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4 Dec 2023

Google and YouTube continue to lead in internet traffic, amassing over 115 billion combined visits in the last month

This figure is more than triple the combined visits to Facebook's family of products, Twitter, Baidu, Amazon, and ChatGPT. Source: Beth Kindig $GOOGL $META $BIDU $AMZN $MSFT

4 Dec 2023

Ranked: Worst U.S. Companies for Employee Retention 💼

This graphic by NeoMam Studios is part of Visual Capitalist’s Creator Program, featuring work from the world’s top data-driven talent ✅

1 Dec 2023

The Payments Value Chain by Quartr

They jave updated our highly appreciated infographic explaining the complex payments layer between consumers and merchants. It illustrates how and where key players such as $V, $MA, $FISV, $ADYEN, $AMZN, and $PYPL fit in. Source: Quartr

1 Dec 2023

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30 Nov 2023

Congrats to Saudi Arabia who wins bid for 2030 world fair, beating Italy, S. Korea.

The Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh won the right to host the Expo 2030 world fair, vote results showed on Tuesday, in another diplomatic victory for a Gulf country after last year's soccer World Cup in Qatar. South Korea's port city of Busan and Rome in Italy were also in the running to host the five-yearly event that attracts millions of visitors and billions of dollars in investment. “Our goal in the Kingdom is to organize the first environmentally friendly exhibition that achieves a zero level of carbon emissions,” Expo blueprint team member Eng. Nouf Bint Majid al-Muneef said. “The Riyadh Expo 2030 site will be powered by clean resources that rely on solar energy, and we are developing high standards for resource efficiencies and detailed strategies to enhance biodiversity, eliminate food waste, and ensure green waste management and recycling.” Source: Reuters, Al Arabiyah

30 Nov 2023

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30 Nov 2023

7 Timeless Principles of Effective Money Management

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30 Nov 2023

Record holiday spending: good news, just one problem: consumers used buy-now-pay-later schemes to spend $7.3BN from Nov. 1 to Nov. 26, up 14% from a year ago, per Adobe

These are basically vendor/3rd party financing programs which don't show up on already maxed out credit cards... Source: Statista, www.zerohedge.com

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