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Estee Lauder Closes BECCA Acquisition

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BECCA traces its genesis back to 2001, and Forbes stated that the firm could earn as much as $80 million this year alone. The focus for BECCA is on women of color and has a presence on social media through widely followed individuals including Jaclyn Hill.

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Facebook Faces Billions In Possible GDPR Fines

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As reported, the social media giant was hacked through a vulnerability in the Facebook source code, which gave the attackers the ability to steal access tokens, which they in turn used to keep Facebook subscribers logged in. The one million euros will be spent through 2019, according to reports. As has been reported, the U.S.

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Newegg Masters The Art Of The Pivot

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After coming out of the post-internet bubble economy of 2001 as a force in the consumer electronics category, it eventually supplemented that business with computer parts and accessories, catering to the DIY tech crowd. It functions as both an omnichannel contact center solution for suppliers as well as a social media monitoring service.

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In Praise Of The Selfie And The Commerce It Drives

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Now let’s do a match cut to outer space — like that famous early shot of the bone being tossed in “ 2001: A Space Odyssey ” — where, during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966, U.S. astronaut and still-living tough guy Buzz Aldrin took his own self-portrait.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

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Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. million items last year. “[Our

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

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In 2001, at the COMDEX Fall computer show, Microsoft ’s then-CEO Bill Gates introduced to the world to the Microsoft Tablet PC. Microsoft was incredibly confident in the product, as were many big names in the early 2000s market: Acer, Compaq, Fujitsu and Toshiba all promised to put out versions of the Microsoft Tablet PC by 2002.

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

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The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. High-tech employment fell from 12.1

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