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Sean Arlandis Alexander Jr. William Dubouis Wilson II The purchase of a UTV with a fake check led to the arrest of three people by the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Department. On April 17, Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office received a report from a citizen advising that they made a sale of a side-by-side (UTV) on Facebook Market Place. The victim advised that they met with multiple individuals at a gas station and made the transaction for the sale of the UTV. The victim reported that they were given a cashier’s check from the buyers, and once they tried to deposit the check, they were informed that the check was fake. The victim was given a fake check and the UTV was stolen by the individuals. Investigators with the Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office then began an Investigation regarding the fraudulent check as well as the stolen UTV. During the course of the investigation, investigators were notified regarding individuals in the Jackson area, involved in gang and criminal activity,  » Read More

StuffBoil-ups are trending on Facebook Marketplace.It’s Friday evening, the end of the working week – and the last thing you feel like doing is all the shopping and cooking for your big Sunday family lunch. You feel like outsourcing the labour this time – what with all the fussy eaters, the price tag of hosting, and the cost of takeaways these days, but you’re not sure where to turn. It’s the last place you might think to look – but you could, as many New Zealanders are now doing, turn to Facebook Marketplace for your takeaways instead. Kiwis are buying their boil-ups via Facebook Marketplace, and it’s a profitable, booming new enterprise, according to cook Kelsi Afamasaga. READ MORE: * Caravan scam - Minutes after deposit paid, profiles disappear and seller is gone * What chefs cook at home: Alta's Georgia van Prehn * Facebook Marketplace scams on the rise “There’s a lot of competition out there!” said Afamasaga,  » Read More

Image source, Getty ImagesBy Shiona McCallumTechnology reporterMeta, Facebook and Instagram's parent firm, has reported a profit of $5.7bn (£4.6bn) for the first quarter of this year, surpassing expectations for a period in which many jobs were cut. It said artificial intelligence (AI) was "driving good results" across its business.Total revenue was $28.6bn, while the number of people on Facebook every month rose to just under three billion."Our community continues to grow," said chief executive Mark Zuckerberg."We're also becoming more efficient so we can build better products faster, and put ourselves in a stronger position to deliver our long-term vision," he said. 'No longer behind in building AI'Meta sees "an opportunity to introduce AI agents to billions of people in ways that will be useful and meaningful," Mr Zuckerberg told investors.While offering few details, he said that Meta was "exploring chat experiences in WhatsApp and Messenger, visual creation tools for posts in Facebook and Instagram and ads,  » Read More

By Aditya Soni(Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc’s shares rose 11% on Thursday after the Facebook owner dazzled Wall Street with an earnings report that showed progress towards the “year of efficiency” and a return to growth, thanks to AI-powered content recommendations.The company is set to add nearly $60 billion to its market valuation, if premarket gains hold. The rally also lifted other tech companies from Snap Inc and Pinterest Inc to Amazon.com Inc by as much as 3.3%.“If you want to be treated and valued like a growth stock, you need growth! And this is precisely what Meta delivered returning to growth… just as questions around a potential recession get louder,” Bernstein analyst Mark Shmulik said in a note.Shmulik was among the 27 analysts who raised their price targets on Meta, pushing the median view to $260, which represents an upside of nearly 25% to a stock that has already risen over 70% this year to lead gains among Big Tech companies.Meta beat expectations for first-quarter profit and revenue,  » Read More

Meta Platforms faces weak advertiser demand and privacy headwindsApril 26, 2023 5:30 am ETFacebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is expected to post its fourth straight quarter of declining sales as it struggles with weak advertiser demand and increasing privacy headwinds.Meta is expected to report first-quarter revenue of nearly $27.7 billion, according to analysts surveyed by FactSet. That would be down 0.7% compared with a year earlier. Meta has never reported four consecutive quarters of declining sales since going public in 2012.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8  » Read More

We've detected you are on Internet Explorer. For the best Barrons.com experience, please update to a modern browser. We've detected you are on Internet Explorer. For the best Barrons.com experience, please update to a modern browser.GoogleFirefox This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers visit http://www.djreprints.com. https://www.barrons.com/articles/meta-earnings-stock-price-3250cf3a Meta Reports Earnings as Its ‘Year of Efficiency’ Rolls On April 26, 2023 12:30 am ET Order Reprints Print Article The year of efficiency rolls on. Meta Platforms, parent of social networks Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has gotten religion on cutting costs in recent months, and investors have been enthusiastically betting the company’s new focus will pay off with higher margins and improved profitability. The next chapter is revealed Wednesday, when the company reports March quarter financial results.  » Read More

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — If you’ve had a Facebook account, a new class-action settlement, totaling hundreds of millions of dollars, may apply to you.Anyone who had an account anytime since 2007 can file a claim for a portion of the settlement. It has to do with Facebook’s handling of the data of its billions of users in 2018.Facebook received a $5 billion fine and agreed to pay the $725 million settlement. Here’s how you may qualify for it:If you took Cambridge Analytica’s quiz in 2018, called “This is Your Digital Life,” the company scraped your information. Even if you didn’t and one of your friends did, the company scraped your info – and no one knew. This compromised 87 million Facebook profiles and now the settlement is here in response to that. To get in on it, submit a claim online by clicking here. If you deleted your account, you’re still eligible to be a part of the lawsuit by entering the approximate date you joined and when you deleted your account.  » Read More

A Louisa County man amassed nearly $13,000 selling box turtles on Facebook Marketplace, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.  Stanlee Fazi, 41, pleaded guilty to trafficking turtles in a federal court in Alexandria after admitting he illegally collected the animals from the wild, bound them in socks and shipped them by FedEx to online buyers across the country on at least 27 occasions from 2017 to 2020.  Ban on pet box turtles takes effect in Virginia The buyers, he said, would smuggle the turtles from the U.S. to Hong Kong and China as part of the illegal pet trade.  The trafficking of the animals violated the federal Lacey Act, which prohibits the interstate transportation or sale of any wildlife captured or possessed illegally under state law and carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Virginia banned the catching of box turtles, as well as other common reptiles and amphibians, from the wild in 2021 because of declining populations and mistreatment by pet owners.   » Read More

Facebook provides a slew of security and promotional features on the platform. The platform allows users to customise the web address of their profiles. This could make a Facebook profile easily discoverable. Another Meta-owned platform Instagram recently launched functionality for users to add up to five links in bios. The move is expected to benefit creators on Instagram at large.According to the Meta-owned platform, usernames can only contain alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9) or a full stop. “Usernames may support non-romanised characters in the future,” Facebook said on its support page.  Facebook guidelines to change account username Individuals cannot pick a username already in use. A username must contain at least five characters. It could be a combination of letters, numbers, and periods. A username cannot impersonate another user. How to change your Facebook username and customise web address Step 1: Open your Facebook account on the web.Step 2: Head to the ‘General Account Settings’ within the settings and privacy menu.  » Read More

Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later. Why did this happen? IP address: 103.72.78.130Time: 2023-04-24T14:37:13ZURL: https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DL5q_8RQeQdE  » Read More