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Dive Brief: A new grant program aims to attract high-tech companies and expand the industry’s presence in New York state by preparing land tracts for future construction. Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York program on Feb. 28. Hochul has budgeted $200 million for fiscal year…

New York City, New York Mar 8, 2022 (Issuewire.com)  - The tech training nonprofit ​NPower has announced Vittorio Cretella, Chief Information Officer for Proctor & Gamble and NPower board member, will be the commencement speaker at this year’s virtual graduation ceremony honoring young adults and veterans trainees who completed the program.…

Woman with a cause: Pakistan’s first blind diplomat working for more accessible world ISLAMABAD: Saima Saleem made headlines last year when she addressed the UN General Assembly with a fierce speech in support of the right of Kashmiris to self-determination. All cameras were on her as she sat behind the…

Dive into this week’s top stories from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, and San Francisco (RestaurantNews.com)  What Now Media Group, Inc., the industry-leading publisher of pre-opening restaurant news, has released its weekly bulletin with the biggest stories from its 12…

WGA East The WGA East’s strike against the Gizmodo Media Group has ended after an agreement was reached on a new contract covering nearly 100 staffers at G/O Media news outlets Gizmodo, Jezebel, The Root, Lifehacker, Kotaku and Jalopnik. Picket lines had gone up outside the parent company’s offices in…

The Chainsmokers love Kanye West's take on 'New York City'. The DJ duo - made up of Alex Pall and Drew Taggart - were blown away when they heard Fivio Foreign's single 'City of Gods', which features Ye and Alicia Keys while sampling the chorus from the pair's 2015 song.…

B oris Johnson is set to tell international leaders “the world is watching” as he urges them to match rhetoric with action over Russia’s invasion with Ukraine. The Prime Minister will set out a six-point plan on Sunday, which he hopes global counterparts will accept, as Russian leader Vladimir Putin…

tech Updated Mar. 5, 2022 Tech companies and telecom providers in Europe, Australia, and Canada are blocking Russian state-controlled media outlets in light of the Putin regime’s invasion of Ukraine. On February 27, European Union president Ursula von der Leyen tweeted that the “state-owned Russia Today and Sputnik, and their…

19:25 'Suffering likely to get worse before it gets better' - Blinken Martin Pengelly Secretary of state Antony Blinken has just issued a fresh warning about the war, echoing other leaders of late who have warned that the worst is ahead. An Irish questioner asks how much worse things are…

Aysia Marotta “Michelle loves some Guy Fieri.” This is one of the first things said on a Zoom call with the six members of Michelle, a New York City-based pop group. To clarify, no one in the band is actually named Michelle (and they style their group name, album titles,…