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APRIL 8, 2020

That’s now critical, with COVID-19 stranding tens of millions of people at home as gyms, stores and studios sit empty. Remote workout brands like Bowflex and Peloton were well-positioned for COVID-19’s social distancing order from the get-go, with preexisting menus of live-streaming classes and, of course, their eponymous home gym hardware.

Manufacturing 69

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

COVID-19’s Price Tag Leaves Large Hospitals At Financial Risk. In the Real-Time Payments Tracker, Alvarez explains how pre-transaction verification and artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analysis can help lenders quickly vet and disburse loans in real time.

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APRIL 7, 2020

All options cost money, however, and high price tags on gear, classes or personalized training plans can deter individuals from achieving their health goals. Many are thus turning to BNPL solutions to finance their personal fitness quests, especially as gyms close in response to COVID-19.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Supply chain disruptions caused by the worldwide COVID-19 outbreak create more uncertainty. Apple’s annual release of new products is highly anticipated — but difficult to predict in terms of timing and the extent of the changes the company makes.

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

The feature is expected to appeal to creators and brands, and will also allow users to add shopping tags to their posts. Reels are the short-form videos that now have their own tab in Instagram. eBay: Offline Payment Preferences Are Changing Online Habits. Tis the Season …. for Omnichannel Returns?

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JANUARY 21, 2021

healthcare system was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, a reality illustrated by UnitedHealth Group’s latest earnings report published Wednesday (Jan. The company managed to beat Q4 profit expectations despite COVID-19 taking a significant bite out of its business. Every aspect of the U.S.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

More than buttressed by the COVID-19 spike in web traffic that has driven digital sales across the board — Amazon has brought bigger names in fashion onto its platform with brands such as Oscar De La Renta, Chico’s FAS — parent firm of brands like Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma.

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JUNE 4, 2020

Bloomberg reported that the statement will escalate a feud between Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos , whom Musk tagged in the tweet. Both Bezos and Musk have invested in space exploration in the past.

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JUNE 4, 2020

Bloomberg reported that the statement will escalate a feud between Musk and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos , whom Musk tagged in the tweet. Both Bezos and Musk have invested in space exploration in the past.

eCommerce 52

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Google’s security experts had their hands full in April, as its Threat Analysis Group (TAG) emailed 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets of hacking and phishing attempts by cybercriminals. Fueled by COVID-19, giant tech companies are seeking deals at their fastest pace in years, despite an increase in scrutiny by regulators.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Bitdefender said in its Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 that four out of 10 pandemic-themed emails in the first half of the year on average were tagged as spam. “As Also, malware developers moved to find nefarious uses for programs like Zoom, which is popular among workers who are now telecommuting.

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Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Big price tags and longer timelines. Countries that have lagged because they've been in firefighting mode against the economic consequences of COVID. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs can pose unique challenges to finance chiefs charged with maximizing returns.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

The pain started to become very evident on Wednesday (March 18), as the trade group that represents mall owners asked for a government bailout and big retail names started to put a price tag on the revenue losses they expected to incur. This is our time to focus on our community and do our part to stop COVID-19 from spreading.”.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

A COVID slump slowed the roll of major automakers and dealers this past spring, with the pandemic causing a 30 percent drop in auto sales to date. The company is capitalizing on COVID-era societal shifts as it designs this new generation of sustainable cars. “We

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JULY 16, 2020

Subscription service Amazon Prime launched in early 2005 with a $79 annual price tag. This became clear as Amazon mobilized to supply 100 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to frontline workers at the depth of COVID-19 lockdowns and the healthcare response it triggered.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are following suit, reordering their products and services for a new digital normal — but unfortunately, fraudsters are tagging along.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

Which, he noted, and recent data strongly supports, has meant a switch to digitizing their offerings almost overnight as a stopgap during the COVID-19 crisis. Due to the COVID-19 crisis, orders placed today are unlikely to be delivered any sooner than 5 weeks from now, and over 7 weeks in some areas.”. It’s not the same, right?”

Startups 56

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating this shift, making financial institutions (FIs), merchants and their regulatory officials race to secure these new digital users. Cybersecurity and data privacy have always been critical facets of open banking regulations as fraud tends to increase alongside growing online transaction volumes.

Banking 70

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The social media firm purportedly contravened an Illinois state law via a “Tag Suggestions” functionality that enabled users to identify their friends from photos put on the platform in the past. In July, Facebook had bolstered its settlement offer to $650 million in the case, up from a previous $550 million.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000. Rosé has actually been prowling the hotel since 2018, but has gone from being a neat add-on to an important part of guest services since the COVID-19 outbreak began.

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MARCH 25, 2020

One wonders what the world will look like in the summer of 2021, and whether the crowds will be there to cheer on the world’s athletes – or even whether the roster of nations sending those athletes will be the same as it was before COVID-19 took root. Lots of unknowns are in the mix. billion USD. billion tally, there is an additional $9.7

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APRIL 16, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak, Kakkar noted, has more or less strapped a rocket onto that growth, as consumers have rerouted their commerce, working and social lives onto digital channels as they ride out social distancing in their homes.

Risk Analysis 68

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 19, 2021

A 2020 Gartner CFO Survey found that nearly 3 out of 4 CFOs intended to shift at least 5% of their previously on-site staff to permanently remote roles post-COVID-19. Many finance processes are already running remotely, and they incorporate some of the most sensitive data within an organization, including customer and supplier financial data.

Securities 52

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MAY 26, 2020

And now, just as the Greatest Generation survived the depression and World War II, the millennials will end up bearing the brunt of two once-in-a-lifetime global events: the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic. That will make it immeasurably more difficult for millennials to find a steady financial footing going forward.

Economics 61

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JANUARY 16, 2021

Car technology was an expected part of CES in 2021, as vehicles are a big part of the big show every year — particularly for the last few years, as consumer interest in connected car technology has spiked alongside a growing enthusiasm for a possible future where cars can drive themselves and the humans just tag along for the ride.

Technology 81

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

While the value crowd, bereft of victories for a long time, may be inclined to do a victory dance, it is worth noting that the same phenomenon occurred between February and March of 2020, at the start of the COVID crisis, but that growth companies quickly recouped their losses and finished ahead of mature companies by the end of 2020.

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

While the value crowd, bereft of victories for a long time, may be inclined to do a victory dance, it is worth noting that the same phenomenon occurred between February and March of 2020, at the start of the COVID crisis, but that growth companies quickly recouped their losses and finished ahead of mature companies by the end of 2020.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

And hopes for recovery have been dimmed as of late by the recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, which has further dimmed prospects for consumers regaining their enthusiasm or flying the friendly skies. Among the segments affected by the pandemic, air travel remains near the top of the list when it comes to industries that have been hard hit.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 1, 2023

We have mixed messaging, lethally bad advice on airborne tranmission, confusing guidance, a broken website, with an inexplicable hash-tag to wrap it all up. This is our flagship public health agency, the finest in in the world, the Centers for Disseminating Covid [slow clap]. * * *. She was in heart failure due to COVID-19 Today.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. It’s so much bigger than COVID, for example, in ways that I think people still don’t appreciate. And then during COVID, we raised the first Climate Fund, $160 million Climate Fund. I had just finished another project I was been working on.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Even Coca-Cola has had a rough year at the hands of COVID-19. With a $45-for-three-months price tag, that subscription box has been popular among consumers — there's a waiting list to get it. And while the pandemic will end — though perhaps not nearly as soon as many of us would like — sticky.io

Retail 116

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PYMNTS

JULY 24, 2020

COVID is no different than any other kind of macro trend. It’s what the fraudsters tag onto because it’s the most current opportunity. Just as a fraudster might use a popular celebrity to get people to open their phishing emails, they’re going to use COVID for the same thing. And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.”.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

But some unexpected products included a new edition of the standard iPad, with a few upgrades designed to capture the exploding tablet market that COVID-19 has created in recent months. Apple introduced its new flagship Series 6 Apple Watch , which features a blood-oxygen sensor, a new Apple S6 Silicon chip and about a $400 price tag.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

That banks and others got caught unawares by COVID-19 isn’t the issue, because it caught everyone by surprise, from private industry to the CDC, the WHO and world governments. But one can’t hold that “deer in the headlights” pose at a time like this.

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JULY 16, 2020

And while the threat of cybercrime has only grown in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the collective bandwidth for worrying about it outside of dedicated segments has fallen off some. Apart from celebrities, Apple and Uber were also tagged in the hacking event that occurred Wednesday (July 15). It’s not surprising.

Securities 64

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Michael: So just literally, client’s got an expenditure from such and such restaurant, you tag that as, that’s a restaurants thing. I feel like through COVID, especially, at first, I was super scared that this was going to go down, but it actually grew in COVID. It happened over COVID. Mindy: I just used Zoom.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2020

COVID-19’s hits seem to just keep on coming. The botton line: Many grocers got tagged when they didn’t see the last wave of pandemic-related buying coming. With some predicting the dreaded second wave of outbreaks, U.S. It’s easy to imagine that only becoming more important as the holiday season wears on.

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