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Retail Crisis In U.S., U.K. A Fizzle For 2020?

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But online lending companies are seeing a surge in digital loans — up 19 percent year over year in 2019. As 2019 ended, Russian authorities put legislation in place that requires all devices (such as from Apple, Google and Samsung) to have preinstalled Russian software effective July 1.

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From Investing To Budgeting, How Millennials Are Disrupting Personal Finance

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As millennials head deeper into adulthood and make more money, the personal finance space is adapting to their unique money management attitudes in a few key ways: From in-person to online. Borrowing: Credit-shy millennials embrace PoS lending. From big banks to big tech. Payments: Mobile is replacing cash.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, After Tumblr still failed to hit sales targets, Yahoo rolled back the integration and ultimately wrote off losses of $712M from its failed Tumblr acquisition.

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FinDEVr Silicon Valley: Looking Back, Moving Forward

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Teamed up with WooCommerce to help online merchants manage sales taxes. Announced sales-tax accuracy guarantee. Unveiled personalized app recommendations for QuickBooks Online. Teamed up with fellow alums OnDeck and CAN Capital to form Innovative Lending Platform Association. Unveiled new tax utility service.

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Why Regulators’ War On Fees Will Kill Consumers

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Google makes one of the leading mobile operating systems in the world — Android — and licenses it for free to companies like, say, Samsung that make it the software foundation of smartphones they sell for hundreds of dollars. And who can’t get any other people to lend them money on a short-term basis.

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242 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

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Doorman says it will no longer accept incoming shipments after September 29th and that those who use their Doorman address for online shipments should update their information. “We Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered. Product: Raptr.

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