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Australia To Test Coronavirus Vaccine; US Doctor Claims To Have Potential Cure

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Australia’s national science agency plans to test a pair of vaccines over the next 90 days, part of a global race to stop the coronavirus pandemic. As researchers scramble for a cure, a doctor featured in “Pandemic,” a Netflix documentary, announced his team may have discovered a coronavirus cure which will now be tested by the U.S.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

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The last one, published in Jan 2014, featured 50 innovations (see below). Note: These are the rankings from 10 years ago. I will update with milestones from 2014 to today and publish next month. I’m taking suggestions here (so far: crypto, BNPL, earned-wage access, chatbots, deposit networks).

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Car Talk: How One Bay Area Limo Fleet Rolls With The (Pandemic) Times

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That service started in 2002 when he had specialty cars like vintage Rolls-Royces driving for events, weddings and VIP services in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has won several local and national awards, including being named in the Inc. He arranged financing for a fleet of town cars the next day, and Mosaic was born.

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The Buyers: Generation Z’s Shopping Preferences

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Yes, those born between 1994 and 2002 are starting to push millennials over in terms of shaping commerce and eCommerce trends. The buying power of Gen Z comes out to $44 billion, according to an IBM and National Retail Federation study. Get ready, retailers. This falls in line with what we’ve been seeing over the last few years.

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eBay: A Look Back

PYMNTS

The site’s best-known innovation to first draw customers in was its auction format — that allowed consumers to bid on items and “win” the ability to purchase them for their bid price. The national craze ended up pushing 6 percent of eBay’s sales on site. billion in 2002. million worth of sales. eBay In The 21st Century .

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The effects of subsidised flood insurance on real estate markets

BankUnderground

To ensure the availability and affordability of flood insurance to households in flood-prone areas, the UK Government introduced an innovative reinsurance scheme, Flood Re, in April 2016. million properties built before 2002 and sold multiple times. Nicola Garbarino, Benjamin Guin and Jonathan Lee 5.2

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How To Drive Success In A Digital 3.0 World

PYMNTS

In 1979, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky developed the Prospect Theory , one of the foundations of behavioral economics for which they would win the Nobel Prize in 2002. Since March 6, PYMNTS has published eight consumer studies , now covering a national sample of more than 18,000 U.S.

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