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  Ms Yaccarino was raised in an Italian-American family, with a father who was a police officer and a mother who never went to college. After graduating from Penn State, she worked at Turner Entertainment for 15 years before joining NBCUniversal, where she oversaw roughly 2,000 people, and was involved with the launch of its streaming service. Her work has been marked by close collaborations with big brands, finding opportunities for product placement and convincing them to advertise alongside television shows - even ones with a reputation for edgy content, such as Sex and the City when it first launched. She has also built relationships in new media with the likes of Apple News, Snapchat and YouTube. A 2005 profile in an industry publication portrayed her as a busy, married mother-of-two children, then aged 13 and 9. "I have absolutely no hobbies," she said at the time.    Business Insider's Claire Atkinson has followed Ms Yaccarino's career for two decades and said

Elon Musk has named a new chief executive of Twitter, just over six months after his controversial takeover of the social media company. The billionaire said Linda Yaccarino, the former head of advertising at NBCUniversal, would oversee business operations at the site, which has been struggling to make money. He said she would start in six weeks. Mr Musk will remain involved as executive chairman and chief technology officer. "Looking forward to working with Linda to transform this platform into X, the everything app," he  wrote on Twitter , confirming the decision a day after he had stoked speculation by writing that he had found a new boss without revealing their identity. Mr Musk - who bought the social media platform last year for $44bn - had been under pressure to find someone else to lead the company and refocus his attention on his other businesses, which include electric carmaker Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX. With fewer than 10% of Fortune 500 tech companies headed by

  A powerful cyclone is hitting the coastlines of Bangladesh and Myanmar after intensifying into the equivalent of a category-five storm. Cyclone Mocha is bringing heavy rain and winds of up to 195kph (120mph), which could see dangerous flooding on land around the Bay of Bengal. Storm surges of up to four metres could swamp villages in low lying areas There are fears it may hit the world's largest refugee camp, Cox's Bazar, where nearly one million people live. Forecasters warned Cyclone Mocha could be the most powerful storm seen in Bangladesh in nearly two decades. Around 500,000 people have been evacuated to safer areas. Many shelters set up in schools and monasteries in Cox's Bazar are now reportedly full and overcrowded. Police in the area spent much of Saturday warning people to take cover and avoid the beach area. The government also issued an official landslide warning linked to a the predicted very rainfall forecast for Sunday, The Bangladeshi meteorological depart

    The hometown of Ukraine's Eurovision act was hit by Russian missiles moments before the band took to the stage in Liverpool, officials say. The head of Ternopil regional state administration, Volodymyr Trush, confirmed two people had been injured. Ternopil mayor Serhiy Nadal said warehouses were damaged. Ukraine's foreign ministry accused Russia of attacking Kyiv and Ternopil regions before and during Tvorchi's Eurovision performance. Ten minutes before taking to the stage at the Liverpool Arena, Tvorchi posted on Instagram citing reports of Ternopil in western Ukraine being attacked. After performing, they added: "Ternopil is the name of our hometown, which was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage about our steel hearts, indomitability and will. "This is a message for all cities of Ukraine that are shelled every day. Kharkiv, Dnipro, Khmelnytsky, Kyiv, Zaporizhzhia, Uman, Sumy, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kherson and all