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Vans Skates Into LA With Community-Driven Concept

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There’s community-based and community-driven. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. The studio will serve as a central hub for consumers and creatives, with the goal of giving back to the local community. Our downtown L.A. “Downtown L.A.

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How Adventure Commerce Is Finding New Adrenaline Through Social

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Tour operators who offer a wildlife adventure or a skydiving experience may face a common challenge: How can they market their activities to the right travelers? To reach those customers, some businesses are turning to social media networks designed around travel offer deals and reservations. The Market for Activities.

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NEW REPORT: Upgrade Payment Systems, Build Stronger Communities?

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The May Payments-as-a-Service Tracker™ examines the ways new payment solutions and tools are helping merchants with their business operations and improving relationships with the customers and clients. News from the Payments-as-a-Service Landscape. Reinventing the Recreation Market.

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Fair Value Accounting and Silicon Valley Bank Failure

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Some blame the dilution of the Dodd-Frank provisions, others the lack of oversight by regulators, and others still blame social media for exacerbating the deposit run. The economic world operates in fair value measurements, and fair value measure allows managers to make more informed decisions.

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How To Improve Uninsured Deposit Performance

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Apply further rising rates, social media amplification of rates or risk, general sensitivity to safety, greater competition, or a credit shock to the deposit holding institution. This is one of the great mysteries of community banking. Almost every community bank touts its commitment to the relationship.

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For IBM, Blockchain as ‘Team Sport’

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As reported, the social media giant has some support from IBM. Whereas existing AI might learn to read characters on a page, for example, a true AGI system might intuit how to write the book.”. to demonstrate how blockchain technology can enhance the security and operational efficiency of electric systems.

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Strava’s Journey From Fitness App To Fitness Ecosystem

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In some ways, Strava is a very much like any social media platform, albeit with a slightly narrower focus than most. It is getting very serious about the larger social media play and the ecosystem it hopes to build around it. Quarles is new to his job, having come on board last spring, but he is not new to social media.