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Barry Ritholtz

Regulators seem opposed to every proposed merger, while legislators push for new rules to crack down on the internet giants. Barron’s ) • Why It’s So Hard for China to Shake the ‘Uninvestable’ Tag : In 2021, Goldman Sachs said the word was starting to feature in a number of client conversations about the country’s stocks.

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Pakistan Launches Payment System To Boost Financial Inclusion

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With the new feature, merchants, businesses, individuals, FinTechs and government entities will be able to utilize real-time payments via the internet, mobile phones and agents, alongside government payments like salaries and pensions, Reuters writes.

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Reliance Says It Will Roll Out 5G In Late 2021

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Reliance Jio Infocomm will debut 5G high-speed internet in India starting in the second half of 2021, a report from LiveMint.com says, quoting Chairman Mukesh Ambani. Ambani, speaking at the fourth edition of the India Mobile Congress, said the solution for fifth-generation wireless service would be built indigenously.

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Lost Pet Posters Get An Upgrade For The Digital Age

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Still, that seems so old-fashioned in this digital age — at least according to Andrea Chavez, Founder of Pawscout , a company whose signature product is a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but gives them access to other digital and mobile services.

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Apple Expands Developer NFC Access To Boost New Use Cases

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The report noted that with iOS 11, Apple began paving the way by adding the Core NFC framework, which allows apps to use the NFC chip as a scanner for RFID tags, although that feature was very limited. Some hotels already support contactless activation of doors with an iPhone, but only via Bluetooth technology, which is less secure than NFC.

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Google Chrome To Eliminate Third-Party Cookies In Privacy Push

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the move could potentially further bolster Google as well as other large internet gatekeepers. . While sites will still have the ability to tag individuals with “first-party cookies,” third parties will not have the ability to put cookies on websites to create a picture of users as they traverse the internet.

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Google GDPR Complaint Suggests Personal Data Misuse

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Google’s ad technology apparently labels users depending on their internet activity, noted a report in TechCrunch. What’s more, they’re labeled with tags like cancer, mental health, right- or left-wing politics or even sexually transmitted diseases.