In his first speaking engagement ever, at tonight's StartX event, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton talked about the company's big "F" word (focus), how people in the U.S. just didn't get the service when it first launched five years ago, and, of course, its record-setting acquisition by Facebook (Acton said that WhatsApp will not be "swallowed by the Borg" after the deal is finalized).
Fraser then became commander in chief of the Home Fleet and was chiefly concerned with the protection of convoys to the U.S.S.R. On Dec. 26, 1943, aboard his flagship "Duke of York," he fought and sank the German battleship "Scharnhorst" off Norway's North Cape in an engagement conducted largely at night with the aid of radar.
From Head to Feet Two American premieres will be presented when the Eifman Ballet of St . Petersburg celebrating its 25th anniversary, winds up a five-city cross-country tour with a three-week engagement at City Center, tonight through April 14.
She continues handsomely to be the world's greatest cinema actress in the Oriental triangle drama, "The Painted Veil," which begins an engagement at the Capitol this morning.
Unless we see some miracle of digi-civic engagement by Monday at noon pacific when the voting period ends, the overwhelming sentiment against the proposed changes will just be taken "under advisory" and Facebook is free to enact the changes.
Those theatrical virtues have helped make her effective both as a choreographer and as a director of her own dance group, the Jamison Project, which opened a week's engagement Tuesday night at the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Avenue, at 19th Street.
Simon's pressing engagements At the end of the night, the final awards tally was ITV five to the BBC's six - or seven if you count Clarkson's special award.
Although Helen Reddy all but disappeared from mainstream pop visibility after the mid-1980's, the singer and songwriter, who opened a three-week engagement last night at Michael's Pub (211 East 55th Street), has been not in hiding.
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro was met by activists chanting, "Reagan's dead" and "John McCain's dead," when he arrived for a speaking engagement Tuesday night at Ohio State University.
A Korn/Ferry survey cites customer engagement as the top worry keeping Chief Marketing Officers up at night.
