Grubhub CEO denies service set up restaurant sites without permission

Grubhub’s chief executive on Tuesday denied that the company set up thousands of Web sites to take orders for restaurants without their permission — saying Grubhub’s contracts gave it the right to do it.

As reported by The Post, the owner of the Seamless food-ordering service has built more than 30,000 Web sites to take orders from restaurants nationwide, with many eateries saying the sites were built without their knowledge.

Some restaurateurs say they were blindsided by the emergence of the Grubhub-built sites, complaining that they often rank higher in Google searches and charge higher prices than their own sites as they tack on Grubhub fees.

Nevertheless, Grubhub CEO Matt Maloney said the restaurants shouldn’t have been surprised.

“We had a clear provision in every one of our restaurant contracts saying we would provide this service to give them more orders,” Maloney told restaurants in a Tuesday morning e-mail blast.
Maloney likewise insisted that Grubhub will immediately hand restaurants their domain name at any time, “No questions asked.”

Earlier this week, the owner of Brooklyn restaurant Abracadabra Magic told The Post that when he tried to get the domain name for his restaurant from Grubhub, he eventually gave up because the process was so complicated.

Tesla reports record deliveries, stock jumps 6%

Tesla Inc. TSLA, -1.15% reported record quarterly deliveries of 95,200 cars Tuesday afternoon. The highly anticipated announcement comes after several leaked emails from Chief Executive Elon Musk that urged employees to work hard at the end of the second quarter to pull off the feat, after disappointing first-quarter results from the electric-car maker. Tesla shares jumped about 6.5% in after-hours trading immediately following the announcement. The company said it delivered 77,550 Model 3 cars, and 17,650 Model S and Model X electric vehicles. Tesla has predicted that it will deliver 360,000 to 400,000 cars this year, though its is well less than halfway to that goal at the midpoint of the year, having delivered fewer than 160,000 cars through the end of June. "We believe we are well positioned to continue growing total production and deliveries in Q3," the company stated in its announcement. Tesla’s previous quarterly record was 91,000 deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2018. Tesla said that 7,400 cars were in transit at the end of the quarter, but will stop reporting that information in its quarterly announcement moving forward.

US STOCKS SNAPSHOT-Wall St ends higher

NEW YORK, July 2 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed modestly higher on Tuesday, led by gains in utilities and real estate, while enthusiasm over the U.S.-China trade truce faded as the United States threatened tariffs on additional European goods.

Based on the latest available data, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 69.25 points, or 0.26%, to 26,786.68, the S&P 500 gained 8.68 points, or 0.29%, to 2,973.01 and the Nasdaq Composite added 17.93 points, or 0.22%, to 8,109.09. (Reporting by Caroline Valetkevitch Editing by Susan Thomas)

Italy's Sassoli likely to be next EU parliament speaker after socialists back him

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The group of socialists in the European Parliament backed Italian lawmaker David Sassoli on Tuesday as their candidate for the presidency of the chamber, making him the most likely next speaker of the assembly.

Sassoli is supported by his socialist grouping and by the center-right group, the largest in the parliament, under a deal negotiated by European Union leaders. The election of the parliament’s speaker will take place on Wednesday and conclude the appointments for EU top jobs after EU-wide elections in May.

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2020 Census forms won’t include citizenship question, Trump administration says

The Justice Department says the 2020 Census is moving ahead without a question about citizenship.

Kristen Clarke, an attorney for a civil rights group that helped fight the addition of the question, says Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would be starting soon.

Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco has confirmed there would be “no citizenship question on 2020 census.”

The White House didn’t immediately comment on the decision. President Donald Trump has decried last week’s Supreme Court ruling saying the question was sought under a false pretext.

Spokespeople for the U.S. Census Bureau have not responded to emails or phone calls seeking comment.

Justice Department says 2020 Census will not include a question about citizenship

• Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco has confirmed there would be “no citizenship question on 2020 census.”
• Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would be starting soon.

• President Donald Trump has decried last week’s Supreme Court ruling saying the question was sought under a false pretext.

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The Justice Department says the 2020 Census is moving ahead without a question about citizenship.

Kristen Clarke, an attorney for a civil rights group that helped fight the addition of the question, says Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents for the 2020 counts would be starting soon.

Read more: The Supreme Court’s refusal to approve a citizenship question on the 2020 census is a huge win for American businesses

Justice Department spokeswoman Kelly Laco has confirmed there would be “no citizenship question on 2020 census.”

The White House didn’t immediately comment on the decision. President Donald Trump has decried last week’s Supreme Court ruling saying the question was sought under a false pretext.

Spokespeople for the US Census Bureau have not responded to emails or phone calls seeking comment.