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FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Revenue for Apple’s wearable division topped $10 billion in net sales in the December quarter, a near 27 percent year-on-year increase. Tag Heuer, for example, has released several smartwatch models, including one that costs $180,000. Time may be running out for Swatch, Tissot, TAG Heuer, and others,” Strategy Analytics said.

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DECEMBER 27, 2020

bitcoin has become available at over 16,000 ATMs in December of this year, a press release from East London-based cryptocurrency company BitcoinPoint says. The rise of the currency's value has been surging just over the past holiday weekend, breaking $25,000 on Friday (Dec. 25) and then $26,000 on Saturday (Dec. In the U.K.,

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Facebook has announced it’s going to stop using its controversial Tag Suggestions feature, and facial recognition technology is going to be available to all of its users, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. Tag Suggestions, a feature that lets people tag friends, has been controversial.

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APRIL 13, 2020

As previously reported , the 5G iPhones may not arrive until December, due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic mean Apple engineers are mostly working from home, the report said. as they ponder the potential timing of this flagship product rollout,” said Wedbush analyst Dan Ives.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

Google dealt with a similar lawsuit in December and it was dismissed. The key issue is Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions,” which let users tag friends in previously uploaded photos. “We have always disclosed our use of face recognition technology and that people can turn it on or off at any time,” a spokesman said.

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DECEMBER 29, 2019

Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara and French President Emmanuel Macron said earlier in December that the UEMOA would sever several financial ties with Paris. The government has claimed that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

The iPhone X sports features such as facial recognition technology and has a $1,000 price tag, higher than competing devices. percent for the December quarter. Said an unnamed source: “They always do this when things aren’t selling well. It’s a real headache.” There was no comment from Apple.

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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. In December's The Anatomy of Consumer Payments Playbook, Gaines explains how QR codes and mobile wallets play an important role in driving conversion and loyalty.

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APRIL 26, 2019

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

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

In December, New York-based brand Rochambeau is debuting 15 exclusive Bright BMBR jackets powered by Avery Dennison’s Janela platform. The jackets use the owner’s smartphone to connect with smart NFC and QR tags hidden in the left sleeve, with serialized codes connecting to data profiles in EVRYTHNG’s IoT cloud.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2017

2015, items marked “new with tags” bumped up nearly a quarter, and this January, that number is slated to pop up even more. Back in December, Swap raised more than $20 million in financing for its platform, which hosts a 1.5 Many retailers, like Swap.com, say their inventory is quickly growing. million-item inventory.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Invitations were tagged “by innovation only” although Apple isn’t expected to change the basic iPhone design. 1, as those tariffs have been pushed back to December. Apple announced it will unveil its next generation of iPhones along with other products at a launch event scheduled for Sept. local time. . billion estimates. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2017

And in speaking just about December numbers, total sales jumped 3 percent both overall and in the U.S. Both millennials and Gen Z shoppers, no longer tagging along with mom, have been popping into stores to get their own membership cards. and more in Canada (7 percent). Canada, the U.K., Mexico, Korea and Taiwan.

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MAY 15, 2019

Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app. iPhones can read a near-field communication (NFC) tag that is specially encoded to display an interface for an Apple Pay purchase when a user holds a device near it. And tech companies are already working with retailers on payments innovation.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

The Economic Daily stated that the reduction in component orders could result in iPhone 8 device shipments of as low as 5 million to 6 million units per month in November and December. As for the iPhone X, concerns abound that the high price tag could keep iPhone owners from upgrading.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

The price tag was just shy of $9,000 — a reduced rate. By the end of December, they were removed entirely. NOT UPDATED Variant data, national ( CDC ), December 31 (Nowcast off): BQ.1* In the last five months of 2022, employers cut 110,800 temp workers, including 35,000 in December, the largest monthly drop since early 2021.

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

The National Retail Federation expects a bump in sales for November and December, from somewhere between 3.8 The tariff hike of 15 percent that appeared earlier this month tags items that traditionally are big holiday sellers – smartwatches, drones, TVs, headphones and smart speakers. Tariff Worries.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

According to Rex, UnitedHealthcare’s health insurance division paid for 65,000 inpatient admissions related to COVID-19; about 20 percent of those admissions happened in October and 50 percent in December. But how that change will play out, and whether traditional or up-and-coming entities will lead it, remains to be seen.

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JANUARY 6, 2020

Anomalie (@DressAnomalie) December 22, 2019. It makes for entertaining television, Anomalie Co-founder and CEO Leslie Vorhees told PYMNTS in a recent conversation — but a guide to what it’s actually like for the average person to buy a wedding dress? Introducing DressBuilder – 4 billion potential dress options. 1 dress for you.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. Thanks to the investment by Mastercard and Bank of America, Estapa can now update her email marketing tool to drive that intimate experience with easier tagging and segmenting of subscribers.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Though the numbers haven’t seen much net movement upward since mid to late January (when prices sat just below $133), Facebook appears to have finally broken out of the minor dip in stock value it saw through November and December of last year and into the beginning of this year. Facebook’s market cap currently sits at over $385 billion.

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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. From December to June of this year, small business lending levels have dropped. But it may be more effective to actually show how much money can be saved.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

The main goal of the solution, which had its soft launch in December 2017 and its public launch in February 2018, was to give customers the option of paying by card. Plans call for equipping agents with an iPhone, and two mobile printers that could clip onto their belts — one to print baggage tags and the other to print boarding passes. .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Though the numbers haven’t seen much net movement upward since mid to late January (when prices sat just below $133), Facebook has broken out of the minor dip in stock value it saw through November and December of last year and into the beginning of 2017.

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JUNE 14, 2017

When shoppers go to the fish counter, they’ll find Snapcode origin labels on the shelf tag accompanying each cut. The futuristic sunglasses — a wearable tech product introduced in December 2016 by Snap Inc. If scanning the label routes them to a Fresh Story, that’s a guarantee that the fish arrived within the past 24 hours.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Investment activity picked up for the first full week of the new year as measured against the last week of December, logging a total of just under $519 million. Every time we run into a situation where the AI isn’t sufficiently confident, humans step in, and we tag that information in a way that allows us to make our system smarter.”.

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MAY 4, 2017

SiriusXM’s addition of Automatic to its connected-car products, which came with a price tag of just over $100 million, will allow the broadcasting company to strengthen its position in the burgeoning connected-vehicle services space.

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DECEMBER 9, 2017

In fact, this is the problem with buying most higher price tag Star Wars items: at some point, the purchaser will have to explain why, exactly, he or she felt building the Death Star out of Legos was an experience worth paying $500 to enjoy. A coat is the most practical thing in the world to buy in December. But a coat?

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The big standout is, as always, the big TVs with the much smaller than normal price tags — though Walmart is apparently taking a go-deep-or-don’t-bother approach this year with big sales on laptops, kitchen appliances, smartphones and tablets, home products and toys, and among other things.

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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 At this writing, they are a bit above $203.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

A “From Facebook” tag will be added to Instagram and WhatsApp brands, and the Facebook name will be visible in all marketing. “We Instagram dropped its standalone direct messaging app Direct , which debuted in December 2017 and rolled out in a select number of places, including Uruguay, Chile, Turkey, Italy, Portugal and Israel.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

In mid-December, media outlets reported that analysts found the Ionic had failed to wow consumers — who balked at the $300-plus price tag that came along with it. The Ionic had a bit of a rough start. Initial reports suggested that sales had been somewhat below par.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A high price tag – and perhaps a high risk, since high prices are increasingly unattractive to customers, and Samsung is not the only firm rolling out with a dual-screen 5G phone. Samsung is hoping its new and very different-looking phone will put a spring back into the market’s step when it hits the U.S.

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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 usually don’t increase fees until December 1st, before we get into annual renewal time. When new restaurants open up, we have to add the name and expand.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And “waiting on the wings,” in fact, maybe a slightly misleading way to tag that. The city was forced to declare a state of emergency after the December ransomware attack hit 4,000 computers. Palestine, Texas has a population of less than 20 thousand and yet cybercriminals seized their computers for a ransom in December.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. In December of 2020, analysts predicted that the global market for business travel in 2020 would decline by 54 percent. And it was location-dependent.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Total spend annually on a per-user basis, according to slides provided by the company, stood at about $35 at the end of December, up from roughly $26 a year ago at this time. At the latest count, the firm had 493 million monthly active users, 80 percent of which access the marketplace via a mobile device.

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