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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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That’s the only way the business can ultimately continue to create value for its customers, create jobs for people, serve the ecosystem in which it operates and provide tax revenues. Consumers today can use Alexa to order food, book an Uber and do their banking – and they do. Now, getting back to where we started with Amazon.

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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

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While they drum up interest in the company, known as “book building,” underwriters also work to price the IPO, or determine how the stock should be priced when it first hits the market. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size. get the full REPORT.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. And that we should do that not because they’re tax evaders or evil — all things he said they, like all of us, are.

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‘Stranger Things’ And Starcourt Mall Teach Us About Big Tech And Innovation

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Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Little known fact: Leach writes in his book that Georgia O’Keefe made a tidy sum in 1927 by painting posters that graced department store walls and windows.