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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Tencent Says Big Tech Needs Greater Oversight; Group Seeks To Block Maryland Online Ad Tax

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Group Seeks to Block Maryland Online Advertising Tax. Marylanders for Tax Fairness is preparing for a battle in January over the state’s attempt to make a digital advertising tax, the Baltimore Sun reported. Maryland legislators ratified the tax earlier in 2020, but Gov. Larry Hogan vetoed the levy.

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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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17) will discuss the fraud problem stemming from influencer marketing. The event strives to unite the worlds of communications and marketing to stimulate conversations about digital marketing and influencer campaigns, PR Daily reported on Monday (Sept. The first Influencer Fraudnomics Summit in New York City on Tuesday (Sept.

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DoorDash Unveils Latest Growth Strategy: Digital Convenience Stores

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DoorDash is rolling out digital convenience stores in a bevy of major cities as it ups the ante in the fierce battle for market share in the fast-growing delivery sector. DoorDash said it plans to add more cities in the coming months, including Baltimore, Denver, Sacramento and Concord, California. DoorDash on Wednesday (Aug.

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One Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All

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Both Groupon and Grubhub are Chicago-based, although OrderUp calls Baltimore home. Grubhub absorbed 27 of OrderUp’s markets, including Baltimore itself, reported The Baltimore Business Journal.

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Target, Walmart Adjust Holiday Delivery Processes As Shipping Crisis Peaks

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The ShipMatrix data shows a decline in on-time delivery by the USPS in the second week of December, validated by local media reports of long lines of trucks waiting at shipping centers, such as this one from WBAL-TV in Baltimore. The mass-market category is taking matters into its own hands as much as possible. What’s a retailer to do?

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Justice Department, SEC Investigating Under Armour

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Baltimore-based Under Armour is being probed over its accounting practices by the U.S. The company had been spending more to bolster its international market online offerings as well as open stores. Those moves aided it in posting growth in Asia Pacific as well as Europe markets. . for many years.

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