PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

News of the call was posted as analysts became concerned when the company didn’t have a question-and-answer portion of its post-earnings conference call on Thursday (May 10) – a move that Cowen & Co called “shocking” – and it reportedly cancelled call-backs with analysts. That deal came with a price tag of $4.65

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2016

As customers place items also equipped with RFID tags into the bag, those potential purchases are immediately registered to a central system. Embedded RFID tags and the running tally of what’s in the bag automatically charge connected credit cards, and customers can go on with their days.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

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. Workplace skills could include having Alexa join conference calls on behalf of employees and adding data to enterprise sales programs. Finally, while the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2017

During the I/O developer conference, Google announced that it’s opening the door for in-app payments with the Google Payment API, which will allow merchants and developers to accept credit and debit payments made from a card that is saved in a customer’s Google Account.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

“This is just one example of a new, agile approach we are taking to innovation, through which we are rapidly experimenting to optimize our omnichannel experience, learning quickly and moving to solutions,” Dick’s Sporting Goods President Lauren Hobart said in an post-earnings conference call in May. .

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Walmart Pay is just the beginning,” SVP of Walmart Services Daniel Eckert said on a conference call. The problem is that shoppers do NOT want to carry around cards (or tags) for all the stores where they shop. “Not that it cannot generate significant activity pending wider deployment of things like Apple Pay, etc.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The move to open access, according to sources, started with Apple adding the Core NFC framework, which allows apps to use the NFC chip as a scanner for RFID tags, although that feature was very limited. (Some hotel rooms can already be opened by iPhones, but that is leveraging Bluetooth technology, not NFC.).

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The price tag, however didn’t scare off investors — who liked Founder and “hipster-vegan” Doug Evans’ pitch — and thought that selling “smart juice” had a future. Well, as long as one was willing to purchase its proprietary juice pouches and a $700 piece of Wi-Fi-enabled smart hardware (to do what?),

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2017

Making that happen is, again, not one activity but a series of them, including advanced alerting technology for spotting threats and a security operations center dedicated to finding, tagging and triaging threats, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. “We It’s not easy to gain access to a full data file on a consumer,” McGurk said.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

But sharp-eyed members noticed a glitch: The site had marked down almost all of the Prime Day-tagged camera equipment to around $94. It sold out quickly. One user reported buying a $13,000 lens for $94, and another claimed to have purchased $64,000 worth of camera equipment for $500. Obviously, brick-and-mortar stores are one thing.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Consumers may indeed be shifting to the cheaper iPhones (note that the XR has a starting price tag of $749) and walking away from the iPhone XR, as the older lines got $100 price cuts when the higher-end phones were launched. (It

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

That, along with longer replacement cycles and a hefty price tag for its newest iPhones, means Apple has been struggling. The move comes at a time when the smartphone market is getting saturated and consumers appear to be falling out of love with the iPhone.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri rounded up some new features coming to Instagram at the Facebook F8 developer conference on Tuesday (April 30), according to reports. Creators will simply tag items and their followers will be able to buy them right in the app. People come to Instagram to be with their close friends.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

And Chase Pay was officially added to their roster this week, as recent data indicated that the tryout rate for Chase’s emergent effort into mobile payments hasn’t managed to break out of the single digits after two years in the marketplace and its $100 million price tag. We’ll see how it pans out.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. About a week later, I’m in New York, and we’re having a conference call. Oh, you just do work with mathematics and intellectual activities. You don’t do any dirty work.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Pronouns are now frequently displayed prominently in social-media bios, email signatures and conference name tags. ‘What are your pronouns?” is a seemingly innocuous question that has become increasingly common. Vice President. Kamala Harris. features “she/her” pronouns in her. bio, and Transportation Secretary. Pete Buttigieg.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. It had the “fax” problem: The only way people could see each other was if the party on the other end had access to the same technology. And it was location-dependent.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? And 00:37:19 [Speaker Changed] So he starts going to conferences and he’s the guy that was scalping all the, that cash and suddenly he kind of becomes a bit of a star. What could go wrong? And he did the deal. But I, I turned to Sam Bankman free at the end of it. He was that fascinating. And it did.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s you’re on route to a conference or I’m on route to a conference and someone is specifically targeting your colleagues, right? But my deal is I use one of these services where anything I find interesting, I just tag it as a “to watch.” RITHOLTZ: Your bucket list, which most people don’t tag.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Bank of America decided they wanted to sell their branch in Lima, Peru, and the price tag was a million dollars. And we go into this conference room at Vnesheconombank, which was the obligor, or the export-import Bank of Russia. You were escorted into the conference room through three levels of security. I said, great.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. Hand wound moon watch.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. And then, you know, we, myself, Matt Hogan, Jim Wiandt, a bunch of other folks built that business up into, you know, a pretty respective chunky business that had a big conference and a huge data. It was a great decade.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

I’d met some of the Princeton people at a conference that I’d organized, helped organize in Italy, become very good friends with Orley Ashenfelter, who’s another incredibly influential person in modern economics. Tag on top of that for healthcare. Angus Deaton : Well,I was working at Bristol. I was publishing papers.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

And Speaker Ryan held a meeting in his conference room. So our initial meetings were between, you know, those of us coming into the White House and the house and, and, and, and we went down every Monday night in December and January prior to inauguration. Now, ultimately it came that the Senate was not going to do a border adjustment tax.

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