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On Tweeting with Patti Husic, an ICBA Social Media Influencer

Independent Banker

Husic: I joined Twitter in 2013. Husic: Originally, I had qualms about effective use of my time as an executive and the ROI of social media. This includes banking, leadership, STEM [science, technology, engineering, math], women in leadership, health care and information about our community. Husic: Do it!

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Pokemon The Surprise Retail Sizzle Of The Summer?

PYMNTS

Mum’s the word over there at the FDIC, but FDIC leadership acknowledges that it “did not accurately portray the extent of the risk” to Congress and have promised – and we are sure pinky swear – to improve their overall record keeping. The article also reported that Lending Club had verified income for only 26.8

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

CB Insights

In 2013, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw an opportunity in Nokia, a Finnish phone company that was losing ground to competitors. Date: May 20, 2013. On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Yahoo and Tumblr.

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

CB Insights

To some, Silicon Valley startup culture was as much to blame for Theranos’ failure as the company’s leadership. But despite the popularity of its sock puppet mascot, the online pet supplies retailer went out of business just 9 months after its Super Bowl ad, doomed by an untenable business model and the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

Declared Bankruptcy: 2013. Coda Automotive sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in May 2013, and announced it was restructuring its business as a battery technology company. By 2013, Julep was generating more than $20M in annual revenues. Coda Automotive: Being partially right doesn’t save you from also being wrong.

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The 2015 GonzoBanker Awards

Gonzobanker

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Jill’s use of Twitter is a model for any bank CEO looking to engage on social media. Online Relationship Builder (ORB) from Alkami. Freudian Slip Award.

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Rise Of China’s Big Tech In AI: What Baidu, Alibaba, And Tencent Are Working On

CB Insights

But Andrew Ng, who was part of the group that led the research at Google, published a paper in 2013 alongside other Stanford scientists, achieving the same results using a cluster of Nvidia’s graphic processing units (GPUs) running on just 3 machines. This marked the beginning of a new era in artificial intelligence.

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