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Analysis Of The Week: Only Fans
Analysis Of The Week: Only Fans By Adelina Budulan The Story “When Beyoncé rapped about us on the ‘Savage Remix’ and Cardi B joined the platform, that’s when we really started to see the growth accelerate,” entrepreneur Tim Stokely told Bloomberg in December 2020 of OnlyFans, the...- Alison C
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Comment by 'Alison C' in article 'Analysis Of The Week: The Post Office IT scandal'
If anyone is interested in hearing a really accessible journalism point of view on this story, there is an excellent podcast series on BBC sounds. The journalist who put it together has been working on it for around a decade after a chance encounter with a cab driver whose pregnant wife, he...- Alison C
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Analysis Of The Week: The Post Office IT scandal
Analysis Of The Week: The Post Office IT scandal By Alison Catchpole The Story It’s being called “the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history”. Hundreds of Post Office branch managers “found themselves with a criminal record, bankrupted or imprisoned –...- Alison C
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Analysis Of The Week: Asset Management: Coinbase Lists on the NASDAQ
Analysis Of The Week: Asset Management: Coinbase Lists on the NASDAQ By Alison Catchpole The Story “It feels like a shift in legitimacy not just for Coinbase but the whole industry. Crypto has a shot at being a major force in the financial world” reflected Coinbase’s CEO Brian... -
Analysis Of The Week: Chinese Cotton Intertwines With Diplomacy
Analysis Of The Week: Chinese Cotton Intertwines With Diplomacy By Alison Catchpole The Story “Doing business in China can be challenging,” states the UK government’s Overseas Business Risk website, with no hint of irony. The world’s second-largest economy – which even grew 2.3% in...- Alison C
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Chinese Whispers: Changes in Hong Kong Raise Concerns
Chinese Whispers: Changes in Hong Kong Raise Concerns By Alison Catchpole The Story “Today China enacted changes to Hong Kong’s electoral system which are a clear breach of the Joint Declaration – undermining the freedoms of the people of Hong Kong and breaking Beijing’s international...- Alison C
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How Greensill Was My Valley: Alternative Supply Chain Provider Forced into Administration
How Greensill Was My Valley: Alternative Supply Chain Provider Forced into Administration By Alison Catchpole The Story According to the BBC, “the government is bracing itself for taxpayer intervention as it all unravels”. The UK steel industry, heavily reliant on Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG...- Alison C
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Far From Everyday: Beeple NFT Collage Breaks Christie’s Record
Far From Everyday: Beeple NFT Collage Breaks Christie’s Record By Alison Catchpole The Story “When you think of high-valued NFTs, this one is going to be pretty hard to beat,” proclaimed Metakovan, chief financier behind the largest Non-Fungible Token (NFT) fund in the world Metapurse...- Alison C
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Natural Selection: Dovish Behaviour Drives Volatility on the US Markets
Natural Selection: Dovish Behaviour Drives Volatility on the US Markets By Alison Catchpole The Story “I want to be clear about this,” said US Federal Reserve (Fed) Chair Jerome 'Jay' Powell on 3 March 2021 at a Wall Street Journal event, cautioning that the Covid-19 vaccine rollout... -
Taming the Unicorn: WeWork’s Adam Neumann and SoftBank Reach a Settlement
Taming the Unicorn: WeWork’s Adam Neumann and SoftBank Reach a Settlement By Alison Catchpole The Story “Our mission is to elevate the world’s consciousness,” stated the 2019 IPO prospectus – not for a drug or a yoga app, but a place to call ‘the office’. WeWork offered millennials a...- Alison C
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Comment by 'Alison C' in article 'Fashioning Change: Challenges in the Worlds of Fashion and Beauty'
And this is China's new 'flagship' Tmall Farfetch store: https://www.alizila.com/farfetchs-new-flagship-launches-on-tmall-luxury-pavilion/- Alison C
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Comment by 'Alison C' in article 'Fashioning Change: Challenges in the Worlds of Fashion and Beauty'
After 12 years, Farfetch FINALLY reached profitability this week! https://www.standard.co.uk/business/farfetch-results-revenues-pandemic-lockdown-b921334.html- Alison C
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Comment by 'Alison C' in article 'Old School, New Tricks: e-Learning Games Thrive in Covid-19 Pandemic'
These articles about disabled gamers are on a slightly different tangent but definitely worth a thought, as is the linked Radio 4 programme. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-55811621 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1WqpGzzXwZMMH2D0HRgTlJt/the-disabled-gamers-revolutionising-video-games- Alison C
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Fashioning Change: Challenges in the Worlds of Fashion and Beauty
Fashioning Change: Challenges in the Worlds of Fashion and Beauty By Alison Catchpole The Story London Fashion Week is traditionally the edgy filling in the New York-Milan-Paris fashion month baguette, with bleary-eyed fashion editors mincing through Heathrow in their finery and dark...- Alison C
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Comment by 'Alison C' in article 'For Love nor Money: The Lucrative World of Online Dating'
https://subscriptions.finimize.com/content/Q29udGVudFBpZWNlOjI3NjA=/are-bumbles-shares-worth-all-the-buzz This is about whether the shares are worth the 'buzz' - and is clearly analysed. I am sure if you dig a little deeper it will become really clear why this has captured your imagination...- Alison C
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Comment by 'Alison C' in article 'For Love nor Money: The Lucrative World of Online Dating'
It's very pertinent now, during the pandemic, not to mention the recent #MeToo movement. Dating apps are a relatively new phenomenon - and Whitney Wolfe Herd is apparently the world's youngest self-made billionaire. She left her previous high-flying role at Tinder and took out a sexual...- Alison C
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