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A Business Upended: Streaming disrupts the Entertainment Business!

Musings on Markets

The recent troubles in entertainment, though, reflect a longer term disruption that has occurred in the business, with the rise of streaming as an alternative to the traditional platforms for movies and television shows. That said, the movie business remained concentrated, with the biggest players dominating each segment of the business.

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Where Is Tech Going in 2023?

CFO News Room

While the turn of the year presents an opportunity to take a fresh look at your strategy and plan where to focus your energies, it can be hard to sort real trends from hype. When looking at how you plan to invest in technologies over the next year, try to think holistically and consider how they make work together to unlock new opportunities.

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Target Updates COVID-19 Results; Will Reconfigure Stores

PYMNTS

Beginning in mid-March, the company experienced what it says was “an even stronger surge in traffic and sales, with category mix heavily concentrated in the Essentials and Food & Beverage categories.” Increased sales were also seen in Home Office and Entertainment, while Apparel & Accessories dropped.

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Herman Miller On Tapping Automation To Thwart Fraud Threats

PYMNTS

Using automated technologies that can create that necessary fraud barrier also means that retailers can concentrate more on responding to consumers’ changing payment needs. Payments And The Future Of Retail . Consumers are not just changing how they pay — they are also making new choices when it comes to what they are buying and why.

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SoundHound Raises $100M In A New Round Of Funding

PYMNTS

SoundHound plans to use the funding to drive adoption and distribution of Houndify, its voice AI platform in the automotive, Internet of Things, consumer products and enterprise apps and services markets. “We Those companies join existing investors Samsung, NVIDIA, KT Corporation, HTC, NAVER, LINE, Nomura, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa and Recruit.

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CFO Leadership Council Highlights Our First 10 DEI Ascend Honorees

CFO Leadership

Prior to joining the AHA, Christina was vice president of finance for the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago where she led the financial planning and analysis functions for the Chicago Fed and collaborated on projects with leaders across the Federal Reserve System.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

Barry Ritholtz

What, what was the career plan? Whereas the ETF is designed to be a more straightforward s and p 500 US only equity strategy 00:29:26 [Speaker Changed] And it’s concentrated 35 large cap stocks. I think right now, just in a market cap sense, market concentration, there are a lot more growth stocks.