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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: How financial institutions can stay safe and secure online

Abrigo

First held in 2004 The history of Cybersecurity Awareness Month October is a special month for cybersecurity enthusiasts. Launched to provide resources Cybersecurity Awareness Month was launched in 2004 by the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) and the U.S.

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Visa, Olympics Team Up For Athlete Financial Literacy Courses

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Kate Johnson, Visa’s vice president of global sponsorship marketing, was an American rower who won the silver medal in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. There’s also a course on how to build a social media brand in front of the games. Johnson started her athletic career at 15, and she was a member of nine U.S.

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Giving The Gift Of A Good Read – On Subscription

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Avid social media users know that soon, the annual wave of posts about Jólabókaflóð will start appearing on Facebook timelines, Instagram stories and Twitter feeds. You probably have seen a social media meme referring to its translated name: Yule Book Flood, a tradition of Icelandic Christmas.

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Shopify’s Grand Retail Experiment

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Founded in 2004, retail innovator Shopify offers a cloud-based, multichannel commerce platform that enables merchants to put the customer at the center by transacting with them across any of the channels they want to transact in. Social media as a channel has recently become the most talked about. How do you sell on Facebook?

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When QSRs Think Really Outside The Box In The Innovation Race

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With the pervasive nature of social media, there is so much pressure to appear happy and perfect. In fact, in 2004 an entire movie on the subject was released called “Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle.” Each has a Whopper, French fries and a drink. The Rocky Mountain High Cheeseburger.

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How Madewell Is Growing Up, And Reshaping Its Parent Firm

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Crew since its glory days back in 2004. What that has meant in practical terms, noted Wadle, is figuring out new and emerging strategies to respond to the reams of data collected through online shopping behavior, in-store interactions, employee feedback, social media touchpoints and customer service requests.

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Why Banks Merge: Listen to the Sellers

Jeff For Banks

September 2004, driving from a meeting in New York, on the grossly miss-titled Cross Bronx Expressway, Nathan Stovall, a reporter from SNL Financial gave me a call. And what is social media? The question: What was up with an upstate New York bank? He printed it as I said it.