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Communication & Collaboration
China revises draft rules on data security for business sectors
China's industry ministry published revisions to draft rules dictating how companies and localities should manage data, bringing more specificity to the country's evolving data governance regime.
The updated rules, which China's Ministry of Industry (MIIT)...
Covering Bases Blog
64 reasons why a membership business will fail in 2022
Over the course of the past couple of decades I have built start-ups and/or managed a number of established businesses operating within what we now call the membership economy. Over this time period I...
Social Networks
Facebook rolls out new messaging, business tools for brands
Facebook Inc is rolling out new ways for businesses to find and chat with potential customers on its apps, the social media company said Thursday, as it seeks to become an online shopping destination.
The...
Grey Data Blog
Forecasting LinkedIn User Growth for 2021-22
Over the past decade LinkedIn has been growing at a steady and predictable rate. However, this rate has been accelerating since Microsoft formally concluded its acquisition of the social network platform.
The number for Q1...
FinTech Platforms
Gloomy outlook dulls PayPal’s quarterly profit beat
Shares of PayPal Holdings fell 8% on the payment company's downbeat current-quarter profit outlook that outweighed a better-than-expected profit in the second quarter from a pandemic-driven shift to digital spending.
EBay Inc's continued transition to...
Covering Bases Blog
What happens next when societal changes hit the workplace?
Today, the second most popular e-learning course on LinkedIn, which is the largest and most heavily trafficked English-language business-oriented website in the world is 'Unconscious Bias'.
The course looks exceptionally well made and this post...
Social Networks
UK PM Johnson asks businesses to follow him on LinkedIn
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson opened an account on professional networking site LinkedIn, saying he wished to use it as a means to talk more directly into the business community.
List his job title as...
Communication & Collaboration
Facebook’s WhatsApp brings digital payment to users in Brazil
WhatsApp has rolled out a system across Brazil that will allow users to send money to individuals or local businesses within a chat, attaching payments as they would a photo or video.
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Online Marketplaces
Amazon launches business selling automated checkout to retailers
Amazon.com Inc is set to announce a new business line selling the technology behind its cashier-less convenience stores to other retailers, the company told news agency Reuters. The world's biggest web retailer said it has...
App Stores
Focus on people as well as profit, business leaders told
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Consumers have the power to make companies behave better and look beyond the bottom line, business leaders and activists said on Wednesday, urging a "race for the top" on...