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Deep Dive: Striking A Balance In Digital ID Security

PYMNTS

The country was eager to adopt digital governmental services with the launch of an online tax payment service in 2000 and a national digital ID system in 2002.

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The Connected Economy: It’s About Time

PYMNTS

Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1789 that the only certainty in life was death and taxes. They don’t have to sit at home and write checks to pay the bills — they can use online or mobile bill pay to get the job done. Buy buttons on websites save consumers time at checkout and improve online merchant conversions. Maybe even spendable.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

PYMNTS

Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. We automate complex payment and tax regulations in over 180 countries and offer a variety of payment checkout options,” said Smoter.

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Top 21 Online Digital Accounting Services for Small Businesses (SMB): Jan 2022

Fintech Labs Insights

When I started reporting on the space in the mid-90s, I thought banks would end up delivering the bulk of basic accounting functions through their online banking programs. Challenger Accounting/Bookkeeping Online Providers in the United States. Founded: 2002. TaxBit (Crypto tax specialists) FAB Score = 181. – 24,800,000.

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. When the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 passed, the top capital gains tax rate was lowered, providing yet another incentive for equity speculators to pour money into the fledgling internet industry.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, In the early 2000s, venerable retailers Sears and Kmart began losing ground to Walmart and Target, with Kmart even filing for Chapter 11 in 2002. Date: 1998.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

For example, the dotcom company eToys filed suit against Goldman Sachs claiming exactly that in 2002. When eToys went public, Goldman Sachs (its underwriter) convinced it to open up its listing at $20. The stock price jumped in the first day of trading more than 4x, but months later the company collapsed.