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Walmart Inc. will expand a car-buying service offered to its customers by opening 250 CarSaver Shopping Centers at its stores, the retail giant said Wednesday.

The program, run on CarSaver’s digital automotive marketplace, has essentially been in pilot mode at 14 Walmart stores since it was announced early last year.

CarSaver, of Miami, uses a network of certified dealerships, banks and insurance companies to support its car-shopping and -buying assistance to Walmart customers. In addition, every vehicle bought through CarSaver comes with a lifetime warranty.

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Desde que o New York Times e o The Guardian revelaram ao mundo o envolvimento do Facebook com a Cambridge Analytica, a rede social de Mark Zuckerberg tem encarado todo tipo de revés. A empresa marcou uma reunião de emergência com toda a sua equipe de funcionários para discutir o caso, viu suas ações caírem …

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Meredith Corp., which bought Time Inc. and its stable of magazines in January, plans to sell the flagship publication, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and the Money brand after completing a review of the $1.8 billion deal.

The company also intends to eliminate about 1,000 jobs over the next 10 months as it continues to integrate other Time publicationssuch as People, Entertainment Weekly and InStyleinto a lineup that includes Better Homes & Gardens and Family Circle, according to a statement Wednesday. The cuts would be on top of firing notices that have been given to 200 employees, the company said Wednesday.

It previously had roughly 9,500 employees, including Time Inc. staffers.

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After five days of silence from Facebook’s top management over issues arising from misappropriation of Facebook user data by outside sources, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company plans to audit all apps that had access to user information prior to a company change of policy in 2014. In a Facebook post, Zuckerberg today addressed the…

In a saturated sneaker market, San Francisco-based Allbirds opened two years ago with a new offeringa running shoe made of wooland quickly won fans with its innovation. Now the brand is pushing a new sneaker, made from eucalyptus fibers and called the Skipper, and a quirky brand campaign to go with it.

The marketing effort comes via Opinionated, the new Portland, Oregon-based agency helmed by advertising vet Mark Fitzloff and hired by Allbirds in November.

“It’s a great opportunity for us to make sure everybody knew Allbirds not just as a wool shoe company but rather one committed to innovation with materials,” says Julie Channing, VP of marketing at Allbirds.

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In his first public statements concerning a data privacy scandal, Mr. Zuckerberg said “there’s more to do, and we need to step up and do it.”