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Web video redefines itself as TV to win bigger slice of ad pie

WITH THEIR SIGHTS set on a $63-billion TV advertising market, streaming video services like Hulu and Crackle are now defining themselves as TV networks, arguing they’re just as prevalent in the living room as ESPN and MTV.

Heavier is now ‘healthier’ than in 1970s: study

MIAMI — Being on the heavier side may not be as dangerous as it was in the 1970s, at least when it comes to the risk of dying, according to a study on Tuesday.

Botanists warn on threats to world’s plant kingdom

LONDON — Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind aimed at drawing attention to often-overlooked species.

Sun Life promotes financial literacy through board games

By Carmencita A. Carillo

DAVAO CITY — First he got retrenched.

Hamilton adored by scalpers too with $12.5-million windfall

THE BROADWAY HIT Hamilton is making millions. It could be making millions more if not for scalpers snapping up seats and hawking them for $2,000 a piece or more.

Cuba scrambles to keep pace with US-fueled tourism boom

HAVANA — The number of US visitors to Cuba has nearly doubled this year, its tourism minister said on Wednesday, as the island races to build hotels and expand Havana airport to keep up with booming demand.

Saul surfer

By Noel Vera

DVD Review
Son of Saul
Directed by Lazlo Nemes

South African firms bet on coffee and donuts despite slowdown

JOHANNESBURG — A fortnight after the first Starbucks in South Africa opened in a trendy Johannesburg district, queues still snaked onto the pavement, a sign of the craving for international brands despite an economic slowdown.

What to see this week

5 films to see on the week of May 13-20, 2016

Justin Timberlake returns with cheery pop

NEW YORK — Pop superstar Justin Timberlake returned Friday with his first new song in three years, a cheery pop number that will appear on his upcoming movie Trolls.

What young Wall Streeters see in American Psycho The Musical

By Amanda Gordon, Bloomberg

ELEVEN Yale business school students spill out of a Broadway theater after a performance of American Psycho The Musical. They’ve just watched a 1980s investment banker sing and chop through a coworker and homeless man and now they’re sorting out what the satire says about the real Wall Street, where some of them are looking for work.

A mountain bike trail in Tagaytay

TAGAYTAY’S Twin Lakes — the country’s first vineyard resort township community — has added a mountain bike trail to its attractions.