by globalpro | Jul 23, 2019 | Business
On the 2nd evening of Prime Day , Amazon’ s yearly sales treasure trove, Anne Marie Bressler got an e-mail from Amazon that had absolutely nothing to do with the most recent offers. The message, sent out from an automatic e-mail address Tuesday, notified her...
by globalpro | Jul 13, 2019 | Finance
Within hours of its splashy Libra announcement last month, Facebook’s cryptocurrency plans had become a political cudgel. Drawing on Facebook’s privacy missteps and a gathering storm over antitrust, lawmakers swiftly demanded the company halt work on Libra...
by globalpro | Jul 13, 2019 | Finance
Last year, Ben Bartlett, a member of the Berkeley City Council, proposed an unusual idea to his colleagues: putting affordable housing on the blockchain. The city was facing an unprecedented housing crisis and the prospect of cuts to federal housing assistance. Why...
by globalpro | Jul 6, 2019 | Travel
Cinemagoers spent almost $19bn in first six months of the year, down from $20.2bn in 2018The global box office has so far failed to sizzle this summer, with ticket sales down 6% in the first half of 2019 as misfiring Hollywood sequels give cinemagoers a case of Men in...
by globalpro | Jul 3, 2019 | Finance
Corporations are stepping into the moral vacuum left by Republican officials. But their motives arent exactly altruisticOn the heels of JP Morgan and Wells Fargo, which both no longer finance the operations of prisons and detention centers. While the bank has cited...
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