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Fintech Focus For May 14, 2021
Thursday, May 13, 2021 - 5:16pm | 1839Read More...Quote To Start The Day: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Source: Walt Disney One Big Thing In Fintech: An activist short seller has written a letter to the chief executive of insurance giant Lemonade with details of an “accidentally discovered”...
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Twitter Is Complying With Russia's Content Ban Directive, Albeit With Delay: Reuters
Friday, April 30, 2021 - 12:26pm | 301Read More...Russian state communications regulator, Roskomnadzor, acknowledged Twitter Inc’s (NYSE: TWTR) compliance with Russia’s content directive along with the social media company’s delay regarding the initiative, Reuters reports. Twitter had removed 60% of marked...
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Wildberries, Russia's Answer To Amazon, Launches US Sales
Monday, April 12, 2021 - 11:46am | 323Read More...Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, has launched in the U.S. market. From A Flat To An Empire: Wildberries launched in 2004 on a $700 start-up budget in the Moscow apartment of 28-year-old Tatyana Bakalchuk, a teacher who was on maternity leave. Bakalchuk grew the company, becoming...
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Russia Delays Twitter Slowdown Until Mid May: Reuters
Monday, April 5, 2021 - 10:26am | 415Read More...Russia will postpone the retaliatory slowdown of Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) until May 15 upon the social media company’s accelerated deletion of banned content, including child pornography, drug abuse information, and minor suicide, Reuters reports. According to Bloomberg,...
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Russia Threatens Twitter Suspension Over Alleged Banned Content: Reuters
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 10:33am | 397Read More...Russia threatened to block Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) in a month unless it removed banned content, Reuters reports based on Russian news agencies. Last week, Moscow admittedly slowed down the Twitter speed in Russia in retaliation to the non-removal of banned...
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5 US-Listed Stocks From Emerging Markets That Bode Well For 2021
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 - 7:31am | 743Read More...Here are the companies that bode well for 2021, according to Kiplinger: from the Russian version of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) to the Chinese rival of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA). Kiplinger, an American firm specializing in financial forecasts and investor...
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Fintech Focus For March 11, 2021
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 10:42pm | 1745Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. Source: Tim Ferriss One Big Thing In Fintech: A provisional report from data and research group CB Insights indicates that we’re not merely in a warm period for fintech funding — we are in a period of...
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Russia Slows Twitter's Speed Following Protests, Threatens Complete Suspension: Reuters
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 11:12am | 493Read More...Russia admittedly slowed down Twitter Inc’s (NYSE: TWTR) internet speed for its alleged non-removal of banned content along with a possible suspension of the U.S. platform upon further non-compliance, Reuters reports. What Happened: Russian authorities charged...
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Russia Indicts Google, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Telegram For Alleged Non-Deletion Of Protest Content
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 - 9:36am | 320Read More...Russian authorities charged five social media platforms for allegedly failing to delete posts urging children to participate in illegal protests, Reuters reports based on a Moscow court ruling cited by the Interfax news agency. Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR), Alphabet Inc...
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Elon Musk's Clubhouse Invitation To Putin Was 'Misunderstanding,' Kremlin Says
Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 3:54pm | 388Read More...The much-ballyhooed public invitation from Elon Musk to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a conversation on the Clubhouse app has come to naught, with the Kremlin blaming the Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO for dropping the proverbial ball. Hey, Vlad, How Goes It? The unlikely pairing of the...
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Fintech Focus For February 15, 2021
Monday, February 15, 2021 - 12:20am | 2274Read More...Quote To Start The Day: Do not confuse motion and progress. Source: Alfred A. Montapert One Big Thing In Fintech: More than 90M millennials will soon be in what Goldman Sachs calls their “prime spending years.” Millennials have overtaken the baby boomers to become the largest...
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AstraZeneca To Test Its COVID-19 Vaccine In Combination With Russia's Sputnik V
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 - 12:58am | 450Read More...AstraZeneca Plc (NASDAQ: AZN) and Russia have agreed to test a combination of their vaccines, the Associated Press reported Tuesday. What Happened: On Monday, the British drugmaker signed a memorandum of cooperation with Moscow-based research facility the Gamaleya Institute, the Russian Direct...
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Analyst Raises Cybersecurity Stock Targets Following Massive Russian Hack
Tuesday, December 22, 2020 - 12:35pm | 410Read More...Last week, Russian hackers gained access to the U.S. Treasury and other government agencies and major U.S. enterprises via a breach of SolarWinds Corp (NYSE: SWI)’s Orion network monitoring product. Some experts have called the attack one of the worst in U.S. history, but Bank of America...
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Here's What You Need To Know About Cyberattack Against US
Sunday, December 20, 2020 - 5:43pm | 888Read More...More news on the massive cyberattack that hit the U.S. this year is likely to come out in the week ahead. Today, more senators have come out to say Russia was behind the attack. Here's a recap of what has transpired so far. What Happened: On Dec. 13, the New York Times broke a...
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FireEye Shares Drop 7% As Company Reports Suffering Foreign Government-Backed Cyberattack
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 - 3:04am | 401Read More...California-headquartered cybersecurity company FireEye Inc (NASDAQ: FEYE) revealed in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday that it was a victim of a cyberattack. The attack targeted the company’s “Red Team" assessment tools, used for...
