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Fast-food chains under Yum! Brands to go CASHLESS soon: Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC to REJECT cash

August 28, 2023 - acquisitions of tech startups and the funding of in-house efforts to expand the conglomerate's digital abilities. These research and acquisition efforts have been very expensive.

One of its most costly acquisitions, for example, came in 2021 when the company acquired Dragontail Systems – a provider of AI-powered tools for managing restaurant delivery systems – for $66 million. These incremental costs may end up being unsustainable for the company in the ...

Mystery buyer of over 52,000 acres in the Bay Area may be planning to build a new city

August 24, 2023 - acquisitions raise concerns due to proximity to military base

Flannery Associates' land purchases have also raised national security concerns due to the proximity of the land to Travis Air Force Base.

Catherine Moy, mayor of Solano county seat Fairfield, noted that she, as a member of countywide boards, had received other offers "to buy land at greatly inflated prices" very near Travis. These offers were turned down.

Democratic Rep. Mike Thompson, whose congressional ...

BlackRock recruiter claims ‘war is good for business,’ says asset management giant ‘decides people’s fate’

June 23, 2023 - acquisitions. In a revealing statement, Varlay acknowledges that BlackRock finds it advantageous to operate when "people aren't thinking about it" and prefers to remain inconspicuous, away from the public radar.

Varlay told our journalist that BlackRock manages $20 trillion dollars worldwide, leading him to say, “It’s incomprehensible numbers.” In addition, it has over $9.5 trillion of assets under management, which is more than the GDP of all countries on the globe ...

Maui wildfires continue to expose government’s FAILURES and QUESTIONABLE decisions

August 25, 2023 - acquisitions by foreign entities and ensure that the recovery and redevelopment process prioritizes the interests of Hawaii's people.

"We don't want this to become a clear space for overseas interests to exploit. The state will take the lead in preserving it first," he said during a press conference.

The Aloha State's governor stressed the need to prevent exploitation and land theft: "You will be pretty poorly informed if you try to steal land from our people ...

GOA files lawsuit against ATF’s “zero tolerance” policy which has forced over 1,000 gun dealers to shut down

July 18, 2023 - acquisitions or sales. The agency is now trying to suspend Morehouse's gun store license. GOA, in collaboration with its research arm the Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), is supporting Morehouse's legal battle. (Related: Merritt Medical Hour: Federal gov't TARGETING gun dealers to take away 2A rights of Americans – Brighteon.TV.)ATF using inconsequential paperwork errors to revoke federal firearms licenses

The ATF's recent actions against gun dealers come as the agency ...

Merritt Medical Hour: Federal gov’t TARGETING gun dealers to take away 2A rights of Americans – Brighteon.TV

May 16, 2023 - acquisitions and dispositions book (FADB). Every gun that comes in the store is logged in the FADB's acquisition section – including the make, model, serial number, caliber and type. The same is also logged in the dispositions section, alongside the names and addresses of those who bought guns. (Related: Buying too many guns, ammo could result in your bank shutting down your accounts.)

Customers also have to fill out the ATF Form 4473 whenever they buy a gun. This document ...

America at risk of running out of electricity due to Big Tech’s growing demand for power

a month ago - acquisitions, exhaustive environmental reviews and negotiations with multiple partners to determine who should pay what costs.Human knowledge is under attack! Governments and powerful corporations are using censorship to wipe out humanity's knowledge base about nutrition, herbs, self-reliance, natural immunity, food production, preparedness and much more. We are preserving human knowledge using AI technology while building the infrastructure of human freedom. Use our ...

Woke Pixar Animation Studios of Walt Disney to cut 20% of its workforce

January 16, 2024 - acquisitions, notably 20th Century Fox. Upcoming sequels to "The Omen," "Planet of the Apes," "Alien" and "Deadpool," as well as "Inside Out 2" and a "Lion King" prequel, are anticipated. However, major franchises like Marvel and Star Wars, as well as offerings from Disney Animation, are notably absent from the lineup.

In conclusion, critics argue that the recent woes of Disney may be attributed to its departure from traditional storytelling and the injection of ...

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried takes the witness stand

October 29, 2023 - acquisitions and high-profile sponsorship deals. If convicted, he could be put behind bars for the rest of his life.

Lawyers for the prosecution have called up several of FTX's former executives to testify, such as former FTX engineer Nishad Singh and Caroline Ellison, former CEO of the Alameda Research hedge fund affiliated with the exchange.

Singh told the court that Bankman-Fried had given huge donations to politicians, with the majority of the recipients ...

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried donated customer funds to Democrats, former engineer testifies

October 24, 2023 - acquisitions, ultimately leading to the bankruptcy of both entities.

Despite the substantial financial deficit, Singh testified that Bankman-Fried continued to indulge in extravagant expenditures on endorsement deals and other expenses. Singh argued that such spending only exacerbated the deficit, describing it as "digging the customer deficit hole deeper." Singh also disclosed his role in writing the computer code for the "allow negative" feature, which allowed ...

Zuckerberg’s Threads struggles to attract users as people still prefer Musk’s X

October 03, 2023 -

A new analyst report disclosed this challenge on the part of Meta, finding that Threads ranks only above Tumblr when it comes to user acquisition. Known as the birthplace of social justice warrior (SJW) culture that eventually turned into wokeism, Tumblr was established in 2006. After a string of acquisitions by Yahoo, Oath and Verizon Media, it went under the wing of Automattic – the company behind blogging platform WordPress.

Per the recent forecast issued ...

Germany’s economic backbone at breaking point as millions of family-owned companies face bankruptcy

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Roughly three million family-run businesses have been reported to have seen critical investments in new technologies as unfeasible or not worth the trouble, due to stiff economic headwinds, elevated borrowing costs and a proliferation of red tape.

"The number of small and mid-sized German companies coming up for sale has been piling up for years," said Jens Krane, head of mergers and acquisitions at Commerzbank AG, which specializes in the type of businesses. "A ...

Trucking firm granted $700 million U.S. bailout declares BANKRUPTCY

August 17, 2023 - acquisitions that it failed to successfully integrate. In turn, the demands of repaying that debt made it difficult for Yellow to reinvest in the company, which allowed rivals to become more profitable.

Yellow's financial problems also prompted concerns about the Trump administration’s decision to give the firm a bailout.

Yellow lost more than $100 million in 2019 and was being sued by the Justice Department over claims that it had defrauded the federal government ...

FBI contractor created fake online IDs to join chatrooms run by groups organizing against vaccine mandates

May 17, 2023 - acquisitions come in addition to “a steady stream of contracts to Flashpoint in recent years from the FBI, the Department of Defense, Treasury Department, and Department of Homeland Security, among other agencies,” Fang wrote.

Fang also spoke to Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at Stanford University, research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and one of the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration.

Bhattacharya said:

“This ...

How Putin’s gold strategy defeated sanctions

a month ago - acquisitions of gold from Russia in 2022 and the United Arab Emirates in 2023.

One option for those concerned about the morality of buying Russian gold is to purchase the Canadian Maple Leaf gold coin, which comes from a single source. It originates from Québec, and the price of gold as a whole rises in tandem with the demand for coins such as these.

However, bars and coins are powerless against the force of central bank demand, which is strong right now.

Tarnishing ...

Big Pharma mergers and acquisitions destroy industry innovation and harm patients

February 19, 2021 - The wave of Big Pharma mergers and acquisitions across 10 years decreased the number of large international pharmaceutical companies from 60 to 10. They seemed like innocent business moves at first glance, but a closer look revealed a worrying trend for U.S. healthcare.

California Rep. Katie Porter's office published a 16-page report on Jan. 29 detailing the real reasons behind the mergers and acquisitions and recommending steps to minimize such movements ...

FTC and 48 states file suit to break up Facebook

December 10, 2020 - acquisitions and mistreatment of developers."

"We are suing not just to hold this company accountable for its conduct, but to release consumers from a monopoly and to allow Delawareans the choice and freedom they deserve,” she adds.

In its suit, the FTC is seeking a permanent injunction in federal court that could, among other things, require Facebook to divest some of its assets, including WhatsApp and Instagram. In addition, it would also prohibit Facebook ...

CCP takes advantage of Hunter Biden firm to take control over major swaths of American real estate

October 27, 2020 -

In 2015, Gemini Investments claimed a large stake in Rosemont Realty, a sister company of Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca firm. The Chinese used their majority stake to take advantage of the U.S. They pledged $3 billion for “commercial office property acquisitions” in the US. This gave the Chinese power over 8 million square feet of American real estate in thirteen states, as Hunter Biden’s firm became a wide-open door for the Chinese to take advantage of the United ...

40+ states joining antitrust lawsuit against Facebook

December 05, 2020 - acquisitions of the two platforms were not anti-competitive because they were not considered their competitors at the time of the acquisition, but there is a possibility that Facebook could end up having to divest the two companies.

The social media platform is also being pressured by Congress, particularly when it comes to their censorship of conservative viewpoints. However, criticism is coming from both sides of the aisle; Democrats are accusing them of helping ...

43 attorneys general urge FTC to take action on big tech competition, privacy

June 12, 2019 - acquisitions as part of more consent decrees in technology platform markets.”

They contended in the letter that “prior notice” or “prior approval” served as part of the FTC’s injunctive toolkit, which would give the FTC more power when delivering consent decrees.

However, the AGs said that the FTC, as well as the Department of Justice (DOJ), have not used prior notice or prior approval in any technology platform markets, such as Facebook, Google, or Amazon.

The ...