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A nine-year-old boy has made nearly $30m in a year from “unboxing” and reviewing toys and games on YouTube to hold the title of highest-paid YouTuber for the third year running. Ryan Kaji, from Texas, made $29.5m (£22m) from his YouTube channel Ryan’s World , as well as a further estimated $200m from Ryan’s World branded toys and clothing, including Marks & Spencer pyjamas . He also signed an undisclosed, but likely multimillion dollar, deal for his own TV series on Nickelodeon . Kaji, who is described as a “child influencer”, first began making YouTube videos in March 2015 after watching other toy review channels and asking his mother, “How come I’m not on YouTube when all the other kids are? ” His family – who changed their real surname, Guan, to his on-screen surname, Kaji – now run nine YouTube channels. Ryan’s World was the most popular with 41.7m subscribers and 12.2bn views. Kaji’s most popular video, Huge Eggs Surprise Toys Challenge , has more than 2bn … [Read more...] about Ryan Kaji, 9, earns $29.5m as this year’s highest-paid YouTuber

President Donald Trump 's vast accumulation of wealth was made possible through numerous efforts by his father to steer resources into his son's hands by vastly undervaluing real estate values, obscuring gifts, and avoiding taxes, according to a bombshell investigation. A trove of documents including Fred Trump's tax returns show countless efforts to enrich Donald Trump and set him up to be the successful businessman and public figure and politician that he became. Many of the transfers were made in secret, often in advantageous ways that saved Trump and his siblings hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a deeply reported New York Times analysis. In eye-popping detail it lays bare what it says were years of tax avoidance which it calls 'dubious tax schemes... including instances of outright fraud'. Within minutes of its publication New York State tax authorities said they would investigate. The trove of documents includes secret tax and bank documents, meaning … [Read more...] about Trump was ‘earning’ $200,000 a year aged THREE and got $413 MILLION from his father, not the $1 million loan he claimed, reveals massive trove of family’s secret tax and bank documents – which New York State says they will investigate

Lenny Kravitz asks fans to invest in your own life and become a 'Heartbeat Billionaire' in the new Super Bowl ad for Stella Artois. The 56-year-old rocker teamed up with the brewery for their campaign dubbed Invest Your Heartbeats In The Life Artois. The heart of the new campaign is to make people realize they should invest their time in spending it with those they love around them.  Heartbeat Billionaire: Lenny Kravitz asks fans to invest in your own life and become a 'Heartbeat Billionaire' in the new Super Bowl ad for Stella Artois Life Artois: The 56-year-old rocker teamed up with the brewery for their campaign dubbed Invest Your Heartbeats In The Life Artois The ad opens with Kravitz walking up to a drum kit as he sits down, stating, 'We're all born with 2.5 billion heartbeats. The rocker picks up the drum sticks, rocking dark shades and a gold noses ring with his signature dreadlocks, adding, 'That makes you a billionaire.' RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 … [Read more...] about Lenny Kravitz asks his fans to invest in your own life and become a Heartbeat Billionaire in the new Stella Artois Super Bowl ad

The most august newspaper in the US, the New York Times, was left reeling on Wednesday after its executive editor, Jill Abramson, was fired and replaced by her deputy less than three years into one of the most exalted jobs in journalism. In a move that caught even the most senior staff at the paper unawares, Arthur Sulzberger Jr, the publisher and chairman of the New York Times Company, announced that Abramson would be replaced immediately by Dean Baquet, the paper's managing editor. He is the first African American to hold the job, although that milestone is likely to be overshadowed by the sudden dismissal of the paper's first female top editor in its 162-year history. When she took the job in September 2011, Abramson, 60, said it was “meaningful” that a woman had been appointed to run newsroom of such an influential organisation, and her removal is now certain to be perceived as an example of the “glass cliff” facing women in high journalistic office. In a … [Read more...] about Jill Abramson forced out as New York Times executive editor

The BBC’s former chief technology officer John Linwood, who was sacked in the wake of the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco, has won his unfair dismissal claim against the corporation. Linwood took legal action against the BBC after his contract was terminated in July last year following the failure of the DMI technology project which was scrapped by BBC director general, Tony Hall. Linwood claimed in an employment tribunal in central London earlier this year that he had been made the “fall guy” for its failure and said the project need never have been axed. The BBC claimed at the tribunal that Linwood was responsible for a “massive waste of public funds” and a “quite shameful flight from responsibility” over the failure of the initiative, which was supposed to make the BBC “tapeless”. In a verdict handed down on Thursday, it was the tribunal’s “unanimous verdict” that Linwood’s claim of unfair … [Read more...] about Sacked BBC technology chief wins unfair dismissal case