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In today’s top news, Google reported a resurgence of hacking and phishing attempts in April, and tech companies are making deals at their fastest pace since 2015. Tech Cos Making M&A Deals Amid Pandemic. Plus, Samsung and SoFi have partnered to offer a new mobile money management tool.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The arrangement will see the outfitting of all new Nissan vehicles with Sem Parar Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID tags), providing thousands of drivers with contactless payments capabilities and expanding Sem Parar’s customer base in the region, according to an announcement.

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MARCH 12, 2020

The price tag on the building, famous for being the former New York hub for the shopping retailer, is in excess of $1 billion. Managed By Q’s founder, Dan Teran, was in talks to purchase his own company back, but the deal ended up being too much for what Teran was willing to spend.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

The tech giants made a deal last year which would allow Apple to sell its products directly to consumers through an official store on the Amazon site. As a result, the FTC is reportedly now investigating the deal, and has been interviewing resellers affected by it. You just sort of tag on to an existing listing.

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APRIL 13, 2020

After making progress with redesigns, Apple will send its engineers to China to deal with production issues. “Apple has one shot at its first 5G launch and tepid success out of the gates due to a lukewarm consumer appetite would be a disaster scenario that further plays into the mindset of Cook & Co.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Call it a tale of two bank deals. The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. The LendingClub Deal. More immediately, the deal would give LendingClub a cheaper funding source for its loan business — last year, the company originated more than $12.3 The Morgan Stanley Deal.

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MAY 10, 2018

Today’s stories include a new deal Sears signed with Amazon , a digital gifting acquisition and a new robotic kitchen. Sears Inks Deal With Amazon To Install Tires Bought Online. Best Buy Minimizes Iconic Price Tag In New Logo. Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at some of the freshest payments news of the day.

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JULY 19, 2017

Flipkart, the Indian eCommerce company moved to raise its offer of to up to $950 million for Snapdeal, boosting the chances of the deal going through. A previous Reuters report pegged the price tag for the deal at between $800 million and $850 million, which Snapdeal’s board rejected. Snapdeal employs 1,500, noted the report.

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

Under the deal, African countries in the bloc will not have to keep half of their reserves in the French Treasury, and a French representative will no longer sit on the currency union’s board,” Reuters said. In addition, there are plans to make payments for all government services cashless by next year.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Axios , citing multiple sources, reported the deal is valued at around $30 million. Apple’s HomePod voice activated speakers haven’t resonated with consumers partly because of the hefty price tag. Apple did not comment on the deal, which is customary for the Cupertino, Califonia iPhone maker.

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JULY 22, 2019

Users are greeted with “Let’s go shopping” with a price tag logo and a search field that asks, “What are you looking for?” Search sorts and filters pricing, brand, and deals. The revamped experience was unveiled in India before rolling out to France in March. .

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JULY 21, 2017

The price tags attached to the deals were reported as $3.7 In the case of the consortium-for-Paysafe deal, the 590 pence per share offer stood 9 percent above Thursday’s closing price for the company, before the bid was announced. pence per stake, has stated support for the deal.

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MAY 11, 2017

Bloomberg News reported Wednesday that dealmakers on China’s mainland are “struggling to cope with tighter capital controls” and a more cautious deal-making landscape. The firms that are targeted are also putting in place some expensive caveats: penalties that Chinese firms have to pay if deals do not close.

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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. Amazon has actually been making more deals, alongside fellow giants like Google and Facebook. “Monopolies are wrong!” ” he said in the tweet.

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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. Amazon has actually been making more deals, alongside fellow giants like Google and Facebook. “Monopolies are wrong!” ” he said in the tweet.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Instead of wasted impressions, consumers select categories they actively want to follow: events, deals, news and trends. A new app is poised to move social content marketing away from user-generated content and put the power in the hands of brands themselves.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Alibaba is at the forefront of a bid that would take Intime Retail Group private, with a price tag of as much as $2.6 billion price tag would offer up a 42 percent premium for Intime, as paid by Alibaba and Intime Founder Shen Guojun, at HK$10 a share — and Alibaba already owns three-quarters of the company’s stock.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

That deal marked the company’s first foray into the South American market. The companies did not disclose the price tag of the deal, but moneycorp did say it would pay 20 percent using cash on hand. A payments service provider based in the U.K., The company said it took care of 5.9 million transactions and traded £35.5

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APRIL 12, 2019

In a press release at the time, PayU said the price tag was undisclosed, but noted the deal supported the company’s expansion into high-growth markets. PayU said that, with the deal, it had made investments and/or acquisitions totaling more than $350 million as of 2016, when it began to expand around the world.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

According to Finextra , the false Dow Jones stories reported that the incredible deal was sealed by now deceased Steve Jobs in 2010 and “gives each Google shareholder nine shares of Apple stock … Google employees said, “Yay.”” It went on to claim that the deal was set to be finalized on Wednesday.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but media reports last week pegged the price tag at anywhere from $35 million to $40 million. Pebble’s hardware will cease to exist with the deal. The acquisition excludes the company’s hardware products.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A possible deal for Amazon – one worth $1.2 Germany’s grocery ecommerce is very underdeveloped, and Germany is a very important country for Amazon,” Reuters quoted Bernstein Analyst Bruno Monteyne as saying in contemplation of such a deal. And a $1 billion price tag? News came Friday (Sept.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

The newswire said, citing unnamed sources, that there was no price tag attached to the newest approach toward Pandora, and the latter has not yet responded to the overture. The last time there was an official bid, the offer stood at $15 a share. The stock rose to a recent $13 a share on the rumor of renewed takeout interest.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

Launched in San Francisco as an on-demand storage company that would pick up and tag items from your home, then store them in a warehouse, it eventually started to expand into other cities. A Coinbase spokesperson told TechCrunch, however, there has been no official deal yet. The news comes as Omni has been struggling.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

And on California-based resale marketplace Tradesy, shoppers can actually get a deal, with a Giambattista Valli shift dress selling for less than the retail price of the H&M collaboration. But while some retailers limit purchases to prevent resales, the market is a crucial part of how teens and twentysomethings shop.

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APRIL 26, 2019

In 2015, it was reported that Global Payments announced that it would buy Heartland Payments in a widely anticipated deal. Through a release in December of that year, the companies said the definitive merger agreement came with a price tag of $4.3 billion and would grow the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

New China/US Cold War Fought Over X-Border Deals. Now, the adversary is China , and the weapons of choice are tied to tech, data, deal-making and very large price tags. Last Lap For Q3; Three Factors To Watch In Q4.

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JULY 23, 2018

In a press release , PayU said the price tag was undisclosed, but that the deal supports PayU’s expansion into high growth markets. With the deal, PayU said it has invested and/or made acquisitions totaling more than $350 million since 2016 when it began to expand across the globe.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

The challenge, however, is knowing they are actually getting the real deal. Many of these marketplaces deal with sporadic or one-time sellers who are not looking to make a business of this, and are easily scared off by stutter steps in the process, like having to send an item out to be authenticated. trillion by the end of 2020.

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APRIL 14, 2019

The Financial Times, citing several people familiar with the deals, reported the fact that Apple is spending so much money shows developers it is serious about the new Arcade game subscription service. The big price tag to acquire new video games also highlights the fact that competition is fierce to land exclusive rights to top content.

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APRIL 18, 2019

Merchants in the travel industry, for instance, are dealing with a restructure in the ways payments can be made and accepted under the EU regulation. Speaking of changes to payments within the EU, merchants are about to confront a problem with a potential $100 billion price tag. Solving for SCA’s $100-Billion-a-Year Problem.

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JUNE 26, 2018

to take the sense of discovery on Instagram even further, by allowing businesses to tag products in their organic posts and people to shop from them.”. Users could start the commerce journey on Instagram — and do a lot of the legwork of discovery — but sealing the deal, even by Rose’s account, wasn’t an entirely smooth process. “We

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

While the program is still just a pilot, journalists working for Mashable will be able to take a photo of, say, a celebrity and tag elements of his or her outfit with links to similar products available for sale on eBay. banks by assets have made 81 deals with FinTech companies since 2012 — and more than $4 billion in funding.

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JANUARY 12, 2017

billion price tag would offer up a 42 percent premium for Intime, as paid by Alibaba and Intime Founder Shen Guojun, at HK$10 a share — and Alibaba already owns three-quarters of the company’s stock. The privatization of Intime might help Alibaba modernize China’s $4.5 trillion brick-and-mortar retail market.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

The retailer is advertising deals for the season “earlier than ever” and will begin rolling them out on Friday (Oct. The company said shoppers will be able to find deals on its website, like $25 off a BouncePro 7-Foot My First Trampoline and $100 off a VIZIO 55-inch Class M-Series Quantum 4K Ultra HDR Smart TV. 25), CNBC reported.

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MARCH 25, 2020

That price tag would be divvied up between Tokyo, the aforementioned organizing committee and the central government. Comcast’s NBCUniversal unit signed a deal roughly six years ago for the U.S. The athletes who don’t get to compete may lose sponsorship deals and the income that comes from participating in events. billion USD.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

According to news from Reuters , consumers can now get Apple ’s new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus at discounts of between nearly 14 percent and 20 percent in mainland China — an amazing deal considering iPhones have been known to sell for as much as four times the price in Hong Kong.

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