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Whole Foods says that a product called “asparagus water” found in a California store earlier this week was a mistake. It has been pulled from shelves.(Photo: Tony Dejak, AP) Whole Foods (WFM) was just kidding with that $6 Asparagus Water. After the bottles — literally three stalks of asparagus in each bottle of water — were spotted on…
Management at San Francisco-based Salon Media has agreed to start talks on a first union contract with its workers, it was disclosed Saturday. “Salon Media has agreed to recognize the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) as the collective bargaining representative of its editorial staff, whose decision to unionize was unanimous,” the union said in…
The liberal website Salon.com recognized its editorial staffers’ request to form a union late Friday, ending a monthlong standoff between writers and managers at the 20-year-old publication, International Business Times has learned. With it, Salon employees join The Guardian US and Gawker Media in choosing to join a union to improve working conditions. Salon Media Group…
The Era of The RFE Publication Tyler, The Creator changed the way I look at my job It was then, by all accounts, his group Odd Future spent the day running around the Buzzfeed offices “terrorizing” the group of writers and editors plugging away on everyone’s favorite content machine. He ran around in a Batman…
Whole Foods may be toast. Granted, it’s toast made from pricey, gluten-free, organic honey oat bread. But toast nonetheless. Shares of Whole Foods (WFM) plunged more than 10% Thursday after the high-end natural grocery chain reported sales and profits that missed analysts’ forecasts. Its outlook did not impress investors either. Whole Foods has been cutting…
Is the media, as it gets ready to supply its product directly to social networks, becoming a “wire service?” Ezra Klein, on/on Vox: [M]y guess is that within three years, it will be normal for news organizations of even modest scale to be publishing to some combination of their own websites, a separate mobile app, Facebook…
July 10, 2015 Donald trawls Google Fonts for ten minutes. There are a few candidates, but Don’s not so confident in his font evaluation skills. He lands on Open Sans. Good ol’ faithful. He sets the actionable headline text to 48pt using the light weight in white. It’s perfectly centred over the stock photo of…
Yesterday Twitter beat financial expectations across the board. Today the company’s stock price collapsed near all-time lows. At first look the slip is surprising, if only because Twitter’s stock initially jumped 5 percent yesterday after the release of its Q2 report. Maybe you saw our story on that pop, and checked back an hour later confused as all hell. A number…
TL;DR: Did you know that The Verge delivers you to around 20 companies for advertising & tracking purposes? I didn’t. That might foul up your web experience a little bit. Maybe we should try something different. more I love The Verge, but man… So, I’ve been a big fan of The Verge, almost since day…
AD UNIT 1 /AD UNIT 1 The adoption of ad blockers is climbing at an alarming rate, with usage doubling since 2013. The reason cited for this steep incline is that people hate advertising. Wrong. Sure, people hate irrelevant, intrusive and offensive advertising, but all you have to do is ask someone to tell you…