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Twitter Sued by Women Alleging Discriminatory Layoffs After Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter was sued by two women who were laid off by the microblogging platform as part of mass layoffs after billionaire Elon Musk completed his takeover deal. The lawsuit alleges that the company's mass layoffs disproportionately affected female workers. Musk, who is also Twitter's new CEO, faces a series of lawsuits over his decimation of Twitter'...
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Nykaa's Falguni Nayar, Newest Female Billionaire, Offers This Advice
Falguni Nayar joined the rarefied ranks of self-made billionaire women this week as the beauty startup she founded went public and promptly doubled on its trading debut. Now she's encouraging more women to seize control.
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Nykaa Founder Becomes India's Wealthiest Self-Made Female Billionaire
Falguni Nayar's beauty startup has jolted her to the ranks of the world's richest.
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Blue Origin: Trailblazing Female Pilot Will Go to Space at Age 82 With Jeff Bezos
Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos will be joined by Wally Funk, one of the 13 women who passed NASA's astronaut training programme in the 1960s, on the first crewed flight into space from his rocket company Blue Origin later this month.
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Bill Gates Said to Have Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe into Relationship With Employee
Bill Gates exited Microsoft board in 2020 as it pursued an investigation into the tech billionaire's romantic relationship with a female employee, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd Becomes a Rare Female Billionaire Following IPO
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is now valued at $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 10,920 crores), following the trading debut of the dating app.
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Women-Led Dating App Bumble's 31-Year-Old Founder Becomes Billionaire
A company catering to women and led by women has made its 31-year-old female founder a billionaire.
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New Female Billionaire Emerges From Expensive Divorce In Asia
A new female billionaire has emerged from one of Asia's most-expensive breakups. Du Weimin, the chairman of Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., transferred 161.3 million shares of the vaccine maker to his ex-wife, Yuan Liping, according to a May 29 filing, immediately catapulting her into the ranks of the world's richest.
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Student, 21, Alleges Chinese Billionaire Lured Her To Dinner, Raped Her
It was a Thursday evening in late August and a crowd had gathered at the Origami sushi restaurant in Minneapolis. One guest, a 21-year-old female Chinese undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, was initially expecting a dinner in honor of volunteers like herself.
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You Won't Find Any Women On Boards Of These Asian Billionaires
Even by Asia's low standards when it comes to having women on corporate boards, the progress of the region's billionaires is lagging: Most of the richest men in China, Japan and South Korea run companies with few, if any, female board members.
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Election Day: Americans Choose Between Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump
A polarized America went to the polls Tuesday to pick its 45th president, choosing to elect either Hillary Clinton as the nation's first female commander in chief or billionaire businessman Donald Trump after a long and rancorous campaign that upended US politics.
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Madonna's brother: We never loved each other
Singer Madonna's brother Anthony Ciccone is living an underprivileged life and says the popstar is not concerned about his well-being and vice versa.
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Richest self-made female billionaires are from China
More than half of the 20 richest self-made women in the world are Chinese, with their average fortune surpassing US talk show host Oprah Winfrey and author J K Rowling, a list showed on Tuesday.The three richest women on the planet are Chinese, led by paper-recycling queen Zhang Yin, who has a personal fortune of USD 5.6 billion, according to the S...
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Twitter Sued by Women Alleging Discriminatory Layoffs After Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter was sued by two women who were laid off by the microblogging platform as part of mass layoffs after billionaire Elon Musk completed his takeover deal. The lawsuit alleges that the company's mass layoffs disproportionately affected female workers. Musk, who is also Twitter's new CEO, faces a series of lawsuits over his decimation of Twitter'...
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Nykaa's Falguni Nayar, Newest Female Billionaire, Offers This Advice
Falguni Nayar joined the rarefied ranks of self-made billionaire women this week as the beauty startup she founded went public and promptly doubled on its trading debut. Now she's encouraging more women to seize control.
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Nykaa Founder Becomes India's Wealthiest Self-Made Female Billionaire
Falguni Nayar's beauty startup has jolted her to the ranks of the world's richest.
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Blue Origin: Trailblazing Female Pilot Will Go to Space at Age 82 With Jeff Bezos
Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos will be joined by Wally Funk, one of the 13 women who passed NASA's astronaut training programme in the 1960s, on the first crewed flight into space from his rocket company Blue Origin later this month.
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Bill Gates Said to Have Left Microsoft Board Amid Probe into Relationship With Employee
Bill Gates exited Microsoft board in 2020 as it pursued an investigation into the tech billionaire's romantic relationship with a female employee, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd Becomes a Rare Female Billionaire Following IPO
Bumble CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd is now valued at $1.5 billion (roughly Rs. 10,920 crores), following the trading debut of the dating app.
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Women-Led Dating App Bumble's 31-Year-Old Founder Becomes Billionaire
A company catering to women and led by women has made its 31-year-old female founder a billionaire.
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New Female Billionaire Emerges From Expensive Divorce In Asia
A new female billionaire has emerged from one of Asia's most-expensive breakups. Du Weimin, the chairman of Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., transferred 161.3 million shares of the vaccine maker to his ex-wife, Yuan Liping, according to a May 29 filing, immediately catapulting her into the ranks of the world's richest.
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Student, 21, Alleges Chinese Billionaire Lured Her To Dinner, Raped Her
It was a Thursday evening in late August and a crowd had gathered at the Origami sushi restaurant in Minneapolis. One guest, a 21-year-old female Chinese undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, was initially expecting a dinner in honor of volunteers like herself.
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You Won't Find Any Women On Boards Of These Asian Billionaires
Even by Asia's low standards when it comes to having women on corporate boards, the progress of the region's billionaires is lagging: Most of the richest men in China, Japan and South Korea run companies with few, if any, female board members.
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Election Day: Americans Choose Between Hillary Clinton And Donald Trump
A polarized America went to the polls Tuesday to pick its 45th president, choosing to elect either Hillary Clinton as the nation's first female commander in chief or billionaire businessman Donald Trump after a long and rancorous campaign that upended US politics.
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Madonna's brother: We never loved each other
Singer Madonna's brother Anthony Ciccone is living an underprivileged life and says the popstar is not concerned about his well-being and vice versa.
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Richest self-made female billionaires are from China
More than half of the 20 richest self-made women in the world are Chinese, with their average fortune surpassing US talk show host Oprah Winfrey and author J K Rowling, a list showed on Tuesday.The three richest women on the planet are Chinese, led by paper-recycling queen Zhang Yin, who has a personal fortune of USD 5.6 billion, according to the S...
