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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. There’s a bifurcation between big metropolitan areas, where there is a higher concentration of digitally minded industries and the rest of the world.”.

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Gojek Latest FinTech To Cut Jobs Amid Coronavirus Damage

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Ride-hailing and digital payments firm Gojek is slashing hundreds of jobs as the coronavirus-triggered economic downturn hits home in Southeast Asia. The cuts are heavily concentrated in Gojek’s GoLife and GoFood Festivals divisions.

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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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Merging Apps, Uber Eyes ‘Everyday’ Use

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As reported , the platform-focused firm is also debuting new safety features and broadening its travel modes on offer, including bikes and public transportation. There also will be demand “heat maps” showing where requests are concentrated within a given geographic location. To that end, Uber said at an event on Thursday (Sept.

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COVID-19 Batters $2.5T Trade Show Events Industry

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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. Yet, whether they will be able to contain the economic carnage that will come along with it is another story.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Uber Cash

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Uber created an entirely new vocabulary word and category of transportation service called ridesharing and a new way of describing their drivers — gig workers. Uber Eats users concentrate 53.6 Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem. Fleets As The Fuel.