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Under Barry Diller, IAC/InterActiveCorp has been increasing its presence in an online market that has become increasingly crowded.
Last year, the Tallahassee police’s handling of a rape accusation against Jameis Winston drew attention to its failure to adequately investigate. Now, an examination shows a pattern to the handling of such complaints.
An ancestral tablet at a Chinese tomb shows how an executive who profited from Alibaba’s acquisition of her company is connected to a family of prominent generals.
Parent groups and privacy advocates are challenging the practices of an industry built on data collection, and California has passed wide-ranging legislation protecting students’ personal information.
Authors United, a group of Hachette writers and allies, is appealing to Amazon’s board to consider their reputation in the battle over e-book pricing.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 10, 2014, covering September 15, 2014.
Ariana Grande
Brad Paisley
Kem
Soundtrack
Sam Smith
2014John Anderson Jr., American lawyer and politician, 36th Governor of Kansas (born 1917)[†]
John Anderson Jr. was an American politician who served as the 36th governor of Kansas, from 1961 until 1965. A member of the Republican Party, he previously was the 33rd attorney general of Kansas from 1956 until 1961.
2014Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (born 1930)[†]
Eugene Irving Gordon was an American physicist. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs.
2014Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia (born 1922)[†]
Nicholas Romanovich Romanov was a claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov and president of the Romanov Family Association. Although undoubtedly a descendant of Emperor Nicholas I of Russia, his claimed titles and official membership in the former Imperial House were disputed by those who maintained that his parents' marriage violated the laws of the Russian Empire.
2014Jürg Schubiger, Swiss psychotherapist and author (born 1936)[†]
Jürg Schubiger was a Swiss psychotherapist and writer of children's books. He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1996 for Als die Welt noch jung war.
2014Wayne Tefs, Canadian anthologist, author, and critic (born 1947)[†]
Wayne Tefs was a Canadian novelist, writer, editor, critic, and anthologist.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]