Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp Surveil, Monetize User Data: FTC
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Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp Surveil, Monetize User Data: FTC

In December 2020, the Federal Trade Commission ordered the biggest social media and streaming companies in the world, including Twitch owner Amazon, Facebook (now Meta), YouTube, Reddit, WhatsApp, Twitter (now X), Snap, Discord and TikTok’s ByteDance, to share how they used their users’ personal information. On Thursday, FTC staff released a 129-page report, which found that these companies all “harvest

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Amazon CEO Mandates Employees Return to Office 5 Days a Week
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Amazon CEO Mandates Employees Return to Office 5 Days a Week

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy made a case — and a mandate — for in-office work on Monday. In a publicly available message, Jassy said that Amazon’s 1.5 million-plus employees must return to the office five days per week starting January 2. Amazon is also bringing back desk assignments to the offices that had that structure pre-pandemic. Jassy positioned the move

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How Drybar Went from Side Hustle to $255 Million Business
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How Drybar Went from Side Hustle to $255 Million Business

Alli Webb spent her twenties working in hair salons. When she moved to Los Angeles and became a stay-at-home mom, she started a mobile blowout side hustle — so she would go to a client’s home, blow-dry their hair, and style it for $40. No haircuts or hair color. “I got tons of clients,” Webb told entrepreneur Jeff Berman on

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Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy Podcast Moving to SiriusXM
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Alex Cooper, Call Her Daddy Podcast Moving to SiriusXM

Alex Cooper, famed for her candid discussions on sex and relationships on the popular Call Her Daddy podcast, is leaving Spotify for a lucrative engagement with SiriusXM, according to several sources. The deal reportedly spans multiple years, possibly three, and is worth more than $100 million, per Bloomberg, while other reports say closer to $125 million. Cooper’s Spotify deal was

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Cash App's $15 Million Settlement: How to Claim Money
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Cash App’s $15 Million Settlement: How to Claim Money

If you’ve ever used Cash App to send or receive money, you might be eligible to receive part of a $15 million class action settlement. A new lawsuit settlement states that the money-transferring platform showed a “failure to exercise reasonable care” in working to protect customers’ personal information before mass data breaches in 2021 and 2023 that affected an estimated

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Prices Fell in June for the First Time Since 2020
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Prices Fell in June for the First Time Since 2020

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In a welcome break from persistent price hikes, US consumers experienced a slight retreat in the cost of living for the first time since the early days of the pandemic. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 0.1% drop in consumer prices in June, bringing down the annual inflation rate to 3%

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Apple: iPhone X, HomePod, AirPods 'Vintage,' Soon 'Obsolete'
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Apple: iPhone X, HomePod, AirPods ‘Vintage,’ Soon ‘Obsolete’

Three groundbreaking Apple devices — the iPhone X, HomePod, and original AirPods — are now considered vintage. And the clock is ticking on how long they will be eligible for repairs. Apple added the three to its vintage product list on Monday, meaning that it stopped selling the products more than five, and less than seven, years ago. Apple customers

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Car Dealership Outages Persist From CDK Software Cyberattack
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Car Dealership Outages Persist From CDK Software Cyberattack

Car dealerships across the country are being forced to use paper forms as the auto industry looks to recover from a cyberattack that caused mass outages last week. The attack hit CDK Global Systems, a cloud-based software that runs all back-end financials and information on car sales, financing, repairs, maintenance, and more. The company serves an estimated 15,000 car dealerships

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Amazon's Fake Book Problem With Upcoming UFO Tome 'Imminent'
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Amazon’s Fake Book Problem With Upcoming UFO Tome ‘Imminent’

The former senior leader of a Pentagon unit that studied UFOs is releasing a highly anticipated book this August — and some have already mistakenly ordered from deceptive Amazon listings and received superficially convincing fakes of the book. Luis Elizondo led the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), a U.S. governmental unit that looked into UFOs before he resigned in

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Brand New GPT-4o Revealed: 3 Mind Blowing Updates and 3 Unexpected Challenges for Entrepreneurs
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Brand New GPT-4o Revealed: 3 Mind Blowing Updates and 3 Unexpected Challenges for Entrepreneurs

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Unveiling OpenAI’s GPT-4.0: The latest AI with vision, auditory, and emotional intelligence abilities is revolutionizing industries. How will it affect your business? In today’s in-depth discussion, I uncover three astonishing updates in GPT-4.0’s technology poised to redefine customer interaction, marketing strategies, and operational efficiency. We also confront three critical challenges this AI

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Jack Dorsey Exits Bluesky Confirms on 'Freedom Technology' X
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Jack Dorsey Exits Bluesky Confirms on ‘Freedom Technology’ X

Jack Dorsey, co-founder and former CEO of X/Twitter until he resigned in 2021, has left the board of X rival Bluesky, a decentralized social media network he helped create, fund, and promote. Bluesky started as a small research project within then-Twitter in 2019 and became its own platform in 2022. The company’s goal is to create a common operating standard

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McDonald's CFO: Bigger Burgers, More Meat Testing This Year
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McDonald’s CFO: Bigger Burgers, More Meat Testing This Year

After months of testing and teasing dozens of modifications to its original burger, McDonald’s is now revealing one massive change that customers will notice — the size. In a Tuesday call with analysts, McDonald’s Chief Financial Officer Ian Borden announced that the chain will be testing a larger burger this year in select markets. “As we look to further build

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Legendary Marketer Accused of Misleading 'Side Hustle' Ads
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Legendary Marketer Accused of Misleading ‘Side Hustle’ Ads

Affiliate marketing business Legendary Marketer has recently come under scrutiny after customers complained that its advertisements about a $7-turned-$2,500 online course were deceptive. Customers told NBC News that the 15-day online business builder challenge course they saw on social media actually cost more than the $7 advertised price. The course teaches people how to become affiliate marketers, or someone who

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