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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Robbins LLP reminds investors that a class action was filed on behalf of persons and entities that purchased or otherwise acquired Zeta Global Holdings Corp. (NYSE: ZETA) securities between February 27, 2024 and November 13, 2024. Zeta is a marketing technology company. For more information, submit a form , email attorney Aaron Dumas, Jr., or give us a call at (800) 350-6003. The Allegations: Robbins LLP is Investigating Allegations that Zeta Global Holdings Corp. (ZETA) Failed to Disclose it was Artificially Inflating Financial Results According to the complaint, on November 13, 2024, market research group Culper Research published a report entitled "Zeta Global Holdings Corp (ZETA): Shams, Scams, and Spam.” The report alleged that the “integrity of the Company’s data collection and reported financials” is severely undermined by two factors. First, the report alleged that “Zeta has formed ‘two-way’ contracts with third party consent farms wherein the Company simultaneously acts as both a supplier and a buyer of consumer data,” allowing the Company to “flatter reported revenue growth” and indicating possible “round-tripping” of revenue. Second, the report alleged that Zeta’s collects the majority of its customer data from a network of “sham websites that hoodwink millions of consumers each month into handing their data over to Zeta under false pretenses.” For example, the report alleged the Company and its subsidiaries operate a number of fake job boards which are designed to trick individuals into submitting personal data under the pretense of job applications. The report further alleged that the Company’s “most valuable data” comes from these predatory websites, dubbed consent farms, which are “responsible for almost the entirety of the Company’s growth.” On this news, the Company’s stock price fell $10.46, or 37.07%, to close at $17.76 per share on November 13, 2024. Plaintiff alleges that during the class period, defendants failed to disclose that: (1) Zeta used two-way contracts to artificially inflate financial results; (2) Zeta engaged in round trip transactions to artificially inflate financial results; (3) Zeta utilized predatory consent farms to collect user data; and (4) that these consent farms have driven almost the entirety of Zeta’s growth. What Now: You may be eligible to participate in the class action against Zeta Global Holdings Corp. Shareholders who want to serve as lead plaintiff for the class must submit their application to the court by January 21, 2025. A lead plaintiff is a representative party who acts on behalf of other class members in directing the litigation. You do not have to participate in the case to be eligible for a recovery. If you choose to take no action, you can remain an absent class member. For more information, click here . All representation is on a contingency fee basis. Shareholders pay no fees or expenses. About Robbins LLP: Some law firms issuing releases about this matter do not actually litigate securities class actions; Robbins LLP does. A recognized leader in shareholder rights litigation, the attorneys and staff of Robbins LLP have been dedicated to helping shareholders recover losses, improve corporate governance structures, and hold company executives accountable for their wrongdoing since 2002. Since our inception, we have obtained over $1 billion for shareholders. To be notified if a class action against Zeta Global Holdings Corp. settles or to receive free alerts when corporate executives engage in wrongdoing, sign up for Stock Watch today. Attorney Advertising. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome. A photo accompanying this announcement is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/a9e62a12-06db-424e-a9a1-12ca4ed447d5Poll debacle could cost MNS its status and symbol, say analysts
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News Don't miss out on the headlines from News. Followed categories will be added to My News. I’m excited for 2025. I think it’s because I like quarters. An orange quartered is eminently more agreeable than having to peel the thing. Quarters in AFL and basketball make the games somehow more suspenseful, and I like that the tax office demands a quarterly business activity statement from me. Keeps things neat. I especially like first quarters because with three more ahead there’s still plenty of time to correct or come good. Leonardo DiCaprio’s dating habits are as old as his blockbuster hit Titanic. Which is where we’ll find ourselves in 2025. A quarter of the way through a new century that has galloped out of the blocks, particularly when it comes to technological and social change. Who would have thought on the eve of this new Millennium that 25 years on AI might’ve written this column (it didn’t), that driverless cars would be on the road, that gender would be a spectrum not an absolute and that Leonardo DiCaprio would be 50 and still determinedly finding new audiences for Titanic by dating girls born since its release in 1997. It’s more than 50 years since musician John Lennon urged the world to give peace a chance. Likewise, after the horrendous start to the new century with 9/11 and the 2004 tsunami, who would’ve thought we’d be entering 2025 with wars blazing in Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa. More than half a century after John Lennon wrote Give Peace a Chance we seemingly still can’t. Sadly, solving those issues are outside my pay grade so instead here’s 30 things I’m hoping for in 2025. Firstly, if the economic fairies could start bringing interest rates down, those of us stretched beyond our means might finally feel a loosening in our shoulders. Please bring interest rates down. Australia is a wonderful place to live but to find five of our cities now among the world’s top 20 most expensive requires a deeply considered long-term housing policy that looks beyond the next election. My third wish in the housing sphere is for an overhaul of stamp duty. Telling me I can free up $300,000 for superannuation if I downsize is all very well but not when you lose more than $100,000 of that on the stamp duty for a new property purchase. Nonsensical. Moving on to health, this has been the year when a simple injection melts away your fat and as we move into 2025 microdosing Ozempic is set to become the new norm for those wanting to lose their Christmas paunch. You have to lie to get your hands on it but plenty are. We’re living in the Bozempic era when faces are frozen by one injection and bellies jabbed by another. Keira Knightley in the Netflix spy thriller Black Doves. I’m praying for restaurants in 2025. Word out of Los Angeles is that people ordering tiny starters is sending them out of business. As for beauty, we need more of Keira Knightley’s face (wonderfully natural in Black Doves) and less of TikTok convincing a generation of young women that they need a dozen different unguents to look good. They don’t. It’s insane and robs them of their cash and confidence. What we need from scientists is hair colour that works fast so you don’t need to spend two hours in a salon and a fake tan-style product that leaves you SPF-protected for a week. The phenomenally successful Taylor Swift deserves a rest in 2025. Picture: AFP As for entertainment, other than Taylor Swift getting a good rest and Sean Combes getting a rigorous trial, I hope 2025 marks the year that streaming services are consolidated, festivals find a way back to financial viability and someone makes a cinematic blockbuster as good as Top Gun Maverick. It’s also time Ethan Hawke and Julie Delphy reprised their Before Sunrise characters for a fourth movie, since 2025 marks 30 years since the original. Before Sunset was released in 2004 and Before Midnight in 2013 so we’re due a catch-up with the couple who make long-term love believable. It’s time to reprise the love story which began with Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in the 1995 film Before Sunrise. In the sporting arena, I’m loving that we now have access to athletes through their socials and I’m hoping 2025 brings better coaching and solid success for the Matildas, more recognition for the AFLW and a great documentary marking 30 years since South Africa won the Rugby World Cup under Nelson Mandela’s presidency. If the Wallabies could beat the British and Irish Lions during their tour mid-year we’re here for it. Fashion-wise, if we could kill off mullets and Naarmcore, which is basically Melburnians looking like they’ve rolled through a skip bin, then my eyes can finally stop hurting. If you’ve watched Buy Now (Netflix) you won’t want to buy a thing but the one purchase I’ll be making come winter is a cape. They’re back. Let Donald Trump and Elon Musk have a spectacular falling out in 2025. Picture: Getty Images May the fashion gods find me one in dusky blue. Randomly, I want 2025 to bring a “cossie livs” aisle to supermarkets where you can get all the bargains in one place, jalapeno honey to become a food group (don’t mock til you try), boats to be banned from suburban streets, King Charles to be cured of cancer, Donald Trump and Elon Musk to have a spectacular falling out and a revival of the progressive dinner. Finally, as my 30th wish, I want us to look up from our phones and take in the world. Because it’s beautiful. 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BRUSSELS, Belgium — Germany and Spain hailed the conclusion Friday of a controversial free-trade deal between the European Union and South America's Mercosur bloc while France said the deal was still unacceptable and farmers' unions expressed dismay. The agreement was announced by the head of the EU's executive arm, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, at a summit in Montevideo. Although negotiations have concluded, the EU-Mercosur deal still needs to be approved by at least 15 of the European Union's 27 member nations representing a minimum of 65 per cent of the EU population. It would create a sprawling free-trade zone of more than 700 million people between the EU states and Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. "Today, the European Union has achieved a historic agreement with Mercosur to establish an unprecedented economic bridge between Europe and Latin America," Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez wrote on X. "Spain will work to ensure that this agreement is approved at the (European) Council, because trade openness with our Latin American friends will make us all more prosperous and resilient," the Socialist premier added, referring to the body representing EU states. Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that "an important hurdle for the agreement has been overcome." "After more than 20 years of negotiations, the Mercosur countries and the EU have reached a political agreement," he added on X. Portugal's Prime Minister Luis Montenegro also welcomed the conclusion of the negotiations, saying on X the deal will "create opportunities for our citizens and our companies." But an official in President Emmanuel Macron's office said the deal remains "unacceptable" to France in its current form. "This is not the end of the matter, the agreement with Mercosur has not entered into force," the official told reporters. "The deal has neither been signed, nor ratified." France has led opposition to the deal along with Italy and Poland. 'Profound consequences' Meanwhile the European agricultural community complained that its "fears have materialised". The COPA-COGENA farmers group said in a statement that the agreement "will have profound consequences" for family farming across the European Union if it is ratified by EU states. "The (European) Commission has sent a very worrying message to millions of farmers across Europe," COPA president Massimiliano Giansanti said in a statement. The head of the German farmers union, Joachim Rukwied, said the agreement will "massively weaken our farms against the competition." European farmers are crying foul over supposedly less stringent regulations on the sector in South America, pointing especially to the industry's role in destroying huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest, a crucial buffer against climate change. One of the leaders of Polish farmers blockading the Ukrainian border to protest the import of Ukrainian grain said his country's farmers are against the deal with Mercosur. "We're going to oppose it here, shout as loud as possible to block it and say that it's no good," he told AFP. But the deal has the support of industry groups. "The agreement provides an urgently needed growth stimulus for the German and European economy and is very good news for our companies," said Siegfried Russwurm, head of the Federation of German Industries. The EU expects that European companies stand to save around four billion euros ($4.2 billion) a year in customs duties. German and Spanish officials argued that the agreement with Mercosur will help boost economic security by diversifying trade. "The Mercosur agreement is of great trade and geopolitical importance for Germany and the EU," said German Economy Minister Robert Habeck. Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said "it will support the diversification of trade flows, the resilience of our supply chains, economic growth and ultimately job creation." He called it "a very positive and balanced agreement, with unquestionable economic benefits for both regions". Spain is Europe's leading exporter of fruit and vegetables, and the world's top producer of olives. It is one of the EU's agriculture powerhouses along with France, Germany, Italy and Poland.SAN DIEGO , Dec. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. announced that a lawsuit was filed for certain investors in DMC Global Inc. ( NASDAQ : BOOM) shares Investors who purchased more than $100,000 in shares of DMC Global Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOM) between May and November 2024 have certain options and there are short and strict deadlines running. Deadline: February 04, 2025 . Those DMC Global Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOM investors should contact the Shareholders Foundation at mail@shareholdersfoundation.com or call +1(858) 779 - 1554. On October 21, 2024 , DMC Global Inc. disclosed that it was "revising its guidance" for the quarter ended September 30, 2024 , stating that the Company's adjusted EBITDA is now expected to be approximately $5 million , down from prior guidance for $15 -18 million, and that the third quarter financial results "will include inventory and bad debt charges at DynaEnergetics totaling approximately $5 million , as well as lower fixed overhead absorption on reduced sales at both Arcadia and DynaEnergetics." The Company also revealed that the financial results will include an approximate $142 million non-cash goodwill impairment charge "associated with DMC's December 2021 acquisition of a controlling interest in Arcadia ." On November 4, 2024 , DMC Global Inc released its third-quarter financial results for the period ending September 30, 2024 . Among other results, the Company reported third quarter sales of $152.4 million , down 11% sequentially and year-over-year, as well as the previously disclosed non-cash goodwill impairment charge. Shares of DMC Global Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOM) declined from $15.98 per share on May 3, 2024 , to as low as $7.16 per share on November 21 , 2024. On December 06, 2024 , an investor in NASDAQ: BOOM shares filed a lawsuit against DMC Global Inc. The plaintiff alleges that between May 3, 2024 and November 4, 2024 , the defendants made materially false and misleading statements and failed to disclose the following adverse facts about DMC Global's business, operations, and prospects which were known to defendants or recklessly disregarded by them: (i) the goodwill associated with the company's principal business segment, Acadia Products, was overstated due to the adverse events and circumstances affecting that reporting segment; (ii) DMC Global's materially inadequate internal systems and processes were adversely affecting its operations; (iii) the company's inadequate systems and processes prevented it from ensuring reasonably accurate guidance and that its public disclosures were timely, accurate, and complete; (iv) as a result, defendants misrepresented DMC Global's operations and financial results; and/or (v) as a result, the company's public statements were materially false, misleading, or lacked a reasonable basis when made. Those who purchased shares of DMC Global Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOM) should contact the Shareholders Foundation, Inc. CONTACT: Shareholders Foundation, Inc. Michael Daniels +1 (858) 779-1554 mail@shareholdersfoundation.com 3111 Camino Del Rio North Suite 423 San Diego, CA 92108 The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. is a professional portfolio legal monitoring and a settlement claim filing service, which does research related to shareholder issues and informs investors of securities class actions, settlements, judgments, and other legal related news to the stock/financial market. The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. is not a law firm. Any referenced cases, investigations, and/or settlements are not filed/initiated/reached and/or are not related to Shareholders Foundation. The information is only provided as a public service. It is not intended as legal advice and should not be relied upon. 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A pair of ruby red slippers worn by actress Judy Garland in the classic movie The Wizard of Oz is set to be auctioned off Saturday. The iconic sequinned pumps were once stolen from a Minnesota museum. But now they are expected to fetch as much as $3m (£2.35m) at auction, according to Heritage Auctions. Online bidding started a month ago, and as of noon local time on Saturday, the highest bid was $1.55m. Heritage Auctions has called these slippers the "Holy Grail of Hollywood memorabilia". Garland was only 16 when she played Dorothy in the classic 1939 musical The Wizard of Oz. Media outlet Variety ranked it second in its inaugural list of "100 Greatest Movies of All Time". The film is a musical adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. While in the book, the magical slippers are silver, the producers for the film changed them to red to take advantage of the new Technicolor technology. In the film, as in the book, a pivotal moment occurs when Dorothy must click her heels three times as she repeats "There's no place like home" in order to leave the magical land of Oz and return to Kansas and her Auntie Em. While several pairs of shoes were worn by Garland during filming, only four are known to have survived. One of the pairs is on exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. But this pair up for auction has its own unique history. Collector Michael Shaw had loaned the slippers out to the Judy Garland Museum in her hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, when they were stolen in 2005. Professional thief Terry Jon Martin used a hammer to smash the glass case and snatch the slippers, believing that their insured value of $1m must be because they were covered in actual gemstones. But when he took them to a "fence" - and intermediary who sells stolen goods to discreet buyers - he discovered they were just glass. So he gave the shoes to someone else. It wasn't until 2018 that the FBI recovered the shoes in a sting operation. What happened to them in those 13 years is still not known. In 2023, Martin - who was in his 70s and used a wheelchair - pleaded guilty to stealing them, and was sentenced to time served. "There's some closure, and we do know definitely that Terry Jon Martin did break into our museum, but I'd like to know what happened to them after he let them go," John Kelsch, curator of the Judy Garland Museum, told CBS News Minnesota in 2023 . "Just to do it because he thought they were real rubies and to turn them over to a jewelry fence. I mean, the value is not rubies. The value is an American treasure, a national treasure. To steal them without knowing that seems ludicrous."UN voices alarm after WHO chief caught up in deadly Israeli strike on Yemen airport