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Odds Are That Online Sportsbook Wins Big Post-COVID

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Online sportsbooks have been beneficiaries of that dictum ever since COVID-19 eradicated most live sports, leaving millions of fans and a great many bettors potentially mired in boredom. DraftKings already has similar arrangements with three NBA franchises: the Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers and Philadelphia 76ers. billion by 2025.

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Online Lending And A Tale Of Two Fed Studies

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Online consumer lending – in a variety of forms – has grown explosively over the last decade. The recent release of a study by the Cleveland Federal Reserve has managed to increase the decibel level of that debate. So how did one branch of the Fed end up on such a different page from their counterparts?

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Mediaocean Seeks Supply Chain Transparency

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Headquartered in New York City and founded in 2012, Mediaocean manages every aspect of the advertising workflow, and handles $150 billion in global media spend. Philadelphia-based Amino Payments launched in 2017, and was co-founded by Luttrell, Chris Chapman and David Bookspan.

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Wyze Smart Device Co Leaks 2.4M Customers’ Data

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The leak was the result of an internal database — the Elasticsearch system — being unwittingly exposed online, Wyze Co-founder Dongsheng Song said in a forum post first published on Dec. Massive data breaches are becoming more common as more information moves online and to databases. 26 and updated on Sunday (Dec. he said in the post.

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Reinventing Retail’s ‘Anchor Store’ For The Omnicommerce Age

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Instead of buying merchandise to resell, brands rent shelf space and offer infrastructure/logistics support to those direct-to-consumer brands that want distribution, but lack the logistics expertise to do so strictly online. We estimate that we will still see 70 percent of the purchases we deal with happening online.

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KidPass Raises $5.1 Million In VC Funding For Expansion Into New Markets

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Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., It’s time-consuming and difficult to navigate, with many businesses not even having a presence online.”. and Chicago.

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NJ Lawmakers: Brick-And-Mortars Must Accept Cash

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The bill, which is set to go before the full state Senate, excludes retailers inside airports from the cash requirement, as well as sales made online and by telephone or mail. New York City and Philadelphia are also reportedly considering similar bans. Managing cash and handling cash is time-consuming and cumbersome.

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