By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Walt Disney Co will shutter its immersive Star Wars-themed luxury hotel in Orlando this September, less than two years after it opened, as the media gian[...]
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Disney cancels plans for $1 billion campus, 2,000 jobs in Florida
By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co is scrapping plans to build a nearly $1 billion corporate campus in central Florida that would have housed 2,000 employees,[...]
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Hollywood actors’ union asks members to authorize possible strike
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The board of Hollywood’s actors union asked members on Thursday to give negotiators the power to call a strike, a move that would add new pressure[...]
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Apple slashes sales estimates of its headset – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) – Apple Inc has lowered sales estimates for its long-awaited mixed-reality headsets by about two-thirds, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Th[...]
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U.S. Supreme Court tosses case challenging internet legal shield
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sidestepped a challenge to federal protections for internet and social media companies that free them of liability for content post[...]
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Analysis-Elon Musk’s embrace of advertising at Tesla grabs marketers’ attention
By Akash Sriram and Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) – With Elon Musk outlining plans for Tesla Inc to use traditional advertising for the first time, viewers might see the electric-vehicle maker’s M[...]
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US expects flights to jump on Memorial Day weekend, near pre-COVID levels
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. aviation regulators are forecasting nearly 313,000 flights over the seven-day Memorial Day holiday period, up 4.5% from 2022 and just below 2019 pre-pand[...]
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Fashion giant Shein raises $2 billion but lowers valuation by a third- WSJ
(Reuters) – Online fashion giant Shein raised $2 billion in its latest fundraising round that values the company at $66 billion, about a third less than a year earlier, the Wall Street Journal r[...]
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Texas settles with Marriott, sues Hyatt over “resort fees”
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK (Reuters) -The State of Texas and Marriott International Inc on Tuesday entered a voluntary agreement to prominently display all “resort fees” and to increase[...]
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