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PayPal Deal, Connected Economy And Cyberwar Top Week’s News

PYMNTS

The first full work week of the new decade brought a gusher of payments and commerce news, and this latest edition of the PYMNTS Weekender is here to make sure you don’t miss anything. Hundreds Of FinTechs Move From UK To EU Ahead Of Brexit. PayPal made a big acquisition, and Citigroup made a big appointment. How To Win The $1.4T

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Snapchat’s Spotlight Dangles $1M To Lure Viral Creators From TikTok, IG Reels

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Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany and France. We do this by trying to understand your personal preferences.” . Reels gives users the ability to create 15-second videos using IG’s camera and editing tools. . Spotlight is launching initially in the U.S., operations.

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Mutable and immutable blockchains

Tomorrow's Transactions

As we argue, there are several reasons to prefer an editable blockchain, spanning from the necessity to remove improper content and the possibility to support applications requiring re-writable storage, to “the right to be forgotten”. From Accenture to unveil blockchain editing technique – FT.com.

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Why The Fed Will Create Its Own Real-Time Payments System

Tech and Finance

The UK implemented a faster payments system 10 years ago. Estimates of those costs run to about $10 billion a year, or as Brookings noted, the delay has cost Americans $100 billion in fees since the UK went to faster payments more than 10 years ago. Edit to see if it fits on a bumper sticker. Socialist subsidies for big banks?

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Fashion Forward: How Tech Is Targeting Waste & Pollution In The $2.4T Fashion Industry

CB Insights

The startup has caught the attention of some high-profile designers — menswear brand Hugo Boss crafted limited-edition sneakers using Piñatex. Pigments naturally secreted by bacteria could be used to dye textiles, as evidenced by findings from Faber Futures in the UK and Kukka and TextileLab Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

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Surviving The Retail Apocalypse: The Technologies And Trends That Can Help Brick-And-Mortar Thrive Again

CB Insights

Radio Shack, Sports Authority, and Toys R’ Us — all once powerful retailers — have succumbed to pressure from e-commerce, changing consumer preferences, and mounting debt from post-financial crisis leveraged buyouts. UK-based startup Appear Here helps connect landlords with startups looking to rent out temporary retail space.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

CB Insights

The once-loved – and much sold – social bookmarking site del.icio.us (or just Delicious, if you prefer), has changed hands for one final time. Teachers prefer not to use tools that require different layers of approval from others. If you want to build in the UK, find some way of charging money from day one. Product: del.icio.us.

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