed date to extend the deadline by which the company "must either consummate a merger, share of exchange asset acquisition, share purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more business" to September 30, 2023 from March 8,2023, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

The CEO and Founder of Clearview AI have revealed police have run nearly a million searches in the United States using its facial recognition software.According to founder Hoan Ton-That, the company has over 30 billion images of users thanks to efforts to scrap image data from social media platforms such as Facebook without user permission, according to the BBC.

Bayern Munich's Thomas Müller and Manchester City 's İlkay Gündoğan have each had a fantastic career.In fact, some would say that they are two of the best players - at their respective positions - that Germany has ever produced.Some...would say that.Certainly, Müller is more legendary and has accomplished more, and even though both players have had great careers, their best days are behind them.

Kraken, a U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, agreed on Monday to pay more than $360,000 to the Treasury Department to settle accusations of sanctions violations involving virtual currency transactions by users in Iran.The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control said Kraken, the second largest crypto exchange by volume in the United States, had agreed to a settlement for enabling nearly $1.7 million of transactions to individuals who appeared to be located in Iran between October 2015 and June 2019.

For many people it's a daily routine: putting paper and cans in their recycling bin, and making sure vegetable peels and kitty litter end up in the green bin.But some Torontonians don't have the option to make the eco-conscious choices they'd like to.Despite a green bin program that's been running for two decades in Toronto, thousands of residents have no choice but to put food scraps and other organic waste directly in their garbage bin.

Three months before the green flag turns Grant Park into a pop-up urban racecourse, the NASCAR promotional engine is revving up for the inaugural Chicago Street Race.Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois was named a founding partner Tuesday for the racing and entertainment event July Fourth weekend, joining McDonald's as a major Chicago sponsor.

The number of parking tickets issued by private companies has hit a record high, according to figures published this month.An analysis of Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency data by the PA news agency shows the number of parking tickets issued by private firms in Britain soared by 24% in the second half of 2022 to reach 5.7m an average of about 31,000 every day.

Children in England should have learned to read by age seven.Given an age-appropriate book, they are expected to be able to focus on understanding  who the story is about, what is happening  rather than expend effort on sounding out individual words.Literacy, numeracy and social and physical skills are the blocks on which all learning is built.

A Calgary geothermal company, Eavor Technologies Inc., has been awarded a grant from the European Innovation Fund (EIF) in support of the Canadian firm's geothermal project in Germany.The grant is worth 91.6-million, which is about $135 million Cdn.The innovation fund hands out financial incentives to companies investing in low-carbon technologies in Europe.

On March 7, Antonio Attolini Murra, a member of Mexico's ruling party, quote-tweeted a post that he hated: "These idiots think that wearing a brand labeled as 'fascist' is something to be proud of.They're brain-dead."His tweet referred to an apparel brand, Fachos.mx,named after the Spanish-language slang term for "fascist."

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Goodway Group has chosen Jay Friedman as CEO.Friedman has assumed the chief executive position after more than 16 years at the company, most recently as president.Former CEO David Wolk moves into the role of executive chairman.Friedman's appointment marks the first time a nonfamily member is leading the full-service digital marketing services company, which started out as a printing company in 1929.

Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., arrives at court during the SolarCity trial in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2021.Musk was cool but combative as he testified in a Delaware courtroom that Tesla's more than $2 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016 wasn't a bailout of the struggling solar provider.

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email The City of Light is losing its luster with tons of garbage piling up on Paris sidewalks as sanitation workers strike for a ninth day Tuesday.The creeping squalor is the most visible sign of widespread anger over a bill to raise the French retirement age by two years.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was set to announce a major scientific breakthrough Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars.Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California for the first time produced more energy in a fusion reaction than was used to ignite it, something called net energy gain, according to one government official and one scientist familiar with the research.

We are in a period of immense uncertainty and change, particularly for traditional news outlets.Our colleagues in the newspaper business face a challenging few quarters.With the price of newsprint up dramatically, increasing home delivery prices alongside inflation is causing consumers to rethink subscriptions.

A bill known as the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act is gaining traction in Congress that could enable "final offer" arbitration, sometimes called "baseball arbitration," for the remuneration of online content.Smaller publishers argue that it would level the playing field by allowing news organizations to band together for a larger share of advertising revenue pie, though Big Tech feels quite the opposite.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The Lancashire police are facing increased pressure for an external review in the Nicola Bulley case after two dog walkers found her body just a mile down the river from where she went missing last month.

Boris Johnson will continue his post-prime ministerial career by giving a speech at a Blockchain conference in Singapore next month.The MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip will be the keynote speaker at the symposium dedicated to advancements in the technology allowing the growth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

AUSTIN, Texas The Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) is making plans for more growth and it wants to make sure residents who live near the airport are in the know.AUS is hosting a free open house-style community event from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Southeast Branch Library, located at 5803 Nuckols Crossing.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with a payload including two lunar rovers from Japan and the United Arab Emirates, lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022.John Raoux/AP CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its own private lander Sunday, blasting off atop a SpaceX rocket with the United Arab Emirates' first lunar rover and a toylike robot from Japan that's designed to roll around up there in the gray dust.

While video-based platforms like TikTok and YouTube hogged most of the attention and optimism at influencer convention CreatorWorld, industry insiders had wildly differing views instead on the future of Twitter, the embattled social news service.Alex Dwek of Nas Company is betting on the outsized personality of Twitter boss Elon Musk, and the nature of the digital public square, to pull the company through.

SAN FRANCISCO  When the ax came down at Twitter on Friday, it did not fall smoothly.The first sign that some of the company's 7,500 employees had been laid off came when their email accounts were shut off late Thursday.Yet they received no official word about termination and some of their Slack accounts still worked.

Rapper Kanye West speaks during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval office of the White House in 2018.Oliver Contreras/Getty Images The Twitter account of Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, appears to be reactivated Friday morning following Elon Musk's takeover of the site.Twitter locked the rapper's account earlier this month after an antisemitic post that threated Jewish people.

14 minutes ago14 minutes ago A Tokyo-based company has become the first private entity to send a mission to the moon.If successful, it will be the first moon landing by a Japanese spacecraft.A spacecraft designed by a Japanese startup took off on Sunday atop a SpaceX rocket.The launch took place in Cape Canaveral in the US state of Florida with various components from Canada, the UAE and NASA being carried on the craft.

Realtor.comOne of the finest examples of a Lustron home we've ever seen is now up for grabs in Ohio.This relatively unassuming gray house in North Olmsted was once a cool blue hue.No matter the color, the residence is part of American history."Lustron homes were a post-World War II concept, funded by the federal government to a private company that had mastered a finish that was a baked porcelain enamel over steel," explains listing agent Roger Scheve, with Re/Max.

AUSTIN, Texas  Holiday travel is set to ramp up again as Christmas and New Year's approach, and as Austin grows, our city's airport is trying to keep up.This year, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has set and broken multiple passenger records, and staff say they're seeing no signs of a slowdown.

Under new guidelines, DC will allow for the expansion of its electric scooter fleet to 20,000 next year.Right now, scooter companies Bird, Lime, Lyft, Skip by Helbiz, and Spin are operating electric-scooter-rental businesses in the District, with each allowed to keep a fleet of 2,500 scooters, for a total of 11,770 scooters currently zipping around the city.

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