Meta To Delay Closing Within Unlimited Deal by One Month (reuters.com) 6
Facebook parent Meta does not expect to seal its acquisition deal with Within Unlimited, maker of the popular fitness app "Supernatural", before Jan. 31, according to a court filing from Tuesday. From a report: Meta has agreed to push back the closing by one month or until the first day after the court rules on U.S. Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) preliminary injunction trial, according to the filing with the United States District Court for the Northern District Of California. In August, Meta had agreed not to close the deal until 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 31. The FTC had filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the deal in July, calling Facebook a "global technology behemoth," noting its ownership of popular apps including Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp, and said its "campaign to conquer VR (virtual reality)" began in 2014 when it acquired Oculus, a VR headset manufacturer.
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Quotes still free (Score:1)
That's possibly the hardest-to-parse headline ever.
I thought maybe the price of quotation marks had gone up but nope. "Within Unlimited" with clarifying quotes was free to use at any time.
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It doesn't help that they misspelt "Facebook" as "Meta".
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Slashdot fancies itself a source of journalistic excellence, right down to the 19th Century headline flourish where every headline is big and bold, and every word of it begins with a big capital letter. Whether or not it makes sense to readers is of no interest because the intention is to catch the eye.
Is Slashdot a source of journalistic excellence? Do these silly headline flourishes benefit readers? Let's think about that
Misread headline (Score:3)