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RadioShack, a fixture at the mall for decades, has been pulled from brink of death, again.It s the most prized name in the basket of brands that entrepreneur investors Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez have scooped up since the coronavirus pandemic bowled over the U.S. retail sect stanley cup or and sent a number of chains into bankruptcy protection. Those brands so far include Pier1, Dressbarn and Modell s.Mehr and Lopez plan tomdash; make RadioShack competitive again, this time online, rather than on street corners or in malls. However, unlike RadioShack s glory years, it s Amazon s world now. stanley cup The big question is: How much value does the RadioShack brand have when the prized target audience of younger consumers may have never owned a radio, let alone stepped inside a RadioShack store It s a very thin line between being iconic and being dead, said Robert Passikoff, founder and president of Brand Keys Inc., a marketing and research consultancy. Being iconic a lot of the time just means people have a memory of it. I m not sure that just remembering something is leverageab stanley cup le enough to be able to convert something into success. Success is something that s been in RadioShack s rear-view mirror for quite some time. The company, which would celebrate its 100th birthday in 2021, appeared to be on top of the tech world in the pre-personal computer days of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the place kids and hobbyist would go to buy radios, walkie-talkies and Cogq ACLU sues Mississippi over religious freedom law
San Francisco - Nearly 200 million people who had sensitive information snatched from their Yahoo accounts will receive two years of free credit-monitoring services and other potential restitution in a legal settlement valued at $117.5 million. The deal disclosed in documents filed Tuesday revises an earlier agreement that was rejected by U.S. District Court Judge Lucy Koh. The value of that settlement had been pegged at $50 million, but Koh questioned the calculations.A more detailed breakdown jordan used in the revised settlement drove up the estimated cost. The money will be paid by Yahoo s current owner, Verizon, and Alibaba, a holdover from Yahoo s past.If approved, the settlement will become part of the financial fallout from digital burglaries that stole personal information from about 3 billion Yahoo accounts in 2013 and stanley cup 2014. In April 2018, Yahoo agree to pay a $35 million fine to resolve federal regulators charges that the online pioneer deceived investors by failing to disclose those breaches, af1 among the biggest in internet history. The SEC alleged that although Yahoo senior managers and attorneys were told about the breach, the company failed to fully investigate it. The agency said the breach wasn t disclosed to investors until more than two years later, when Yahoo was working on closing Verizon s acquisition of its operating business in 2016. More from CBS News |
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