Starbucks Stops Selling New Chicken Sandwich Over Quality Concerns – The Seattle-based company said it issued a voluntary halt to sales of its premade chicken, maple butter and egg sandwiches after discovering the product didn’t meet Starbucks’s standards. [WSJ]
Some Surprising Good News: Bookstores Are Booming and Becoming More Diverse –
More than 300 bookstores have opened in the past couple of years — a revival that is meeting a demand for “real recommendations from real people.” [NY Times]
Earlier this year, piano slayer and singer Alicia Keys joined Kanye West and Fivio Foriegn for the latest New York anthem “City of Gods.” Now the singer-songwriter-producer has earned an RIAA Gold certification for their single. This is the latest certification for Keys after she collected over a dozen RIAA awards (platinum and gold) in 2020 for her ensemble of exceptional albums and songs. [Vibe via Yahoo]
The Washington Post joins news organizations in Uber Files investigation – The Washington Post today announced its participation in “The Uber Files,” an international investigation led by The Guardian and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists into the ride-hailing giant’s use of stealth technology to thwart regulators and law enforcement as it sought footholds in cities around the world. The project is based on more than 124,000 emails, iMessages and WhatsApp exchanges among Uber’s executives, memos, presentations, briefing papers and invoices obtained by The Guardian and shared with the ICIJ and dozens of other news organizations. More than 180 journalists from 29 countries joined the effort to analyze the data, including more than 50 Post journalists. [Washington Post]
Canadians’ fury over Rogers outage may complicate its merger hopes – Rogers Communications complicated its chances of getting antitrust approval for a C$20 billion telecom merger after Friday’s massive outage highlighted the perils of Canada’s effective telecom monopoly and sparked a backlash against its industry dominance.
The Rogers network outage disrupted nearly every aspect of daily life, cutting banking, transport and government access for millions, and hitting the country’s cashless payments system and Air Canada’s call center. [Reuters]
