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ByteDance Generates $1B in Mobile Game Player Spending in Past Year

ByteDance Generates $1B in Mobile Game Player Spending in Past Year
ByteDance Generates $1B in Mobile Game Player Spending in Past Year
June 24, 2022  |  Social Commerce

TikTok owner ByteDance generated $1 billion in mobile game player spending from June 21, 2021 to Monday (June 20), up 16% year over year, according...

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Senators Reintroduce Bill to Preserve Freedom of Payment Choice
Senators Reintroduce Bill to Preserve Freedom of Payment Choice
June 24, 2022  |  Regulation

U.S. Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) have reintroduced the Payment Choice Act, a bill they first pushed forward about a year ago,...

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Muse Launches Supply/Invoice Financing Product
Muse Launches Supply/Invoice Financing Product
June 24, 2022  |  B2B Payments

Business finance startup Muse Finance has launched a solution that combines supply finance and invoice finance, the British company announced Thursday (June 23). Get the...

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The $100M Hack and Crypto’s Cross-Chain Payments Problem
The $100M Hack and Crypto’s Cross-Chain Payments Problem
June 24, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

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Weekly TechReg EMEA: Google, TikTok Move to Appease Regulators
Weekly TechReg EMEA: Google, TikTok Move to Appease Regulators
June 24, 2022  |  emea

This week, the U.K. government and some regulatory agencies in the country announced changes to regulate the buy now, pay later (BNPL) sector and to...

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Big Tech Weekly: Google Faces EU Regulator Crackdown on 2 Fronts
Big Tech Weekly: Google Faces EU Regulator Crackdown on 2 Fronts
June 24, 2022  |  Big Tech

In the latest chapter of Alphabet’s mounting European Union antitrust concerns, the Google Maps platform comes under scrutiny from the German competition watchdog and the...

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Auto, Industrial Uses Driving Growth in IoT Market 
Auto, Industrial Uses Driving Growth in IoT Market 
June 24, 2022  |  Internet of Things

The total addressable market (TAM) for Internet of Things (IoT) applications is expected to grow between 8% and 10% over the next three years, BlackBerry...

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Amazon Promotes Alexa to Companion From Simple Servant’s Role
Amazon Promotes Alexa to Companion From Simple Servant’s Role
June 24, 2022  |  Amazon

Seeing eventual limitations to simply giving Alexa commands — “Alexa, buy milk,” “Alexa, turn the AC down,” — Amazon’s engineers believe the voice recognition AI needs...

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Domino’s Drone Push Lifts Last-Mile Delivery Fight to New Heights
Domino’s Drone Push Lifts Last-Mile Delivery Fight to New Heights
June 24, 2022  |  Delivery

In even the best of labor markets, food delivery has never been the most solid business where margins are concerned. Now, as demand for off-premises...

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