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PYMNTS’ Daily Data Dive: Most Tax Refunds To Be Saved

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While most adults typically are excited about receiving their tax refunds to splurge on luxury items, research from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Prosper Insights & Analytics is telling a different story. Here are the numbers: 48 percent | Percentage who plan to put tax refunds into savings.

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Online Spending Could Top $124B Over The Holidays

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Amid a change in shopping habits from brick-and-mortar to eCommerce, online spending is expected to reach $124.1 To arrive at the forecast, Adobe Analytics took a look at transactions at 80 of the top 100 retailers in the United States along with visits by consumers to U.S. billion this holiday season — an increase of 14.8

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Analytics Co RELX Buys Anti-Fraud Startup Emailage For $480M

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Using machine learning, its own data and its network of partner companies that extends all over the world, Emailage can predict fraud with email addresses and online identities. Last month, the company spent $375 million to buy San Diego-based ID Analytics. In addition, RELX made pre-tax profits of £2.15 billion in 2018.

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EU And Tech Firm Taxes Dominate Regulatory Landscape

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Tax season, indeed. The regulatory landscape was dotted with news out of Europe centered on the way that tech firms do business — and how they’re taxed. As for taxes , tech behemoths under scrutiny across a separate proposal might face taxation on digital activities of as much as 3 percent of turnover.

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From Blockchain To Farming, Newly-Funded Startups Embrace Data Analytics

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But there is a clear common thread among the B2B startups that secured fresh funding this week: data analytics. Read below to explore the ways newly-funded firms are using the power of data analytics for their corporate customers. Blockchain.

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Death, Taxes And Digitizing Insurance Payments 

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If death and taxes are sureties, insurance payments rank up there, as people insure homes and autos and apartments against any number of calamitous scenarios. Things have come far enough [technologically] that carriers can offer a payment portal online, which is something that many of them do today.”.

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Amazon Business Expands To Canada

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Targeting small and medium-sized businesses, Amazon Business enables companies to procure goods online, while giving B2B sellers a new platform upon which they can reach new customers – not only in Canada, but also in other markets where Amazon Business is available. The platform also supports tax exemption for qualified purchases.

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