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  • Star Wars director strikes back at trolls after Kelly Marie Tran quits Instagram over abuse

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    Kelly Marie Tran – the first woman of colour to play a lead role in the iconic series – has deleted all of her Instagram posts. Star Wars director Rian Johnson has hit back at the troll “manbabies” who have forced actress Kelly Marie Tran to quit Instagram after months of racist and sexist abuse […]

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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook says iPhones won’t see a tariff amid China trade tensions: ‘I just don’t see that’

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    “I don’t think that [the] iPhone will get a tariff on it,” Apple CEO Tim Cook told CNN in an interview Monday. Cook last month told President Donald Trump in a White House meeting that tariffs were the wrong approach. Apple customers are already seeing the highest iPhone prices in the phone’s 10-year history. Apple CEO Tim […]

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  • Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney

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    Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea off Orkney to investigate whether it can boost energy efficiency. The data centre, a white cylinder containing computers, could sit on the sea floor for up to five years. An undersea cable brings the data centre power and takes its data to the shore and the […]

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  • The Do’s and Don’ts of Interacting With Customers on Social Media

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    If there’s one thing a brand cannot ignore today, it’s social media. Gone are the days of just word-of-mouth or newspaper advertisements. Today, for most brands their customers are on social media and are ready to interact with the brand there. The  most conservative business houses want to make their own facebook page. We are […]

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  • Tesla drives fourth day of gains for Nasdaq, banks up

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    Wall Street’s tech-heavy Nasdaq index was on track for its fourth straight day of gains on Wednesday, hitting a record high, while the S&P 500 and the Dow also inched higher. Tesla shares jumped 7.1 percent after billionaire Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk reassured shareholders that building 5,000 of its mass-market Model 3 cars per […]

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  • Crypto Startup Circle to Seek Banking License in US

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    Cryptocurrency startup Circle is seeking to register as a federally licensed bank in the U.S., according to Bloomberg. In a report published Wednesday, Bloomberg said that alongside the banking license, Circle – which offers a cryptocurrency wallet and investment platform, as well as an OTC crypto trading service – would also seek to register with the Securities and […]

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  • Kim Jong Un’s art of the deal – make friends for spare parts

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    MOSCOW  – On a shelf in a cramped office on the outskirts of Moscow, businessman Igor Michurin has a framed photograph of himself shaking hands with one of his important customers – a North Korean embassy official whom Michurin calls Lee. It’s a relationship which offers unusual insights into the negotiating techniques of Pyongyang officials, […]

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  • Public Washrooms – The Biggest Advertising Frontier

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    By Scott Brown Sounds like an eyeball grabbing title…it is. But this is not an exaggeration. Washrooms in theaters, malls, hospitals, casinos, hotels, stadiums, and all imaginable public locations are now hotly contested spaces for digital advertisements. With nearly 10 million public washrooms equipped with almost 80 million faucets, the U.S is a huge market […]

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  • The Security Token Thesis

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    By Laura Desmond Last summer I wrote Traditional Asset Tokenization, in which I hypothesized that a broad array of assets will move to blockchain records of ownership (represented by tokens), thereby changing the way society holds and transfers investments. A lot has transpired since last summer. In short, it’s happening — the infrastructure to support security tokens is […]

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  • Ethereum Will Be the Backbone of the New Internet

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    By Laura Desmond Loom Network is building our Layer 2 on top of Ethereum, instead of other blockchain platforms — and here’s why. Each month, another company publishes a whitepaper, claiming to have solved the scalability problems faced by Ethereum. These new blockchains claim to be better, faster, and smarter than Ethereum — they say they can handle thousands, even millions of […]

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