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Alex Fitzpatrick Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report. The screening process begins with scanning software that monitors chats for words or phrases that signal something might be amiss, such as an exchange of personal information or vulgar language. The software pays more attention to chats between users who don’t already have a well-established [...] 20 hooded youths stormed pub with knives ‘like a pack of wolves’ Bank of America could soon announce a fresh round of layoffs, reports the Wall Street Journal’s Dan Fitzpatrick and Dana Cimilluca. The Charlotte, N.C., company is planning about 2,000 staff cuts in its investment banking, commercial banking and non-U.S. wealth-management units, said people familiar with the situation. Burger King announced that all of its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017 causing a whopper of a shift toward more humane treatment of animals. The decision on Wednesday by the world’s second-biggest fast-food restaurant raises the bar for other companies seeking to appeal to the rising consumer demand for more humanely produced fare. The decision by Burger King, which uses hundreds of millions of eggs [...] All that bluster in recent months from Bank of America about how it’s totally fine and everyone who says it isn’t is full of it? A crock. Bank of America, it turns out, has been operating under an informal “memorandum of understanding” with its regulators for the past two years. This “memorandum of understanding” requires the company to fix various governance, risk, and liquidity problems, Dan Fitzpatrick of the Wall Street Journal reports. And Bank [...] By DAN FITZPATRICK Bank of America Corp. is cutting 3,500 jobs in the current quarter and working on a broader restructuring that could eliminate thousands of additional positions, people familiar with the situation said. The 3,500 positions are spread across the nation’s largest bank by assets, including investment banking and trading, and the cuts are expected to be completed by the end of September. Some employees already [...] |
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Florida writing standardized test scores are so abysmal, officials have changed the grading scale
BY CARA FITZPATRICK, SHELLEY ROSSETTER AND JEFFREY S. SOLOCHEK
TAMPA BAY TIMES
After conceding that poor communication with teachers could have contributed to the unprecedented plunge in Florida students’ writing scores this year, the state Board of Education voted Tuesday to lower the passing mark for the test.
Education Commissioner Gerard Robinson defended the decision against critics who said it was a quick fix for bad results on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, [...]