Chief co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan Photos courtesy of Chief As companies see a record number of women leaving their jobs in “the Great Resignation,” Google parent Alphabet is putting money behind an initiative that could help them stay. Launched in 2019, Chief is a membership-based company for female executives that’s designed to provide meetups with curated groups of peers, mentorship and fireside chats with people like former first lady Michelle Obama. The start-up has… Source link
Read More »Oxford Properties Completes $2.1B Sale of St. John’s Terminal to Google in Hudson Square, Manhattan
550 Washington Street. Photo by Michael Young By: Sebastian Morris 7:00 am on April 24, 2022 Oxford Properties has sold St. John’s Terminal to Google for $2.1 billion. Located at 550 Washington Street in Hudson Square, the terminal property is designed by COOKFOX and developed by Oxford Properties and will serve as the anchor of Google’s new corporate campus, which comprises 1.7 million square feet along with two additional sites at 315 Hudson Street and 345 Hudson Street. Google’s… Source link
Read More »Oxford Properties Completes $2.1B Sale of St. John’s Terminal to Google in Hudson Square, Manhattan
550 Washington Street. Photo by Michael Young By: Sebastian Morris 7:00 am on April 24, 2022 Oxford Properties has sold St. John’s Terminal to Google for $2.1 billion. Located at 550 Washington Street in Hudson Square, the terminal property is designed by COOKFOX and developed by Oxford Properties and will serve as the anchor of Google’s new corporate campus, which comprises 1.7 million square feet along with two additional sites at 315 Hudson Street and 345 Hudson Street. Google’s… Source link
Read More »Alibaba’s Freshippo adds more couriers, still unable to meet Shanghai demand
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Alibaba’s supermarket chain Freshippo said on Sunday it was adding more couriers to meet high demand in Shanghai but this was not yet catching up with the rising needs of locked-down residents as the city battles a surge in COVID-19 cases. Shen Li, a vice president at Alibaba Group’s Freshippo, told reporters on Sunday that while the company’s delivery capacity had recovered to about 60-70% of pre-outbreak levels as more couriers were allowed back on the roads, many… Source link
Read More »Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving failed the Nets
BROOKLYN — The murmurs grew from whispers, then to a dull roar as the obvious turned to reality, the chants turning into taunts at Barclays Center. “Let’s go Celtics.” Forty-eight minutes remain between the Brooklyn Nets meeting another premature end to what was expected to be a championship season, following a borderline soulless performance against the Boston Celtics. Two championship players in the middle of their primes coming together was supposed to result in something dynastic…. Source link
Read More »Long-serving Utah US Senator Orrin Hatch dies at age 88
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history who was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88. His death was announced in a statement from his foundation, which did not specify a cause. A staunch conservative on most economic and social issues, he also teamed with Democrats several times during his long career on issues ranging from stem cell research to rights for people with disabilities to expanding… Source link
Read More »Tyson Fury’s brilliance shines as undefeated champ retires on top
This version of Tyson Fury, the guy who knocked out Deontay Wilder twice and put Dillian Whyte to sleep Saturday with one of the best uppercuts you’ll ever see, would be a difficult out for any fighter in boxing history. Yes, that includes Muhammad Ali. And George Foreman. And Larry Holmes and Lennox Lewis and Rocky Marciano and Jack Johnson and Jack Dempsey and Joe Louis and Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe and Vitali Klitschko and Wladimir Klitschko and Joe Frazier and Mike Tyson and… Source link
Read More »Jazz win on Donovan Mitchell-Rudy Gobert alley-oop
Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert sometimes eat lunch together, and they sometimes save the Utah Jazz‘s season together. After a season marked by whispers of discord between the Jazz’s two stars, the pair connected for a game-winning alley-oop in a 100-99 win over the Dallas Mavericks in Game 4 of their first-round series. The series is now tied 2-2. The Jazz appeared on the verge of a 3-1 series hole in the final minute of the game when Mavericks star Luka Doncic, making a return from a calf… Source link
Read More »Tyson Fury knocks out Dillian Whyte with brutal uppercut
If Tyson Fury follows through on his intention to retire, the final punch of his career may wind up being his best. Fury hit an oncoming Dillian Whyte with a stiff jab and immediately followed it with a blazing right uppercut. The right landed on the point of the chin and Whyte was immediately out cold, doing a dead fall backward. He managed to get up but staggered into the corner and referee Mark Lyson waved it off at 2:59 of the sixth round in front of a deliriously happy crowd of 94,000… Source link
Read More »Kyiv Readies for Top U.S. Official Visit, Odesa Attack Kills 8
Kyiv prepared on Saturday for its first wartime visit from two top U.S. officials, as Ukraine accused Russia of killing six people in a strike on Odessa that all but buried hopes of a truce for Orthodox Easter. The Sunday visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will come at a symbolic moment — on the day the war enters its third month — and with fierce battles continuing in the country’s east. It… Source link
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