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Waze Introduces Contactless Payments At ExxonMobil, Shell Stations

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Founded in 2007, Waze said it had 130 million monthly users as of February 2020. Val Demmings (D-Florida) on Google’s 2007 acquisition of DoubleClick and its 2017 decision to merge DoubleClick’s data with user account data. country manager, in a statement. billion purchase of the Israel-based Waze acquisition.

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Calvin Ong to Lead DBS Consumer Banking in Singapore from 2025

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Calvin Ong Ong, currently the Head of Investment Products & Advisory at DBS , has been with the bank since 2007, holding various roles in Corporate Treasury and Wealth Management. Jeremy Soo Ong will succeed Jeremy Soo, who will retire from his executive role at the end of the year and continue as an advisor.

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Morningstar Inks Deal To Buy PitchBook Data For $180 Million

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PitchBook, founded in 2007, delivers data, research and technology covering the breadth of the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. Morningstar, a provider of independent investment research, announced Friday (Oct.

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Nevada Facing Record Unemployment With Casinos Closed

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Stephen Miller, an economist at University of Nevada, told the news outlet that economic downturn during the recession of 2007 to 2009 was deeper and longer than in Las Vegas than many other U.S. It looks like that will be the same case this time around,” he said.

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Lenders Worry About SME Debt Levels

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Citing a survey by Carl Marks Advisors, Reuters reported that lenders who offered attractive terms to mid-sized business borrowers could see their loan portfolios suffer. In 2017, many a transaction has added debt, but there has not been a lot of value created,” said Joseph D’Angelo, a partner at Carl Marks Advisors.

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SEC Revokes IIG License For Alleged Ponzi Scheme Activity

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IIG is an investment advisor to the Trade Opportunities Fund (TOF), the Global Trade Finance Fund (GTFF) and the Structured Trade Finance Fund (STFF). The SEC alleged that IIG perpetrated a Ponzi scheme beginning in around 2007.

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DOJ Takes Aim At Google Ad Tools Amid Antitrust Investigation

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Delrahim served as an advisor to Google in 2007 when the company was seeking the go-ahead from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to buy DoubleClick. The investigation’s growing attention on ad tools prompted DOJ Antitrust Chief Makan Delrahim to excuse himself last week, sources familiar with the investigation said.