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‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter
A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…
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‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter
A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…
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‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter
A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…
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‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter
A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…
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‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter
A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…
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‘That open tweet is the canvas’: behind the highs, lows and memes of Black Twitter
A new docuseries, from Insecure showrunner Prentice Penny, explores how a section of Twitter became an inventive and impactful community How to explain Black Twitter? It’s less of an actual place than a general practice, sometimes a secret society and then sometimes a prominent advocacy bloc, neither a standalone digital platform nor its own hashtag…
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Transactions: CommerzBank, Global Payments enter joint venture for payments solutions
Global Payments has received EU regulatory approval and is launching a joint venture with CommerzBank — Commerz Global Pay — this month. CommerzBank, based in Frankfurt, Germany, will use Global Payments’ point-of-sale and digital payment solutions for its commercial clients across the EU , Cameron Bready, chief executive of Global Payments, said during Global Payments’…
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Envestnet invests in data, API solutions
Wealth-tech giant Envestnet is ramping up its investment in data and analytics to increase subscription-based revenue and create new products. The data and analytics business at Envestnet, which generates subscription-based revenues across open banking and alternative data offerings, generated revenue of $35 million in the first quarter, down 8% year over year, partly driven by…
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Upstart automates 90% of unsecured loans in Q1
Online lender Upstart automated 90% of its unsecured loans in the first quarter of 2024 as automation remained at the forefront of efforts to streamline its loan application process. Upstart originated $1.1 billion in personal loans, up 17% year over year, while home equity line of credit (HELOC) loan originations clocked in at $7 million…
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Big Brother is here and watching you
Talking about trust, the other side of the coin is what is the bank doing to protect privacy? Increasingly, due to regulatory concerns, banks are becoming government spies. They are watching our every move and reporting it. This recently cropped up on my personal radar when the bank became my interrogator and grilled me about……