TORONTO — At a conference bookended by speeches from former President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, the leading lights of the global center-left gathered to consider their fate. The Global Progress Action Summit was billed as a “progressive version of CPAC,” the right-wing conference that has become a premier gathering for populist…
Paris Jackson’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $150 million, primarily derived from her inheritance through the Michael Jackson Family Trust, alongside independent earnings from modelling, music, acting, and real estate. Paris Jackson, the American model, musician, actress, and daughter of Michael Jackson, has a financial profile shaped heavily by one of the most…
By Julia Barcelon “If publishers still have strong journalism, strong brands, and strong audiences, why does advertising revenue still feel so hard to win?” That was the question raised by Anson Mok, the Head of Data Development at United Daily News Group, during WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Asia conference in Manila as he reflected on the…
The debate over LeBron James and his place in basketball history never seems to go away. Whether it is his scoring records, his championship count, or the teams he has played for, the conversation around LeBron is always alive. Now, as questions swirl around whether he has played his final game with the Los…
Donald Trump’s upcoming summit with Xi Jinping is likely to be dominated and somewhat overshadowed by the ongoing conflict in Iran. In recent months, US attention and military resources have been shifted from Asia to the Middle East, where the war has proven longer and more difficult than anticipated. At the same time, the administration…
Under new EU greenwashing regulations, companies making false or misleading sustainability claims could face hefty penalties as the Empowering Consumers for the Green Transition Directive takes effect on September 27. The most brazen scofflaws should expect fines of up to a 4% of the company’s annual gross income, product recalls, and possible class-action lawsuits, under…
Yoweri Museveni’s net worth is back under scrutiny after Uganda’s longtime leader was sworn in for a seventh term on May 12, 2026, extending his rule into a fifth decade at the center of East African politics. The political moment matters financially because Uganda is approaching one of the most important economic transitions in its…
The other week when I was talking about Web Components in the Corner, I mentioned zero-md, a nice little Web Component for doing exactly that. I had to bite my tongue a little bit though, as the 2.0 public beta hadn’t quite made it out of the door yet. See, the new compiler, among its many…
By Marchel Espina “We’re in an age of eternal disruption,” Glenda Gloria, told participants at WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference in Manila, Philippines, and noted the January traffic spike on their website that later turned out to be ghost traffic from bots infiltrating Google Analytics. The IP clusters were traced in Lanzhou, China and…
President Donald Trump heads into this week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping with a major embarrassment back home: the legal foundation of his aggressive tariff strategy is rapidly eroding. Trump expects to meet Xi in Beijing from May 14 to May 15 to discuss trade, the war in Iran and, possibly, Taiwan. But the…