West Bountiful company executives arrested on human trafficking charges
Three executive officers of a West Bountiful company have been arrested on multiple human trafficking charges possibly involving hundreds of employees.
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Bronny James fully cleared to return to USC basketball 5 months after cardiac arrest; LeBron vows to attend 1st game
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Apple patches two security vulnerabilities on iPhone, iPad and Mac
Apple pushed updates to iOS, iPadOS and macOS software today to patch two zero-day security flaws. The company suggested the bugs had been actively deployed in the wild.
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Former Blue Origin rocket engine manager alleges wrongful termination for whistleblowing on safety
The former program manager of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engines has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging whistleblower retaliation after he spoke up about safety issues. The complaint was filed on Monday in the Los Angeles County Superior Court. It includes a detailed narrative about program manager Craig Stoker’s efforts over seven months to escalate his concerns about safety and a hostile work environment at Blue Origin.
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Bills' Von Miller turns himself in to police on felony domestic violence charge, per reports
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Meet Hallmark's Christmas all-stars: Why Lacey Chabert, Bethany Joy Lenz, Andrew Walker and others bring 'familiarity and comfort' to the network's holiday hits
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2025 Volvo EX90 starts at $77,990 for seven seats and a 300-mile range
2025 Volvo EX90 starts at $77,990 for seven seats and a 300-mile range. Loaded with safety, undercuts premium competition by at least $2,000.
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Clayful, a startup that helps students connect to mental health experts within 60 seconds, raises $7M
Clayful is a platform that enables students aged eight to 18 to connect with a mental health expert within 60 seconds when they need it. The startup said it had raised $7 million in funding from investors, including Google Latino Founders Fund, Reach Capital, Ovo Fund, Common Sense Ventures, Charter School Growth Fund and Wisdom Ventures. Clayful wants to "ensure every student gets a trusted, certified [human] coach in their pockets and/or school device," Maria Barrera, chief executive officer of Clayful said.
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Stensul draws on new capital to boost marketing creation features
With all of the communication methods businesses use to get in front of customers, some continue to get results for their marketing campaigns from ye old email. The company is a multi-channel marketing creation platform providing tools to help customers more easily create campaigns. “Email deserves a lot more credit than it gets,” Dinkin told TechCrunch via email.
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Fidelity National Financial, or FNF, one of the largest real estate services companies in the United States, said it “contained” a recent cyberattack that engulfed its many subsidiaries and customers in a state of chaos for more than a week. In a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FNF said the incident was now under control as of November 26. "The Company is restoring normal business operations and is coordinating with its customers,” the filing said.
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Tesla will deliver the first Cybertrucks today at 3PM ET
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The US government is no longer briefing Meta about foreign influence campaigns
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NomuPay, formed out of Wirecard's ashes, acquires Total Processing for tooling and customer service
NomuPay -- the payments startup that was formed out of some of the healthier pieces of the dramatically failed fintech Wirecard -- has made an acquisition as it continues on its trajectory of better economies of scale. It has picked up Total Processing, a startup out of Manchester that builds payment processing solutions for functions like recurring payments, risk management, PCI (data security) compliance and payment integrations. NomuPay is paying around $35 million for Total Processing, and says that the total value of the company is now $135 million.
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BMW applies to trademark 'iM3' in Europe twice, could be the electric M3 name
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Amazon now has its own AI image generator
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Walmart Cyber Monday deals end at 7pm tonight: Last chance to save on HP laptops, Shark robovacs, smart TVs and more
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