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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.

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The ‘Uber Of Nothing’ Is Coming

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I was reminded of this phenomenon recently after scanning a bunch of stories that described a variety of “disruptive” innovations in payments. Books and articles today abound about how platforms are the slick new models that will rule the world — tempting businesses with a “winning” formula for devising new and disruptive businesses.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

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Yet, that’s the claim being made by Scott Galloway — serial entrepreneur and adjunct faculty member at the Stern School of Business who wrote a book , participated in numerous TV interviews and composed a 7,000-word article in Esquire saying just that. They examined anonymized tax data starting in the 1940s until 2015.

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

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They grilled execs from Google, Amazon and Facebook over claims of their size and power, which is said to be driving smaller companies out of business, reducing opportunities for new innovators to emerge and tilting the competitive playing field too far in their direction.

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Robots Sizzle, Tax Reform Fizzles And Facebook Raises Eyebrows With Its Timing

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Two hundred million singles times $15 a month is a lot of zeros and decimal points — not to mention the anchor for making reservations for date night, booking trips for the engagement weekend and the showers and bachelorette weekends to follow. Or maybe not. Robots : Want some circuits with that pepperoni?

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What Do Hillbillies Have To Do With Payments Innovation?

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Vance — Marine, Yale-educated lawyer and venture capitalist — published his memoirs, “ Hillbilly Elegy. ” Vance’s book become the layman’s guide for understanding the psyche of the working class Americans whose votes singlehandedly drove the outcome of the 2016 U.S. WHAT DO HILLBILLIES HAVE TO DO WITH PAYMENTS INNOVATION?