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Robinhood, Can They Still Be Trusted?

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  The company I will be discussing in this post is non other than Robinhood. Robinhood is a company that we have all heard quite a lot about in the last few years. They started out as a brand new online brokerage that was utilizing FinTech, (which is a developing technology that allows online payment and money transfer) in order to give their clients a simple, free, and easy to use brokerage on their smartphone.  Robinhood's value proposition is that they are for the people and that they want to help retail traders take their place in the stock market by allowing easy and affordable access. Their name itself represents take from the rich and giving to the poor. They claim they are just trying to give more opportunity for equality to their clients. The reason there has been so much buzz social media about Robinhood in the last few months is because a lot of people believe that they have not lived up to the values and morals they claim to have. This is because there was a recent...
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Marketing In The News

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I chose to write about the current conflict and litigation involving Apple and Epic Game which are discussed in the article, “ Apple says Epic's Fortnite lawsuit is a marketing stunt to revive 'flagging interest' in the game” . This is a contentious situation where Epic Games is seeking to have Apple loosen regulation on their app store, while apple claims this is a marketing tactic intended to help revive the game Fortnite which has been slowly losing popularity. I personally find this very interesting because Apple is a company that I follow very closely and I have some experience with the products of Epic Games as well. The basic setup for this situation is that Epic Games places their products/games for sale on the IOS app store which is a platform created and owned by Apple. Apple has been criticized quite a bit in the past for how high the percentage of revenue they charge creators on their platform is. They even had an antitrust suit and had to appear before congress...
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About Me: Julian

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 Hello everyone, my name is Julian. I am 19 years old and currently duel-enrolled with both Oregon State University as well as Linn Benton Community College. I am in my Junior year and studying Business Finance. I enrolled in this principles of marketing class because I am really interested in business and I understand that marketing is an important part of that field. I have considered getting a minor in marketing as well so I figured I should take this class and decide if that is for sure something I want to do or not. I'm most interested in learning how to put together a short pitch and sell it effectively. I know that is something that will be a necessary  skill in business and I'm hoping to have the opportunity to work on that in this class. Something that I am really passionate about is investing. I got into it when I was quite young and starting buying into precious metals, bonds, and stocks when I was in middle school. Since then I've spent a lot of time researching...
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