PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Ransomware attacks are on the rise within local and state governments, he added, leading to revived debate about how to handle such a scenario. . Below, PYMNTS examines some of the latest data behind the rise in government bodies being targeted in cyber and ransomware attacks — and the price tags with which these attacks come. .

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden: a whopping $600 billion for firms across the globe. is by far the hardest hit from small businesses spending too much time on manual tasks. Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

is rolling out its own fleet spend management solution to offer businesses an alternative to fuel cards, the company said Wednesday (Sept. Equo Fuel analyzes local fuel prices, fleet vehicle MPG data and other data sets to calculate how much a driver should be reimbursed for fuel spend. “By

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2016

According to a recent article by Re/code , Project September is an app and website that will give users the ability to tag images from Instagram with product details that help to make products more discoverable and (as Maybank and her team hope) drive purchases from the platform.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2020

yogi spends $62,640 on [yoga accessories and classes] over his or her lifetime, and this barrier could stand to be reduced,” Jessica Thompson, founder and CEO of yoga mat eTailer, YOGO , said in the latest Buy Now Pay Later Tracker®. Looking at yoga, for example, “The average U.S. But all that health gets exceedingly pricey.

Manufacturing 69

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2018

” Looking ahead, Fleetcor said it is focused on adding new customers and increasing spend for existing customers to continue growth. The solution links drivers to a Sem Parar tag connected to the vehicle, which uses radio frequency identification to facilitate payment and invoice the user.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 76

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

It’s a one-stop messaging app that lets them spend more time on what matters most — running their businesses seamlessly and deepening customer relationships.”. Shopify said these integrations will help merchants run Instagram and Facebook ads along with email and retargeting campaigns.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2018

Well, consider the example of Samba TV , a company that pays hardware manufacturers to put its tracking software into their TV sets so that Samba can craft targeted ads based on viewing habits. Such companies as Expedia, Citi and JetBlue reportedly have used Samba technology to craft personalized ads. consumers spend 4.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2017

Loyalty is the Holy Grail of retail, with happy customers retained and spending all the while on goods flying off brick-and-mortar shelves. People used to buy software upfront,” he noted, adding that software in that form was a transaction-oriented business. The shift has been spurred by online technology and retail channels, he said.

Retail 46

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company realizes it’s time to improve its corporate travel and expense (T&E) management strategy, there are a few items on the list of must-haves: Spend control, transparency and analytics are probably high on that list.

Nonprofit 46

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Gartner forecasts that global spending on security and risk management will exceed US$150 billion in 2021 adding cloud adoption and remote working to the mix of reasons for the spend.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

All of these institutions are spending billions and billions, and billions, of dollars on compliance and AML, not to mention a ton of time and talent that goes into this,” Adjaoute told Webster. For all that spend and effort, he added, banks don’t seem to be doing much better with AML.

Banking 76

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Recruiting customers is hard to do — and comes with a big price tag. With the most restaurants and the best loyalty programs, we believe that we have the right formula and are ideally positioned for success,” he added. percent of consumer spending, and 6.4 million, or $.05 26) called Grubhub+. percent of all retail sales.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2017

But as procurement become automated and accelerated, industry experts at eProcurement and spend management software company eRequester say it must also be transparent. Citing a Spend Matters survey from 2015, eRequester said more than 70 percent of businesses don’t have full visibility into their supply chains.

B2B 40

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Nomura estimates a price tag of $350 per consumer in terms of acquisition costs, which means breakeven is several years away. We suspect that Apple is not finished with its slate of financial services; adding debit could be one such avenue,” the analysts wrote.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

According to a news report for CNBC , Raymond James Analyst Tavis McCourt said he was prompted to raise the price target after an internal survey showed “surprising” demand for the iPhone X, which comes with the hefty price tag of $999 or more. Last year, those figures stood at 15 percent and, in 2015, at 17 percent.

Sales 40

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Not only do small businesses want automated accounting, access to capital and other value-added tools, but they want these services to be integrated. ” That human expertise can guide the evolution of technology and software, enabling business end users to obtain that knowledge without the price tag.

Numbers 61

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Turns out, too, that the famed iOS ecosystem is not the lure that it may be in other parts of the world, as The Wall Street Journal noted that many consumers prefer to spend their time in the confines of other ecosystems that span social media, payments and, of course, any other number of applications, notably WeChat.

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2017

We can search visually,” Lott said, “and we can search through people who are tagging us, tagging brands, tagging relevant content and moms who we think have a really good sense of style.”. Spearmint LOVE only began spending money on online advertising in February 2016, Lott said — again, via social channels.

Leverage 40

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Trevor Sumner, CEO of PERCH , said that people aren’t seeing TV ads anymore, and active engagement between brands and their customers on Facebook is dwarfed by the number of shoppers who pass by a store display on any given day. To be fair, reimagining an entire industry is no easy task.

Education 62

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Facebook hopes the move will help it siphon more revenue from the $70-billion TV advertising market and give it more space for ads beyond the crowded newsfeed. But traditional cable companies, already floundering in the face of streaming on-demand video services, will probably feel the blow, along with ad-supported online services.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

One of the recurring themes in American capitalism, he said, is the periodic fear that this next generation just isn’t doing its part, commercially speaking, and spending enough. Some of that, according to Joshua Becker , who authors the blog Becoming Minimalist , is actually just a new statement of an ongoing issue in American society.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

The lingering problem is that, for many indirect spending categories, general purpose eProcurement solutions lack sufficient work-stream-specific functionality to deliver an ROI,” concluded Gartner Research Vice President, Procurement Solutions & Strategies Debbie Wilson. This is where we need to be,’” he said.

Healthcare 43

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

“Through opt-in, [we can] recognize a user in the physical space, and then, through other mechanisms, such as our campaign orchestration tools — whether through mobile app or SMS mechanism — [we can] communicate with the consumer,” he added. Telecom firms looking to improve in-store customer engagement at their many locations have, too.

Sales 52

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Creative CFP

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The tag line was “Real-time accounting”. This may not seem to be that important, but when you spend hours staring at a screen you want to be interacting with the best-looking platform possible. This is time that I can spend on things that matter and that actually bring about positive change.

Accounting 52

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In a direct move into LinkedIn’s territory, Facebook has added the ability for businesses to post job listings in the same space they use to post a status update. Two-thirds of job seekers are already employed,” Facebook’s VP of Ads and Business Platform Andrew Bosworth told TechCrunch. Canada and Australia to send up to $1,000.

Numbers 40

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

’Tis the season for shopping — and capturing the spend of consumers with a newfound enthusiasm for commerce of all kinds. Adding goods to a basket involved giving Siri a command to “Add to Walmart” and then naming the product they want to add to their cart. Win of the Week: Amazon Owns the Voice Market .

eCommerce 46

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Take the consumer segment known as Bridge Millennials — 29 million strong, they are between the ages of 30 and 40, and have grown up using connected devices and represent the first generation of connected consumers with spending power.

eCommerce 65

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Yeah, generally it’s responded well, many organizations have added cash as an ongoing buffer, heavily in the beginning but still are quite cash heavy. We have three years of plans to spend more significantly more on security. I think that’s a good sign that there’s plans to spend. Craig Jeffery 14:39 .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Suddenly awash in a flood of results, the customer throws on some kind of filter just to spend less time scanning thumbprints and reading amenity lists in an effort to narrow down the vast array of rentals. “So Or, he added, one can look at the operational and security buckets.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Despite the scary figure, Chrome River added that the majority of employees don’t fib on their expense reports — 94 percent said they are honest when seeking reimbursement for company travel. . the price tag for buying its competitor was $36 million, the firms said. billion in loans were taken out by small U.K.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Going clean and green is just about everyone’s favorite marketing tag line these days. And for a certain high-spending segment of consumers, purity is an expectation in the good. In some cases, preservatives were adding costs — and the quest to purge certain kinds of products pushed greater efficiency in the chain.

Advertising 45

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

It’s an error-prone process, the report added, with banks still handling the cost of compliance, payment processing and FX. The Price Tag. While this can be a solution to some of the costs associated with cross-border payments, Ripple noted that many FIs cannot afford to maintain these accounts. The Case For XRP .

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Kroger is spending a lot of money building out and better coming up. We’d say a ton of money but, as the Cincinnati Business Times points out, if the money Kroger plans to spend were in $100 bills, the Cincinnati- based retailer would be spending almost 41 tons of money. A $4 Billion Investment In What’s Next .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2017

After all, there is something undeniably heartwarming about the fact that Americans will spend $1 trillion doing it this year, according to research from Deloitte. The Cheeky Cheer sweaters, inspired by a recent ad campaign , boast three variations: Back-Shelf Elf, Snowball Booty and Baby Got Ginger Back.

Retail 40

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

We spend the time accumulating clients over time. Other times, you can imagine in the Seattle area, they say, “We don’t want to spend more than $700,000 on this house.” ” And then three months later, “Crap, we have to spend $900,000 on the house we want now because we’re getting outbid.”

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And then we added to our thesis sort of infrastructure, and infrastructure investments included Twilio and MongoDB, Cloudflare. If you’re YouTube, you want to serve the most engaging video so that you can show more ads.

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