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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant
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Meta fined $567m in largest child safety ruling against social media giant

A New Mexico judge ordered the Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp parent company to pay another $567m for the way it has harmed children.

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‘Weekday games were amazing’: pubs toast extra £150m in World Cup sales nemzetkozi-gazdasag

‘Weekday games were amazing’: pubs toast extra £150m in World Cup sales

England’s progress provides best football-related uplift of recent years, with one pub too packed to host its Dolly Parton tribute Late opening hours and England’s progress to the semi-final of an expanded World Cup helped provide the best football-related uplift of recent years for pubs, figures suggest. Pubs poured 30m extra pints over the course of the tournament compared with a normal trading period, with busy pumps delivering £150m in added sales, according to the British Beer & Pubs Association (BBPA). Continue reading…

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Am I a chicken-shop lefty? Here's what a French fast food row taught me about politics | Coco Khan nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Am I a chicken-shop lefty? Here's what a French fast food row taught me about politics | Coco Khan

Feathers are flying over the halal chicken chain Master Poulet opening a branch in gentrified Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine – it’s an issue of wealth and class we know only too well How do you like your progressive politics? Are you net-zero left or anti-identity politics left? A “legalising drugs” kind of radical or someone whose public sector solidarity includes police? Nato or Nat-no? The reputation for infighting in lefty spaces – where policy disagreements harden into personal tests of morality – needs neither introduction nor encouragement. But reading about the left-on-left battle at Master Poulet, a French chicken chain that just opened its first UK branch, I found myself mulling a question that felt more than a little personal: am I chicken shop left? Coco Khan is a freelance writer and co-host of the politics podcast Pod Save the UK Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading…

Business | The Guardian
‘I never thought I’d fall for a scam’: the fake Spotify emails that put you at risk of fraud nemzetkozi-gazdasag

‘I never thought I’d fall for a scam’: the fake Spotify emails that put you at risk of fraud

Criminals send victims to a cloned site that collects login, personal and payment details You have had a Spotify account for years and your credit card is linked for the monthly payments. When an email arrives telling you that your payment couldn’t be processed you are not surprised as the expiry date on the card is soon. “We encountered an issue while processing your recent payment,” it says. “To keep your access active and avoid interruption, please review and update your information.” Continue reading…

Business | The Guardian
Family of former Vodafone manager found drowned call for ‘Adrian’s law’ to protect franchisees nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Family of former Vodafone manager found drowned call for ‘Adrian’s law’ to protect franchisees

Adrian Howe’s family believe that fears his deal would be financially ruinous led him to kill himself The family of a former mobile phone store manager who was found drowned days before his new Vodafone franchise was to open its doors is pressing the government to introduce a new franchising law in his name. The call comes a week after Vodafone settled a long-running legal claim filed by 62 of its former franchisees who alleged that the company “unjustly enriched” itself at their expense by up to £85m. Continue reading…

Business | The Guardian
Always remember how Macquarie built its millionaires on outrageous tolls and charges | John Quiggin nemzetkozi-gazdasag

Always remember how Macquarie built its millionaires on outrageous tolls and charges | John Quiggin

As Shemara Wikramanayake retires with shares worth hundreds of millions, the public is left counting the cost of high prices for utilities, roads and airports The recent retirement of Macquarie Group CEO Shemara Wikramanayake marks the culmination of a highly successful career. She’s leaving the company with shares worth hundreds of millions of dollars after nearly 40 years at the Sydney-based institution. Under her leadership, the “millionaires’ factory” has increased its annual revenue by around 80% and nearly doubled its profit. Wikramanayake has also overseen and consolidated the group’s transition from a firm specialising in privatised infrastructure to a global merchant bank earning profits from commodity trading, specialist asset finance and wealth management. Macquarie shareholders, who have tripled their money over the past eight years (with dividends and capital gains), have plenty of reason to be grateful. Its demise is also the consequence of the relentless application of a neo-liberal political philosophy that for years has elevated financial engineering above real engineering; off-balance-sheet finance above paying for things openly; and lauded the private sector above the public sector. Continue reading…

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