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Deep Dive: Why The Pandemic Is Pushing MENA Regulators To Upgrade Open Banking, Privacy Laws

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Consumers and businesses have been moving online in recent years, and regulators from the European Union to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have worked to keep up with this migration. Merchants And The Global Privacy Battle . The pandemic has refocused scrutiny on the open banking ecosystem’s privacy and security.

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US Falls Short In Restaurant Technologies

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Technomic’s Top 100 Global Chain Restaurant Report for 2016 found, for instance, that 68 percent of customers in Asia reported using a mobile device to place a food order in the past three months, and in the Middle East, that statistic was about 60 percent. But in North America, placing mobile orders to restaurants is still a novelty.

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Getting To The Core Of Apple’s (And Everyone Else’s) China Issue

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A few short quarters ago in its fiscal year 2015, China was north of 20 percent of sales, and now the tally is at about 18 percent – and the drag this quarter, and presumably going forward, will be pronounced as smartphone sales are sliding several percentage points year over year and upgrade cycles are getting longer.

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UnitedHealth Earnings Show Healthcare At The Crossroads

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Global investments in healthcare startups set a new record in 2020, reaching $80.6 A new report from research firm CB Insights said the 2020 funding was raised in at least 5,500 deals, with growth seen in North America, Asia and Europe. An assertion seemingly backed up by the rapid explosion of healthcare investments of late.

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Video Games Provide Fresh Fuel For Retail Innovation

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In a statement , the company said it had “announced a strategic partnership with global innovation design firm R/GA to strengthen its focus on creating unique in-store experiences as part of its strategic move in reaffirming its place in the video gaming culture.”. That includes stores, and the latest example comes from GameStop Corp.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

It was starting to happen but accelerated after the global financial crisis where regulators pushed for more transparency in distribution fees. Yeah, they were pioneers in emerging markets and really kind of global equity. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Is Cryptocurrency The Key To Shoppable Movie Content?

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And though that is the chart topper, the average “high-end” TV drama can cost anywhere from $5 million to $7 million per episode, with the least expensive shows all having a price tag north of $1 million. Reedeux said that its stated plan is for global media domination.