This week in restaurants, eateries expand to grocery stores, add ghost kitchens and face regulations. Throughout the last couple of years, restaurants have been seizing on the opportunity to attract new customers in highly trafficked areas by teaming up with grocers to offer in-store locations....
Amazon has reportedly hired Judd Smith, a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, in an effort to fend off an antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech. Smith worked with the committee as it wrote the bill, which would restrict the way Amazon offers products...
Much has been made of the need for a digital dollar as a way of reinforcing the U.S. dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, making payments faster and cheaper, and bringing the unbanked into the system. But one of the biggest drivers of the...
The United Kingdom was about to join a list of countries including Australia, Canada, France and Spain that imposed limits on the negotiations between Big Tech firms and publishers to use news and content on tech platforms, but a change of heart in the U.K....
April 19, 2024
The looming specter of wire fraud has spurred lawmakers to press big banks for better defenses against bad actors — and a detailing of the impact the scams have had on consumers. On Thursday (April 18), in a letter to the CEOs of JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citi, Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and […]
August 01, 2022
Amazon has reportedly hired Judd Smith, a former counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, in an effort to fend off an antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech. Smith worked with the committee as it wrote the bill, which would restrict the way Amazon offers products and deals with competition, Bloomberg reported Monday (Aug. 1), citing […]
January 26, 2021
The White House has signaled it could be open to modifying its next round of stimulus checks in order to target them to lower-income populations only, CNBC reported. Brian Deese,...
September 24, 2020
House Democrats are back with a new stimulus proposal for $2.4 trillion, around $1 trillion less than the previous one projected, according to CNBC. The new proposal would include enhanced...
