Eggless egg whites sound like another vegan treat, but San Francisco-based startup Clara Foods is shooting for omnivores. It inserts genes for egg whites into yeast, which then ferments in tanks, like beer, and creates a product that is genetically egg but never involved a chicken. Clara cofounder and CEO Arturo Elizondo thinks that will appeal particularly to those who want to eat eggs but avoid the messy egg industry: Last year’s avian flu outbreak, for example, cost the economy $3.3 billion and resulted in the disposal of more than 45 million U.S. hens. Yeast, meanwhile, is drama-free.
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Nearly 40,000 Verizon workers may go on strike this week |Mashable
Can you hear them now?
Unions representing more than 36,000 Verizon landline phone and cable workers are threatening a strike starting Wednesday morning if the company doesn’t agree to a new contract.
The unions, the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, say Verizon wants to freeze pensions, make layoffs easier and rely more on contract workers. Verizon says there are health care issues that need to be addressed for both retirees and workers as medical costs have grown.
The Evolution of ‘Table Tech’–Changing the Way Restaurants Do Business | AllBusiness.com
FinTech, Health Tech, and AgTech. Seems like there is a name given for every niche and the technology associated with it. Yes, technology is continuing to shape our world, but enough with the names already.
Every time an industry comes up with disruptive technology, there is a special name associated with it. One industry that doesn’t seem to have yet adopted its name is hospitality management, specifically restaurants. So what do we call it?
GreasyTech? TableTech? Who knows–maybe I’ll get credit for coining the phrase.
Regardless of the name you want to choose, I have seen quite a bit of change in the restaurant industry to warrant laying it out in this article. Several brands have been making changes in the way we will eat out in the future (as evidenced by the changes that are being made in the present).
That change? Kiosks and tablets being used to process financial transactions and track everyday business operations.
EU to make big firms come clean on tax | BBC News
Plans to force the largest companies to disclose more about their tax affairs will be unveiled by the European Union on Tuesday.
Britain’s EU Commissioner, Lord Hill, is set to present the rules, which will affect multinational firms with more than €750m (£600m) in sales.
They will have to detail how much tax they pay and in which EU countries.
The plans come amid heightened scrutiny of the use of tax havens following the Panama Papers revelations.
Pay Taxes, Buy a Slurpee: IRS Now Accepts Taxes at 7-Eleven | NBC News
The Internal Revenue Service announced this week that taxpayers who need to make a payment in cash can now do so at 7-Eleven convenience stores.
While it may seem unusual to pay your taxes where you might otherwise pick up a Slurpee, it caters to a large number of Americans who do not have a bank account or credit card. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation estimates one in 13 households in the U.S. do not have a bank account.
“We continue to look for new ways to provide services for our taxpayers … this provides a new way for people who can only pay their taxes in cash without having to travel to an IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center,” said IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
How to Pay School Loans and Save for Retirement at the Same Time | Bloomberg
The best time to start saving for retirement is as soon as possible. By saving in your early 20s, you give your nest egg extra time to grow, potentially shaving years off how long you need to work.
But before setting aside money for retirement, most feel the need to retire student loan debt. That’s easy to say but harder to do for millennials exiting college these days. Many are in the same boat as Nolan Grace, a 24-year-old who graduated from Purdue University with “very significant” loans. “It’s the biggest weight on my life right now,” he says.
Luckily, Grace works for an employer—Austin-based software-services company BP3 Global Inc.—that helps him with loan payments in an increasingly popular way. BP3 uses a platform called Student Loan Genius to let it match as much as $100 per month in Grace’s debt payments, one of several companies offering similar benefits. Employees who work for Student Loan Genius customers have more than $61,000 in student loan debt on average, and their monthly payments are usually more than $500 a month.
We Need To Redesign Work To Fight Bias, Because People Won’t Get Any Less Sexist | Co.Exist
Leaning in doesn’t always work. If you ask for a raise and you’re female, studies suggest that your manager might be less likely to want to work with you afterward; you’ve violated gender norms. If you get offered a new job and try to negotiate better compensation, it might backfire (in extreme cases, it might even cost you your job offer).
Maybe it’s not surprising that it’s hard for women to fix gender bias at work on their own. HR departments don’t do much better: There’s basically no proof that the $8 billion that corporations spend on diversity training workshops have any effect. In some cases, they even make things worse by reinforcing stereotypes. Companies spend millions more on leadership training that also doesn’t seem to help women.
The Internet is made with carrots, not sticks | TechCrunch
The Internet is at once global and local. The nature of internetworking means that the global Internet is built only of other networks. There is a small but key point of coordination on the Internet, called the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA).
The U.S. Department of Commerce National Telecommunications & Information Administration (NTIA) recently received a proposal to change the stewardship of IANA. This proposal is good for the Internet, the companies and organizations that depend on it and the people who use it. To understand why this is so, it is helpful to understand a bit about the coordination points, and why they have worked well so far.
Weekly Economic Update| LAEDC
v.20 n.14 – Released April 6, 2016
This Week’s Headlines:
- Economy Adds 215,000 Jobs Exceeding Expectations
- U.S. Vehicle Sales Ease Up on the Accelerator
- Events of Interest
- May 10, 2016: San Gabriel Valley Economic Outlook
- June 16-17, 2016: Select L.A. International Investment Summit
Forget Apple vs. the FBI: WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People | WIRED
FOR MOST OF the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple’s battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter. The company’s refusal touched off a searing debate over privacy and security in the digital age. But this morning, at a small office in Mountain View, California, three guys made the scope of that enormous debate look kinda small.
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