• President Donald Trump offered protection for so-called Dreamers, who are undocumented immigrants brought to the United States when they were children, as well as other groups of immigrants, in exchange for funding for his border wall in a televised address from the White House on Saturday.
• Top Democrats have already shot down Trump's proposal, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling the deal "unacceptable."
• Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer noted in a statement that Trump was the one who jeopardized Dreamers' standing in the first place by rescinding their protections. He called Trump's strategy a "hostage-taking."

President Donald Trump on Saturday offered Democrats a deal combining temporary protection for so-called "Dreamers" and other immigration proposals in exchange for funding for his border wall — immediately prompting scorn from top Democrats, who rejected the offer before Trump even announced it.

Trump, who shut down the government to pressure Congress to approve funding for a $5.7 billion border wall, offered to extend temporary protection by three years for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, also known as Dreamers, as well as extending the legal status of immigrants with Temporary Protected Status.

"This is a common-sense compromise both parties should embrace," he said. "The radical left can never control our borders. I will never let it happen. Walls are not immoral. In fact, they are the opposite of immoral."

In a televised address from the White House, Trump outlined his offer:

• $5.7 billion in funding for a 230-mile stretch of the border wall.
• Extending protection for 700,000 Dreamers for three years.
• Extending TPS protections for 300,000 immigrants for three years.
• Adding 75 new immigration judge teams.
• An additional 2,750 Border Patrol agents and law-enforcement professionals.
• $800 million in "urgent humanitarian assistance."
• $805 million in drug-detection technology for the ports of entry.

Read more: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BORDER CRISIS: Experts say there is no security crisis, but there is a simple way to fix immigration — and it's not a wall

Trump also proposed a "new system" that would have Central American children apply for asylum in their home countries, rather than requesting it after reaching the US.

He added that the border wall he was demanding would not be a "2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to shining sea," but a "powerfully designed, see-through steel barrier" in "high-priority locations."

Democrats began pushing back against the offer hours before Trump's remarks.

Sen. Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat that has been at the forefront of the immigration debate in Congress, posted a statement stating that he does not support the offer as it has been reported and does not think it would pass the Senate. 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also rejected the idea, saying:"Unfortunately, initial reports make clear that his proposal is a compilation of several previously rejected initiatives, each of which is unacceptable and in total, do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people’s lives."

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer noted in a statement that Trump was the one who rescinded DACA and TPS protections in the first place.

"Offering some protections back in exchange for the wall is not a compromise but more hostage taking," he said. "There's only way out: open up the government, Mr. President, and then Democrats and Republicans can have a civil discussion and come up with bipartisan solutions."

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal similarly rejected the proposal, writing on Twitter, "this Trump con will fool few Americans."

Read more: Trump's State of the Union — whenever it is — won't bail him out of this government-shutdown mess»

On the Republican side of the aisle, the reported offer has drawn mixed reviews. Rep. Steve King, who has been stripped of committee assignments thanks to racist comments he made in a New York Times interview, tweeted that he was against any kind of deal that gives amnesty to undocumented immigrants currently in the country. 

Sen. Marco Rubio, however, tweeted his support for the deal, saying the shutdown "can only end through mutual concessions that lead to an agreement."

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell also praised Trump for the proposal, calling it a "bipartisan approach" that could "actually resolve this impasse."

"Compromise in divided government means that everyone can't get everything they want every time," McConnell said in a statement. "The President's proposal reflects that. It strikes a fair compromise by incorporating priorities from both sides of the aisle."

SEE ALSO: The government shutdown is in day 29 and has shattered the record for the longest shutdown in history

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• Podium.com has ranked the 25 best ski resorts in the United States.
• The ranking is based on data from Facebook, Google, and other top review sites.
• Beaver Mountain Ski Area in Garden City, Utah was rated as the top ski resort in the country.

After skiers and snowboarders pull on many layers of clothing, strap up their boots, and make their way to the slopes, they know that the quality of a resort can make or break their experience.

Podium.com — a startup that has revolutionized customer reviews for local businesses — has used data from Facebook, Google, and other top review sites to identifythe 25 best ski resorts in the United States.

In order to qualify, ski mountains had to be a public resort that is open for the 2018-2019 season and has more than 500 online reviews. Podium then consolidated that review data for more than 350 resorts across the country through its platform to produce the following rankings of the top 25 ski resorts in the nation:

25. Copper Mountain Resort

Location: Frisco, Colorado

Overall star rating: 4.5993

Total number of reviews: 806

2018-19 maximum daily lift ticket cost: $158

One thing to know: With a summit elevation of 12,441 feet, 2,490 acres of skiable terrain, and 23 chair lifts, skiers and boarders never get tired of tearing up Copper Mountain. You may recognize the resort from ski scenes in the 1994 movie Dumb and Dumber that were filmed there.

24. Solitude Mountain Resort

Location: Solitude, Utah

Overall star rating: 4.5998

Total number of reviews: 2249

2018-19 maximum daily lift ticket cost: $109

One thing to know: Solitude Mountain Resort is located close to some of the biggest and most famous ski areas in the nation, but it's a great mountain in its own right. It has 1,200 acres of skiable terrain and a summit elevation of 10,035 feet but is best known for having the some of the best powder in the country thanks to its location in the Big Cottonwood Canyon.

23. Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe

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Location: Washoe County, Nevada

Overall star rating: 4.6009

Total number of reviews: 654

2018-19 maximum daily lift ticket cost: $135

One thing to know: As one of the most prominent ski areas in the Lake Tahoe area, Mt. Rose is a quick 25-minute drive from Reno and an easy trip from the airport.

This is a preview of the Internet of Things (2018) research report from Business Insider Intelligence. To learn more about the IoT ecosystem, tech trends and industry forecasts, click here.

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming how companies and consumers go about their days around the world. The technology that underlies this whole segment is evolving quickly, whether it’s the rapid rise of the Amazon Echo and voice assistants upending the consumer space, or growth of AI-powered analytics platforms for the enterprise market.

And Business Insider Intelligence is keeping its finger on the pulse of this ongoing revolution by conducting our second annual Global IoT Executive Survey, which provides us with critical insights on new developments within the IoT and explains how top-level perspectives are changing year-to-year. Our survey includes more than 400 responses from key executives around the world, including C-suite and director-level respondents.

Through this exclusive study and in-depth research into the field, Business Insider Intelligence details the components that make up the IoT ecosystem. We size the IoT market and use exclusive data to identify key trends in device installations and investment. And we profile the enterprise and consumer IoT segments individually, drilling down into the drivers and characteristics that are shaping each market.

Here are some key takeaways from the report:

• We project that there will be more than 55 billion IoT devices by 2025, up from about 9 billion in 2017.
• We forecast that there will be nearly $15 trillion in aggregate IoT investment between 2017 and 2025, with survey data showing that companies' plans to invest in IoT solutions are accelerating.
• The report highlights the opinions and experiences of IoT decision-makers on topics that include: drivers for adoption; major challenges and pain points; deployment and maturity of IoT implementations; investment in and utilization of devices; the decision-making process; and forward- looking plans.

In full, the report:

• Provides a primer on the basics of the IoT ecosystem.
• Offers forecasts for the IoT moving forward, and highlights areas of interest in the coming years.
• Looks at who is and is not adopting the IoT, and why.
• Highlights drivers and challenges facing companies that are implementing IoT solutions.

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• The government shutdown is ongoing, with no end in sight.
• The State Department does not have funding during the shutdown.
• But despite the lapse in funding, the State Department's passport functions are still operational.
• Americans can still apply for and renew passports during the shutdown.
• The timeframe for receiving a new passport will also remain the same.

While the government shutdown is ongoing and the State Department does not currently have funding, Americans can still apply for and receive a passport during the closure.

According to the State Department, passport services are available during the shutdown and all passport services at post offices, libraries, and other facilities will remain open. Passport renewals are also available in person or by mail.

Additionally the timeframe for receiving a passport remains the same: 4 to 6 weeks for a routine request and 2 to 3 weeks for an expedited request.

While the State Department's passport services remain unaffected by the shutdown, other aspects of the department were impacted by the lapse in funding.

Read more:The government shutdown is in day 29 and has shattered the record for the longest shutdown in history»

23% of the State Department's direct-hire overseas employees and 40% of the department's direct-hire employees in the US were placed on furlough due to the shutdown. But after the department's lawyers found additional sources of funding in the department's budget, many employees were ordered to come back to work.

"Recognizing the increasing hardship to employees caused by the ongoing lapse in appropriations, the Department is taking steps to make additional funds available to pay employee salaries," Bill Todd, the department's deputy under secretary for management, said in a statement on Thursday. "By taking these steps, the Department expects to be able to resume most personnel operations and fund most salaries beginning with Pay Period 2."

While the department was able to find funds for the next pay period, it is unclear whether there is enough money for any additional work beyond two more weeks.

The State Department was one of a handful of agencies to order workers back to the job from furlough this week as the shutdown drags on. But most of the other agencies will be unable to pay the employees coming back to work until the shutdown is over.

Read more:The government shutdown has gotten so bad that agencies are using legal loopholes to restart critical functions»

As it stands, the government shutdown is in its 29th day— a record for the modern era — and shows no signs of ending anytime soon.

SEE ALSO: The government shutdown is now the longest on record and the fight between Trump and Democrats is only getting uglier. Here's everything you missed.

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The healthcare industry is facing disruption due to accelerating technological innovation and growing demand for improved delivery of healthcare and lower costs. Tech startups are leading the way by seizing opportunities in the areas of the industry that are most vulnerable to disruption, including genomics, pharmaceuticals, administration, clinical operations, and insurance.

Venture funds and businesses are taking notice of these startups' potential. In the US, digital health funding reached $1.6 billion in Q1 2018, according to Rock Health — the largest first quarter on record, surpassing the $1.4 billion in venture funding seen in Q1 2016. These high-potential startups provide a glimpse into the future of the healthcare space and demonstrate how we’ll get there.

In this report, a compilation of various notes, Business Insider Intelligence will look at the top startups disrupting US healthcare in four key areas: artificial intelligence (AI), digital therapeutics, health insurance, and genomics. Startups in this report were selected based on the funding they've received over the past year, notable investors, the products they offer, and leadership in their functional area.

Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:

• Tech startups are entering the market by applying the “Silicon Valley” approach. They're targeting shortcomings and legacy systems that are no longer efficient.
• AI is being applied across five areas of healthcare to improve clinical operation workflows, cut costs, and foster preventative medicine. These areas include administration, big data analysis, clinical decision support, remote patient monitoring, and care provision.
  
• Health tech startups, insurers, and drug makers are rapidly exploring new ways to apply digital therapeutics to the broader healthcare market that replace or complement the existing treatment of a disease.
• Health insurance startups are taking advantage of the consumerization of healthcare to threaten the status quo of legacy players. 
• Genomics is becoming an increasingly common tool within the healthcare system as health organizations better understand how to extract the value from patients’ genetic data. 

 In full, the report:

• Details the areas of the US health industry that show the greatest potential for disruption.
• Forecasts the industry adoption of bleeding edge technology and how it will transform how healthcare organizations operate.
• Unveils the top five startups in AI, digital therapeutics, health insurance, and genomics, and how they're positioned to solve big issues that key players in healthcare face. 
• Explores what's next for the leading startups, providing a glimpse into the future of the healthcare space and demonstrating how we’ll get there.

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• The New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs will meet in the AFC Championship on Sunday in Kansas City, with temperatures expected in the single-digits at kickoff.
• On a recent appearance on "ProFootballTalk Live with Mike Florio," NBC's Peter King explained why Tom Brady is likely hoping for it to be "stupidly, ridiculously, awfully cold" on Sunday.
• King argues that because Brady has seemingly won in every possible NFL scenario, any straining situation is more likely to faze his opponents than Brady himself.

Death, taxes, and Tom Brady leading the Patriots to the AFC Championship game.

For eight straight years, these truths have been unchallenged, as Brady once again got his team back to football's final four with a dominant 41-28 win over the Chargers in Foxboro on Sunday.

Read more: Tom Brady mocks critics after Patriots' latest evisceration of a playoff opponent: 'Everybody thinks we suck, we can't win any games'

While home has been good to the Patriots this season — New England hasn't lost at Foxboro this year — due to the team's astounding loss in what has since been dubbed the "Miami Miracle," Tom Brady and company will have to travel to Kansas City this year on the way to the Super Bowl.

Thankfully for New England fans, Tom Brady has seen it all.

From daunting Super Bowl comebacks to early season blowouts, from playing in the heat of Miami to the frozen tundra of Foxboro, Brady has seemingly faced every challenge football has to offer and become the greatest of all time in the process.

Read more: 36 examples of Tom Brady's insane competitiveness

Even with frigid temperatures in the single-digits expected at kickoff in Kansas City, NBC's Peter King is convinced that the more extreme the situation, the more the game tilts in favor of the Patriots.

"Tom Brady has played in everything," King said on "ProFootballTalk Live with Mike Florio" on Monday. "He's been everywhere. He's been under every sort of environment to play a game. And that's why I'm not sure that the weather, or the noise, or anything is going to have a huge impact."

King continued:

"Tom Brady, the way his mind works, he wants it to be stupidly, ridiculously, awfully cold. You know why? Because he's played in that before, he's won in that before. And he has no qualms with playing another one of those games in Kansas City."

The idea of a 41-year-old quarterback hoping for a zero-degree road game feels a bit ridiculous at first, but considering Brady, his wild competitiveness, and the confidence that comes with winning in every sort of environment over a 20-year career, it begins to make sense.

Brady has steered the Patriots ship through every sort of storm imaginable. On the other side of the ball, Patrick Mahomes will be playing in the coldest game of his life, in front of a hometown crowd on edge with the hopes of making their first Super Bowl since 1969.

If the weather is as bad as some are expecting in Kansas City on Sunday, it could play right into Brady's cold, cold hands.

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The transportation and logistics industry is undergoing a massive shift as a result of surging deliveries. Daily parcel volumes are higher than ever before — but so are customers’ expectations for cheap and fast fulfillment. 

To keep up with mounting demand, retailers and their logistics partners have been racing to develop more efficient processes with experimental supply chain models like crowdsourced delivery — the Uber model in which customers use mobile apps to connect directly with local couriers for on-demand or same-day fulfillment.

And it’s not just startups like Deliv and Postmates getting in on the action. This year Amazon not only launched its own shipping service to deliver packages for other businesses (“Shipping with Amazon”) but also announced its “Delivery Service Partner” program, which provides capital incentives for people to launch their own delivery companies fulfilling orders on behalf of Amazon itself.

With emerging delivery models like these aggressively stealing away customers, the pressure is on for legacy players like FedEx, UPS, the USPS, and the thousands of businesses who depend on them every day, to respond. But it will take more than just material resources or a large fleet of vehicles to truly compete. These companies need to earn the trust of consumers.

Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service, has obtained exclusive survey data to paint the 2018 delivery landscape and the trends of its major players. The findings comprise the team’s latest Enterprise Edge Report, The 2018 Delivery Trust Report, and give transportation, supply chain, and logistics companies the tools they’ll need to win back customers.

Enterprise Edge Reports are the very best research Business Insider Intelligence has to offer in terms of actionable recommendations and proprietary data, and they are only available to Enterprise clients.

In full, the study:

• Uses proprietary consumer survey data to evaluate how the largest delivery companies in the US stack up on customer service, package tracking, package protection, and timeliness of delivery.
• Assesses how at risk these providers are to new challengers entering the space.
• Shares strategies on how delivery companies can achieve feature parity and, ideally, differentiation, in customer experience.

So, which delivery features do consumers care about?

First and foremost, speed. It makes sense that consumers value fast delivery, but did you know just how many of them prioritize this feature? According to a recent survey from Dropoff, it’s 99%. And with millions of packages delivered nationwide every single day, that’s a lot customers with high expectations.

But customers don’t just want their packages delivered quickly; they want to follow the journey from store to doorstep. Another one of the most important offerings delivery companies boast is real-time tracking, with nearly 90% of consumers noting it in the Dropoff survey.

If they can get it right, tracking is a twofold advantage for delivery companies; it entices consumers who want to know when their packages are coming, and it appeals to merchant partners who might be willing to switch delivery service providers for the added visibility and customer benefit.

And the field is still wide open for companies to differentiate on this feature. Among those who had a package delivered from UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL in the last year, nearly 30% of Business Insider Intelligence survey respondents couldn't actually say which company offered the best tracking features. Whether it means using mobile apps, SMS texting, or chatbots to communicate with customers, there’s plenty of opportunity for logistics companies to hone and become known for this feature.

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This is just a snapshot of the Business Insider Intelligence 2018 Delivery Trust Report, which compiles the complete survey findings to dive deeper into the opportunities delivery companies have to engage and delight customers.

The multi-part report also presents actionable insights that transportation and logistics companies can use to fight back against Amazon’s continuous push into deliveries.

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What is eSports? History & Rise of Video Game Tournaments

Years ago, eSports was a community of video gamers who would gather at conventions to play Counter Strike, Call of Duty, or League of Legends.

These multiplayer video game competitions would determine League of Legends champions, the greatest shooters in Call of Duty, the cream of the crop of Street Fighter players, the elite Dota 2 competitors, and more.

But today, as the history of eSports continue to unfold, media giants such as ESPN and Turner are broadcasting eSports tournaments and competitions. And in 2014, Amazon acquired Twitch, the live streaming video platform that has been and continues to be the leader in online gaming broadcasts. And YouTube also wanted to jump on the live streaming gaming community with the creation of YouTube Gaming.

eSports Market Growth Booming

To put in perspective how big eSports is becoming, a Google search for "lol" does not produce "laughing out loud" as the top result. Instead, it points to League of Legends, one of the most popular competitive games in existence. The game has spawned a worldwide community called the League of Legends Championship Series, more commonly known as LCS or LOL eSports.

What started as friends gathering in each other's homes to host LAN parties and play into the night has become an official network of pro gaming tournaments and leagues with legitimate teams, some of which are even sponsored and have international reach. Organizations such as Denial, AHQ, and MLG have multiple eSports leagues.

And to really understand the scope of all this, consider that the prize pool for the latest Dota 2 tournament was more than $20 million.

Websites even exist for eSports live scores to let people track the competitions in real time if they are unable to watch. There are even fantasy eSports leagues similar to fantasy football, along with the large and growing scene of eSports betting and gambling.

So it's understandable why traditional media companies would want to capitalize on this growing trend just before it floods into the mainstream. Approximately 300 million people worldwide tune in to eSports today, and that number is growing rapidly. By 2020, that number will be closer to 500 million.

eSports Industry Analysis - The Future of the Competitive Gaming Market

Financial institutions are starting to take notice. Goldman Sachs valued eSports at $500 million in 2016 and expects the market will grow at 22% annually compounded over the next three years into a more than $1 billion opportunity.

And industry statistics are already backing this valuation and demonstrating the potential for massive earnings. To illustrate the market value, market growth, and potential earnings for eSports, consider Swedish media company Modern Times Group's $87 million acquisition of Turtle Entertainment, the holding company for ESL. YouTube has made its biggest eSports investment to date by signing a multiyear broadcasting deal with Faceit to stream the latter's Esports Championship Series. And the NBA will launch its own eSports league in 2018.

Of course, as with any growing phenomenon, the question becomes: How do advertisers capitalize? This is especially tricky for eSports because of its audience demographics, which is young, passionate, male-dominated, and digital-first. They live online and on social media, are avid ad-blockers, and don't watch traditional TV or respond to conventional advertising.

So what will the future of eSports look like? How high can it climb? Could it reach the mainstream popularity of baseball or football? How will advertisers be able to reach an audience that does its best to shield itself from advertising?

Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service, has compiled an unparalleled report on the eSports ecosystem that dissects the growing market for competitive gaming. This comprehensive, industry-defining report contains more than 30 charts and figures that forecast audience growth, average revenue per user, and revenue growth.

Companies and organizations mentioned in the report include: NFL, NBA, English Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, NHL, Paris Saint-Germain, Ligue 1, Ligue de Football, Twitch, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, ESPN, Electronic Arts, EA Sports, Valve, Riot Games, Activision Blizzard, ESL, Turtle Entertainment, Dreamhack, Modern Times Group, Turner Broadcasting, TBS Network, Vivendi, Canal Plus, Dailymotion, Disney, BAMTech, Intel, Coca Cola, Red Bull, HTC, Mikonet

Here are some eSports industry facts and statistics from the report:

• eSports is a still nascent industry filled with commercial opportunity.
• There are a variety of revenue streams that companies can tap into.
• The market is presently undervalued and has significant room to grow.
• The dynamism of this market distinguishes it from traditional sports.
• The audience is high-value and global, and its numbers are rising.
• Brands can prosper in eSports by following the appropriate game plan.
• Game publishers approach their Esport ecosystems in different ways.  
• Successful esport games are comprised of the same basic ingredients.
• Digital streaming platforms are spearheading the popularity of eSports.
• Legacy media are investing into eSports, and seeing encouraging results.
• Traditional sports franchises have a clear opportunity to seize in eSports.
• Virtual and augmented reality firms also stand to benefit from eSports.  

In full, the report illuminates the business of eSports from four angles:

• The gaming nucleus of eSports, including an overview of popular esport genres and games; the influence of game publishers, and the spectrum of strategies they adopt toward their respective esport scenes; the role of eSports event producers and the tournaments they operate.
• The eSports audience profile, its size, global reach, and demographic, psychographic, and behavioral attributes; the underlying factors driving its growth; why they are an attractive target for brands and broadcasters; and the significant audience and commercial crossover with traditional sports.
• eSports media broadcasters, including digital avant-garde like Twitch and YouTube, newer digital entrants like Facebook and traditional media outlets like Turner’s TBS Network, ESPN, and Canal Plus; their strategies and successes in this space; and the virtual reality opportunity.
• eSports market economics, with a market sizing, growth forecasts, and regional analyses; an evaluation of the eSports spectacle and its revenue generators, some of which are idiosyncratic to this industry; strategic planning for brand marketers, with case studies; and an exploration of the infinite dynamism and immense potential of the eSports economy.

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Esports, which is short for electronic sports, refers to competitive video gaming watched by spectators. Esports are not as mainstream as traditional sports in the US, but the number of esports fans globally is still sizable. The worldwide esports audience reached 335 million in 2017, according to Newzoo. 

And there’s still significant room for growth beyond that — we predict that 600 million consumers globally will watch esports in 2023, up 79% from 2017. 

A growing number of brands are acting to capitalize on the growth of esports as the majority of professional gaming fans are millennials and open to brand sponsors. Sixty-two percent of US esports viewers are aged 18-34, according to Activate, while 58% have a positive attitude towards brand involvement in esports, per Nielsen.

Meanwhile, Newzoo anticipates global esports sponsorship revenue to reach $359 million in 2018, up 53% year-over-year. The growing esports audience and brand activity helps explains why high-profile public figures are jumping in to capitalize on the action: In late October, basketball legend Michael Jordan and platinum-selling artist Drake both made investments into separate esports ventures, for example. 

In this report, Business Insider Intelligence will explain the growth of the esports audience and why it presents an attractive advertising opportunity for brands. We'll begin by exploring the key drivers and barriers affecting esports audience growth. Finally, we'll detail the benefits of advertising to esports fans and outline the best practices for implementing a successful esports ad campaign.

The companies mentioned in this report are: Alibaba, Arby's, Audi, Bud Light, Hyundai, Intel, Mastercard, McDonald's, Red Bull, Skillz, and Turner.

Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:

• The number of esports fans globally is anticipated to climb 59% over the next five years, but there’s still significant room for growth.
• This expansion will be driven by many factors, including investment from traditional sports leagues, a higher number of broadcast deals, and the expansion of the mobile-based esports scene.
• The majority of esports fans are millennials, while data suggests that Gen Zers are more receptive to nontraditional sports, like esports, than traditional sports.
• Brands can sponsor esports leagues, competitions, and players as well as advertise on digital platforms like Twitch to reach the eyeballs of esports fans.
• Whatever shape a brand's esports ad campaign eventually takes, displaying an authentic commitment to the gaming world is paramount.

 In full, the report:

• Outlines the drivers and potential barriers to esports audience growth.
• Details the various reasons esports fans are a compelling advertising opportunity for brands.
• Discusses the different ways brands can invest spend to reach the eyeballs of esports fans.
• Explains best practices brands advertising to esports fans should adopt in order to make inroads with the gaming community. 

SEE ALSO: The eSports competitive video gaming market continues to grow revenues & attract investors

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Virtual reality (VR) offers immersive experiences in which users can hear, see, and interact with 360-degree digital environments using head-mounted displays (HMDs) and handheld motion devices. The technology has been historically associated with consumer-facing gaming, but it’s been gaining traction in the enterprise over the past year.

In fact, companies such as Macy’s, Lowe’s, Walmart, and UPS, among others, have all launched new VR programs since 2017. And as more businesses look to tap the technology, this will drive enterprise VR hardware and software revenue to jump 587% to $5.5 billion in 2023, up from an estimated $800 million in 2018, according to Business Insider Intelligence estimates.

This shows that retailers and brands should look into implementing VR as early as possible to better compete with other industry players who’ve started to use the tech, especially in three key areas: sales, employee training, and product development. All of the companies mentioned above are using VR to in at least one of these areas, enabling them to increase product sales, reduce product design costs, or speed up employee training processes, for instance.

In the VR In The Enterprise report, Business Insider Intelligence explores how VR can provide value to retailers and brands in three areas: sales, employee training, and product development.

The report begins by discussing potential pain points the technology addresses for each use case, examining in-depth case studies to illustrate how companies have implemented the technology, and outlining the broader takeaways each use case presents for brands and retailers.

Finally, it looks at some of the potential barriers to further enterprise adoption and how both companies and VR incumbents are actively addressing those obstacles.

The companies mentioned in the report are: Audi, Lowe's, Macy's, McLaren Automotive, Walmart, and UPS, among others.

Here are some key takeaways from the report:

• VR enables consumers in brick-and-mortar stores to make more informed purchases, which could increase sales conversion rates.
• Brands and retailers looking to ramp up their employees quicker should consider bringing VR into their training processes.
• The tech can shorten brands' and retailers' product development life cycles by cutting down on the time associated with building expensive physical prototypes.

In full, the report:

• Identifies key VR vendors and device form factors for businesses to consider.
• Discusses key benefits the tech brings businesses for their sales, training, and product development processes.
• Illustrates those key benefits by discussing real-world case studies from companies and the takeaways from those implementations.

SEE ALSO: When it comes to VR hardware, consumers are balancing price point and experience

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• President Donald Trump on Saturday offered Democrats an immigration deal that would exchange his requested $5.7 billion in border-wall funding with temporary protections for Dreamers and other immigrants.
• The government has been shut down for 29 days over Trump's demand for the wall funding, and Congressional Democrats' refusal to grant it.
• Democrats immediately seized on Trump's offer, arguing that it could barely be considered a concession, since he was the one who jeopardized Dreamers' status in the first place.
• Immigration experts and advocates also derided Trump's plan, arguing that Trump should offer a permanent solution for Dreamers, and that the solution shouldn't come tied to a border wall.

President Donald Trump offered up a slew of immigration proposals on Saturday that Democrats immediately shot down as non-starters, in his latest attempt to secure funding for his long-promised border wall.

A government shutdown over the wall funding reached its 29th day on Saturday, and Trump gave a televised address announcing he would exchange temporarily extending protections for "Dreamers" and some other immigrants for $5.7 billion in wall funding.

Specifically, Trump said he would grant Dreamers — young unauthorized immigrants shielded from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program — a three-year extension on their protections. He also said he would grant a three-year extension on Temporary Protected Status for some 300,000 immigrants.

"This is a common-sense compromise both parties should embrace," Trump said. "The radical left can never control our borders. I will never let it happen. Walls are not immoral. In fact, they are the opposite of immoral."

But Democrats were quick to point out that it was Trump, himself, who rescinded protections for both Dreamers and TPS holders. None of Trump's supposed concessions would be necessary had he not jeopardized the immigrants' standing in the first place, critics argued.

Read more: Trump offered Democrats a limited immigration 'compromise' to end the shutdown. Democrats say it's a 'hostage taking.'

"It was the President who singled-handedly took away DACA and TPS protections in the first place," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement. "Offering some protections back in exchange for the wall is not a compromise but more hostage taking."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement that Trump's proposals "do not represent a good faith effort to restore certainty to people's lives.

"It is unlikely that any one of these provisions alone would pass the House, and taken together, they are a non-starter," she said. "For one thing, this proposal does not include the permanent solution for the Dreamers and TPS recipients that our country needs and supports."

'A face-saving tactic'

Along with the DACA, TPS, and border-wall funding provisions, Trump's offer also included funding that would add 75 new immigration judge teams, an extra 2,750 Border Patrol agents and other law-enforcement officers, and allocate $800 million for "urgent humanitarian assistance" and $805 million in drug-detection technology.

But immigration experts and advocates weren't on board with his ideas either, arguing that Trump's DACA and TPS offers wouldn't even effectively resolve problems of his own making.

A key problem with Trump's proposal was that it offered little genuine protection for Dreamers, as they're already shielded from deportation as part of an ongoing court battle over DACA's fate, Jordan Bruneau, a senior policy analyst for the conservative Becoming American Initiative, told INSIDER.

Read more: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BORDER CRISIS: Experts say there is no security crisis, but there is a simple way to fix immigration — and it's not a wall

He added that the offers also failed to tackle deeper problems within the US immigration system — namely, that there are not enough opportunities for immigrants to legally enter the country.

"A substantive offer would permanently legalize the Dreamers who are American in all but name and who play a vital role in the economy," Bruneau said. "It should also look to meaningfully address the root cause of illegal immigration by offering a market-based work visa system that would allow those who want to pursue the American dream by filling some of the nation's seven million unfilled jobs a legal opportunity to do so."

The American Civil Liberties Union also bashed Trump's plan, accusing him of "attempting to extort Americans" for his border-wall funding without offering any meaningful concessions.

"It is unclear if the one-sided proposal offered today is merely a face-saving tactic," ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero said in as statement. "President Trump's proposed remedies for Dreamers and TPS recipients are far too limited. The President won't be able to buy a 'get out of a shutdown for free' card by offering such tepid fixes to DACA and TPS."

Even organizations that represent Dreamers and TPS recipients said Trump's offer was no good. Asian Americans Advancing Justice said in a statement that offering temporary reprieve from Trump's own actions against them was hardly a convincing bargaining chip.

"We want a permanent solution for our families and one that does not come at the expense of our brothers and sisters at the border," the statement said.

• Read more:
• The government shutdown is now the longest on record and the fight between Trump and Democrats is only getting uglier. Here's everything you missed.
• Most Americans would rather spend the $5 billion Trump is demanding for the border wall on infrastructure, education, or healthcare
• THE OTHER BORDER 'CRISIS': While America is fixated on Mexico and the wall, thousands of migrants are fleeing for Canada in a dramatically different scene
• Most Americans don't think there's a crisis at the US-Mexico border — including the people who live closest to it

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• Digital trust is the confidence people have in a platform to protect their information and provide a safe environment for them to create and engage with content.
• Business Insider Intelligence surveyed over 1,300 global consumers to evaluate their perception of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
• Consumers’ Digital Trust rankings differ across security, legitimacy, community, user experience, shareability, and relevance for the six major social networks.

If you feel like “fake news” and spammy social media feeds dominate your Internet experience, you’re not alone. Digital trust, the confidence people have in platforms to protect their information and provide a safe environment to create and engage with content, is in jeopardy.

In fact, in a new Business Insider Intelligence survey of more than 1,300 global consumers, over half (54%) said that fake news and scams were "extremely impactful” or “very impactful” on their decision to engage with ads and sponsored content.

For businesses, this distrust has financial ramifications. It’s no longer enough to craft a strong message; brands, marketers, and social platforms need to focus their energy on getting it to consumers in an environment where they are most receptive. When brands reach consumers on platforms that they trust, they enhance their credibility and increase the likelihood of receiving positive audience engagement.

The Digital Trust Report 2018, the latest Enterprise Edge Report from Business Insider Intelligence, compiles this exclusive survey data to analyze consumer perceptions of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

The survey breaks down consumers’ perceptions of social media across six pillars of trust: security, legitimacy, community, user experience, shareability, and relevance. The results? LinkedIn ran away with it.

As the most trusted platform for the second year in a row – and an outlier in the overall survey results – LinkedIn took the top spot for nearly every pillar of trust — and there are a few reasons why:

• LinkedIn continues to benefit from the professional nature of its community — users on the platform tend to be well behaved and have less personal information at risk, which makes for a more trusting environment.
• LinkedIn users are likely more selective and mindful about engagement when interacting within their professional network, which may increase trust in its content.
• Content on LinkedIn is typically published by career-minded individuals and organizations seeking to promote professional interests, and is therefore seen as higher quality than other platforms’. This bodes well for advertisers and publishers to be viewed as forthright, honest, persuasive, and trustworthy.

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The Digital Trust Report 2018 illustrates how social platforms have been on a roller coaster ride of data, user privacy, and brand safety scandals since our first installment of the report in 2017.

In full, the report analyzes key changes in rankings from 2017, identifies trends in millennials' behavior on social media, and highlights where these platforms (as well as advertisers) have opportunities to capture their attention.

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• President Donald Trump kicked off the government shutdown by refusing to sign any funding bill that did not include money for a wall along the US-Mexico border.
• But most Americans aren't pleased with Trump using a shutdown as a negotiating tactic.
• According to an INSIDER poll, 54% of people believe Trump is the most to blame for the shutdown.
• Additionally 64% of people believed that shutting down the government is an inappropriate negotiating tactic.

President Donald Trump may want to come up with a new strategy in the government shutdown fight, because Americans aren't too pleased with the current tactics, according to a new poll.

The president first forced the government into a partial shutdown in December after suddenly changing his mind on a clean funding bill that did not include money for his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border. And since the start of the shutdown, Trump has remained steadfast in his unwillingness to alter the demand for $5.7 billion in wall funding.

But according to an INSIDER poll, most Americans are placing the blame for the shutdown at the president's feet and don't appreciate Trump's hardline strategy.

According to a poll, a majority of Americans pin the blame on Trump for the shutdown with 54% saying the president deserves the most blame. Senate and House Democrats received the most blame from just 26% of Americans, getting 17% and 9% respectively.

Senate and House Republicans got just 5% of the blame while 16% of respondents were unsure who to blame.

We conducted a SurveyMonkey Audience poll on a national sample from January 15-16. We had 1,095 respondents for a margin of error of about +/-3.11%.

The amount of Americans who blame Trump for the shutdown is similar to a slew of other recent polls that showed most respondent pin the blame on the president.

Additionally, many Americans are not particularly pleased with Trump's decision to shut down the government in the first place. While Democrats have consistently demanded that the president reopen the government and then negotiate on wall funding, Trump has been unwilling to approve even a short-term funding bill with no wall money.

A whopping 64% of people surveyed said that shutting down the operation of the government was either an inappropriate or very inappropriate negotiating tactic, while just 15% thought the tactic was appropriate or very appropriate. 12% thought it was neither inappropriate nor appropriate.

Importantly, Trump's biggest platform to try and win over undecided Americans — the State of the Union address scheduled for the end of January — is not likely to be a game changer.

According to the poll, few undecided Americans regularly watch the State of the Union so the president may not be able to use the platform to win over many Americans.

Read more:Trump's State of the Union — whenever it is — won't bail him out of the government-shutdown mess»

Trump's attempt on Saturday to try and reach a compromise with Democrats is likely dead on arrival given the limited scope of the president's concessions, but it may signal that Trump is recognizing the losing position he currently occupies.

The shutdown is in its 29th day and is now by far the longest in the modern budget era. The shutdown is also starting to take its toll on everyday Americans and the 800,000 federal workers going without pay.

Concerns over airport security, food safety, food stamps, and more are starting to build. Federal employees are resorting to unemployment insurance, food banks, and GoFundMe fundraisers to make it through the shutdown.

In the poll, 24% of people identified as very or somewhat conservative, 29% as very or somewhat liberal, with the rest as slightly conservative or liberal, neither conservative nor liberal, or they'd rather not say.

SurveyMonkey Audience polls from a national sample balanced by census data of age and gender. Respondents are incentivized to complete surveys through charitable contributions. Generally speaking, digital polling tends to skew toward people with access to the internet. SurveyMonkey Audience doesn't try to weight its sample based on race or income. Total 1,095 respondents, a margin of error plus or minus 3.11 percentage points with a 95% confidence level.

SEE ALSO: Most Americans would rather spend the $5 billion Trump is demanding for the border wall on infrastructure, education, or healthcare

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• President Donald Trump said Saturday mothers were giving their daughters birth control pills before they migrate to the southern border to seek entry to the United States.
• Though the remark caught many off guard, sexual assault and abuse is a well-documented danger of migration to the border and Trump's claim about birth control has been reported before.  
• There have been previous reports of female migrants seeking birth control in anticipation of their journeys through Mexico, but humanitarian organizations indicate this is a worldwide trend among female migrants, rather than a trend specific to migration from Central America to the US. 

In a televised speech from the White House on Saturday, President Donald Trump made an alarming claim about the violence faced by women who travel to the US border seeking entry.

In discussing the threats faced by women and children who journey to the US from Central America, Trump said mothers were giving their daughters birth control pills before they migrate to the southern border because of the high rates of sexual assault suffered by migrant women along their journeys. 

"Thousands of children are being exploited by ruthless coyotes and vicious cartels and gangs," Trump said, using a term for a smuggler who brings others to the border. 

Trump made the remarks as he proposed a deal with Democrats to exchange border-wall funding for temporary protections for certain immigrants.

"One in three women is sexually assaulted on the dangerous journey north," Trump said. "In fact, many loving mothers give their young daughters birth control pills for the long journey up to the United States because they know they may be raped or sexually accosted or assaulted. "

Trump has cited the sexual assault statistic before when pushing for his long-promised border wall, and sexual assault is indeed prevalent within groups of migrants who seek entry through the southern border. Estimates from nonprofits including Amnesty International say six out of every 10 female migrants encounter sexual abuse.

Read more: Thousands more children were separated from their parents at the border than were previously known, inspector general reveals in bombshell report

But Trump's mention of young female migrants being given birth control in preparation for the journey is a less-discussed feature of difficulties facing immigrant women, though it's not a new claim.

Chris Cabrera, US Customs and Border Protection agent and spokesperson for the National Border Patrol Council, told CNN in June 2018 that agents at the border have seen girls as young as 12 years old who are put on birth control "because they know getting violated is part of the journey." 

A PBS report from 2014 said pharmacies in smuggling towns are familiar with young girls seeking birth control pills or shots, sometimes on advice from the "coyotes" who are leading their trek and who perpetrate much of the sexual abuse suffered by female migrants. 

Sexual abuse is so widespread that all female migrants over the age of 10 are given pregnancy tests, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said last year, because "that is how dangerous the journey is." 

The Christian Science Monitor previously reported that some girls may find they are pregnant only through screenings given by US agents upon reaching the border, which would be the first medical examination they could access since beginning their journey. 

It isn't only migrants seeking entry to the US who go on birth control to survive their journeys. A researcher with Human Rights Watch told Reuters in 2016 that women who flee political unrest, severe poverty, and war across the world anticipate rape once they flee, and prepare by taking contraceptives. 

Even upon reaching the border, female migrants face difficulties including widespread abuse, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees filing over 1,200 sexual abuse complaints over seven years. Of those, half of the alleged perpetrators were ICE officers. 

It's not clear how Trump's long-desired border wall would affect the plight of female migrants, but Trump has described tightened border security as a potential deterrent to those looking to reach the southern US border. 

Inside the border, the administration has faced outcry for reports of pregnant migrant women miscarrying in US custody and lawmakers last year introduced the Stop Shackling and Detaining Pregnant Women Act. 

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• Trump's 'common-sense compromise' on immigration to end the government shutdown isn't a compromise at all, critics say
• THE OTHER BORDER 'CRISIS': While America is fixated on Mexico and the wall, thousands of migrants are fleeing for Canada in a dramatically different scene
• 376 migrants, including 179 kids, used 7 tunnels to get under the US border fence in Arizona
• Most Americans don't think there's a crisis at the US-Mexico border — including the people who live closest to it

SEE ALSO: Trump offered Democrats a limited immigration 'compromise' to end the shutdown. Democrats say it's 'unacceptable.'

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Mobile commerce (m-commerce) isn’t just the future of online shopping — it’s absorbing more and more e-commerce in the present. Business Insider Intelligence projects m-commerce will account for nearly 40% of US online sales by 2023, totaling $447 billion. And 49% of shopping traffic from November 1 through December 6 in 2018 went through smartphones, according to Adobe.

Despite its popularity, m-commerce faces serious conversion issues that retailers need to improve on. In North America, mobile browsers posted a conversion rate of just 6% in Q2 compared with desktop’s 11%, according to Criteo. But mobile websites still accounted for 43% of all transactions in the region among retailers that actively promoted their shopping apps, showing that they deserve special attention.

So, although consumers spend more time accessing the internet on smartphones than any other device, e-tailers aren’t able to maximize that value. And considering mobile shoppers have a similar engagement rate as desktop shoppers, but the rates at which they select products and transact are lower, according to Qubit, mobile sites clearly need to improve their ability to convert — and top e-tailers have work to do.

In the Mobile Checkout Benchmark Report, Business Insider Intelligence scores the mobile checkout experience of top e-commerce marketplaces — which includes every action from the moment a consumer chooses a product to the final purchase when they add the product to their cart and check out — to determine the current leaders in the space.

It establishes key factors in the checkout process to appropriately score e-tailers and identifies what all retailers and brands can learn from their strengths and shortcomings to improve their own m-commerce conversion capabilities. The report also looks at what developing technologies and initiatives have the potential to bolster conversion in m-commerce.

The companies mentioned in this report are: Affirm, Amazon, BigCommerce, Discover, eBay, Klarna, Mastercard, PayPal, Pier 1, Shopify, Splitit, Target, Visa, Walmart, and Wish.

Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:

• Business Insider Intelligence’s Mobile Checkout Benchmark Study ranks top e-commerce marketplaces based on their conversion capabilities on their mobile websites.
• Target ranked first, leading in the adding to and reviewing the cart stage and performing well across the board.
• eBay led the overall efficiency and checkout and payment phases thanks to its simple process, but poor conversion capabilities on product pages and carts kept it from winning overall.
• Amazon underperformed as it focuses on gathering consumer data and adding Prime subscribers rather than one-time conversion.
• Speed and simplicity are top features to drive mobile conversion, according to experts interviewed by Business Insider Intelligence, and becoming faster and more efficient in various facets of mobile checkout will pay dividends for e-tailers.

In full, the report:

• Examines mobile websites’ struggles with conversion.
• Creates a benchmarking to score top e-commerce players’ websites conversion capabilities.
• Scores e-tailers’ performances and picks out key learnings from their strengths and shortcomings.
• Identifies developing technology that will be able to bolster mobile conversion in the future.

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The mobile augmented reality (AR) market is quickly becoming primed for the retail space. By blending the online and in-store shopping journeys, mobile AR promises to provide an immersive digital shopping experience unlike anything shoppers have seen before.

Mobile AR is one of the most coveted technologies for improving the digital shopping experience among consumers. That’s because mobile AR can be used to bring the in-store experience to consumers’ homes by recreating the try-on experience. It allows online shoppers to test out multiple sizes and variations of products, or just see what a product looks like overlaid into their home — without making a true commitment to the purchase or a trip to the store. It can also be used in-store to quickly provide product information or guide users to the right item using location-based services.

Retailers that meet this need for mobile AR stand to pull ahead of the competition. Mobile AR can help build brand loyalty, heighten engagement, increase geographical customer reach, shorten conversion times, boost purchases of larger items, and cut down on returns.

In a new report, Business Insider Intelligence examines the importance of mobile AR to businesses in the retail space, explores the various ways brands are utilizing mobile AR to enhance the customer experience as well as their own, and determines the factors retailers should consider when devising a mobile AR strategy.

Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:

• Nearly 75% of consumers already expect retailers to offer an AR experience. Mobile AR retail experiences are more likely to come to fruition as Apple and Google continue to build out their AR developer platforms, ARKit and ARCore, respectively, which will expand the addressable market exponentially.
• Retailers in certain segments, including furniture and home improvement, as well as beauty and fashion, have been the first to jump on the mobile AR bandwagon through their own apps. These sectors appear to have the most immediate need for mobile AR strategies, as trying out furniture and clothes are two of the most coveted AR use cases by consumers.
• Social media is emerging as a prominent channel for retailers to reach consumers through mobile AR experiences. Platforms like Facebook and Snapchat continue to build out tools that businesses and developers can utilize to enhance their advertising strategies with immersive experiences.
• But retailers will have to consider several factors before implementing their mobile AR strategies. These include the cost of building AR experiences, the availability of AR-compatible smartphones, consumer awareness of mobile AR apps, and the quality of mobile AR content.

In full, the report:

• Explores the ways mobile AR brings value to the customer shopping experience. 
• Highlights how the consumer benefits of mobile AR can be transformed into valuable outcomes for retailers.
• Discusses how major retail brands are leveraging mobile AR to enhance the customer journey, and what goals they are striving to achieve.
• Outlines the several factors retailers and brands will have to consider before implementing their mobile AR strategies.

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• Thousands of people marched in the third Women's March in Washington, DC, despite controversy surrounding the original founders of the movement.
• Recently, co-chair Tamika Mallory recently came under fire for her relationship with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, and his anti-Semitic stance, causing a division among key organizers.
• The Democratic National Convention also pulled its support for the march over Mallory's comments.
• Several marchers told INSIDER they were aware of the issues surrounding the march but came for the cause, not the controversy.
• "We are here for all of us," one marcher told INSIDER.

A thick crowd waited in anticipation for the 2019 Women's March in Washington, DC, to begin on January 19.

Marchers danced in place to music playing from several speakers throughout Freedom Plaza, and protest signs filled the sky.

Unified chants of "Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go" echoed off buildings as the crowd began marching towards the US capitol building.

Thousands of people marched in the city's third annual Women's March, despite controversy surrounding the original founders of the movement. Women's March co-chair Tamika Mallory recently came under fire for her relationship with Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, and his anti-Semitic stance.

Additionally, the Democratic National Convention pulled its support for the march over Mallory's comments. The issue caused a division among central organizers of the march and lead to two Women's marches nationwide.

Despite the controversy, the march still had an air of unity. Here's how the day unfolded:

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Several marchers told INSIDER they were aware of the issues surrounding the march but came for the cause, not the controversy.

Many said they weren't aware that two marches were occurring and described a feeling of unity, rather than divisiveness.

More than a dozen people told INSIDER why they chose to attend the Women's March on Saturday, and what issues were most important to them.

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Over the past five years, the world has seen a seemingly unending series of high-profile data breaches, defined as incidents in which unauthorized parties access and retrieve sensitive, secure, or private data.

Major incidents, like the 2013 Yahoo breach, which impacted all 3 million of the tech giant’s customers, and the more recent Equifax breach, which exposed the information of at least 143 million US adults, has kept this risk, and these threats, at the forefront for both businesses and consumers. And businesses have good reason to be concerned — of organizations breached, 22% lost customers, 29% lost revenue, and 23% lost business opportunities.

This threat isn’t going anywhere. Each of the past five years has seen, on average, 1,704 security incidents, impacting nearly 2 billion records. And hackers could be getting more efficient, using new technological tools to extract more data in fewer breach attempts. That’s making the security threat an industry-agnostic for any business holding sensitive data — at this point, virtually all companies — and therefore a necessity for firms to address proactively and prepare to react to.

The majority of breaches come from the outside, when a malicious actor is usually seeking access to records for financial gain, and tend to leverage malware or other software and hardware-related tools to access records. But they can come internally, as well as from accidents perpetrated by employees, like lost or stolen records or devices.

That means that firms need to have a broad-ranging plan in place, focusing on preventing breaches, detecting them quickly, and resolving and responding to them in the best possible way. That involves understanding protectable assets, ensuring compliance, and training employees, but also protecting data, investing in software to understand what normal and abnormal performance looks like, training employees, and building a response plan to mitigate as much damage as possible when the inevitable does occur.

Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider’s premium research service, has put together a detailed report on the data breach threat, who and what companies need to protect themselves from, and how they can most effectively do so from a technological and organizational perspective.

Here are some key takeaways from the report:

• The breach threat isn’t going anywhere. The number of overall breaches isn’t consistent — it soared from 2013 to 2016, but ticked down slightly last year — but hackers might be becoming better at obtaining more records with less work, which magnifies risk.
• The majority of breaches come from the outside, and leverage software and hardware attacks, like malware, web app attacks, point-of-service (POS) intrusion, and card skimmers.
• Firms need to build a strong front door to prevent as many breaches as possible, but they also need to develop institutional knowledge to detect a breach quickly, and plan for how to resolve and respond to it in order to limit damage — both financial and subjective — as effectively as possible.

In full, the report:

• Explains the scope of the breach threat, by industry and year, and identifies the top attacks.
• Identifies leading perpetrators and causes of breaches.
• Addresses strategies to cope with the threat in three key areas: prevention, detection, and resolution and response.
• Issues recommendations from both a technological and organizational perspective in each of these categories so that companies can avoid the fallout that a data breach can bring.

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Digital disruption is affecting every aspect of the fintech industry.

Over the past five years, fintech has established itself as a fundamental part of the global financial services ecosystem.

Fintech startups have raised, and continue to raise, billions of dollars annually, pushing incumbent financial institutions to get in on the action. Legacy players have begun using fintech to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving financial services landscape.

So what's next?

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• The 2020 presidential election is more than a year away, but many hopefuls are already announcing their candidacies. 
• While many potential Democratic candidates have yet to announce their intentions, some have already launched presidential campaigns, including Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Maryland Representative John Delaney. 
• Here's a list of the major party 2020 presidential candidates. 

SEE ALSO: An early look at the 2020 presidential contenders

President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump is seeking reelection in 2020. He announced his intentions to do so just days into his first term, on January 20, 2017. 

Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren

On a video posted to her website on December 31, 2018, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren announced that she was launching an exploratory committee for a presidential run in 2020. In the video, Warren — who has long been expected to run – described her vision of defending the middle class, which she said was "under attack."

Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro

Castro declared his candidacy on January 12 in a widely publicized announcement event in San Antonio, Texas, his hometown and where he served as mayor for five years. 

Castro's official announcement came weeks after his brother had revealed the news during an interview with Stephen Colbert in December.

Under Castro's tenure, HUD expanded lead safety protections in federally assisted housing, worked to reconstruct communities affected by natural disasters under a $1 billion National Disaster Resilience Competition, and fulfilled the Fair Housing Act.