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Madonna Swastika Use: Run Back in Paris, Likely to Result in Lawsuit

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

It’s all fun and games until someone flashes a Swastika in concert. During a concert in Tel Aviv earlier this year, Madonna aired a video that included a shot of the infamous Nazi symbol, using it as a way to call out National Front leader Marine Le Pen, a political leader with extraordinarily conservative views. She then did so again in Paris on Saturday, with 70,000 attendees looking on, and will likely now face legal consequences.

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Marissa Mayer Named Chief Executive of Yahoo

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Marissa Mayer is leaving Google for its major competitor. One of the top players at the top search engine on the planet, Mayer was named chief executive of Yahoo today, instantly bumping her way up on the corporate America food chain and making her possibly the most prominent woman in Silicon Valley. She had been listed as employee number-20 at Google. An engineer by trade, Mayer was considered responsible for many of Google’s best-known features, from its simple homepage design to Gmail to Google News and Images. Her appointment as the President of Yahoo is considered a significant get for a company trying to compete with Google and Facebook. She begins her new gig tomorrow. Referring to Yahoo as “one of the best brands on the Internet,” Mayer showed appreciation for her time at Google but told The New York Times in an interview: “It was a reasonably easy decision.”

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