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What Amazon HQ2, Interchange Fees And Facebook Have In Common

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This week, I’m compelled to offer a few thoughts that go against the grain on several topics that made the news last week: Amazon’s NY HQ2 , card interchange fees and Facebook ad revenue. own voice-activated speakers, as do more than a third of the 30- to 40-year-old bridge millennials. Card Networks Want to Raise Their Prices.

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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. How about Facebook gift cards?

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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. Taxes and other measures put in place years earlier were even rolled back. Card networks gave consumers a better way to pay at all of the merchants where they wanted to shop.