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Malls Debate Turns To Community Planning

PYMNTS

More bankruptcies both announced ( Lucky Brand ) and rumored continue to shake the format. More importantly, the outlook for the future has improved: Due partially to the 2017 tax reform bill, GDP is forecasted to grow around 3 percent in 2018, according to the Conference Board.

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The Apple iPhone Sales Rope-A-Dope

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That means Apple won’t tell the world how many — or how few — iPhones were sold over the all-important holiday season, and in the all-important months following the release of three brand-new iPhone models. It did so because apps like Netflix were avoiding signing up subscribers through the App Store to evade the Apple tax.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. You have enormous brands and massive amounts of consumers involved. However, with so much potential tax revenue on the line, Cregan said, there are heavy incentives that favor mobile. “As

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Credit Karma Launches Free Tax Filing Service

Fintech Labs Insights

The San Francisco-based company launched a new (and free) tax return preparation offering this week to complement its flagship, free credit score monitoring, as well as its loan and credit card comparison technology. New and existing users will have access to free tax filing in January 2017, just in time for tax season.

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What Overcoming Inertia Tells Us About The Future of Physical Retail

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That month, the Commerce Department reported that January sales at clothing stores had declined the most since 2009. The consumer’s digital shift has also been a wake-up call for brands that relied on physical-world intermediaries to drive sales, as the channels that once served as important distribution channels for consumers dried up.

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Under Armour Wants To ‘Reinvent’ Baltimore, But Not Everyone’s Feeling It

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What I really want to do is build the biggest brand on the planet,” Plank recently told Bloomberg. “I The investment is funded by selling municipal bonds to private investors, and is then repaid by property taxes generated by the new development. And that’s what many will fear will happen with the Port Covington development.

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

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For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. Date: May 21, 2009. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing.

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