SILVERFRING, Md. – The chief financial officer at General Motors, Dhivya Suryadevara, trades Detroit for Silicon Valley in a surprise departure to join the startup Stripe of payments. Suryadevara became a rising star in the automotive sector, at the age of 39 became GM’s first female CFO in 2018 at …
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Mexican-American singer and actor Trini Lopez has died at the age of 83 after contracting Covid-19 at a hospital in Rancho Mirage, California. As he became second in the World War II classic The Dirty Dozen in 1967 as one of the eponymous gang, Lopez scored a transatlantic hit with …
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