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Meta, for the first time in its history, is giving money back to its investors.The company, on Thursday, said it would give a 50-cent-per-share dividend to shareholders and also announced plans for a $50 billion share buyback. That came on the heels of a solid earnings beat across the board.The company’s stock was up more than 14% in after-hours trading.Meta reported earnings per share of $5.33 in the fourth quarter of 2023, well above the $4.96 that analysts were expecting. (For historical perspective, the company…

Gus Van Sant, the director of Good Will Hunting and a shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho might not seem like the sort who would be interested in directing a movie like Fifty Shades of Grey, but that was one directing job he was very interested in. He wanted the job so much that he decided to just go ahead and film a sex scene and use that as an audition piece, thinking that was the way to get attention.As ideas go, it’s not the worst. Van Sant tells THR that he thought filming a sex scene would show how…

Some of last year’s cinematic hits are still chugging along, despite the 2024 movie schedule also being in play. The final January 2024 box office weekend was certainly kind to 2023’s finest, as Anyone But You’s top 10 status continued to be unchallenged. This has prompted Sony Pictures to seemingly unveil a treat for fans of the Glen Powell/Sydney Sweeney rom-com: a “Valentine’s Edition” re-release. You know, it’s not too late to ask those charismatic stars to rename this new venture, and I seriously wonder what they’d…

Buying a home is a huge deal! It’s what many of us aspire to do one day. Although the entire process can be long and arduous, it’s usually worth it in the end. You’d assume that your biggest worries would be your funds or the properties available. But sometimes, it’s the realtor who’s the issue. Especially if they’re trying to play everyone for more cash.Redditor u/Mysterious_Peas delighted the r/pettyrevenge subreddit with a story about how she put a greedy California realtor, representing the seller, in his place. The…

Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter is positioned away from the International Space Station in the grips of the Canadarm2 robotic arm prior to its release ending a four-month stay attached to the orbiting lab’s Unity module. Credit: NASAScientific investigations on the ISS’s latest resupply mission include advancements in 3D metal printing, semiconductor manufacturing, reentry thermal protection, robotic surgery, and cartilage tissue regeneration. These studies aim to enhance space mission sustainability and have…

You walk into the office kitchen to heat up your lunch and are greeted by a mess. Your co-worker Bridget has left the communal area in disarray — again.You’re frustrated. Where do you go from here? Do you shame Bridget and make her feel bad? That might make you feel righteous in the moment, but is that actually helpful? Are you helping to improve your workplace — and most important, ensuring a clean kitchen the next time — by unloading on her? What’s the end goal here?This is a hypothetical scenario, one used frequently…

Google has announced layoffs affecting 1,000 employees, and is providing support for affected individuals to re-apply for positions and providing transition help.Google has announced another round of new layoffs which reportedly affects over 1,000 employees. The tech giant has reduced jobs in several departments, including Google’s hardware, central engineering teams, and Google Assistant. In an email sent to laid-off employees, the company mentioned that the decision was difficult and regretted informing them about the…

eBay has agreed to pay a $3 million fine in connection with a corporate cyberstalking campaign targeting a Massachusetts couple in 2019. The cyberstalking campaign was conducted by several eBay employees, some of whom were executives, who targeted the couple after they posted a newsletter that was critical of the e-commerce giant. The cyberstalking campaign involved the employees sending the couple a bloody pig mask, a fetal pig, a funeral wreath, live insects and a book on surviving the death…

EBay agreed to pay a $3 million criminal penalty after employees engaged in a harassment campaign against two bloggers for their coverage of the company, including mailing them live cockroaches and a fetal pig. The e-commerce giant was charged with two counts of stalking through interstate travel, two counts of stalking through electronic communications services, one count of witness tampering and one count of obstruction of justice. Copyright ©2024Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.…

If you happened to have purchased an iPhone before December 2017, there’s a chance you have been given a tidy little sum of money by Apple this week. To be more specific, a US class action lawsuit settlement went through back in 2020 in regard to the battery throttling of a handful of the company’s major iPhones. You had to have claimed for this suit before October 2020 to be entitled to a payout of $92.17. Any iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, and 6s Plus running iOS 10.2.1 or later and any iPhone 7 or 7 Plus running iOS 11.2 or…