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Big Lots store closures update: Other retailers are swooping in to take over locations in several states

Fast Company Tech

Several retail companies, including some with ties to nationally recognized brands, have stepped in to take over leases on Big Lots stores in at least 12 different states, according to recent court filings. The list includes locations in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont.

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Israel’s political crisis has activated its apolitical tech industry — and there’s no turning back

TechCrunch

As unease spread amongst a handful of entrepreneurs, alarmed at radical “reforms,” proposed by the Benjamin Netanyahu-led government, to the independence of the judiciary, WhatsApp groups were fired up, and were quickly flooded with volunteers from the tech industry. Undermining the foundations that helped build ‘The Startup Nation’?

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Public vote counting starts for Amazon union drive in Alabama

The Verge

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has begun publicly tallying votes for a proposed Amazon workers’ union in Alabama, which would be the first of its kind nationwide. Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images. And they lost. The BHM1 drive, in contrast, is huge: about 5,800 workers.

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Alabama warehouse workers prepare to face down Amazon in union vote

The Verge

The only other US Amazon employees to make it as far as a union election was a smaller group of maintenance workers at a Delaware warehouse in 2014. A month later, they had collected enough signatures supporting an election to feel confident filing a petition with the National Labor Relations Board.

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Dear Sophie: Which immigration options allow me to launch my own startup?

TechCrunch

company, such as a Delaware C corporation registered in California. The requirements for the proposed startup visa are the same as for IEP but would allow a longer stay — up to eight years total if the startup creates jobs and generates substantial revenue. EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) green card. year extension.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

Twitter faces a $250 million lawsuit filed by major music publishers The National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), representing 17 publishers, listed 1,700 songs for which it sent multiple copyright violation notices to Twitter. An engineer at Twitter, Prachi Poddar, also announced the change by posting a long tweet. Twitter, Inc.

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Daily Crunch: In latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time

TechCrunch

And it didn’t count right, revealing that it was reporting more users than it really had — by nearly 2 million — something Sarah points out is “a predicament that may have encouraged the company to more seriously consider its acceptance of Elon Musk’s proposal to take the company private in a $44 billion deal.” Oh Snap! :

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