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Henrique de Castro, who was fired this week as Yahoo’s No. 2 executive, will walk away with as much as $109 million for 15 months of work. His pay for 2012 was higher than that of most Silicon Valley chief executives.
The game maker admitted that it stumbled and said that instead of an annual profit of $527 million, it would report a net loss of $240 million.
The plan is the first in a series of labor- and immigrant-friendly laws that Mayor Bill de Blasio is expected to champion, including higher pay for employees on many city-sponsored projects.
Michael R. Bloomberg’s dive back into the news side of Bloomberg L.P. has worried some that the division’s editorial independence could be called into question.
An examination by The New York Times into an enormous data theft shows that Target’s system was particularly vulnerable to attack.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 15, 2014, covering January 18, 2014.
Soundtrack
Beyonce
Eminem
Katy Perry
Lorde
2014Kathryn Abbe, American photographer and author (born 1919)[†]
Kathryn Abbe was an American photographer.
2014Michael Botmang, Nigerian politician, 17th Governor of Plateau State (born 1938)[†]
Chief Michael Botmang was a Nigerian politician who served as the governor of Plateau State from 2006 to 2007, following the impeachment of Joshua Dariye. He served as deputy governor of Plateau State from 1999 to 2004; 2004 to 2006; and from April to May 2007 under Dariye.
2014Dennis Frederiksen, American singer-songwriter (born 1951)[†]
Dennis Hardy "Fergie" Frederiksen was an American rock singer best known as the former lead singer of Trillion, Angel, LeRoux and Toto, as well as providing backing vocals for Survivor. He contributed to hit singles in three consecutive years, all with different bands: Survivor's "American Heartbeat" in 1982, LeRoux's "Carrie's Gone" in 1983 and Toto's "Stranger in Town" in 1984.
2014Andy Graver, English footballer (born 1927)[†]
Andrew Martin Graver was an English footballer who scored 158 goals from 323 games playing in the Football League for Newcastle United, Lincoln City, Leicester City and Stoke City.
2014Sarah Marshall, English actress (born 1933)[†]
Sarah Lynne Marshall was a British actress. She received a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance in Goodbye Charlie.
2014Eugenio Cruz Vargas, Chilean poet and painter (born 1923)[†]
Eugenio Cruz Vargas was a notable Chilean poet and painter. His art was developed under the naturalistic landscape and abstraction, and his collection of poems under the concepts of surrealism and culminate in the literary creationism.)
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]