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As Black Mirror episodes have continued to balloon to the size of full-blown movies, season 6’s “Mazey Day” is almost refreshing: it’s a compact 40 minutes that rushes by in a fit of flashing lights. It’s a story about celebrities and their unhealthy and often dangerous relationship to the press — the paparazzi, in particular. It’s fun but, because it moves so quickly, its premise ultimately isn’t explored with much nuance.“Mazey Day,” from director Uta Briesewitz, is about two characters living in parallel who inevitably…

Here is a brisk documentary about Noël Coward, who sailed to New York aged 20 with £17 in his pocket, and by his 30th birthday was the highest-paid author in the western world; in his lifetime he wrote 500 songs and 60 plays – acting in more than 70. At its best, this is an efficient film that does a solid, succinct job of fitting a lot of life into a little over 90 minutes; Coward died aged 73 in 1973. But in some ways this feels like a Wikipedia entry read out loud, never quite getting under the skin of a complicated…

Edtech startups offering online skilling courses have emerged as a silver lining amid the ongoing downturn in the K-12 and test preparation verticals as demand for reskilling remains steady. While funding has slowed considerably in the edtech sector, the reopening of schools and offline coaching centres has hit demand for edtech startups offering K-12 courses.Upskilling startup founders told ET that they are expecting to clock a strong rate of growth in the ongoing year even as a funding crunch has set in the broader…

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Business activities have fully resumed at the famous Baga Fish Market, Maiduguri, an indication that life is steadily returning to normal after more than a decade-old insurgency halted many business activities in the town. The market which is famous in the northeast region and surrounding states is known for the wholesale supply of smoked fish. The market in Maiduguri itself is named after Baga, a riverine village around Lake Chad waters. Fish stands in the Baga Fish Market Maiduguri Most of the merchants in the…

Nigerian stocks climbed for the second trading day on Monday as the benchmark index jumped higher by 0.34 per cent with the lender FBN Holdings to thank. Trade in the financial services group was unusually frenetic as 610.4 million units representing 81.per cent of total transaction volume exchanged hands with the pressure of the demand for them boosting gain. The advance also drew support from Conoil and MTN Nigeria, which both reported moderate gains. “We anticipate continued profit…

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted a 58.57 percent rise in first-quarter net profits on Thursday, largely driven by steady memory chip demand and brisk smartphone sales.The world's biggest memory-chip maker is the flagship subsidiary of the giant Samsung group, by far the largest of the family-controlled empires known as chaebols that dominate business in South Korea, Asia's fourth largest economy.The conglomerate is crucial to the South's economic health - its overall turnover is equivalent to a fifth of…