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Postmates Says It’s Generated $1.2B In Economic Activity

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Postmates — in cooperation with Edelman Intelligence — set out to determine what effect the company has had, economically speaking, in the cities in which it operates. By the numbers, businesses who used Postmates reported growing 3.7 Using data from 2017 to the present day — and tapping information from the 300 U.S.

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Cyberattacks, Google Crash Bring Internet Security Into Question

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Whether it's the power grid, banking and financial markets, transportation, communications or even the highly generalized “internet of things,” the list of digital inroads that penetrate our daily lives has never been higher.

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Repairing a Fractured World Economy?

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This interview of Richard Kozul-White of UNCTAD cover a very broad scope of economic issues from the developing country perspective: how unregulated financial markets have hindered emerging countries, how the Global Financial Crisis market failure has been ignored, and how even before Covid, these countries were facing a decade of lost growth.

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COVID-19 Batters $2.5T Trade Show Events Industry

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An increasing number of fatalities in Iran have reignited concerns that the disease’s global spread is essentially past the point of containment. According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the trade body for the global airline industry, that trend has intensified , and is expected to continue to do so in the near term.

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Tune In To Payments Reality Check!

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Ken Rogoff is an esteemed professor of economics at Harvard University. Its infrastructure is highly concentrated in China – 70 percent of all mining capacity is located there and controlled by four mining companies in China. But, instead of Ryan Seacrest, you have me. Welcome to Payments Reality Check. He’s a pretty smart guy.

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Transcript: Kathleen McCarthy

Barry Ritholtz

MCCARTHY: I’d back up actually a little bit further in thinking about how did I get there, because I don’t think it was very obvious actually that I would come out of Yale with an ethics, politics and economics degree — RITHOLTZ: Perfect really, right? MCCARTHY: — and end up in M&A on Wall Street. Cambridge U.K.,

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Payments’ Stranger Things

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This ignores the fact that the processing rails for this system — bitcoin — is concentrated in a handful of miners in China and the exchanges used to turn bitcoin into the real money that people can spend are routinely hacked. Comparisons to Uber and Lyft abound: a disruptive way to reimagine transportation.

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