Warren Buffett Calls On Congress To Provide More PPP For Small Businesses
Warren Buffett Calls On Congress To Provide More PPP For Small Businesses
December 15, 2020  |  Economy

Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett is calling on Congress to provide more Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans to small businesses to help them survive the...

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Zuckerberg Praises Reliance’s Ambani For Transforming India’s Telecom Field
Zuckerberg Praises Reliance’s Ambani For Transforming India’s Telecom Field
December 15, 2020  |  Innovation

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg is talking up the ability of Reliance Industries and the Ambani family to transform India’s digital payments landscape just as they did...

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Vaccine Now Available, Grocery Category Continues Digital Transformation
Vaccine Now Available, Grocery Category Continues Digital Transformation
December 15, 2020  |  Retail

At long last a Covid-19 vaccine is officially being distributed in the United States.  Getting it out, however, will be a long-term, multi-phase process. Mass...

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Omnichannel Strategies Preserve The Best Of In-Branch And Digital-First Banking
Omnichannel Strategies Preserve The Best Of In-Branch And Digital-First Banking
December 15, 2020  |  Digital-First Banking

That banking customers migrated to smartphones and apps in droves as a matter of necessity is now a matter of history. Going forward, digital experience...

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Klarna Teams With Verifone To Expand In-Store BNPL Availability
Klarna Teams With Verifone To Expand In-Store BNPL Availability
December 15, 2020  |  Buy Now Pay Later

Swedish buy now, pay later (BNPL) startup Klarna has teamed up with Silicon Valley digital payments firm Verifone to advance availability in physical stores across...

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Marriott Slashes Staff at NYC’s Times Square Hotel
Marriott Slashes Staff at NYC’s Times Square Hotel
December 15, 2020  |  Personnel

The pandemic has hammered the hotel industry right from the start. Marriott International, for example, furloughed “tens of thousands” of workers back in March as...

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Ireland Levies Near $550K Fine Against Twitter For Violating GDPR Rules
Ireland Levies Near $550K Fine Against Twitter For Violating GDPR Rules
December 15, 2020  |  Data

Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) concluded its investigation into Twitter and determined that the U.S. social media giant violated the European Union’s General Data Protection...

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Rising Interest In Online Grocery Shopping And Subscriptions
Rising Interest In Online Grocery Shopping And Subscriptions
December 15, 2020  |  Today In Data

Online grocery shopping isn’t a completely new phenomenon, but the pandemic period has sped up its progress. Grocery has truly turned into a multichannel shopping journey this year, as...

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Vaccine Optimism Reigns, But Retailers Must Respect Consumers’ Digital Transformation
Vaccine Optimism Reigns, But Retailers Must Respect Consumers’ Digital Transformation
December 15, 2020  |  Retail

Vaccines are here. They’re being distributed. Finally, optimism and COVID-19 can live in the same sentence. But any retailer that thinks consumers are ready to...

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