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• Brian Niccol is expected to get a huge pay package when he joins Starbucks next month.
• His total compensation as CEO could add up to $113 million, according to a regulatory filing.
• The average annual wage for a Starbucks barista is less — around $49,000.

Brian Niccol is set to

• The FTC has a new rule saying creators can't buy fake followers on accounts they use to make money.
• The agency said it would crack down on false indicators of influence that could deceive consumers.
• Brands also can't pay for fake engagement without risking the FTC's ire.

It's always been a bad look for influencers to buy fake followers.

Marketers think you're phony and deceptive

• Spotify reported its most profitable quarter ever, driven by ad sales and subscriber growth.
• A leaked deck shows how the music-streaming service is seeking a bigger slice of video ad budgets.
• Spotify's ad sales growth has slowed, and it remains a smaller player in the ad market, however.

Spotify has been trying hard to boost its pitch to advertisers.

The music

AT&T and Verizon have taken issue with SpaceX and T-Mobile’s upcoming direct-to-cell satellite offering, arguing that SpaceX’s implementation will harm their respective mobile broadband networks. Filings that urge the Federal Communications Commission to reject SpaceX’s request to waive out-of-band emission limits were submitted by AT&T and Verizon this

Marvel supervillain and Fantastic 4 foil Doctor Doom is everywhere these days. After appearing at Comic Con as Robert Downey Jr.'s latest role, the green-caped menace will be heavily featured in Fortnite's Chapter 5 Season 4 as part of the Absolute Doom battle pass, Epic announced. 

"Wielding the ancient power of Pandora’s Box, Marvel's armored despot Doctor Doom has transplanted his Latvarian

Crowning the ‘King of TV’ is no small task.

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Getting to Mars will be easy. It’s the whole ‘living there’ part that we haven’t figured out.

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• Russia looks to have moved thousands of troops from the front lines in Ukraine to defend Kursk.
• One of Ukraine's likely goals with the Kursk incursion was to force Russia to thin out its troops.
• But these represent

• Vijaya Srivastava learned to swim at the age of 68 to lose weight.
• Now, seven years later, she's incorporated swimming and fitness into her life, and loves it.
• She shared tips for getting fit at any age with Business Insider.

At 68, the closest Vijaya Srivastava had ever gotten to swimming was dipping her

Is the second time the charm for Google's foldable? In this episode, Devindra chats with Senior Writer Sam Rutherford about his hands-on impressions of the new Pixel 9 Pro Fold. It has bigger screens and a sleeker design than its predecessor, but how does it compare to the other foldables out there? And why isn't it called the Pixel Fold 2?!

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Congress can’t get enough of the Meta boss. Nineteen members of Congress are now pressing Mark Zuckerberg to explain why Meta has allowed ads for cocaine, ecstasy and other drugs on both Facebook and Instagram. It comes after the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) used Meta’s ad library to find 450 Instagram and Facebook ads that included “photos of prescription drug bottles, piles of pills and