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DownloadReimagining Retail: Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and the future of social commerceShareTopicseMarketer PodcastUnited StatesOn today's episode, in our "Retail Me This, Retail Me That" segment, we discuss the total market for US retail social commerce sales, whether Instagram is in trouble when it comes to social commerce, and what kind of a threat TikTok poses. Then for "Red-Hot Retail," our analysts give us four of their very specific—and potentially risky—predictions about the future of TikTok’s US retail strategy. Join our analyst Sara Lebow as she hosts analysts Sky Canaves and Jasmine Enberg.Subscribe to the “Behind the Numbers: Reimagining Retail” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, Podbean or wherever you listen to podcasts.Download  » Read More

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Facebook parent Meta Platforms is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers from this week, Wall Street Journal reported. Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. is planning to begin layoffs that will affect thousands of workers from this week, Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The job cuts could come as early as Wednesday, the newspaper said. The company has already told employees to cancel non-essential travel from this week, according to the report. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg in September outlined plans to reorganize teams and reduce headcount for the first time, following a sharp slowdown in growth at the parent of Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg said then that Meta will likely be smaller in 2023 than it was this year. The layoffs come as Meta struggles with growing losses and as it invests heavily in developing its metaverse business. Its shares have fallen 73% this year. The cuts will add to already mounting job losses in Silicon Valley.  » Read More

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Just a couple of days back Twitter underwent massive layoffs, firing around 50 per cent of its employees, now another social media company is reportedly going to travel the same path. As per a report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), Facebook's parent company Meta is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week. Reuters reports that the layoffs will affect thousands of employees and the announcement will likely come as early as Wednesday. Watch | WION Business News | Facebook-parent Meta's India head Ajit Mohan quits The discouraging news comes as Meta battles a sluggish global economy, TikTok rivalry, Apple privacy changes, worries about big spending on the metaverse, and the looming danger of regulation. Meta had reduced its ambitions to hire engineers by at least 30 per cent in June, and Mark Zuckerberg had advised staff to prepare for a slowdown in the economy. Also read | Elon Musk's Twitter calls back some of the fired employees,  » Read More

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When “Mr. Bob” of Bob Drayton Inc. wasn’t providing portable toilets to Southampton and its surrounding areas in South Jersey, he and his son were building their collection of dozens of decades-old classic vehicles.Now, those vintage cars are being auctioned off in a sale that ends Sunday.When “Mr. Bob” died years ago, his son, Bob Drayton Jr., took over both the car collection and the family’s three-generations-old septic service business, Bob Drayton Inc., also known as Mr. Bob’s Portable Toilets.The younger Drayton died at age 71 in January 2020 after being diagnosed with cancer, the auction house said. That prompted the family to sell the collection the Draytons built over the years.Delivering portable toilets to various construction sites, festivals and events throughout New Jersey gave the Draytons an opportunity to spot classic cars in the area and grow the car collection, starting with a 1955 Chevrolet.The cars that were brought back to life and in good condition were stored inside sheds and garages near the family’s property in Burlington County,  » Read More

If you are interested in joining future Face Off debates, fill out this form to submit your application.Photo: HandoutFacebook is no longer the only social media available to teens, but it is still a popular social network.The Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose studies have provided most of the sources for teenage dissatisfaction with Facebook, says that 32 per cent of American teens are using Facebook in 2022. This is not as high as the number of teens who use YouTube or TikTok. But still, the media reports of Facebook’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. It is still a popular social network among teenagers.It is true that Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat have risen in popularity today. These fad social networks are fun but each has only one simple layout, such as photo posts on Instagram or small text blurbs on Twitter. Yes, they look clean and are easy to load, but let’s face it, none of them has the functionality of Facebook.  » Read More

Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. The daughter and the widow of Charleston Church shooting victim Rev. Clementa Pinckney have filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, claiming that the social media giant should be held liable for a design flaw and negligence that allegedly enabled “online radicalization” and “white supremacist propaganda” campaigns orchestrated by a Russian troll farm prior to the massacre. In addition to naming Meta and Instagram, the lawsuit brought by M.P., a minor, on Wednesday through her mother Jennifer Pinckney, names the Internet Research Agency, Concord Management Consulting LLC, and Russian oligarch Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin. Longtime Law&Crime readers will recognize Prigozhin as “Putin’s Chef,” a figure former Special Counsel Robert Mueller identified in his report as the funder of a Russian troll farm (see: page 4) which interfered in the 2016 election. The plaintiffs in the latest lawsuit assert that the same troll farm, Prigozhin, and Meta are civilly liable for the “online radicalization of Dylann Roof” before the white supremacist gunman shot and killed Rev.  » Read More

When you're on social media you're often inundated with various ads for everything from clothing, to food to booking a holiday. You'll also see many ads for health supplements that make incredible claims, such as losing weight, improving memory, and curing diseases. An investigation by Consumer Reports found many supplements advertised on Facebook could actually be harmful to you. “We found ads and posts that promoted the use of some supplements that are dangerous or even illegal. For example, we found a series of posts from a verified Facebook page that promoted the use of comfrey, which is a dangerous supplement,” said Kaveh Waddell, an investigative reporter at Consumer Reports. Waddell also found a disturbing trend that some of the supplement ads targeted specific groups of people. “We found some ads that targeted people who Facebook thought were interested in diabetes awareness and Facebook was allowing marketers to put ads in front of those people that marketed things like a reverse diabetes kit.  » Read More