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“More than a year after horrific job losses and wage cuts, job seekers have a strong hand in the labor market again. Demand for workers is surging as the broader economy starts to emerge from the pandemic,” said Nick Bunker, director of the Hiring Lab. “At the same time, supply is restrained as workers are slow to find their post-pandemic normal. The result is a labor market that has snapped back quicker than many expected.”
Fastly is a content-delivery network, or CDN. It provides vital but behind-the-scenes cloud computing “edge servers” to many of the web’s popular sites. These servers store, or “cache,” content such as images and video in places around the world so that it is closer to users, allowing them to fetch it more quickly and smoothly.
Things began to change in 2017, when pop superstar Rihanna launched her Fenty Beauty makeup line. In two years, it became one of the top 10 selling beauty brands, alongside decades-old brands such as Mary Kay and L’Oreal-owned Urban Decay, says market research firm Euromonitor. Other companies took notice, adding more shades for darker skin or promising to give more shelf space to Black-owned brands in stores.
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify on Capitol Hill October 23, 2019, in Washington. Zuckerberg’s confidential tax data was included in information an anonymous source delivered to ProPublica. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America/TNS)
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Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline, which supplies roughly half the fuel consumed on the East Coast, temporarily shut down its operations on May 7 after a gang of cybercriminals using the DarkSide ransomware variant broke into its computer system. The ransomware variant used by DarkSide, which has been the subject of an FBI investigation for the last year, is one of more than 100 that law enforcement officials have identified, said FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate.
It’s the second store concept from Mariano, 71, who launched his namesake chain in 2010 and led both the Dominick’s and Roundy’s chains before retiring as CEO of Roundy’s five years ago. He partnered on the new store with Don Fitzgerald, 59, a former executive at Dominick’s, Roundy’s and Mariano’s, and Jay Owen, 48, a descendant of Dominick’s founder Dominick DiMatteo and managing partner at DOM Capital Group.
1,000 employees to hire back: The Hilton Chicago had more than 1,000 full- and part-time workers before COVID-19. The number fell below 50 after the hotel closed March 27, 2020. There will be almost 200 workers when the hotel reopens, and hiring to get to 1,000 will ramp up as reservations increase, Wells said. Many workers have gone through retraining and orientation after being away so long. “The staff has been great, and they’re so glad to be back,” Wells said.
By 1931, the mill’s engineers had transformed 52 working Axminster looms, reproducing patterns that were copied by Karastan’s designers from handmade originals. The rugs were named after famed rug-producing regions in Iran (Ispahan, Kirman, Sarouk), Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey (Oushak, Turkoman), along with Karastan’s unique number coding — the first Karastan designs, or what is now called “the original Karastan collection,” are the brand’s 700 series.
Hallie Chewing, 19, a rising junior at Liberty University serves customer, Kora Mayo, 6, a cookie dough with rainbow sprinkles cone at Blue Cow Ice Cream on July 13, 2020, in Roanoke, Virginia. In summer 2021, entry-level, teen-friendly jobs in the restaurant, fast-food, hospitality and leisure sectors are especially plentiful. (STEPHANIE KLEIN-DAVIS | The Roanoke Times/AP)