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Ding Dong: Menulog Will Accept People’s Unused Deliveroo Vouchers After The Company Left Aus

Your weekend takeaway plans are saved.

Pedestrian.tv · Nov 16, 2022

Drone delivery service by Google owner to launch in Dublin

It's the second such service to come to Ireland, and the second one to launch in north Dublin

Dublin Live · Nov 16, 2022

Thousands of Portland mayor's texts gone from public record

Thousands of text messages sent from Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler’s city-issued iPhone are missing from the public record

The Independent UK · Nov 15, 2022

Amazon reported to be looking to cut 10,000 jobs

Meta, Twitter, Snapchat and Microsoft have also announced staff layoffs in recent months

Wales Online · Nov 15, 2022

RSS mouthpiece accuses Amazon of funding religious conversions in India

Two months after it accused Amazon of running fronts whose founders defamed India and the centre, RSS mouthpiece Organiser has now alleged that the e-commerce giant is funding religious conversions in the Northeast, according to the Indian Express.

Newslaundry · Nov 15, 2022

Google to pay $391 million over ‘crafty’ location tracking

Google agreed to pay a total of $391.5 million to 40 US states to resolve a probe into controversial location-tracking practices that the Alphabet Inc. unit says it already discarded several years ago, in what state officials are calling the largest such privacy settlement in US history.

Tribune News Service · Nov 14, 2022

Google pays $392m in landmark US privacy case

WASHINGTON: Google on Monday agreed to settle a landmark privacy case with 40 US states over accusations that the search engine giant misled users into believing location tracking had been switched off on their devices.

Bangkok Post · Nov 14, 2022

Billionaires gone wild: Musk, Zuckerberg slash jobs, roll dice with future of Bay Area tech icons

As Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg lay off thousands of workers in pursuit of their personal visions for the future of the internet, the fate of Twitter and Facebook rests in the hands of these two billionaires, experts say — and the outcome for the two iconic Bay Area technology…

Tribune News Service · Nov 14, 2022

Facebook’s owner Meta chops thousands of Bay Area jobs: official EDD files

MENLO PARK, California — Facebook app owner Meta Platforms has decided to chop thousands of jobs in the Bay Area, a fresh round of painful tech layoffs that will jolt five cities in this region, state labor officials report.

Tribune News Service · Nov 14, 2022

Amazon ‘to lay off up to 10,000 employees’ - up to 1% of global workforce

E-commerce giant reported to be latest US firm to make cuts amid global economic downturn

Evening Standard · Nov 14, 2022