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Facebook testing encrypted chat backups – CNBC

September 14, 2022

Facebook testing encrypted chat backups  CNBCsource

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Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature on October 1 – TechCrunch

September 14, 2022

Facebook is shutting down its live shopping feature on October 1 to shift its focus to Reels, the company announced in a blog post. After

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Introducing Home and Feeds on Facebook – Facebook

September 14, 2022

Facebook Today, Mark Zuckerberg announced we’re making it easier for you to control what content you see and discover on Facebook. We’re introducing Feeds, a

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Facebook to allow up to five profiles tied to one account – Reuters

September 14, 2022

Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta is seen on smartpone in front of displayed logo of Facebook, Messenger, Intagram, Whatsapp and Oculus in this illustration picture

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Facebook tells managers to identify low performers in memo – The Washington Post

September 14, 2022

Sign inFacebook is instructing its engineering managers to identify and weed out their lowest-performing employees as the company seeks to rein in costs during an

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Meta is dumping Facebook logins as its metaverse ID system – TechCrunch

September 14, 2022

Despite the name change and metaverse hyperbole, Facebook has always been at the center of the Meta suite of software for users engaging with its

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Introducing Features to Quickly Find and Connect with Facebook Groups – Facebook

September 14, 2022

Facebook On Facebook, we’re testing a new sidebar that helps you easily find your favorite groups more quickly. It will list your groups and the

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Facebook plans ‘discovery engine’ feed change to compete with TikTok – The Verge

September 14, 2022

Facebook plans ‘discovery engine’ feed change to compete with TikTok  The Vergesource

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Wow, Facebook really knows how to give someone a send-off! – TechCrunch

September 14, 2022

So much for that touching goodbye post to Sheryl Sandberg that Mark Zuckerberg posted just 9 days ago, when after a 14-year run at Facebook

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Here’s What You Need to Know About Our Updated Privacy Policy and Terms of Service – Facebook

September 14, 2022

Facebook Starting today, Meta is rolling out notifications letting people know that we’ve updated our Privacy Policy, formerly known as the Data Policy. Inspired by

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Leaked Facebook document shows the company has no idea how to manage user data – 9to5Mac

September 14, 2022

April 26 Filipe Espósito – Apr. 26th 2022 6:17 pm PT @filipeespositoFacebook has always been involved in some privacy controversy, since the company explicitly has

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Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok – The Washington Post

September 14, 2022

Sign inFacebook parent company Meta is paying one of the biggest Republican consulting firms in the country to orchestrate a nationwide campaign seeking to turn

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Well…Facebook has a TikTok now – TechCrunch

September 14, 2022

What’s Facebook doing on TikTok? Scoping out the competition? DM’ing Charli? Recruiting beta testers? Buying ads? We’ll know soon enough, because the social networking company

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Launching Facebook Reels Globally and New Ways for Creators to Make Money – Facebook

September 14, 2022

Facebook Today, we’re expanding the availability of Facebook Reels for iOS and Android to more than 150 countries across the globe. We’re also introducing better

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Facebook loses users for the first time in its history – The Washington Post

September 14, 2022

Sign inFacebook parent Meta’s quarterly earnings report on Wednesday revealed a startling statistic: For the first time ever, the company’s growth is stagnating around the

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Expanding Facebook Protect To More Countries – Facebook

September 14, 2022

Facebook Update on May 4, 2022 at 9:00AM PT:We are continuing to expand Facebook Protect and have enrolled more than 9 million people globally so

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Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company – Facebook

September 14, 2022

Facebook Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will

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Homeowners Continue Their Court Challenge To Amazon Warehouse

February 19, 2019

AMAZON FLAMED OUT IN QUEENS, but neighbors in tiny Schodack, NY are still appealing in court to block 113 vacant acres from becoming a 1

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“When they don’t want you, they don’t want you.” That was the succinct comment from Home Depot’s sit?

January 26, 2019

“When they don’t want you, they don’t want you.” That was the succinct comment from Home Depot’s site development manager after the Brookfield, WI Town

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City Council Rejects Wal-Mart Annexation.

January 14, 2019

The City Council in Rice Lake, Wisconsin has sunk Wal-Mart plans to build a new store on 44 acres just outside the city. The annexation

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Town Planning Board Says No To Dollar General Box

December 12, 2018

After a six month review process, the Planning Board in Deerfield, Massachusetts has denied a site plan permit for a 9,318 sf DG store. The

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One Wal-Mart Is One More Than Enough.

December 9, 2018

Residents in Yakima, Washington are wondering how many Wal-Marts you can fit on the head of a pin? Here’s a report filed today from a

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TEST?

October 6, 2018

TEST TEST TEST

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Amazon “Hotdish” warehouse rejected by Planning Commission.

September 28, 2018

It???s not over yet—but the first hearing on a 2.6 million s.f. Amazon distribution facility was rejected Sept. 26th by the Brooklyn Park, MN planning

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Amazon Refuses to Acknowledge ‘Secret’ Gigantic Warehouse

September 24, 2018

Scannell Properties, a real estate developer based in Indianapolis, IN, which has worked on several huge Amazon warehouses, is planning a 2.6 million s.f. ???fulfillment

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99 CENT STORES ACCUSED OF FALSE IMPRISONMENT AND EXTORTION

September 17, 2018

On September 18th, Plaintiff Dennis J. Stankie will be in a California courtroom pursuing causes of actions of against the 99 Cent Only Stores arising

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Citizens Take Legal Action to Block Huge Amazon Warehouse

September 13, 2018

When is a warehouse not a warehouse? That is the surreal question facing residents in small upstate New York town near Albany. Residents in the

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Wal-Mart Could Save This American Company. But will it?

August 9, 2018

The Element TV company assembly plant in Winnsboro, S.C., is scheduled to lay off 124 (94%) of its workers by October because of ???the new

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Welfare for Wal-Mart

June 18, 2018

On this election day, how appropriate that we remember the important role of the American taxpayer in helping to subsidize the operation of one of

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The town of View Royal has turned down a Home Depot proposal. At a recent town Council meeting, the ?

June 12, 2018

The town of View Royal has turned down a Home Depot proposal. At a recent town Council meeting, the vote was 24 people against Home

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Walmart Shareholders Want Report on Racial Pay Gaps

April 24, 2018

On May 30th at Walmart???s 2018 Annual Meeting, shareholders will vote on a ???Request for Report on Racial or Ethnic Pay Gaps.??? A group of

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C. U.S. Supreme Court Hears Online Sales Tax Case

April 17, 2018

SUPREME COURT HEARS HUGE SALES TAX CASE AFFECTING ONLINE SALES This week, the Supreme Court will hear the case of South Dakota v. Wayfair Inc..

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Mayor Gets His Home Depot

April 11, 2018

Mayor Bill Souder finally got his Home Depot. It took him two times to convince local officials to approve the huge store, but he closed

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Wal-Mart Sweatshop Workers Beaten, Fired

April 5, 2018

A worker’s rights group reported last week that workers at an apparel factory in Cavite, Philippines were attacked and beaten on September 27th. by city

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C. Walmart Pays $1.3 M to City to Back Out of Two Projects

March 29, 2018

Walmart is paying the District of Columbia $1.3 million of ???sorry money??? after the retailer ditched two planned stores in Washington???s low-income neighborhoods. The two

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A jury has awarded 4 investors, and their company, Gulf Coast Investment, $1 million in actual damag?

March 25, 2018

A jury has awarded 4 investors, and their company, Gulf Coast Investment, $1 million in actual damages, and $500,000 in expemplary damages in a lawsuit

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Wal-Mart is literally trying to raise the dead to make way for their controversial store in West Nas?

March 16, 2018

DID WALMART INFLATE ITS ONLINE SALES NUMBERS? Walmart stock soared in recent months largely on the strength of its online sales numbers—but one former Walmart

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Family Dollar Settles $45 Million Pay Discrimation Lawsuit

March 15, 2018

FAMILY DOLLAR PAYS CLASS OF FEMALE STORE MANAGERS $45 MILLION IN EQUAL PAY SETTLEMENT After a 15 year lawsuit, tens of thousands of female managers

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An Example of the Worst Kind of Big Box Sprawl In America

February 12, 2018

Just what Florida needs: another 700,000 s.f. of retail sprawl. That???s the equivalent of 12 football fields, plus three times as much blacktop for parking

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HERE’S THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE WAL-MART SUSTAINABLE.

December 9, 2017

There is only one way to make Wal-Mart sustainable: block their superstore sprawl. That???s exactly what has just happened in Miami yesterday. A federal judge

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Wal-Mart Scraps Plan For Another Superstore

December 6, 2017

Wal-Mart opponents couldn???t be happier. A Wal-Mart spokesman this week confirmed rumors that the retailer is dropping its plans for a supercenter in this city

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After A Decade of Delay, Judge Clears Way For Wal-Mart Expansion

December 5, 2017

Eleven years after losing a City Council vote to expand their superstore in Chico, California, Wal-Mart got some help from a judge, who cleared the

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WAL-MART CANCELS ANOTHER SUPERSTORE PLAN

November 19, 2017

They are celebrating today in Monroe and Trumbull, Connecticut. Wal-Mart announced two days ago that it is abandoning its proposal to build a superstore in

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Wal-Mart Closes Another Store After Only 14 Years

October 19, 2017

Great news from Bristol, PA. After only 14 years in business, Wal-Mart is shutting down its store in three weeks. According to the Philadelphia Business

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After 10 years, new tenant found for dead Wal-Mart Building

September 30, 2017

In July of 2007, officials in Hinsdale, New Hampshire, located east across the Connecticut River from Brattleboro, Vermont, learned that their “old” 105,000 s.f. Wal-Mart

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WAL-MART FILES MULTIPLE LAWSUITS TO LOWER ITS PROPERTY TAXES

September 26, 2017

America???s largest retailer,owned by American???s richest family, is filing a flurry of lawsuits against cities and small towns in Wisconsin, seeking to pay these communities

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Alice Walton Revealed as ‘Dark Money’ Behind Ballot Question in Mass

September 17, 2017

Money can???t buy you love—and it doesn???t always buy political victory either. Ten months after Massachusetts voters defeated by a 62% margin a ballot question

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The Dutch conglomerate Royal Ahold is putting up gas stations in its super Stop & Shop parking lots.?

September 4, 2017

The Dutch conglomerate Royal Ahold is putting up gas stations in its super Stop & Shop parking lots. In Cumberland, RI, Stop & Shop is

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More Corporate Welfare For Wal-Mart

August 5, 2017

A school board in Pennsylvania wants to give Wal-Mart welfare, because the giant retailer is apparently too poor to build stores without taxpayer assistance. The

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Wal-Mart Abandons Its Plans, Says Retail Climate Has Changed

July 12, 2017

Nine years ago, in May of 2008, residents of Copley, Ohio contacted Sprawl-Busters for help in blocking a proposed Wal-Mart superstore. This week, residents wrote

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