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As flags flew at half-staff and crowds gathered to mourn, there was one other special tribute from a friend of the late Queen Elizabeth. Paddington Bear, who starred with the Queen in a special short film to celebrate Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee, gave a brief but poignant message for his dining companion on…

Well, good luck with that. Consummate New York Mets fan Jerry Seinfeld is blaming Timmy Trumpet's live performance of the song "Narco" at Citi Field last week for the Mets recent swoon. The team had a 10.5 game lead in its division in June. As of tonight, they’re now just a half-game up on the defending champion and…

Barely a week after announcing massive layoffs and initiating a significant restructuring of the company, Snap Inc. CEO Evan Spiegel said the social media firm is committed to staying independent and resisting any takeover offers. “When I look at the long-term opportunity in our business, I really believe it’s…

Kim Kardashian and former Carlyle Group exec Jay Sammons are teaming up to launch private equity firm SKKY Partners. “Together we hope to leverage our complementary expertise to build the next generation Consumer & Media private equity firm,” Kardashian tweeted. Kardashian’s mother, Kris Jenner, is also joining the…

Lawyers for Elon Musk dialed upped the drama in Delaware Chancery Court today, insisting nothing less than "justice and truth" requires a three-week extension to the planned start date of a trial over whether the billionaire Tesla founder must honor his agreement to buy the social media platform. Proceedings are…

The special purpose acquisition vehicle backing the parent company of Donald Trump’s social media platform may need to call it quits after it has yet to garner enough shareholder support for an extension that would give the deal more time to close. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp., traded on the Nasdaq, are…

A very personal Twitter post by Pauley Perrette on Saturday revealed that the last year has been a tough one for the former NCIS actress. Perrette, who played Abby Sciuto on NCIS for 15 years before quitting in 2018, detailed her struggle. Most surprising was that she had major health problems. “It’s 9/2. One year ago…

UPDATE, SATURDAY, SEPT. 3: The Artemis 1 unmanned space launch, the first step in a program to return mankind to the moon, was called off once again this morning. NASA officially blamed a leaky fuel line on a propellant tank for the postponement. The ship was set to launch at 2:17 EST from the Kennedy Space Center in…

Twitter said today it will debut an Edit Tweet button on subscription service Twitter Blue “in coming weeks.” It's the platform's most requested feature to date and will allows users to change published Tweets several times for up to 30 minutes. "Think of it as a short period of time to do things like fix typos, add…

Reeling from an advertising slowdown and a grim economic environment, Snapchat parent Snap Inc. is laying off about 1,600 workers, or about 20% of its workforce. The dramatic cuts follow a series of grim financial reports, which sent the company’s shares plunging in recent months. Snap stock shot up almost 9% on heavy…

In their latest exchange of legal fire, Twitter has rejected new claims from billionaire Elon Musk that a whistleblower’s claims about the company give him grounds to exit his proposed $44 billion takeover. Citing an effort in July by Musk to wriggle out of the deal, Twitter lawyer William Savitt described Musk’s…

Twitter subpoenaed whistleblower Peiter Zatko today, asking for a raft of documents including any related to his "separation" from the company and his buying or selling of Twitter stock. Allegations by Zatko, Twitter's former security chief, that the company is negligent in handling cybersecurity risk and in…