PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

eCommerce operators saw their largest Cyber Monday ever this year — sales surpassed $3.3 Into the blue: The number of men’s jeans Amazon sold over the holidays could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool. If we’re doing the math right, that’s nearly 4 million devices and 3 million toys — in one day!). million cookies.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The fifth annual Breakthrough Prize awards were doled out yesterday to researchers in the fields of fundamental physics, life sciences and math. Hosted at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, the Breakthrough Prize awards celebrate the year’s biggest achievements in the sciences.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

The disconnect, The Wall Street Journal pointed out, stems from changing consumer behavior, which is fast heading outside the physical store for the convenience and speed of eCommerce. The shift in the trends is fiddling with the math behind calculating the strength of one of the major pillars of the U.S. economy — retail.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

It is good at drawing in eyeballs, but turning eyeballs into dollars isn’t always so easy — unless one has a truly unfathomable number of eyeballs to call a base (like Google or Facebook) so as to make advertising an extremely lucrative enterprise. Social media has a basic business model problem.

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MAY 25, 2018

The MATH doesn’t add up,” Jefferies analyst Randal Konik wrote in a note to clients. By the numbers — including eCommerce — Victoria’s Secret’s same-store sales rose 1 percent after a 14 percent drop in the same period a year ago. However, factor out eCommerce sales, and that 1 percent gain, becomes a 7 percent loss.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

Going global is no longer a nice-to-have for online merchants; it really is a must for those who hope to grow their brand and remain competitive in the eCommerce space. The number of accepted payment methods is increasing, and the number of clicks and pages to checkout is decreasing.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Last week, Constellation Brands purchased Empathy Wines , a direct-to-consumer (DTC) eCommerce business that sells wines from California vineyards. In May, I made the case that we were witnessing what math geeks call a jump discontinuity, a sharp and distinct break from the past and an irreversible shift — a quantum leap — to something new.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

He didn’t think much of math and science — rather unusual given his choice of a profession that uses complicated math formulas to communicate. The same media that had declared Walmart a lethargic, brick-and-mortar victim to Amazon’s nimble, eCommerce prowess is now Walmart’s biggest fan.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 12, 2017

When we launched in India, it was exclusively on eCommerce site Flipkart. The first is the assortment of the product options that are available online, and the second is the number of platforms. If I was to include the mobile site as well, those numbers would increase by another 10 percent.

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JULY 13, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities, and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit the company and its data collection efforts.

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PYMNTS

JULY 12, 2018

A growing number of companies are coming to understand how consumers’ granular-level data can lead to a host of revenue-enhancing opportunities and set a path for customer acquisition and product improvement. But Macdonald said he is confident the numbers will shift in such a way to benefit this company and its data collection efforts.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

PYMNTS will update with all the details and provide analysis once Amazon releases its numbers. All toys selected will in some way be related to science, technology, engineering and math. Profits from Amazon Web Services are also expected to contribute significantly to the company’s growth.

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JUNE 14, 2019

While Amazon is fairly tight-lipped about specific numbers, eMarketer has cut its estimate of Amazon’s current online commerce market share in the U.S. It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. Big Shift Of The Week: The Great eCommerce Reset. Starting with… Amazon.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Numbers for Fun, Profit and Failure. While the predictive power of algorithms is undeniably impressive, there is a big problem with the standard marketing for algorithm-based decision-making, according to Weapons of Math Destruction author Cathy O’Neil during a separate discussion.

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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. Laundering operations may attempt to go this route because the onboarding process is faster if the acquirer doesn’t have to review an eCommerce site.

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MARCH 15, 2016

To put into context how important cross-border has become in commerce opportunities, there’s one key number that stuck out from the findings of the Index — and that’s 57 percent. “The reality is that China’s regulator environment for providing local eCommerce has been kind of influx,” West said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Consumers always have their debit card handy and and can provide that number to a sender – knowing that if something goes wrong they are protected. Senders don’t have to ask receivers for the ABA and routing number of the bank account they’d like the money deposited to either – and then when the 99.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In just one year, we saw an increase of 167 percent in the number of bridge millennials who shop during the week for groceries, and 33 percent more consumers now buy on weekdays than on weekends using digital and digital-first methods, compared to 29 percent more consumers buying on weekdays than on weekends in 2019.

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JULY 14, 2017

The initial numbers show that the banner eCommerce event logged 6,000 orders per minute in the United States and a 20 percent increase in sales year over year. Prime numbers may have been confusing in high school math, but here they are the type of numbers that make retailers smile.

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