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Guest blog post: Protecting yourself online

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Sageworks asked Don West, a member of the AICPA''s Information Management and Technology Assurance Section''s CITP Credential Committee the best ways to protect one''s self and business online. --. on April 23, 2011? Do you like getting bombarded with online ads and email obviously based on your recent surfing habits?

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Online Liquidation Enjoys Fresh Growth As More Consumers Embrace Returns

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Online liquidation is nothing new, of course, but it’s gaining force and taking new forms, as the YouTube videos demonstrate. Online liquidation is nothing new, of course, but it’s gaining force and taking new forms, as the YouTube videos demonstrate. More Returns.

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Report: Digital Lender SoFi Eyes IPO Via SPAC

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Social Finance (SoFi), a San Francisco-based online lending startup, is holding talks about selling to a blank-check acquisition company, Reuters reported, to help it debut on the stock market. It has also begun work in stock trading and cash management accounts. SoFi was valued at $4.8

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24 Big European Banks Take On Visa, Mastercard With Their Own Payment System

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A so-called “scheme manager” will be the central governing body, the online news service reported. In 2011, PYMNTS reported on the Monnet Project , where two dozen European banks from seven countries considered starting a new European card system. This is not the first time that European banks have tried such a model.

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As Online Sales Grow, So Does Cyberfraud

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One of the unintended consequences in the rise of eCommerce is a related rise in cyberfraud attacks on online shoppers. Shape’s innovative technology has proven to offer highly effective defense against automated attacks from advanced cybercriminals,” according to Lak Ananth, managing director of Hewlett Packard Pathfinder. “We

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GameStop's Top Investor Sees Epic Battle With Amazon

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Bloomberg reported that Ryan Cohen , who now owns a nearly 10 percent stake in GameStop, is in talks with management, several board members and his own RC Ventures to have the gaming company sell a wider range of merchandise. In 2011, Cohen started Chewy.com and went on to serve as CEO.

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PICKUP Teams With Postmates For Quicker Last-Mile Deliveries

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The 2014 startup said that since introducing PICKUP Enterprise, retailers are experiencing bigger basket sizes and “23 percent lift over BOPIS (buy online, pick up in store).”. Postmates was launched in 2011 and is based in Silicon Valley. The delivery app also said it will work with the league to develop social impact programs. .

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