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Super Apps Rising: Mobile Drives Digital Payments Uptick In Pakistan

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told PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster in an interview that the pandemic and the rise of mobile infrastructure have set the stage to bring people living in developing and emerging economies into the digital realm. To that end, Amir Wain , CEO of i2c Inc. Wain noted that, in general, “some sort of a major event takes place, that triggers a new norm.”.

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Taking A Sharing Economy Approach To Hotel Booking

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They can indicate which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, similar to a dating website. Tate said that Roost looks for “very densely populated places” where hotel rooms can get very expensive, increasing the chance for savings. When a mutual match is made, 50 percent of the traveler’s payment is refunded to them.

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Tech Unicorn To Bring Billions In Japan, Illuminating A Culture Of Thrift

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One of the biggest initial public offerings (IPOs) in Japan may herald a sea change across a number of fronts: in payments, how the Japanese population views budgeting and how marketplaces are evolving in that country. Where there is deflation, and where there is tech, the flea market economy will thrive, it seems.

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Cracking Down On The Counterfeit Culture

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counterfeit goods, software piracy and the theft of trade secrets cost the American economy as much as $600 billion year, according to a report from the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property. trillion annually worldwide, according to the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition (IACC). In the U.S., And that’s just U.S.

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Transcript: Albert Wenger

Barry Ritholtz

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. RITHOLTZ: So up till now, a huge swath of the population has been asked my grandkids problems, what wakes them up? And I believe we need to bring that type of model to many, many more parts of the economy and parts of activity. Is that sort of events?

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

Barry Ritholtz

And it’s kind of funny, if you, and now you see it in New York City, but if you showed up in a meeting in a coat and tie, post the dot-com era and coming into the more recent stuff, you were viewed as sort of the old economy. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Transcript: John Hope Bryant

Barry Ritholtz

And he’s really moving the needle in terms of having people take control of their own financial life in a way that benefits not just them but the entire economy and all of society. And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new.