CFO Thought Leader

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Episode Highlights The Shift to Mobile: CFO Brumana reflects back on the technology shift from desktop to mobile as it relates to online shoppers and how marketplaces discovered that they needed to quickly reallocate their capital away from desktop-only projects in order to attract more app developers from the mobile world.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

With Amazon leading in the voice-activated speaker market thanks to Alexa and her slew of skills, Apple is trying to fight back. Apple’s HomePod voice activated speakers haven’t resonated with consumers partly because of the hefty price tag. It also has to contend with Google, relegating it to third place.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

That deal marked the company’s first foray into the South American market. The company’s cloud-based treasury risk management platform features proprietary worldwide capital flow forecasting programs, as well as productivity-boosting workflow models. “We The company said it took care of 5.9 million transactions and traded £35.5

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MAY 29, 2020

Access to capital for small- to medium-sized businesses ( SMBs ) has always been vital, as well as a challenge. In some cases, when a traditional bank shuts the door on an SMB applicant, a business owner may not know where else to turn for capital. But the price tag is rarely painless. Financing Modernization. ”

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

“This is a sign the company is trying to get the formula right for the next decade,” said Gene Munster, a longtime Apple analyst and managing partner at venture capital firm Loup Ventures. The pain is particularly pronounced in China , where the price tag of its latest iPhones and local competition have been weighing on demand.

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JUNE 4, 2018

The bag that tags along, you might call it. The maker of the bag that tags along? ForwardX is based in Beijing, and has marketing efforts based in San Jose, California. ForwardX is based in Beijing, and has marketing efforts based in San Jose, California. Flush with cash. miles per hour.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

As the world's attention is focused on the war in the Ukraine, it is the human toll, in death and injury, that should get our immediate attention, and you may find a focus on economics and markets to be callous. The increase in default spreads was not restricted to foreign markets, as fear also pushed up spreads in the corporate bond market.

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JULY 21, 2017

As reported Friday (July 21), American multinational financial services firm Blackstone and private equity firm CVC Capital Partners have bid to acquire payments processor Paysafe Group. The price tags attached to the deals were reported as $3.7 The $470 million price tag will be funded by $90 million in cash and a $380 million loan.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Apple is currently in striking distance to becoming the first company to hit a market capitalization of $1 trillion. A race has been on between Apple, Amazon and Microsoft to be the first company to reach that market capitalization. and China eased Wednesday (Aug. 1) driving stocks higher.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

If you’re interested in venture capital, in technology, in how to think about early stage investing, well, strap yourself in, this is a great one. And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. RITHOLTZ: Is that what led to your transition from entrepreneur to venture capital? WENGER: Yeah.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

11) trading and gave the company a capitalization of $1.01 Microsoft also has a market cap higher than $1 trillion, at $1.04 In a similar move, Apple Watch’s newest edition (the 5) will carry a top tier price tag — but Apple has also officially lowered the price of the Apple Watch Series 3 to $199.”. trillion. .

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APRIL 23, 2018

The high-end device has a hefty price tag of $999, which shut a lot of buyers out of the market. Bloomberg cited Neil Campling of Mirabaud Securities as saying that TSMC blamed the weakness on the high end of the market. “We Thanks to President Trump’s tax reform , Apple was able to bring a lot of cash back into the country.

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MAY 16, 2018

Beyond answering the demands of social media users who crave celebrity and influencer fashions, Choosy seeks to solve another problem: making expensive designer fashions available to the masses without the big price tags. Fashion Through Social Tagging. Choosy raised $5.4

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

million price tag – was tied for first place with another Banksy piece that was sold in 2008. million price tag. Times that Banksy has now cemented himself as “one of today’s preeminent art market critics. One can prank capitalism, but it’s hard to beat some of its laws, particularly the one about supply and demand.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Production companies that create advertising or marketing campaigns for corporate clients are also expected to complete their projects in a timely manner, no matter what circumstances arise. They also include earmarked controls that allow producers to tag and reconcile purchases made for a particular project.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Apple is partly to blame for the guessing game happening in the stock market. As for the iPhone X, concerns abound that the high price tag could keep iPhone owners from upgrading. Thus, concerns about demand for the iPhone 8 weighed on shares in trading on Thursday (Oct. Meanwhile, Reuters reported that earlier this month the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

IMAX, venture capital firm Bold Capital Partners and mall chain Westfield Corp. The company plans to launch its debut VR storefront at a mall in Los Angeles sometime this upcoming fall, with plans to roll out to other markets sometime next year. have also reportedly invested in Dreamscape. Tickets will cost $15–$20, said WSJ.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. From product development through underwriting, pricing, payment and collections, claims, back-office functions and risk capital, distributed ledger technology could have a hand in all phases of the insurance space.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Nomura estimates a price tag of $350 per consumer in terms of acquisition costs, which means breakeven is several years away. Loss rates, the analysis said, may settle somewhere between that seen with Discover Financial Services and Capital One. “As

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Harman’s entry into the market — 63 years ago — was as an audio pioneer, though in recent years that has expanded under Dinesh Paliwal into a broader-based supplier relationship. The big buy of the Connecticut-based firm instantly vaults Samsung into the world of automotive technology in a big way. s air-bag recalls.

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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Retail performance mobile marketing expert Fidzup recently announced it raised $3.7 million in a new funding round with venture capitalists Cap Horn, Turenne Capital and existing investors. market soon,” he concluded. “I’m The Paris-based company brings mobile programmatic advertising to physical stores.

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MAY 28, 2019

The company previously raised $111 million in venture funding from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Qumra Capital and others. Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app through the function. Additional setups or third-party apps are not needed.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The move comes amid growth in the larger maternity market, however, with sales of that apparel expected to reach $7.7 The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., Larger Trends.

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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. It legitimizes that there’s a multibillion-dollar market here,” he noted. What falls under the heading of a unique experiences ranges quite widely.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For the food industry — that waste adds up to a $990 billion price tag, according to Alex Garden, chairman and CEO of Zume Inc. This is why it is such a shame that a third of the food produced on the planet is never eaten — instead getting tossed into the trash and shipped out one final time to the landfill. Rethinking Food Logistics.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The FinTech firm — which offers software that enables sound-wave-based payments — is used by investors such as Amazon , Reliance Capital and Mastercard. Even in the movement away from cash transactions and toward contactless payments (notably in ToneTag’s home market of India), constraints emerge.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

Kroger is seeking to bring new customer experiences to market faster, drive personalization with insights and help store associates become more productive. The Grocery Market. The retailer plans to pilot technology products using Microsoft’s Azure platform at two stores, one in Ohio and one in Washington.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Macy’s , for example, is testing out pop-up stores in 10 cities in a concept called “The Market @ Macy’s.” Amazon opened an Amazon Books location in the nation’s capital in March. The location is stocked with books, electronics and toys, among other items, but this bookstore is unique in that there are no price tags.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Product placement, sponsored content and influencer marketing are hardly new phenomena as the advertising world works nonstop to keep pace with the internet. Consider Spotify’s branded playlists or Alibaba recruiting its APASS members for marketing purposes. Disclosure of sponsored content isn’t difficult.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

The biggest announcement came as Magento Commerce, spun out from eBay two years ago, got $250 million from Hillhouse Capital, one of China’s largest investment firms. The new capital will help fund global expansion, with focus, as the name implies, on eCommerce. The implied valuation here is $700 million.

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AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. 290 million in venture capital landed at blockchain startups in H1 , revealed Juniper Research. 7 months of SME lending declines hit Canadian market , found PayNet last week.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Recommerce market : Buying pre-owned items ain’t just for cars. The recommerce market, which is focused on returned and (gently) used items, has been big business, where in China those sales are worth $60 billion. Venture capital interest and investments have been on the rise, so growth is in the cards.

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MARCH 16, 2017

Alphabet’s current estimated market cap sat over $591.4 Alphabet’s investment was part of a $25 million round that also included input from existing investors Notion Capital Ltd and Rakuten Inc., Currencycloud recently went stateside and has also seen interest coming from Asian markets, CEO Mike Laven told Reuters.

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APRIL 4, 2016

We examine the findings from several market reports on small business access to capital, lending, growth and employment. Researchers pointed to pressure on supermarkets to reduce prices amid a highly competitive market, which, in turn, has these sellers imposing extended payment terms on their food suppliers.

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MARCH 2, 2016

Ripple provides the infrastructure for blockchain-fueled cross-border payments in an effort to progress towards what the company calls the Internet of Value — a market in which money moves across borders securely and quickly, just like information moves throughout the Internet. The Price Tag. .” A Bit Of Background.

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MAY 5, 2017

Brexit and VC funding: If investing is a game that is best viewed through a “long” view rather than a “short” view, then venture capital is playing the long game when it comes to Brexit. billion in funding, the biggest capital raise for a tech co. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher.

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AUGUST 25, 2018

Depending on what part of the story and which group of Burners one looks at, they might either see a post-capitalist organization of people that makes up a sharing economy in the most literal possible sense, or a celebration of capitalism at its most comical and excessive. There is no buying or selling, no stands, no marketing.

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