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Big Tech Compliance Tracker: Facebook Hints At EU Pullout Over Data Transfers Laws; Appeal Filed Over Apple’s $15B Tax Bill On Ireland Operations; In-App Billing Battle Rages On

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Canadian Lawmakers Want Big Tech to Pay for Content, Taxes . EU Renews Demand for Back Taxes on Apple’s Ireland Ops. billion back-tax bill in Ireland. Margrethe Vestager, executive vice president of the European Commission for a Europe Fit for the Digital Age , last week appealed that ruling and wants the tax bill paid.

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Goldman Sach’s Marcus: Partnerships Beyond Intuit

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EXCLUSIVE- With two products and a recently announced partnership with tax preparation software provider Intuit, Marcus by Goldman Sachs is keen on growing its brand through more new partnerships and products in 2018. The future of finance is not technology,” Harit Talwar, head of Marcus by Goldman Sachs, said at Money 20/20 in Las Vegas.

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Online Sports Betting Gets A Super Bowl Workout

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sports betting event of the year, and the first big test of legalized online sports gambling in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court decision that overruled previous prohibition — a ruling that allowed states besides Nevada to allow such wagering operations. But it stands as the major U.S.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. However, with so much potential tax revenue on the line, Cregan said, there are heavy incentives that favor mobile. “As Lack of confidence will lead to lower tax revenues.”.

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Plugging Expense Leaks With Spend Management Solutions

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But setting a half-dozen staffers loose with no-limit corporate cards in, say, Las Vegas has been a leading cause of premature aging among corporate managers, accountants and treasurers for decades. Tax Time, and Time as a Commodity. That’s not unusual for SMBs and paper-based operations, as recent surveys have shown.

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Can Atari Turn Nostalgia Into New Hotel And Gaming Success?

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Even so recent news does show that the brand — now owned by a France-based operation after Atari all but faded out after the late 1970s and early 1980s video game craze and the massive industry crash that followed — is making a play to take part in the emerging trend of making hotels more attractive to gaming-minded consumers.

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Uber of X: greenRush is The Uber of Cannabis

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After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. For the retailer, there are real technological barriers: Most retailers have limited technology experience — even the more sophisticated operators — and many do not have even basic websites.

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