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The Washington Post laid off 20 people from its newsroom on Tuesday, according to a note sent to its staff. In the note, Sally Buzbee, the executive editor, said the company had also identified 30 open positions that would not be filled. “Newsroom leaders made these decisions after a thoughtful and deliberate review of our
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In May, the Waldorf brand invited Aysedeniz Gokcin, a Turkish pianist with 105,000 followers on Instagram, to come to New York and film herself playing Cole Porter’s historic original Steinway grand piano, which sits in the Waldorf’s sales gallery. She was joined by her fellow Turkish performer Kaan Sekban, who has more than 500,000 Instagram
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Ticketmaster in the hot seat Two months after Ticketmaster canceled sales for Taylor Swift’s upcoming Eras tour, a top executive from its parent company, Live Nation Entertainment, will appear at the Senate on Tuesday to defend the company. (Ms. Swift herself is not scheduled to show up.) Expect lawmakers to pepper Live Nation’s president and
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Developers are teaming up with niche influencers who trade targeted posts for entry into luxury residential buildings. Source link
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Katie Bach, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who was not involved in the report, said the study showed that “we have a group of people who got long Covid and at least up until now have been unable to get back to work, and it is a nontrivial number of people.” She
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Americans may be offered a single dose of a Covid vaccine each fall, much as they are given flu shots, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday. To simplify the makeup and timing of the shots, the agency also is proposing to retire the original vaccines and to offer only bivalent doses for primary
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Elon Musk testified on Monday in federal court that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund had “unequivocally wanted to take Tesla private,” in a trial that centers on whether Mr. Musk’s statements in 2018 about taking the automaker off the stock market caused investors to lose billions of dollars. The judge overseeing the case, in San
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M&M’s, the ubiquitous candy brand owned by Mars Wrigley, announced on Monday that it would take “an indefinite pause” from its “spokescandies,” deciding that the cartoon characters with arms, legs and minimal facial features were simply too divisive for a polarized America to take. The characters, which have featured in the company’s ads for decades,
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“High rates are painful for almost everyone, but they are particularly painful for Silicon Valley,” said Kairong Xiao, an associate professor of finance at Columbia Business School. “I expect more layoffs and investment cuts unless the Fed reverses its tightening.” At the moment, there is little likelihood of that. The market expects two more rate
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BOSTON, England — For four decades, the prime agricultural land that Sarah Pettitt’s family rented near its home produced bumper crops of vegetables, including purple sprouting broccoli destined for the shelves of upscale British supermarkets. But when post-Brexit migration rules kicked in, curbing recruitment from Eastern Europe, a vital stream of workers dried up in
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The corporate cafeteria can be an especially lonely place these days. “You used to walk in at 12 o’clock on a Tuesday and stand in line to get something,” said Casey Allen, 46, who works for a division of the agricultural chemical company BASF in Raleigh, N.C., office of “Now, you walk in and you’re
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Microsoft has extended its partnership with OpenAI, announcing an additional “multiyear, multibillion-dollar” investment in the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab behind the experimental online chatbot ChatGPT. The two companies did not disclose the specific financial terms of the deal. Previously, Microsoft was in talks to invest $10 billion in OpenAI, according to a person familiar
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