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Finicity Releases Comprehensive Mortgage Verification Service for Simpler, Faster Borrowing Experience
February 25, 2021 GMT
SALT LAKE CITY (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 25, 2021
Finicity, a Mastercard company and leading provider of open banking solutions, today announced its one-touch Mortgage Verification Service (MVS), enabling lenders to provide the simple, easy experience that today’s consumers and lenders are looking for in mortgage origination. The solution allows consumers to permission data, quickly and easily, so lenders can verify assets, income and employment in a single interaction with borrowers that takes seconds or minutes instead of days or weeks. The verification is accepted by both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae in place of cumbersome manual loan documentation.
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Groups360 Launches Direct Booking Solution for Groups with IHG Hotels & Resorts
February 25, 2021 GMT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 25, 2021
Groups360 and IHG Hotels & Resorts today announced the release of GroupSync Engage, the hospitality industry’s first integrated direct booking solution for groups to include both meeting space and guestrooms. IHG is the first brand to launch the streamlined instant booking capability on the platform, which will initially be available at approximately 30 hotels in the U.S. in the coming weeks.
GroupSync Engage offers a breakthrough online booking solution for meeting and event planners and hotel brands. Event planners can now book guestrooms, meeting space or both in a convenient, online transaction. This initial rollout marks the first of many deployments of GroupSync Engage with IHG during 2021.
It was a roller coaster of activity for Parler, a 2-year-old magnet for the far right that welcomed a surge of new users. It became the No. 1 free app on iPhones late last week after Facebook, Twitter and other mainstream social media platforms silenced President Donald Trump’s accounts over comments that seemed to incite Wednesday’s violent insurrection.
The wave of Trump followers flocking to the service was short-lived. Google yanked Parler’s smartphone app from its app store Friday for allowing postings that seek to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.
Apple followed suit on Saturday after giving Parler a day to address complaints it was being used to plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities. But the death knell came from Amazon Web Services, the leading provider of cloud computing infrastructure, which informed Parler it would need to look for a new web-hosting service after Sunday.
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Cable One Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2020 Results
February 25, 2021 GMT
PHOENIX (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 25, 2021
Cable One, Inc. (NYSE: CABO) (the “Company” or “Cable One”) today reported financial and operating results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2020.
Cable One completed the acquisitions of Fidelity Communications Co.’s data, video and voice business and certain related assets (collectively, “Fidelity”) on October 1, 2019 and Valu-Net LLC (“Valu-Net”) on July 1, 2020. The Company also completed the contribution of its Anniston, Alabama system (the “Anniston System”) to Hargray Communications, a data, video and voice services provider (“Hargray”) on October 1, 2020. For purposes of comparability of full year 2020 financial results with full year 2019 financial results below, the term “incremental operations” refers to the results of