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Apple. Following a three year investigation, the European Commission has ruled Apple must pay 13 billion euros ($14.5 billion) plus interest for Ireland illegally slashing Apple’s tax bill between 2003-2014. The favorable tax arrangement violated the European Union’s state-aid rules. The standard rate of Irish corporate tax is 12.5%. The Commissions’s investigation concluded that Apple had paid about 1% tax on its European profits in 2003 and about 0.005% in 2014. Apple CEO Tim Cook has already responded with a statement saying he is “confident” that the decision from the European Commission will be reversed. Meanwhile the unveiling of the rumoured iPhone 7 and other Apple announcements will take place September 7 at a keynote in San Francisco…Read more
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• Time Out Chicago’s upcoming magazine will feature Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton creator on the cover of the issue titled ‘Making American History Great Again.’ He talks about how close his musical Hamilton is to the 2016 presidential race and modern politics.
• Representing organizations such as Lincoln Park Zoo, Museum of Science and Industry, Goodman Theatre, Misericordia, Midtown Educational, Mujeres Latinas en Acción, United Way YLS, Chicago Public Library Junior Board, to name a few these diverse group of young professionals are next generation philanthropists in Chicago.
• North Korea publicly executed two officials who disobeyed leader Kim Jong Un, back in early August according to a South Korean newspaper, JoongAng Ilbo daily. Former agriculture minister Hwang Min and Ri Yong Jin, a senior official at the education ministry. Speaking of punishments, an unannounced visit to a government office by Dubai’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum where he found empty seats prompted the retirement of nine members of Dubai Municipality’s executive management.
ENTERTAINMENT
• The Kris Jenner recipe of, nudity coupled with reality TV and a magazine spread to elevate your fame is extending to other members of her family. Soon to be future daughter-in-law Angela “Black Chyna” Renée White who is pregnant with Rob Kardashian’s child is naked on the cover of Paper magazine’s Beautiful People Class of 2016 September issue. Their reality show Rob & Chyna will premiere Sept. 11 on National Geographic E!.
• Sean “Diddy” Combs, a New York native checked a life long aspiration off his bucketlist by opening his first charter school in Harlem. Capital Preparatory Harlem Charter School, was co-founded with Dr. Steve Perry who previously created a successful charter school in Hartford, Connecticut.
FASHION
• She’s used to watching the shows but on Sept. 6, before NYFW officially kicks off, Vogue EIC and Condé Nast Artistic Director Anna Wintour along with Huma Abedin, will host a fashion show fundraiser and rooftop party for Hillary Clinton. Prabal Gurung, Joseph Altuzarra, Marc Jacobs, Tanya Taylor, Public School’s Maxwell Osborne and Dao-Yi Chow, Diane von Furstenberg and more, will contribute designs for the show. Tickets range from $100-$25,000.
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ― Confucius
Gene Wilder has passed away at 83 of complications from Alzheimer’s disease
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