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'Meta has a problem': Facebook parent company posts financial loss for the first time

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Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, Meta, has posted its first-ever revenue decline, dragged down by a drop in ad spending as the economy falters, and increased competition from rival TikTok. Key points: Global instability, slowdown in the ad market, and competition from TikTok contributed to the losses Meta has drawn high profile criticism over platforms like Instagram as users turn to video Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, driver of Meta’s advertising business, is leaving the company Meta shares fell just slightly after the results, indicating Wall Street was mostly expecting a weak earnings report. The company’s total revenue, which consists almost entirely of advertising sales, fell 1 percent to $US28.82 billion ($41.1 billion) in the June quarter, nearly half a billion from a year ago. The results follow broader declines in rival digital advertising markets such as Snap and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which reported their slowest quarterly growth in two years.

Google Arts has the best photos of the James Webb telescope, so you can access them for free - How smart Technology is changing lives

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James Webb telescope illustration. (photo: NASA) It James Webb telescope has succeeded in photographing celestial bodies spectacularly which until now has not been known in detail. However, the $10 billion space satellite isn’t launched just to bring you new wallpapers out of the world. In addition to space research, James Webb will have important missions: study the solar system, and it’s already started. True, the solar system still has many unknowns. Even recently POT decided to direct James Webb viewers to a not-so-close neighbor, Jupiter . Through publications on its official website, and in googleArts&Culture, They show the images they obtained of the gas giant and other impressive space images. Photo of Jupiter made by the James Webb Telescope. (photo: NASA) If James Webb could take impressive pictures from billions of light years away, just imagine what it could do in the solar system. Although the mission focused on space exploration for the first few hundred mi

Designer Plants owners David Eden and Georgina Oxley sued Melbourne Movers and Google for defamation

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A husband and wife engage in an expensive court battle to restore the reputation of their factory business after they are bombarded with more than 100 negative reviews following their feud with a removalist company. David Eden and Georgina Oxley sought the services of Melbourne Movers in September 2018 to transport stock for their small business Designer Plants, which sells decorative artificial greenery for businesses and homes. They were given a fixed price, but the move, which involved transporting the contents of their warehouse, was not completed after debate over the cost of the work. Since the altercation, the couple – who are also councilors in the City of Kingston in Melbourne – have claimed in court documents that they have stolen more than 100 false negative reviews from Google over several years. Since 2018, the couple have spent more than $100,000 in legal fees as they brought search giant Google and the owner of a removal company to court for defamation. ‘We feel very str

David and Georgina are at odds with their removalists. Four years later, they took Google to court

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In the months that followed, Eden and Oxley went to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Court to try to get their money back. Georgina Oxley and David Eden. Credit: Joe Armao They succeeded, winning an order in their favor of $3327.50. The money was finally paid a year after the order was made. Eden and Oxley believe that was the spark for an online campaign against them. According to court documents, the first false reviews posted by removal company owners or people associated with them appeared on Designer Plants’ business page in May 2019. “Very poor quality product. Please save your money at another store,” the review said. The reviewer’s name was the same as the staff member at Melbourne Movers, according to Eden and Oxley’s claims statement, and had posted the five-star review on his employer’s Google business page that same day. In the years since, Eden and Oxley say their pages have been flooded with bad reviews accusing them of scamming people, not offering refunds, selli