Hotness in the News by SociaLifeChicago is your daily intel for the morning’s hot news topics to get your day started and get you up to date on what’s going on in Chicago and the world. Make small talk, better.
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” ― Abraham Lincoln
CHICAGO NEWS
• Alibaba CEO Jack Ma was in Chicago, along with American Express CEO Ken Chenault yesterday at the “A Conversation On Growing the Small Business Economy in the U.S.” conference and said Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is aiming to more than double its transaction volumes to more than $1 trillion in five years and that “the Internet is a treasure island” for midsize and small businesses. [BLUE SKY]
NATIONAL NEWS
• Early Thursday morning eight people were injured and one dead at an apartment complex in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Story developing
• David Sweat(no relation to crooner Keith Sweat) and Richard Matt the convicts that escaped maximum security prison with power tools and maybe some help from Joyce “Tillie” Mitchell, may be in Vermont (or Canada) and Route 374 east of the village of Dannemora — where the prison is located, has been shut down as the search intensifies. On The Run Tour Day 6. [USA TODAY]
WORLD NEWS
• Zhou Yongkang, 72, the former Chinese domestic security chief has been sentenced to life in prison “as part of a sweeping anti-corruption campaign.” Zhou, who plead guilty to charges of bribery, leaking state secrets plus other charges, was sentenced after a closed-door trial in Tianjin, and he’s not planning to appeal. [WASHINGTON POST]
SPORTS
• The Blackhawks took care of business last night at Unitede Center beating Lightning 2-1 in regulation play to tie the series 2-2. The next game is on Saturday at Tampa Bay. Game 6 is in Chicago on Monday June 15 and if necessary game 7 will be in Tampa Bay Wednesday June 17. [ESPN]
BUSINESS
• Ellen Pao, the former junior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, LLC, who sued and lost and now CEO at Reddit is not winning over some Redditors at the moment after banning five harassing Subreddit groups. They are flooding the site with content that harasses Pao and threatening to leave the community in response to the ‘censorship.’ [TECHCRUNCH]
ENTERTAINMENT
• Which agency represents you is a BIG deal in hollywood industry circles and even bigger deal when you switch to rival agency as “Beyonce has moved her touring business from ICM Partners to CAA but will stay with ICM for acting.” [THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER]
• The 2015 CMT Country Music Awards was held last night in Nashville, Tennessee with winners including Carrie Underwood for Video of Thee Year; Bob Seger and Jason Aldean for CMT Performance of the Year. It was co-hosted by Erin Andrews and Brittany Snow. [E!ONLINE]
FASHION
• Alber Elbaz of Lanvin is just like us, the guilty pleasure TV watching and eating part that is. During a conversation for The Atelier with Alina Cho at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he revealed he watches The Kardashians, how he almost became a doctor but he’s an hypochondriac and how he is “a little jealous when people eat and don’t gain weight.” [WWD]
• J.Crew is going through some things as of late with declining sales( 5.2% in Q1), customer price complaints an all but some good news is that a new head of women’s design, Somsack Sikhounmuong, has been named. The bad news? J.Crew is set to eliminate 175 positions mostly from its corporate headquarters. CEO Mickey Drexler said “We are making meaningful and strategic changes across our organization to better position us for future growth…While many of these decisions were difficult, they are necessary.” [BLOOMBERG]
LOOK OF THE DAY
• CARRIE UNDERWOOD @ 2015 CMT MUSIC AWARDS
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photo credit: featured image via Blue Sky; Underwood via E!
