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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The pain is particularly pronounced in China , where the price tag of its latest iPhones and local competition have been weighing on demand. “Technology is evolving, and they need to continue to tweak their structure to be sure they’re on the right curve.”. Apple’s moves come at a time when demand for its iPhones is starting to slow.

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JUNE 18, 2018

As reported by Reuters , Mercari is set to bow on the public markets in Japan, and while observers of the stock market are watchful of a billion-dollar price tag — which means, of course, unicorn status — the enthusiasm underpins a business model of a different sort.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Wegmans eCommerce Group Manager Erica Tickle said, according to reports , “ Our customers are busy, so when it comes to grocery shopping, they appreciate a range of options that allow them to get the task done with ease, when and how they want.” They then receive instructions and a phone number to call as they approach the store.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

To learn more about their customers and increase foot traffic, retailers are testing out new business ideas. The vast majority of retailers believe in trying new business approaches. Of course, you can see online players such as Amazon and Flipkart growing,” Juvencio Maeztu, IKEA’s CFO, said earlier this year.

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MARCH 25, 2019

Once closed, the conjoined firm will offer enterprise banking, payments, capital markets and global eCommerce services to financial institutions and businesses around the world. As a result of the pair-up, Worldpay merchants will essentially gain push-button access to Amazon Pay at checkout, without a heavy or complicated integration process.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

As grocers fight for survival and dominance in the age of Amazon, Kroger is testing connected devices with the help of Microsoft. We are identifying partners through Restock Kroger who will help us reinvent the customer experience and create new profit streams that will also accelerate our core business growth.”.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

Amazon’s Alexa just keeps getting smarter. Soon she’ll be making herself at home at work with new business-oriented skills, and she’s about to start powering payments, the company announced at its re:Invent conference. First there was Apple Pay, then Samsung Pay and now, perhaps inevitably, there’s about to be Amazon Pay.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Does Amazon Protect threaten traditional insurers, and will the eCommerce giant’s merchant marketplace gain traction Down Under? As always, the Frightful Five have been busy this week, with many hot irons in the fire. Across the pond, Amazon may be beefing up its insurance offerings in Europe.

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JULY 6, 2018

Shoe sellers can dust off a pair of unsold sneakers and keep them on the shelf until they sell, but businesses like grocery stores don’t have that luxury. Customers opt-in by signing up with the store’s app, allowing the retailer to send promotions via notifications or SMS messages and detect where they are in the store.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Amazon had not one but two big grocery announcements this week. The first big news over the wires was official confirmation that the eCommerce giant will open an Amazon branded grocery store next year in California. The company described the store, which will be in Woodland Hills, as “Amazon’s first grocery store.”.

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JULY 5, 2017

In its latest effort to keep up with its American big brother Amazon, China’s eCommerce giant Alibaba has announced the debut of its own smart home speaker. It’s not just the “Amazon of China.” Amazon, says Ma, is at its core a retailer, andAlibaba is more like a small business ecosystem. Alibaba isn’t just a copycat.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Trying to get off on a technicality, and a weak one at that, Murgio claimed that bitcoin did not meet the definition of “funds” under federal law, which prohibits unlicensed money transmitting businesses. Purse And Unocoin Want A Piece Of Amazon’s Indian Pie. The two are partnering to offer consumers discounts when shopping on Amazon.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Serious fitness buffs seem to flock to Garmin wearables despite their rather high price tag and a near-universal observation that its screen is fairly “blah.”. Amazon has reportedly hired much of the former Google Glass team to work on its version of a wearable. And those were just the big headlines.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

The reverse logistics platform we have created in-house can power any rental business, and our aspiration is to be the ‘ Amazon Prime of rental ,’” said Rent the Runway COO Anushka Salinas. We collect data to make our mobile app and DD Perks program even more valuable and relevant to our guests.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Kohl’s : Brick-and-mortar stores are the new battlefront for Amazon, and Kohl’s is the latest beneficiary. Folks can buy Amazon products directly at Kohl’s, including smart home offerings — cementing, perhaps, Kohl’s as purveyors of cutting-edge technology. Can you spell coopetition? Alexa is debuting a slew of skills aimed at kids.

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APRIL 21, 2016

The continued movement toward mobile commerce has placed increasing pressure on service businesses of all stripes — from lenders to retailers — to find out, in real time or at least near real time, which customers are “good” ones. Why is that, and what benefit does that give its customers (lenders, retailers, other service businesses)?

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AUGUST 26, 2019

In the last several years, there has also been an explosion of pet care subscription boxes , digital on-demand veterinary services , luxury dog spas and hotels, app-based doggie day care – not to mention the literally thousands of dog toy options available on Amazon. Tag has access to the details needed to quickly get the dog home.”

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JANUARY 22, 2018

To do that, they’ve built a customer shopping platform through their CONNEXT shopping app, with plans to produce that actual shows and movies to house the place products. The magic that will make those purchases possible, is the proprietary CONNEXT app, which consumers can use to connect to the goods in their interactive programming.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A Wholly Organic Thanksgiving, From Amazon . When Amazon acquired Whole Foods last summer, among their goals was bringing every consumer affordable access to organic foods. But the deal gets notably better for Amazon Prime members, who will see the prices go down to $2.99/lb. for organic and $1.99/lb.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

An article published in the Harvard Business Review in August of 2009 posed a question that many airline and travel industry CEOs are pondering 11 years later: Will videoconferencing kill business travel? Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices.

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JUNE 29, 2018

In social, sharing-based businesses, pricing is all subject to supply and demand. Still, such a steep price tag could be a big deterrent and discourage many from ever trying the service. With Uber and Lyft, it’s simple for users to pop open an app, request a car and be on their way within five minutes. The Pricing Problem.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ ANNOUNCER: This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have a pair of extra special guests. Let’s talk a little bit about how a blog becomes a business.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

All of our earlier podcasts on your favorite pod hosts can be found here. ~~~ BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra, extra special guest. So that’s when I started in business and became a stockbroker. I went to business school RITHOLTZ: He just wanted you to go through the exercise.

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