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Marissa Mayer’s Online Privacy Pillars: Transparency, Choice and Control

When asked how consumers should feel about the control large companies like Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Apple Inc., Amazon.com and Facebook Inc. exercise over the Internet, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer says, “I think privacy will always be something that users should consider, but I also think that privacy is always a tradeoff, because when you
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The Future of Growth: The New Global Economic Dynamics of Prosperity

Future historians may well refer to the de­cade before the of 2008/09 crisis as a one-off “decade of emerging markets”—a brilliant flash in the pan. The unique convergence of factors which made that decade possible is sorely absent today, namely: a global flood of easy money and cheap credit, sub­dued inflation which was due in
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Five Technology Trends for 2013 and Anticipated Impact to Payments

It’s that time of the year, when everyone is making predictions. I’ve been reading many such predictions over the last few days; but in the payments industry the most broad-based predictions have stronger implications for our future business than they do considered on their own. Read about them here: Five Technology Trends for 2013.

The Emerging New World: The BRICS, South Africa and New Models of Development

In 2011 South Africa became a member of the new emerging economic power grouping known as the BRICS, along with Brazil, Russia, India and China. What began as a loose grouping of emerging and populous economies is rapidly morphing into a more coherent power grouping that reflects the shifting balance of power in the global
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Gen Y Consumers and the Key to Long-Term Profitability

When talking about Gen Y consumers today, several significant themes are likely to emerge – like the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, the rise and influence of social media and the inexplicable obsession with all things vampire. But there is one topic at the crux of all conversations – one that defined the tone of
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