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Gaming Platforms Betting On ‘The Metaverse’ As Next Internet

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Our first glimpse of the not-so-distant future of handheld tech was ‘the communicator’ on TV’s "Star Trek" in the late 1960s, providing science fiction’s vision of the smartphone. Consider “the Metaverse”— a self-contained virtual world built atop ‘older’ constructs like the existing Internet.

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Zayo Group Launches Encryption as a Service

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Zayo Group Holdings , the cloud infrastructure and communications company, is getting into the encryption market, announcing a new Encryption as a Service product for customers. Like other big fiber deals Zayo has already won, this one uses both its long-haul fiber network and routes it is already constructing.

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Installment Payment Platforms Can Solve Trade Credit Problems

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Freelancers of all stripes — from media workers to construction workers — have trade credit issues. Analog processes present challenges for buyers and sellers looking to communicate AR issues, according to Craig O’Neill, CEO of FinTech VersaPay. The law goes into effect in January. percent and 43.8

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Wells’ Woes, Stripe’s Acquisition And North Korea’s New Hacking Groove

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The healthcare debate turned into something that was one aria short of a full-blown opera, and the entering communications director brought new meaning to the term “open dialogue with the media.” Those ICBMs we’ve been seeing on the news for the last few days are not cheap to construct after all.

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Transcript: Greg Davis, CIO Vanguard

Barry Ritholtz

So I was a mile deep on a subject matter of bond indexing, but now I had the opportunity to lead an equity indexing group, the entire fixed income team, our investment strategy team that does research for our clients around portfolio construction, those types of things. They create the benchmark.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

And interestingly, I’m happy to come back to these things I learned in helping companies through mergers, particularly around things like communications and shareholder relations, and employee engagement that have now served me really well, couple decades later in my career. You end up with a lot of construction.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. It’s much more about security selection and a relatively static portfolio construction. ” It wasn’t that they didn’t communicate that. It’s just entertainment. Both people are kicking money in.