*By Conor White*
With only one chance to make a first impression, jobseekers would do well to hone their social media profiles before ever stepping into an office for an interview.
"The way that we look at it is your public profile is really like your resume," said Francesca de Quesada Covey, Facebook's head of jobs and service partnerships. "It's information you want to share."
Job candidates can share ambitions, skills, and job pitches in real time, and receive direct feedback from hiring managers via Facebook's Messenger app, de Quesada Covey said in an interview Monday with Cheddar.
"We have 80 million businesses on the Facebook platform, and we see that 1.6 billion people are connected with businesses," she said. "So we know there's a lot of opportunity there to connect people and businesses."
Many Facebook users may be reluctant to share after it was revealed that 87 million of them had their personal information compromised in the Cambridge Analytica data breach. De Quesada Covey said she understands some people are skittish.
To ease concerns, the social network has introduced new protections for jobseekers. A "view as" feature lets users see what personal information is available when someone else views their public profile. This allows jobseekers to know exactly what potential employers will see.
"We're putting privacy in control of the people using Facebook, because privacy is one of the most important things we're doing at Facebook right now," she said.
For the full interview, [click here](https://cheddar.com/videos/finding-a-job-with-facebook).
The EU is hitting Google with a $5 billion fine over antitrust violations. The European Commission claims Google's Android operating system unfairly stifled competition.
Walmart is reportedly thinking of launching a streaming service. According to The Information, the retail giant is eyeing a cheaper alternative to Amazon and Netflix, which would cost just $8.
And we talk to Galia Benartzi, co-founder and head of business development at Bancor, which is the world's largest decentralized crypto exchange. Benartzi tells Cheddar how Bancor is hoping to eradicate poverty in parts of Kenya through a new token.
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Europe is slapping the company with a massive fine for violating antitrust laws and eliminating competition by combining its search engine and apps as one Android operating system. Google was also fined $3 billion by the EU last year for manipulating search results.
The backlash from President Trump's meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin continued well into Tuesday, with politicians from both sides of the aisle condemning Trump. During his meeting with Putin on Monday, Trump seemed to side with the Russian President over U.S. intelligence officials on the issue of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Shares of Netflix tumbled after the company reported lower-than-expected subscriber growth in its quarterly earnings report on Monday. The streaming giant also missed Wall Street estimates on revenue and earnings per share.
And Jonathan Trager, CEO of Group Elephant, joins Cheddar to talk about his organization's mission to stop the poaching of elephants and rhinos in South Africa.
An app called CommonStock has come out of stealth mode with more than $1.8 million in seed funding to make stock trading more social, Cheddar has learned. "We’ve created what’s like a virtual trading floor where anyone can create a group and easily share information about a stock or crypto,” said CEO David McDonough.
The streaming player company introduced a set of wireless speakers to be integrated into the Roku system. “We know that when users sit down, and they stream their favorite shows or listen to music, if they’ve got great sound as a part of that, it’s just a more immersive experience,” says Mark Ely, vice president of product management for Roku.
The streaming platform added fewer subscribers and generated less revenue than projected in the second quarter. Shares plunged by more than 12 percent in after-hours trading.
This year, Amazon Prime Day is bigger than ever. Cheddar's Hope King explains how this fabricated shopping holiday is a way for Amazon to lure even more Prime subscribers.
With Amazon’s fourth annual Prime Day just around the corner, experts warn the retail giant might not have the best deals out there. “Last year, 20 percent of items that Amazon customers bought on Prime Day were actually cheaper at other stores,” says Louryn Strampe, deal editor at Mobile Nations' Thrifter site.
The start-up launched a pilot program at the Rockaways on Friday. The move comes shortly after Lime entered a partnership with Uber that allows Lime to integrate into the ride-hailing app. "To grow throughout the entire area, this is the first opportunity for us," says Caen Contee, Vice President of Marketing, Business Development, and International Expansion.
