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PayPal Provides $5M In Grants To Support Minority Businesses

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The grants are part of the San Jose, California-based worldwide online payments system’s $530 million pledge made earlier this year to strengthen minority communities and fight for economic equality and racial justice. “To PayPal Holdings Inc. provided $5 million in grants to support Black-owned businesses in the U.S.

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A Bundle Of Contradictions: The Online Privacy Landscape

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At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. social media users are “very confident” that those platforms would protect users’ data, according to Pew — with 64 percent calling for more regulation of online advertisers.

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NYC Summit To Tackle Lack Of Influencer Regulation

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“It’s challenging that the industry that was built on trust is struggling with that trust,” said Erick Schwab, co-founder of Sylo, a third-party service that authenticates online audiences. Like with all new innovations, there are going to be some hitches to it,” Cavazos said. Sylo is sponsoring the event.

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The Challenges Of Securing The Smart Cities Of Tomorrow

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The city’s entire system was left unusable by the incident, including its online payment systems used for paying property taxes. Baltimore endured a similar incident in May after hackers infiltrated the city’s computers and shut down the majority of its servers and asked for tens of thousands in ransom. The Target Rich City .

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Retail Pulse: Kohl’s To Curate Brands With Facebook; Domino’s Rolls Out eBike Tie-Up

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Kohl’s , for instance, will bring emerging brands to over 50 physical retail locations and online starting in the fall through Curated By Kohl’s. The retailer also plans to team with Facebook on brand curation starting next year — “identifying and engaging with brands that have built a strong online community on the social media platform.”.

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Retail Reinvention: Why Retail Doesn’t Need Salespeople

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No online database will replace the daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”. Up until then, Stoll had made a reputation for himself in the online world for having snuffed out Markus Hess , the guy who’d successfully hacked into a bunch of U.S.,

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Does ‘Google Checking’ Foreshadow Big Tech, FinTech Payments Changes?

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Consumers are increasingly using online and mobile channels – and living in ecosystems like Google and Amazon where they shop for, discover and buy products. Consumers largely understand (and are okay with) how that data is used to serve up recommendations for flights from Chicago to Austin or home remodelers in Baltimore.

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