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...Automation an automatic choiceJapan Inc has found a new purpose for automation: business continuity in the uncertain era of Covid-19....
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...Match’s portfolio includes match.com and OkCupid. But its stratospheric ascent is tied to the swiping smartphone app, Tinder, which IAC developed internally in 2012....
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...After a dearth of big deals this year, a major media deal has raised hopes of further large transactions on the horizon....
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...Smart reads David v Goliath Large consumer goods companies are starting to feel the impact of their smaller, more innovative rivals....
...The warning came on the same day as Bertelsmann, Europe’s biggest media company by revenues, said that it might move some of its business from London in the event of a hard Brexit, amid concerns that a British...
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...Social media now sends almost as much traffic to news sites as Google — 36 per cent v 41 per cent. Traffic diversion on this scale poses a dilemma for publishers....
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...Just because, you know, not everyone was around during Dotcom bubble V.1. Beenz.com TAKEOFF From a trade rag called Revolution, (June 9, 1998): “Don’t say loyalty, say currency,” says Letts....
...Zhang Lifan, a university professor and a “Big V” or celebrity user on Weibo who once boasted 340,000 followers, was among them – he had his account deleted last year before the third Communist Party plenum...
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