#S.Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library

#S.Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library

“#S.Africa’s UCT campus salvaging books from burned library” Staring helplessly as flames from a weekend wildfire on the slopes of Table Mountain spread and razed the University of Cape Town’s library, chief librarian Ujala Satgoor was back amid the smouldering ruins on Tuesday to try and salvage what was left. One of Cape Town’s worst…

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#Amazon is opening a beauty salon in London

#Amazon is opening a beauty salon in London

“#Amazon is opening a beauty salon in London” Amazon is opening a hair salon in London — its latest odd lurch into new businesses as the pandemic continues to fuel the e-commerce giant’s torrid growth. The Amazon Salon, unveiled in a Tuesday blog post, will occupy a two-story, 1,500-square-foot space in Spitalfields, a trendy neighborhood in…

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#Media hangout Michael’s Restaurant set to reopen

#Media hangout Michael’s Restaurant set to reopen

“#Media hangout Michael’s Restaurant set to reopen” The media world will get its unofficial cafeteria back on Wednesday when Michael McCarty reopens Michael’s Restaurant, the once and future hot spot for the chattering classes. The West 55th Street eatery, a popular media hangout since it opened in the late 1980s, closed its doors on March…

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#Dogecoin hits new high boosted by DogeDay hashtags

#Dogecoin hits new high boosted by DogeDay hashtags

“#Dogecoin hits new high boosted by DogeDay hashtags” Meme-based cryptocurrency Dogecoin fell on Tuesday after hitting an all-time high in a wild session that saw supporters of the token once considered a parody use hashtags to fuel a rally until it lost steam. Dogecoin ultimately fell 15.4 percent to 33 cents, but during the session…

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#Biden urged to probe Live Nation-Ticketmaster ‘monopoly’

#Biden urged to probe Live Nation-Ticketmaster ‘monopoly’

“#Biden urged to probe Live Nation-Ticketmaster ‘monopoly’” Democrats in the US House of Representatives are urging the Biden administration to launch an investigation into the decade-old Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger, which they claim has created a “monopoly” over the market for live-event ticket sales. Five members of Congress, including New York Rep. Jerry Nadler and New…

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#NHL realignment hasn’t impacted Rangers’ playoff push

#NHL realignment hasn’t impacted Rangers’ playoff push

“#NHL realignment hasn’t impacted Rangers’ playoff push” In a world of what-ifs, let’s tackle this one: what if the divisional alignment had not been changed this season to accommodate the coronavirus and the Rangers were in the old — what was it called again? Oh, right — Metropolitan Division battling it out with clubs from…

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#Home Depot to face boycott over Georgia voting curbs

#Home Depot to face boycott over Georgia voting curbs

“#Home Depot to face boycott over Georgia voting curbs” Religious leaders in Georgia on Tuesday will call for a boycott of Home Depot because of its silence on the state’s new voting curbs that activists say make it harder for black people and other racial minorities to vote. Other Georgia-based corporations — including Delta Air Lines…

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