Chinese video-sharing app TikTok planning to open its first European data center in Ireland
The center will store videos, messages and other data generated by European users from the short-form video-sharing app. Until now all of its users' records have been stored in the US, with a back-up copy held in Singapore.TikTok said that the decision to set up a European center was something it had been thinking about "for a long time."The app's director of public policy for Europe, Theo Bertram, told The Irish Times “This is a demonstration of our commitment for the long term in Europe and this is also about cementing the important role that Ireland plays for TikTok.” He added that “Dublin is really important for us and is going to grow rapidly.” Also on rt.com US ‘theft’ of TikTok turning once great America into ‘rogue country’ – Chinese media … [READ MORE...]
Pete Hamill, Quintessential New York Journalist, Dies at 85
In 1997, he got another chance, this time at The Daily News. Mortimer Zuckerman, the owner, hired him to replace a British editor who had turned it from a brash, tough-guy paper into a tattler of celebrity gossip and supermarket tabloid stunts to compete with The Post and New York Newsday.Mr. Hamill refocused on city news, covering immigrants, ethnic communities, Russian mobsters and infrastructure problems. He serialized Mailer’s novel “The Gospel According to the Son.” Circulation fell, and Mr. Hamill clashed with Mr. Zuckerman, but staffers said he brought glamour, collegiality and respectability to the paper. More than 100 of them signed a letter urging Mr. Zuckerman to retain him. “He’s a mensch,” said JoAnne Wasserman, a reporter. But after eight months, he resigned under … [READ MORE...]
The End of Chefs: Moving Beyond Toxic Kitchen Culture
White male chefs who already fit neatly into the stereotype of the auteur are overrepresented, praised for a highly specific approach to fine dining, then rewarded with more investment and opportunities to replicate that same approach.So many alternative kinds of food businesses are never considered for awards or investments. They don’t fit into the chef-auteur framework, and in some cases have no desire to do so — community farms with food stalls, roving trucks, collaborative projects, temporary projects, or family restaurants where three different cooks take turns in the kitchen, depending on their child care schedules.But for so many, it’s already too late. They’ve been excluded from the narrative, over and over again, to serve the idea of the auteur. They’ve been subject to abuse. … [READ MORE...]
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White House and Congress Remain Far From Any Stimulus Deal
“If we can reach a compromise on these big issues, I think everything else will fall into place,” Mr. Mnuchin said after briefing Mr. McConnell on the latest meeting. “If we can’t reach an agreement on these big issues, then I don’t see us coming to an overall deal and then we’ll have to look at the president taking actions under his executive authority.”On Wednesday, disputes over funding for the Postal Service also emerged as a sticking point between Democratic leaders and the Trump … [Read More...]
‘Closing Isn’t Even an Option’: With No Events, Caterers Rush to Adjust
Mr. Cingari said he had received money from the federal Paycheck Protection Program to cover around 80 of his employees.As companies shut down and people began staying at home in mid-March, Mr. Cingari shifted his business. He had noticed how people were raising money on social media to provide meals to hospitals and emergency medical workers, so he did the same. The money donated through the social media outreach paid for the cost of food and supplies.“Since we had this large commissary … [Read More...]
Distilleries Raced to Make Hand Sanitizer for the Pandemic. No Longer.
Now as Arizona deals with new virus cases, much of his remaining 1,000 gallons of sanitizer has sat idle. He blamed the changing demand on the “vacillating” by officials over the pandemic’s severity and their “flip-flopping” over which businesses could reopen — and stay open.“The bigger frustrating issue is the fits and starts,” he said. “A lot of these bars and restaurants don’t know if they’re open today, if they’re open tomorrow.”To help distillers, advocacy groups like the Distilled Spirits … [Read More...]
TikTok, Trump and an Impulse to Act as C.E.O. to Corporate America
Mr. Trump’s antipathy toward many news organizations has led him to repeatedly threaten to interfere with media companies’ operations. He twice urged regulators to examine taking away the “license” from NBC, though it was unclear what license he was referring to. He declared as a candidate that he would not approve ATT’s acquisition of Time Warner because the company owned CNN, a network he frequently accuses of treating him unfairly, and the Justice Department later sued unsuccessfully to block … [Read More...]
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The End of Chefs: Moving Beyond Toxic Kitchen Culture
White male chefs who already fit neatly into the stereotype of the auteur are overrepresented, praised for a highly specific approach to fine dining, then rewarded with more investment and opportunities to replicate that same approach.So many alternative kinds of food businesses are never considered for awards or investments. They don’t fit into the chef-auteur framework, and in some cases have no … [Read More...]
How to Open a Top-Tier Restaurant in a Pandemic? Rethink Everything
Its layered plaster walls give the impression of an eroding canyon that leads into a modern room punctuated by vertical wood slats, sliding panels and widely spaced tables. In mid-March, though, with about 60 percent of construction done, Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a shelter-in-place order that would prohibit restaurant dining for months in Illinois. When, weeks later, the two partners set a July … [Read More...]
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Interest Rates Are Low, but Loans Are Harder to Get. Here’s Why.
And that’s with lenders being picky about their customers and particular about their requirements. JPMorgan Chase, for example, will make mortgages to new customers only with credit scores of 700 or more (up from 640) and down payments of 20 percent or higher. USAA has temporarily stopped writing jumbo loans, which are mortgages that are generally too large to be backed by the federal government, … [Read More...]
Can’t Afford a Birkin Bag or a Racehorse? You Can Invest in One
“In the beginning, it was like equity markets: just safe, blue-chip investments,” said Rob Petrozzo, a founder and the chief product officer at Rally Rd. “Over the past few months, we’ve seen with people being inside, they’ve gotten access to more information and they have been exploring the app more fully.” He said existing investors on the platform had doubled the number of items they owned … [Read More...]