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Warner Bros. Discovery Names New U.S. Advertising Sales Chiefs

Warner Bros. Discovery Names New U.S. Advertising Sales Chiefs

Warner Bros. Discovery has promoted Ryan Gould and Robert “Bobby” Voltaggio to presidents of U.S. advertising sales. Gould joined the studio in 2012 when Turner Broadcasting bought Bleacher Report, and was most recently head of streaming, digital and advanced advertising sales and client partnerships at WBD since 2023. Voltaggio joined then Discovery in 2005 in ad sales and was promoted to head of revenue and operations in 2019, his most recent role until the current promotion. They replace Jon Steinlauf, the WBD head of advertising sales who announced his plans to leave the company in late 2024, prompting a search for his replacement. Gould and Voltaggio will oversee the studio’s sales portfolio for both networks and streaming, including sports, news, client partnerships and digital sales. They will report to WBD chief revenue and strategy officer Bruce Campbell, who in a statement said promoting from within the studio made sense “given the rapidly evolving advertising market.” “Ryan and Bobby have been instrumental leaders in driving our business since the merger, and are innovative, decisive, and team-oriented in all that they do. …

The Venezuelans Who Just Lost Their Legal Status in the U.S.

The Venezuelans Who Just Lost Their Legal Status in the U.S.

According to Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s “border czar,” the administration’s deportation policies apply only to people who are “in the country illegally,” not to the “millions of people standing in line, taking the test, doing their background investigation, paying the fees, that want to come in the right way.” This week, more than half a million Venezuelans who’d done things “the right way” discovered that the distinction might not matter. They’d filled out forms, paid up to $545 in fees, and waited anywhere from two to 12 months to secure Temporary Protected Status, which allows them to live and work in the United States. And yet, on Wednesday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that these 600,000 Venezuelans would be stripped of that status and subject to deportation as of September 10. The rules for TPS seemed simple enough. Venezuelan nationals who were on U.S. soil before a certain date were eligible. Ukrainians have their own date—as do Hondurans, Haitians, Syrians, Ethiopians, and others from a list of countries whose conditions the U.S. …

Counteroffer: What if Greenland bought the U.S.?

Counteroffer: What if Greenland bought the U.S.?

Sign up for the Smarter Faster newsletter A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. The Danes are in “crisis mode” after a “horrendous” call in mid-January between President Donald Trump and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen in which Trump in no uncertain terms reiterated his desire to acquire Greenland. What are the Danes to do — ponder and vacillate like Hamlet? Or remember that offense is the best defense? In the latter case, they would do well to recall an amusing proposal made by Greenland’s prime minister in 2019, when Trump first set his sights on the world’s largest island. Kim Kielsen, who was prime minister of Greenland from 2014 to 2021, formulated a tantalizing counteroffer to Trump’s claim. According to Kielsen, it should be Greenland that acquires the U.S. — not the other way around. And the prime minister had a good historical argument behind his satirical claim. “It was Leif the Lucky who discovered America,” Kielsen told the Danish newspaper Politiken in …

Nissan Planning To Cut Up To 2,000 U.S. Jobs And Reduce Production By 25%

Nissan Planning To Cut Up To 2,000 U.S. Jobs And Reduce Production By 25%

Nissan plans to cut 1,500–2,000 U.S. jobs and reduce production by 25% as part of a strategic review, according to GuruFocus. It aims to close a production line at its Smyrna, TN plant by April and another at its Canton, MS plant later in the year. The company is reviewing its EV production and investment strategy. Spokesperson Shiro Nagai stated the reports are unofficial, and Nissan declined further comment. However, it wouldn’t be an unreasonable move for the automaker which has struggled in recent years and is in the midst of considering a merger. Recall back in late December we wrote that the struggling automaker was considering a tie-up with Honda that would make it the world’s third largest automaker.  Facing competition from EV leaders like Tesla and China’s BYD, Japanese automakers are uniting to cut costs and accelerate their transition to electric vehicles. Honda’s president, Toshihiro Mibe, stated last month that the companies plan to form a joint holding company, maintaining their brands while Honda leads management. A merger agreement is targeted for June, …

TikTok Ban Takes Effect and App Goes Dark in the U.S.

TikTok Ban Takes Effect and App Goes Dark in the U.S.

“Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now,” the message read. Hours before a federal law banning TikTok from the United States took effect on Sunday, the Chinese-owned social media app went dark, and U.S. users could no longer access videos on the platform. Instead, the app greeted them with a message that said “a law banning TikTok has been enacted.” “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution,” the message said. “Please stay tuned!” In addition, TikTok’s sister app, Lemon8, stopped working and showed U.S. users a message saying that it “isn’t available right now.” Both TikTok and Lemon8 are owned by ByteDance, a Chinese internet giant. CapCut, a popular video-editing app from ByteDance, was also unavailable. Apple said it had removed TikTok and other ByteDance apps, including Lemon8, from its app store, and users said that Google’s U.S. app store had also removed TikTok. Searching for the apps on Apple’s app store on Sunday yielded a new message: “TikTok and other ByteDance apps are not available …

TikTok shuts down in the U.S.

TikTok shuts down in the U.S.

TikTok just ran out of tiktoks as the countdown ended for the app’s time in the U.S. In the early hours of January 19, the wildly popular short-form video app went dark. The shutdown left me (and millions of other users) in shock as they were greeted with a message saying, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now” or an image that I could not flick away. I don’t know what my 418 followers are going to do now. Seriously, the service is the drama of the moment, as the shutdown came after the U.S. Supreme Court denied an appeal by TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and upheld a law passed by Congress last year, which required ByteDance, to either divest TikTok or face a ban. The law was driven by concerns over national security, with fears that the Chinese government could use TikTok to collect sensitive information on American users. Various politicians who were privvy to intelligence reports said it was credible that the Chinese government was using TikTok to spy on us. But Donald …

U.S. teen tobacco use has hit a record low

U.S. teen tobacco use has hit a record low

ad: Short for advertisement. It may appear in any medium (print, online or broadcast) and has been prepared to sell someone on a product, idea or point of view. addiction: The National Institute of Drug Abuse defines this as a complex chronic disorder that is characterized by a difficult-to-control compulsion to use some drug, despite knowing that it will likely have harmful impacts. A first exposure to these drugs is usually voluntary. But repeated use of certain ones, NIDA explains, can create “changes to  brain circuits involved in rewards, stress, and self-control.” Those changes can make it very hard to resist the urge to continue using drugs. The term has also been expanded to some behaviors that become dangerous and/or excessive, such as gambling, shopping and video game use. addictive: An adjective to describe something that become habit-forming in an uncontrolled or unhealthy way. This can include a drug or some habit (such as video game playing or phone texting). Such addictions reflect an illness triggered by brain changes that occur after using some drugs or engaging …

How Philosophy Departments in the U.S. Can Support Their International Graduate Students

How Philosophy Departments in the U.S. Can Support Their International Graduate Students

In July 2024, I had the opportunity to attend the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) Teaching and Learning Seminar. The three-day, activities-packed seminar opened me up to seeing innovative ideas about teaching philosophy as a potential faculty. Among the many things that stood out for me at this event was the number of international graduate philosophy students from various universities in the U.S. and Canada. I couldn’t help but notice that of the eighteen participants in the seminar, a significant number of us were international students from Canada, Brazil, Singapore, South Korea, and Nigeria. This made me curious about the statistics of international philosophy graduate students in the U.S. and whether it has increased over time. I learned from the 2022 Council of Graduate Studies (CGS) survey that first-time international graduate enrollment increased by 10.2% across all fields of study except engineering from 2021 to 2022. Daniela Veliz also observed that the proportion of international graduate students in the USA has steadily increased from 17% in 1985 to 29% in 2015, with the increase …

U.S. tightens its grip on AI chip flows across the globe

U.S. tightens its grip on AI chip flows across the globe

US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on advancing the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificial intelligence, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 30, 2023. Brendan Smialowski | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. government said on Monday it would further restrict artificial intelligence chip and technology exports, divvying up the world to keep advanced computing power in the U.S. and among its allies while finding more ways to block China’s access. The new regulations will cap the number of AI chips that can be exported to most countries and allow unlimited access to U.S. AI technology for America’s closest allies, while also maintaining a block on exports to China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. The lengthy new rules unveiled in the final days of outgoing President Joe Biden’s administration go beyond China and are aimed at helping the U.S. keep its dominant status in AI by controlling it around the world. “The U.S. leads AI now – both AI development and AI chip design, and …

Gov. Newsom says L.A. wildfires could be worst natural disaster in U.S. history: Full interview

Gov. Newsom says L.A. wildfires could be worst natural disaster in U.S. history: Full interview

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Newsom issues executive order suspending environmental regulations to help L.A. rebuild after fires 02:50 Gov. Newsom says he’s organizing a Marshall Plan to reimagine ‘L.A. 2.0’ after wildfires 02:06 Gov. Newsom says his investigation into L.A. County water supply is ‘not about finger pointing’ 01:25 Trump has not responded to invitation to survey L.A. wildfire damage, Gov. Newsom says 03:09 GOP Sen. Lankford says U.S. ‘is not going to invade’ Greenland despite Trump’s comments 00:53 Sen. Lankford says he’ll vote in favor of Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence 01:46 Clearing debris after California wildfires could take ‘nine months to a year,’ says Gov. Newsom 01:41 Gov. Newsom says he has ‘faith in our leaders’ as L.A. Mayor Karen Bass faces scrutiny 00:09 Lankford says Trump’s deportation plan will take ‘some dollars’ and a ‘long time’: Full interview 08:17 Sen. Alex Padilla says he has faith in Gov. Newsom and Mayor Bass: Full interview 07:01 Now Playing Gov. Newsom …