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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. That experience made him appreciate even more just how difficult it can be to move customers from one payment method to another without real innovation. Step back a bit first.

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Monetary and fiscal policy in interwar Britain

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First, although there have been some excellent recent attempts to answer narrow questions about the period (on tax , defence spending , uncertainty , inflation expectations , protectionism and exit from the Great Depression ), the most recent comprehensive assessment of macroeconomic policy dates to 1995.

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Uber Settles NY Driver Fees Lawsuit For $3M

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The lawsuit alleged a breach of contract for adding sales tax and a fee to the total fare amount, which then boosted the amount of service fees owed to the company. 29, 2009 and aren’t currently in arbitration with Uber. The settlement includes drivers who worked for the ride-hailing company starting from Dec.

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What Overcoming Inertia Tells Us About The Future of Physical Retail

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By now, you’ve no doubt heard the story about how Isaac Newton turned quarantining during London’s outbreak of the Bubonic Plague between 1665 and 1667 into a time of great focus and innovation. That month, the Commerce Department reported that January sales at clothing stores had declined the most since 2009. And they never went back.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

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Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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

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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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The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: May 21, 2009. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014.

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