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                                                                                     Source REUTERS  Oil is expected to drop for a third week as concerns about demand mount. November 10, LONDON (Reuters) - Although oil prices increased on Friday, they are expected to decline for a third week due to decreasing demand and the focus of the market on OPEC and its allies this month for a crucial meeting that will decide the group's next course of action on production. At 1109 GMT, the January contract for Brent crude was up 84 cents, or 1.1%, at $80.85 a barrel, while the December contract for U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was up 78 cents, or 1%, at $76.52. Each contract is expected to decline by roughly 5% each week. "Concerns about demand have replaced the fear of production outages related to the Middle East conflict," stated Commerzbank. This week's weak Chinese economic data heightened concerns about declining demand. Furthermore, Chinese refiners, who purc

                                                                                       Source Theverge.com To get Epic to release Fortnite on the Play Store, Google promised them $147 million.  Google feared that a "contagion" of defecting developers might have reduced its Android income by billions. In court, Google acknowledged that Epic received a $147 million offer to release its popular game Fortnite on the Google Play Store for Android smartphones. The agreement, which was authorized and sent to Epic but rejected, according to Google's VP of Play Partnerships Purnima Kochikar, called for the money to be paid to the game publisher in three years' worth of "incremental funding" that would have ended in 2021. The intention was to stop a possible "contagion" of well-known programs avoiding Android's official store and, consequently, Google's hefty in-app purchase costs. 2018 saw the direct release of Fortnite on Android by Epic via its we

                                                                                Source cnbc.com  The 18-year-old's father reveals his top parenting tip, saying, "I take a hands off approach," after his son was employed as a Google engineer. Stanley Zhong is not like other eighteen-year-olds. Nor is he your average Google  developer. Zhong received a weighted GPA of 4.42, a SAT score of 1590, and an e-signature firm named RabbitSign as graduation gifts from Palo Alto, California's Gunn High School earlier this year. In addition, he received waitlist or rejection letters from 16 of the 18 universities he applied to, including Stanford and MIT. Google intervened, offering Zhong a position as a L4 software engineer, which is one level above entry level. Zhong intends to work there for a year before going to the University of Texas, thus it's only a temporary position. Even while the job title and the offer may have surprised some, Stanley's father Nan Zhong claims

                                                                             Source Yahoo finance Masayoshi Son Lost His Credibility and $11.5 Billion Due to the WeWork Saga In Bloomberg The bankruptcy filing of WeWork Inc. brings to an end a protracted legal battle that exposed startling weaknesses in Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son's investing strategy, harming his standing in the business considerably more than the money he lost. Overriding the protests of his lieutenants, Son gave WeWork founder Adam Neumann billions of dollars from the Vision Fund and SoftBank Group Corp., driving the co-working space's valuation to an astounding $47 billion in the first quarter of 2019. A few months later, WeWork's IPO papers exposed significant losses and conflicts of interest, which incensed investors. SoftBank is suffering larger losses from WeWork's subsequent collapse than from the projected $11.5 billion in stock losses and the additional $2.2 billion in debt that is stil

                                                                                            Source Antara Human rights are given priority in ASEAN human trafficking proceedings by Komnas HAM. ANTARA, Badung, Bali - As human trafficking cases in ASEAN are linked to the violation of fundamental human rights, the National Commision on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) said on Tuesday that it is giving human rights-based handling priority. "As a follow-up to the cases, all parties involved in handling human trafficking must integrate (human) rights into their analysis," stated Atnike Nova Sigiro, chairperson of Komnas HAM, during the ASEAN Regional Conference on Human Trafficking in Kuta, Bali. She clarified that the Witness and Victim Protection Agency (LPSK), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Manpower, the Ministry of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection, and the police are all active in the fight against human trafficking. She said that forced labour, forced mar

                                                                                  Source Thejakartapost The wildfire on Mount Rinjani is still growing, and the climbing path may have to be closed. (The Jakarta Post) News Desk Sun., November 5, 2023, Jakarta On Thursday, the wildfire in Mount Rinjani National Park had grown from 30 hectares to over 95 hectares. The national park's chief officer for land and forest fires, Lalu Santawana, reported that 19 new hot spots had been found on Thursday. With this, there are now 26 hot spots in all. Tuesday saw the start of the wildfire in East Lombok's Gomongan forest. It is thought that local hunters started the original fire, which was exacerbated by the dry conditions brought on by the protracted dry season. "Over an area of 30 ha, the fire's coordinates are 08°23'24.28" S 116°30'17.84 "E," according to Dwi Pangestu, the national park's head of administration. According to the official, among

                                                                                  Source Antara Jakarta  Implementing the constitution includes saving Palestine: MPR Antara Jakarta - Jazilul Fawaid, the deputy speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR), declared that preserving Palestine is a component of Indonesia's constitutional implementation. "Saving humanity entails saving Palestine. During his Sunday speech at the Solidarity Act for Palestine in Jakarta, he stated that "saving Palestine is part of implementing the Indonesian constitution." In line with the principles of Indonesia's constitution, Fawaid stated that it is his duty as the MPR's representative to collaborate with the Indonesian people in upholding and defending the rights and dignity of the Palestinian people. "I, representing the high state institution MPR, am here to emphasize and jointly take part in the grand action to defend the Palestinian people in accordan