CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The manufactured crisis over Taiwan and Chinese “aggression” are now the stated reasons for military buildups in South Korea and Japan (and elsewhere, such as Guam). The publicly announced agreement marked a change in longstanding US policy toward South Korea, dating back to 1972, that restricts the sharing of sensitive nuclear technology. ….

Manufacturing 100

Manufacturing Economics Investments Securities 100

PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2020

The greatest health crisis in a generation is poised to accelerate innovation at the intersection of healthcare , technology and payments as never before. And the retailer ponied up a reported $200 million for pieces of Seattle-based startup CareZone ’s technology, which personalizes prescription drug management for individuals.

Healthcare 87

Healthcare Concentration Startups Retail 87

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Water scarcity contributes to wildfires, but other problems, too: As the water table drops, the quality of the water degrades, often leading to increasing concentrations of minerals and salts that are expensive to treat or can even make the water unusable. Risks are appearing on multiple fronts.

Manufacturing 100

Manufacturing Concentration Nonprofit Planning 100

PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

The concepts will initially be concentrated on the Chinese market.”. As part of the deal, the parties have also agreed to jointly develop training programs in order to strengthen the skills of technology experts in both of these areas. “We Our aim is to improve safety and optimize traffic flows in order to create intelligent cities.

Concentration 40

Concentration Communication Manufacturing Technology 40

PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

From manufacturing to customer service, there have been several parts of today’s workforce that have been automated by some form of smart technology. In its arena, chatbots’ underlying technologies driving it is a combination of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural-language processing.

Retail 71

Retail Concentration Data Analysis Technology 71

PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

Notwithstanding the origin of the coronavirus, the large-scale outbreak can be primarily attributed to highly increased mobility (airplane and high-speed rail in China, especially), resulting in a higher concentration of people, and a lagging behavioral change in personal sanitation and isolation. directly to hospitals.

Concentration 74

Concentration Transportation Manufacturing Banking 74

PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2016

has its Silicon Valley, and Israel has its own Silicon Wadi of concentrated tech know-how. However, while the former is established, the latter is still growing, in no small part thanks to the money Western companies keep pouring into it. The news comes at an interesting time for Intel’s future in Israel.

Concentration 40

Concentration Manufacturing Technology 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Apple has made a new bet on augmented reality (AR), buying Akonia Holographics , which makes lenses for the technology. Akonia’s HoloMirror technology enables “headsets that are thin, transparent and light-weight, while achieving high [field of view (FOV)] with low manufacturing cost,” Akonia said on its website.

Concentration 41

Concentration Manufacturing Retail Technology 41

PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2017

He said, “The long-term ambition of PassivDom is to make the manufacturing franchise the core business line of the company. PassivDom manufacturing franchise is attractive to manufacturers because they are currently competing in the ‘red ocean’ and have no capability to provide innovative housing offers to the clients.

Construction 40

Construction Manufacturing Concentration Transportation 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

perhaps not surprisingly, given the two transactions just mentioned — represented the bulk of concentration, to the tune of 86 percent of all investment activity. And according to Ed Abbo, president and chief technology officer of C3 IoT , fraud detection is paramount in the global power industry, which is a $30 billion–$40 billion industry.

Investments 74

Investments Concentration Valuation Manufacturing 74

Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Value of Intangible Assets Accounting has historically done a poor job dealing with intangible assets, and as the economy has transitioned away from a manufacturing-dominated twentieth century to the technology and services focused economy of the twenty first century, that failure has become more apparent.

Valuation 104

Valuation Profit and Loss Accounting Investments 104

Musings on Markets

JANUARY 12, 2021

The last decade, with it influx of user based companies and technology platforms forced me to think seriously about how to value a user, subscriber or rider and extrapolate from there to company value. Debt can handcuff even large, established companies & put them at risk.

Valuation 52

Valuation Corporate Finance Finance Investments 52

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 19, 2023

00:21:47 [Speaker Changed] And a lot of funds that have found success seem to have run some pretty concentrated portfolios. 00:22:29 [Speaker Changed] So less concentrated exposure. When you say you cover tech, how many different sub-sectors are under technology? So you have to be a specialist to, to take this approach.

Healthcare 61

Healthcare Investments Construction Concentration 61

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Bernstein told Webster that Freebird has been implemented across a wide range of companies – from the Fortune 500 to relatively small start-ups – and across a wide variety of verticals, including education, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and technology. “If So, we’ve concentrated our resources here.”. So, how does it work?

Pharmaceutical 45

Pharmaceutical Education Concentration Numbers 45

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Out the investor went, proudly showing the world the newest innovation in clothing design and manufacturing all his own. Bitcoin’s infrastructure is highly concentrated and not all that secure. They used technology and computing power to create the framework for the payments ecosystem that now powers global commerce.

Currencies 71

Currencies Concentration Financial Systems Investments 71

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: That’s so different of an approach than we typically hear, which is we want to buy a company for the assets, the revenue stream, maybe some technology or intellectual property, and we’re going to just mash you into our culture, whether you like it or not. JOHNSON: And so, and the manufacturer had less power.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 86

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 86

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You still get these, you know, cap driven concentration problems in the market like last year. But we subsequently went into recession like conditions for many of those goods oriented categories like manufacturing and housing, housing related, a lot of consumer oriented products and goods that were big beneficiaries of the lockdown phase.

Investments 57

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 57

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

In an ecosystem in which success is defined by scale and time to market, it’s no longer good enough to have a great product, a well-known brand or a compelling technology. Warehouse clubs are a $200 billion business, highly concentrated among a few big brick-and-mortar players: Costco (the largest), BJ’s and Sam’s Club. Distribution.

Sales 54

Sales Concentration Marketing Manufacturing 54

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

But that means if you’re in a company that, at the end of the day, manufactures product, the people in those groups tend to be people that move a lot of the product because that’s the business of the company. So, you go to an RIA, you obviously have lots of overhead of technology decisions, and you got to hire more team.

Planning 130

Planning Communication Profit and Loss Education 130

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And before that, Morgan Stanley, doing technology and operations planning for the wealth and asset management group. which was our Global X Lithium and Battery Technology. The technology around making these nuclear plants a lot safer than maybe was the case in the past. BERRUGA: You know, great question. RITHOLTZ: LIT, L-I-T.

Investments 61

Investments Marketing Numbers Risk Management 61

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

So you would see pretty high concentrations of, you know, $100 million, $200 million, $300 million, all essentially sitting on a single balance sheet of the bank. So, for example, a business that provides software to banks or to manufacturing companies, where the software is actually embedded in the business, right? RITHOLTZ: Right.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 57

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 57