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Digital transformation is more than a buzzword or cliche. It is a call for companies to create meaningful digital customer and employee experiences to remain relevant and continue delivering value. Today's smartphone is enabled; digitally connected consumers and employees expect the companies they transact business with or work for to become digitally driven, not merely digitally "influenced." That's what happened when Netflix went from sending DVDs through the mail to digital downloads. It's the difference between…

The European Union hit Meta, parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, with a history-changing order to suspend data transfers to the US on Monday. The order comes with a €1.2 billion fine—about $1.3 billion—the largest ever fine under Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The FTC Just Prescribed a Can of Whoop Ass on Health DataIn April, Meta told investors that the risk of an upcoming privacy decision in the EU could cost the company 10% of its global advertising revenue. The order gives Meta…

Friday’s jobs report will show how the labor market fared in April, as the economy faced banking turmoil, rising interest rates and still-high inflation. Other signs show the red-hot labor market is modestly cooling this spring. That in part reflects a return to a more normal job market after a rapid rebound from pandemic layoffs three years ago. But some employers are now also slowing hiring out of caution about the economic outlook.  Friday’s jobs report will show how the labor market…

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Homes in Centreville, Maryland, US, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. Nathan Howard | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesMortgage demand from homebuyers has been erratic to say the least during the usually busy spring housing market. That is likely because today's buyers are hypersensitive to mortgage rates, which have been fluctuating widely week to week but which are still considerably higher than they were a year ago. Now, several bank failures are starting to make it more difficult even for wealthier buyers.Mortgage applications to…

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Consumers and businesses borrowed less as overall economic growth flattened in the weeks since two mid-March bank failures sparked financial turmoil, the Federal Reserve said in a report Wednesday. Banks in several parts of the country tightened lending standards and raised concerns about liquidity and uncertain expectations for future growth after Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank collapsed, some of the Fed’s 12 regional reserve banks reported. Consumers and businesses borrowed…

There are approximately 250 active tailings dams in Australia and each is used to store byproducts of mining operations after separating the ore from the gangue. Credit: Shutterstock Did you know the U.S. National Earthquake Information Center logs the measurements of 20,000 earthquakes around the globe each year—approximately 55 a day? …

A Federal Reserve official said the central bank should be cautious about raising interest rates so that it can assess the fallout from banking-sector stresses triggered by the collapse of two midsize banks last month. “At moments like this of financial stress, the right monetary approach calls for prudence and patience,” said Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee in a speech prepared for delivery Tuesday to the Economic Club of Chicago. A Federal Reserve official said the central bank…

Published By: Paras YadavLast Updated: April 08, 2023, 10:07 ISTTesla Model X (Photo: IANS)Nearly 50,000 Model X cars may be affected, NHTSA said. The defect involves the point at which the seat belt pretensioner and an anchor are linkedThe US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched a probe into Tesla after receiving complaints from owners that they received their electric cars with defective seat belt parts.The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) received two recent complaints…