The pandemic ripple effect continues across the food and beverage server industry, as more and more major cities across the nation – including some states – declare ‘health emergency’ status and order the shutting of all dining and bar locations. Ohio was among the very first to declare it Sunday evening, and has since seen a nearly 600% leap in unemployment benefit applications since last week. […]
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Crypto prime brokerage service Tagomi is joining the Libra Association, becoming the 22nd member and the second to join since the group was formally founded in October 2019. According to TechCrunch, Tagomi is set to formally announce its intention to join the association later this week. It joins ecommerce platform Shopify, which announced it would join the group last week, joining a host of other crypto […]
There appears to be a need for some better crisis-management over at the Federal Judges Association (FJA). When last we left the FJA, they’d decided to move up their scheduled spring conference and have an “emergency meeting” via conference call. Exactly no one doubted that the impetus for the rush was the related to the president’s choice to insert himself into matters of federal criminal prosecution. Sure, it […]
AMZ, the defense contractor that makes the Tigr, Russia’s only modern armored car, can’t call their latest project ‘Wolf’ because Russia’s largest biker club, the ‘Night Wolves’ owns the trademark. So AMZ is taking them to court. Arzamas Machine-building Plant (AMZ) wants to call their latest armored car ‘Wolf,’ but they’ve hit a surprising road bump: the ‘Night Wolves’ have had the trademark for the word […]
Digital commerce platform Shopify has joined the Libra Association. The company announced the move in a blog post Friday, becoming the latest member of the Facebook-founded stablecoin developer. Shopify joins roughly a month after Vodafone pulled out of the organization to focus on its own digital payments system. This is the first new member of the organization since its formation four months ago. Shopify said in […]