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Online alcohol sales rise during the pandemic - Marketplace
If this pandemic has left you needing a stiff drink, it may help to know that it’s getting easier to order from home. Online sales of alcohol were expected to grow 80% in the United States during the pandemic, according to the beverage alcohol consultancy IWSR . It’s predicting the U.S. e-booze market will leapfrog over China this year to become the world's biggest.
Ordering a cocktail from home was not really a thing before the pandemic, but Chris Swonger, CEO of the Distilled Spirits Council, said when the virus hit, state lawmakers pivoted.
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Stylist Zerina Akers Launches E-Commerce Marketplace 'Black Owned Everything' | BoF
After launching as a platform for Black businesses on Instagram in 2020, customers will now be able to shop from a range of goods available on the site including exclusives from Glemaud, Blackwood NYC and William Okpo. Akers, a stylist to Beyonce and Chloe and Halle, has over 14,000 businesses contribute to the Instagram page, which has 200,000 followers.
The marketplace relaunch capitalises on growing momentum within the space: over the summer several initiatives to support Black owned businesses — from the Black in Fashion Council to Aurora James' 15 percent pledge — gained mainstream media coverage and support from large fashion corporations.
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Carahsoft Offers Blancco Data Sanitization Solutions Through AWS Marketplace Consulting Partner
Secure data erasure is especially critical when organizations undertake digital transformation initiatives that incorporate cloud migration. As data is prepared for its move to the cloud, organizations discover redundant, outdated and trivial (ROT) information that they no longer need. Blancco's data erasure solution, which works in conjunction with data management solutions that identify this obsolete data, provides the means to securely eliminate it in a secure, auditable manner.
For U.S. service firms, access to China still mixed - Marketplace
One of the points of tension in the U.S.-China relationship is the trade imbalance. China is very good at selling manufactured goods to the U.S., but the U.S., a services-oriented economy, has trouble selling those services into the Chinese market.
China's government puts up barriers to foreign firms in favor of domestic ones. Its restrictions on foreign companies have been described as manageable, impossible, and everything in between.
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The restrictions make it all but impossible for Livdahl's Chinese offices to operate fully as true law firms.
Fetch.ai to Develop Decentralized Marketplace for Global Manufacturer FESTO
A global electromechanical systems manufacturers has enlisted a blockchain machine learning platform to develop an automated marketplace for the purpose of boosting efficiency.
According to a press release on Friday, Fetch.ai has been selected to create a decentralized manufacturing marketplace using its multi-agent based architecture for FESTO, a German-based company worth billions.
The machine learning platform’s technology stack will be leveraged to “transform” FESTO’s existing legacy control systems. The hope is that the move will reduce “challenges” associated with conventional, centralized manufacturing processes such as demand fluctuations and uneven utilization of manufacturing capacity, according to the release.
Maryland passes new tax on internet advertising - Marketplace
On Friday, the state of Maryland became the first in the country to impose a tax on the billions of dollars tech companies make selling online advertising. The Maryland Senate voted to override Gov. Larry Hogan's veto of the proposed law after the House of Delegates did the same Thursday. The tax is aimed at tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon, and would range from 2.5% to 10% of ad revenue, depending on the company’s size.
In its first year, the tax would raise an estimated $250 million . The money tech firms pay would go to schools, said state Sen. James Rosapepe, a Democrat from College Park.
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