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Kenyan Regulatory Plan To Divide Safaricom Abandoned

Kenyan Regulatory Plan To Divide Safaricom Abandoned
Kenyan Regulatory Plan To Divide Safaricom Abandoned
January 03, 2018  |  Cross-border Payments

It looks like Safaricom will survive as a single business — Kenya’s telecom regulator has reportedly backed off a plan that would have seen the...

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Business-Loan Growth Bottoms Out For No Clear Reason
Business-Loan Growth Bottoms Out For No Clear Reason
January 03, 2018  |  Banking

Experts are facing a puzzle when it comes to business-loan lending. Loans have dropped to their lowest levels since the days following the financial crisis...

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Honda Partners With Alibaba To Develop Connected Car Services
Honda Partners With Alibaba To Develop Connected Car Services
January 03, 2018  |  Partnerships

Honda is teaming up with Alibaba Group Holding’s AutoNavi business to develop new services for connected cars. Get the Full Story Complete the form to...

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Peter Thiel And The Founders Fund Put Big Bucks Into Bitcoin
Peter Thiel And The Founders Fund Put Big Bucks Into Bitcoin
January 03, 2018  |  Bitcoin

Peter Thiel appears to be betting big on bitcoin: Founders Fund, the venture capital firm he co-founded, has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars of...

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Forget Bitcoin — Privacy Tokens A Favorite Of The Bad Guys
Forget Bitcoin — Privacy Tokens A Favorite Of The Bad Guys
January 03, 2018  |  Blockchain

Bitcoin may be garnering a lot of interest from all sorts of investors, but it’s losing its luster for criminals, as they move on to...

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Average American’s Holiday Debt Goes Up 5 Percent
Average American’s Holiday Debt Goes Up 5 Percent
January 03, 2018  |  Retail

The average American got swept up in the holiday spirit this season, accumulating an average of $1,054 of debt — about 5 percent more than...

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Small Business Hiring Dipped In 2017
Small Business Hiring Dipped In 2017
January 03, 2018  |  SMBs

Paychex, the human resources firm, found that hiring on the part of small businesses slowed in 2017, despite the fact that the economy improved during...

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Bitcoin Down In First Day Of New Year Trading
Bitcoin Down In First Day Of New Year Trading
January 03, 2018  |  Bitcoin

The decline in the value of bitcoin carried into 2018, with the cryptocurrency down in trading on Tuesday (Jan. 2), marking the first time the...

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