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Kim Sattler

July

Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant pose for photographers during their pre-wedding ceremony in Mumbai.

Kardashian, Blair, Tyson: Global elite flock to Ambani mega-wedding

A pantheon of global celebrities, politicians and CEOs are descending on India’s financial capital for the wedding of the son of Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani.

  • George Johnson

May

Wang Hongquanxing once boasted he never left home in jewellery and clothes worth less than 10 million yuan ($2.1 million).

China’s online ‘Kim Kardashian’ banned for being too ostentatious

The online disappearance last week of Wang Hongquanxing is part of the government’s latest campaign to maintain its dominance over China’s social media culture.

  • Joe Leahy and Wenjie Ding

March

Kim Kardashian published a series of photos to her 364 million followers on Instagram with the caption: “On my way to find Kate.”

Celebrities who mocked Princess of Wales called on to apologise

The princess’s cancer revelation sparked an outpouring of support and has prompted an outcry at some of the nasty conspiracy theories propagated recently.

  • India McTaggart and Michael Murphy

August 2023

Jesse Clark and Tom Hamer, co-founders of AI-search tool Marqo

Aussies raid Amazon to build AI search start-up

After an $8 million funding round led by Blackbird, the Marqo founders have poached the tech giant’s scientists and engineers for an AI-powered search engine.

  • Tess Bennett

October 2022

Wall Street analyst and TikTok star Naeche Vincent. The platform has shaken up online advertising.

Who killed the social media ad boom?

A decade-long era of breakneck growth in social media advertising has come to an abrupt halt. Inflation, further industry disruption and a privacy crackdown are the main causes.

  • Alex Barker, Alistair Gray and Tim Bradshaw

July 2022

Facebook’s historic earnings miss comes as Mark Zuckerberg is trying to reinvent it in the metaverse and copy the success of TikTok with younger users.

Zuckerberg hunts for TikTok answers as Facebook suffers first revenue fail

Facebook’s historic earnings miss comes as Mark Zuckerberg is trying to reinvent it in the metaverse and copy the success of TikTok with younger users.

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  • Naomi Nix

January 2022

Matt Damon equating some of the greatest human accomplishments in history with buying strings of digital 1s and 0s is ludicrous.

Matt Damon’s crypto ad is more than just cringeworthy

The fact that even a man known for his philanthropy and keeping a low profile appears susceptible to the lure of crypto makes it all seem more sinister.

  • Jemima Kelly

August 2020

Among the accounts hijacked last month included those of former US President Barack Obama, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, rapper Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian.

UK teenager faces extradition over Twitter celebrity hack

Mason Sheppard, a 19-year-old from southern England, was one of three people charged by the US Department of Justice over an alleged cyber scam that saw the accounts of various celebrities hijacked last month.

  • Danielle Sheridan and Ellie Zolfagharifard

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