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AUGUST 27, 2018

News came early this week that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (the international conglomerate) is aiming to invest as much as $285 million to acquire a stake of as much as 4 percent in One97 Communications, the company that owns and runs Paytm , the digital payments/financial services firm. billion from SoftBank, based in Japan.

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AUGUST 28, 2018

Google’s moves in India could pose a threat to India-based Paytm, the country’s largest digital payments provider — and reportedly, a possible investment target for Berkshire Hathaway , which is considering putting between 20 billion and 25 billion rupees ($286 million to $357 million) into One97 Communications , Paytm’s parent firm.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Embracing ‘Headless’ eCommerce. . recommends merchants consider adopting a “headless eCommerce approach.”. . Headless commerce enables brands to quickly adopt innovations and embrace new channels as they emerge and is an opportunity to future proof their technology investments,” Tran said. . she said. .

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MARCH 27, 2020

“Investing velocity fell by half … in the quarters following the [2008] crash,” he wrote in a recent report, noting that it took eight quarters for VC funding to return to previous levels. Even so, an impressive $114 million was raised by U.S. Investors at Kleiner Perkins led the round, a press release said. ”

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

and Macy’s as it struggled with the unprecedented demand from the pandemic-driven eCommerce surge. million packages in 2018, but hasn’t provided numbers for last year or this year. The problems will undoubtedly be magnified as the record-setting Thanksgiving weekend eCommerce sales work their way (or don’t) through the system.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

We’ve seen Walmart throw down the gauntlet on eCommerce, going public with its plans to hire Amazon-like numbers for its fulfillment centers. But they have evolved enough to send consumers happily to eCommerce sites. In this moment, the pandemic has allowed us to accelerate where and how we will invest.

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JULY 31, 2020

The company almost doubled its revenue and profit numbers while spending more than $9 billion on capital improvement projects. Among those numbers: Operating cash flow increased 42 percent to $51.2 Other capital expenditures went to fulfillment, transportation and investments in Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

In the immediate impact of the pandemic, he said, the company lost about 90 percent of its transaction volumes in about a week — but a rebound has taken place as more vehicles are out on the road making eCommerce and food deliveries. Those paper communications, Sharma said, span invoices, proof of delivery documents and approval forms.

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MAY 9, 2019

Operational pain points are often not addressed until they have to be addressed, then, because of that neglect, they suddenly require all sorts of investments in terms of time and money. The tech part of streamlining AP is made a bit more intuitive and easier with the advent of the cloud, said Amit, even for smaller eCommerce teams.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

The program starts and stops easily – displaying the numeric targets on-screen only when being accessed through voice commands – and the numbers disappear when a user touches the screen and stay gone until the Google Assistant is woken again. There have also been reports that the eCommerce giant is looking to get into pharmaceuticals.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

The eCommerce sector was a favorite target for fraudsters, representing 40 percent of total losses due to ATOs. These tools can take clusters of data and produce visual representations — such as charts, diagrams and graphs — of their findings to better communicate them. Fraud losses hit $14.7

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MAY 13, 2019

The wall-mounted machine also has a 21-inch screen for consumer interaction, and comes ready to accept near-field communication (NFC) contactless and card payments. The eCommerce retailer reportedly plans to install 100 kiosks in malls across India by the end of 2019.

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MAY 27, 2020

Some stores did report good business, but the common denominator was preparing for that event via smart digital communications during the crisis. Employees wore masks and allowed only a limited number of customers in the store. These brands are still comfortable with their investments,” she says.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

A funny thing happened on the way to the hockey-sticking growth cycle of eCommerce: marketplaces aggregated supply from a variety of sellers. It’s a problem that Nate Hirsch, the CEO of FreeeUp.com (the extra “e” is for eCommerce) encountered while in college working as an Amazon marketplace seller to make “beer money” for the weekend.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

“Product marketers today use Google and Facebook as a middle man — a conduit to reach consumers directly — so they pay Google and Facebook for the privilege of communicating [with] consumers,” Lee said. Facebook, Google and other platforms also tend to focus on eCommerce.

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MARCH 15, 2019

The book was Douglas Hofstadter’s “ Fluid Concepts And Creative Analogies: Computer Models Of The Fundamental Mechanisms Of Thought ,” which on its own would not have been historically significant except for the fact that Wainwright bought the book as part of an invite-only beta by a newly-launched eCommerce startup called Amazon.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

In our excitement to innovate and bring many new products into the world, we have lost the core of what made Snapchat the fastest way to communicate,” Spiegel wrote in the document, calling the update “rushed.”. At the time of the investment, Tencent officials noted that they viewed their purchase as a “strategic investment.”.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2019

3), the numbers put up by the players on the field will pale in comparison to the dollars that advertisers, sports enthusiasts, snack food aficionados and brands will put up, just so they can be part of America’s largest television viewing event. In the most recently reported quarter, Walmart eCommerce sales grew 43 percent.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

The customer visits the website and creates an account that links their card number to their phone number, then texts their order to the company. Texting, Normandin noted, is “the most ubiquitous form of communication on Earth.” Instead of offering website ordering, the purchasing system is based on text messaging.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

No longer just a job for convoys alone, a number of firms are entering the freight fray, with logistics and card payments the big beneficiaries. Some of the biggest names in retail and eCommerce are investing where the rubber meets the road, with positive implications for payments and other tech companies. And yesterday (Feb.

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APRIL 22, 2016

Acorns is, as the name suggests, designed around the premise that small investments made early and left alone grow into big piles of money later, as long as they’re properly invested. With micro-investing, anyone can start growing wealth.”. The Good New Numbers From comScore. across the mobile Web. percent of the time.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Sure, they could have brought in Capone himself on counts of murder or any number of other offenses, but this approach, said Frechtling, took down the entire operation with him. Scalable costs are investments made so that the business is easy to find for those who want it. Finally, make a point of consistent internal communication.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

We are communicating with the central bank on and off, but there’s no clear reason.”. Theoverarching strategy is to meld financial services and eCommerce front to back. This is about making a very clear statement to the client community and the market that this is not about overlap in services,” Yabuki said on the call.

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MARCH 17, 2016

In communicating with more than 100,000 respondents and more than 19,000 businesses, researchers at Gallup found that suppliers risk losing up to two-thirds of their customer base unless they can fully engage with them.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

And eCommerce volumes will soar, with countries such as China, Japan and the U.S. And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends. percent over the next five years. consumers said they’d be interested.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

And eCommerce volumes will soar, with countries such as China, Japan and the U.S. And instead of investing in tickets to go to a game, they’re investing in smart flat-screen TVs to watch live sporting events at home with friends. percent over the next five years. consumers said they’d be interested.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

They’re all trying to grapple with the upside-down economics associated with experiencing big increases in sales on a small base (eCommerce) and a small drop on a much larger base (in-store sales), he said. If you want to put a number on that, it averages out to about $2,000 to weekly gross sales.”. As EMV slowly rolled out in the U.S.,

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MARCH 17, 2017

And lest we be remiss about what all this digital safeguarding might be about, one underpinning is that it serves to let us communicate, interact and transact in peace and relative safety. Numbers for Fun, Profit and Failure. Lending, Lending Everywhere, With Quite a Lot to Think. It’s a big problem.

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APRIL 5, 2017

The Investment Tracker accelerated in terms of activity and deal size in the week that ended March 31. In fact, the last week of March saw financial investments, in total, at five times the previous week’s tally. In fact, the last week of March saw financial investments, in total, at five times the previous week’s tally.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Here are the numbers: $1.5 Texting, on the other hand, tends to dominate millennial communication efforts, making it a potential go-to for brands looking to reach consumers. They can also track customer spending and average bill sizes and increase customer lifetime value and return on investment (ROI).

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JUNE 10, 2019

The iTunes storefront for purchasing music, movies and TV may remain up and running within the major apps, but it will be less of a central focus as Apple redirects its attention to the booming subscription eCommerce market. The number of active Finn users has not been publicly disclosed.

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APRIL 29, 2016

And while there are any number of strategies for bringing the customers to the door, ReplyYes has decided to take a rather different approach. The service started so strongly on Peach that they decided to work to build a purer eCommerce application around it. “It’s very much more of a conversation than email.”

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JULY 24, 2017

For many years, as communication, commerce and even crafting (see: Etsy, Pinterest) migrated to digital spaces, the art world stayed behind, lingering in brick-and-mortar museums, galleries and auction halls. Carey said that’s where the company will be focusing the funds raised in the recent investment round. They were wrong.

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DECEMBER 27, 2019

By the numbers, it is hard to deny in the closing days of 2019 that instant payments, as observed by the PYMNTS Instant Payments Tracker , have hit their stride and are no longer a P2P payments tool for gig economy workers. In 2019 that number had nearly quadrupled to 42 percent. Here are four on that list. Instant Payments .

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APRIL 25, 2016

There are a number of ways that an issuer can comply. She explained that one of the most compelling advantages (and returns on investment) when it comes to fraud prevention is the ability to know the location of a cardholder, something that an SMS-based alert offers consumers and issuers. For Visa, the charge to issuers is $.01

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JUNE 23, 2016

A true indicator of the global demand and usage of cash, Delnevo said in a recent interview with PYMNTS, is the rising number of ATMs. Looking at this global trend, China and India are emerging as the two economies – despite their rapid growth rate – that are becoming more invested in keeping their cash flow strong and running.

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