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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

A young boy rolls up a mosquito net covering bedding at a refugee camp in 2023 in South Sudan. That mosquito nets are dangerous to people would be news to basically any public health professional who’s ever studied them. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets. lives for every 1,000 children protected by nets.

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T-Mobile tops 100M customers, posts $1.3B in quarterly profit six months after Sprint merger

GeekWire

T-Mobile added a net total of more than 2 million customers in the third quarter, giving it more than 100 million customers for the first time. Analysts surveyed in advance of T-Mobile’s earnings release expected the company to post earnings of 43 cents/share on revenue of $18.34 The Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

Whereas postpaid customers may be characterized by their affordability, high propensity to call ‘on-net’, i.e., to their family or friends from within their network of provider, a rich residential location, etc. Preparing meaningful clusters is like preparing derived attributes.

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Jeff Bezos wants the world to know he’s a philanthropist

Vox

By comparison, Bezos has been fairly reticent to discuss what motivates his philanthropy and the pace at which he’ll do it. It was a source of growing criticism from the press and nonprofit experts as his net worth climbed, topping $100 billion by the end of 2017. I will keep at it until the safe is empty,” she wrote.

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We’re all addicted to cheap stuff — and Temu knows it

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But wait, there was more — if I checked out in the next 10 minutes, I could net a cool $300. In a Deutsche Bank Research survey of US consumers, almost a third said they would shop less at Walmart and Amazon because of Temu. The spinner landed on “1 more chance.” I spun again, and this time, I won $200. Just how successful is Temu?

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Twitter’s CEO is now Twitter’s main character

Vox

By comparison, Meta laid off 13 percent of its workforce in November, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent employees a lengthy letter expressing his regret and attempting to explain the state of the company. Everyone exited was offered 3 months of severance, which is 50% more than legally required.”

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Why we can’t stop talking about billionaires

Vox

And the same went for Twitter founder Jack Dorsey , whose net worth more than doubled over the last year. The survey finds that Americans have heated feelings about the ultra-rich, saying by a more than 40 percentage-point margin that billionaires aren’t good role models. More net worth doesn’t always translate to more power.