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Fintech’s Power Grab — in The New York Times

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The New York Times covered the subject — and the word — in depth yesterday, in a special section called “Fintech’s Power Grab.” Ok, it’s safe to say fintech has hit the big time. ” The lead item, by Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC fame, focuses on the fintech challenge to Read More.

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Facebook Threatens EU Pullout As Data Sharing Comes Under Scrutiny

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In a bit of high-tech saber-rattling, Facebook is threatening to pull the plug on its social media platform in the European Union if a controversial decision by Irish regulators is allowed to stand. according to Metro. according to Metro.

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AWS Outage Interrupts Web Service for Spotify, Square And Others

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An Amazon Web Services outage affected the digital presence and operations of dozens of companies Wednesday (Nov 25) as one of the subsystems of the massive web operations platform failed. Kinesis, as described on the AWS site is “a massively scalable and durable real-time data streaming service.

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Facebook Could Lose Accreditation Of Media Rating Council

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advertisers probably won’t “like” its subpar rating from a media industry watchdog. The Media Rating Council (MRC) review found that the California-based social media giant has failed to address advertisers’ concerns arising from an Ernst & Young audit over how it measures and reports data about video advertisements. .

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Adweek On The Pandemic-Driven Digital Media Subscription Surge

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Tribune Publishing , which operates about 10 news outlets including the Chicago Tribune , reported a 293 percent spike in digital subscriptions between February and March. The New York Times found that revenue for digital products exceeded that of print for the first time since it began charging readers for content nine years ago.

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Century 21 Department Stores' Intellectual Property Up For Sale

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The intellectual property (IP) of Century 21 Department Stores is up for sale, including the company’s domain name, trademarks, social media assets, shopper data and more, according to an announcement from Hilco Streambank , which focuses on the sale of IP assets. 16, and an auction is scheduled for Nov.

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Retail Reopening Precautions Spell The End Of ‘Walk-Ins’

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Its staffers were reportedly fully booked and will stay that way up to the conclusion of May, according to a report in The New York Times. The company, for its part, has a new process for keeping customers safe. But a number of customers reportedly didn’t adhere to the new procedure when the store reopened.

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