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Deep Dive: GDRP And The EU’s New Rules Of Data Handling

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The social media platform has admitted the incident may have impacted as many as 87 million users. similar regulations are already being put to the test in other regions around the world. That effort kicked off in 2012, when the European Commission first began taking steps to advance data protections in the EU.

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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: France Fines Amazon And Google $164 Million; Australia Warns Facebook And Google To Pay News Firms 

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Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg put forward the News Media and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code and unveiled the particulars of his roadmap for Australia to become the first nation to make online platforms pay media for news. The legislation does not specify the manner in which a payment would be handled.

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Bridg Closes Marketing Loop For Restaurants, Retail

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Founded in 2012, Bridg began by providing its platform to leading national and regional restaurant chains in the U.S., In this instance, Bridg targeted regular customers, largely on social media, who had begun to lapse in their regular buying patterns. The ads featured a coupon for $4.25

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

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A healthy culture of dissent may have helped the company focus on its product issues before they became a national scandal, but workers who raised red flags were ignored and, if they persisted, asked to leave the company. Theranos’ failure also supports the age-old adage: Absolute power corrupts absolutely. in 2000 to 232.1M

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12 Industries That Will Thrive Thanks To Millennials

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Over 1M millennial women are becoming mothers every year, meaning Gen Y now makes up the majority of annual births in the United States, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. At the same time, boutique studio memberships grew by 70% between 2012 and 2015, with memberships hitting an all-time high in 2016.

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24 Industries & Technologies That Will Shape The Post-Virus World

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But due to uncertainties about the duration of economic instability — as well as ongoing national conversations about student debt — an increasing number of people have been turning to online courses, bootcamps, and trainings instead. 3D printing and automation are particularly primed to facilitate that evolution. 3D printing.

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