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X nabs Rhode Island, Mississippi money licenses

Payments Dive

The new licenses are aimed at advancing Elon Musk's campaign to expand the social media company formerly known as Twitter into the payments business.

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Attorneys General To Join For Big Tech Investigation

PYMNTS

And Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said in a statement per that outlet that he is still “concerned with the aggregation of data in the hands of a few.” The main avenues to be examined are said to be shopping services, social media practices and internet search. He added he is “always watchful of any monopoly.”.

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Voters Want Big Tech Regulation On The Hill, Says Study

PYMNTS

The passwords had been stored on the social media giant’s servers in plain text — thus, accessible to employees. A bit closer to home, in Mississippi, State Attorney General Jim Hood said his office is formulating an antitrust case against Google.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

Then, they spent an equal amount of time working on distributing that content both through social media (Reddit, personal finance forums) and through SEO (which wound up driving about 20% of Mint’s overall traffic). Mississippi — #1 in Credit Karma searches. The best PFM tools don’t just help their users succeed.

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Facebook, Google, Twitter To Face Senators Over Allegations Of Removing Conservative Voices From Their Platforms

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Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) initially opposed the subpoena introduced by Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), she reversed her vote when Republicans agreed to include language in the subpoena about privacy and "media domination," CNBC reported. Facebook, Google and Twitter have denied the charge.

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