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Tennis superstar Serena Williams is making her first foray into the technology world by joining the board of online survey giant SurveyMonkey, the company announced on Wednesday. While it may seem like an odd pairing, the match was made through Facebook chief operating officer and SurveyMonkey board member Sheryl Sandberg. Sandberg and her late husband, Dave Goldberg, SurveyMonkey’s former CEO,

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — British security forces raided a building Wednesday in central Manchester as they investigated “a network” of people allegedly behind the city’s concert bombing. Hundreds of soldiers were sent to secure key sites across the country, including Buckingham Palace and the British Parliament at Westminster. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said the bomber, Salman Abedi, “likely” did not

Good morning. Aaron here filling in for Adam. I’ve been covering T-Mobile for the past few years, beginning just slightly after John Legere came on as CEO in late 2012, with all his outspokenness and his new ideas for shaking up the wireless market. It’s been an awesome story. What’s the old saying? First they ignore you, then they laugh

The Philippine government has imposed martial law on Mindinao after radical Islamic extremists launched attacks, but it didn’t stop the terrorists from conducting operations. The rebels took a Catholic priest and 13 parishioners and parish employees hostage this morning after attacking the church, despite a blackout in the city of Marawi in which the church was located: Muslim extremists abducted

ET CETERA Purse purgatory: We've written about Coach's increasing interest in M&A before. Today Fortune's Phil Wahba published a feature on the company's turnaround. The relevant part for Term Sheet readers: Coach itself has been the subject of takeover rumors, but in the past year executives have sent clear signals that they'd rather eat than be eaten. In April the

What I mean in the headline is, is it their animosity towards Russia after the election that’s mainly driving this or is it more of a tribal “whatever Trump thinks, I think the opposite” reaction? The president is America’s most famous NATO skeptic, after all. Or he was, until about a month ago. The two options aren’t mutually exclusive. It

The U.S. government’s national security requests on Apple data soared during the second half of 2016. Apple reported in a biannual transparency report released on Tuesday that it received between 5,750 and 5,999 national security orders during the second half of 2016. Apple said that those orders affected between 4,750 and 4,999 user accounts. The U.S. government doesn’t allow companies