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The downside, however, is that attackers may sell stolen data on the dark web and, once a ransom is paid, those hackers may demand payment again later , Bush warned. . 460,000: the price tag for the Florida city of Lake City to regain control of its data and systems after its ransomware attack. What’s the alternative?” .

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APRIL 16, 2018

Foursquare began strengthening its B2B services in 2015 following partnerships with Twitter and Microsoft as demand for Big Data increased. The following year, the firm revealed an extended partnership with Twitter for precise location tagging attached to collections of tweets, not only individual tweets.

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JULY 2, 2019

Apple consensus estimates may decrease due to the possibility of weaker demand from China, said Jim Suva, a director and senior analyst at Citi, according to reports. In April , Apple cut prices of its products by nearly 6 percent in China due to lesser demand. Shares in Apple dropped 0.3 percent pre-market to $200.90.

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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. Far from breaking up, Amazon has been in high demand for delivery services since the pandemic relegated most Americans to staying at home for the months of March and April. “Monopolies are wrong!”

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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. Far from breaking up, Amazon has been in high demand for delivery services since the pandemic relegated most Americans to staying at home for the months of March and April. “Monopolies are wrong!”

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Apple’s moves come at a time when demand for its iPhones is starting to slow. The pain is particularly pronounced in China , where the price tag of its latest iPhones and local competition have been weighing on demand. But diversifying beyond the iPhone may not be easy.

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APRIL 15, 2019

The news comes as Apple has reportedly cut its iPhone prices in China: Earlier this month, it was reported the tech company has taken the step to slash prices by close to 6 percent in the country, amid lackluster demand. Demand has been declining in China for Apple products partly due to the large price tag.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Suffering from lackluster demand in China, Apple has taken the step to slash prices by close to 6 percent in the country. The price cuts were prompted by lower than anticipated demand for iPhones in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, the news outlet reported. As one example, an iPhone XR is now priced 4.6

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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.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Today’s shoppers can find eCommerce niches for just about anything for which they are hunting, whether they are searching for the lowest price tags or products with ecofriendly missions. Online marketplaces for both regular and secondhand retail are facing more competition as demand continues to grow.

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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. The startup has also received interest in its engineering team from Thumbtack. The news comes as Omni has been struggling.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

“Qualcomm is attempting to use injunctions against our products to try to get Apple to succumb to their extortionist demands,” Apple said in a statement to Reuters, according to CNBC. Apple said it will only use the Qualcomm iPhones in Germany. Citing IDC, Bloomberg reported the smartphone market in China contracted 9.7

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MARCH 21, 2019

A combination of a high price tag , a saturated smartphone market and low-cost competitors has created pressure for the company. Lackluster demand has weighed on the stock as well. The call comes as Apple has been seeing sluggish sales of its iPhone, particularly in China.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

19) that demand for the iPhone 8 has been “anemic,” piling on to reports that Apple is seeing lackluster sales for its latest devices. The comments on the part of Natale adds fuel to debate on Wall Street over demand for the iPhone 8. Thus, concerns about demand for the iPhone 8 weighed on shares in trading on Thursday (Oct.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Vendors in China have slashed the price of Apple’s iPhone 8 by up to a fifth off the usual cost of the smartphones due to low demand in advance of this week’s iPhone X launch. But some analysts aren’t sure this demand can be sustained. Apple’s growth this quarter is only temporary.

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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. But Hurst noted that as with drones, robot prices will fall as demand increases and more get built. Such robots aren’t cheap. Robotic Hotel Workers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

And a $1 billion price tag? As spotlighted in this space just Friday morning, Walmart announced it had acquired Cornershop for $225 million, bringing on-demand delivery for items, including groceries, to Mexico and Chile. Not a huge stretch for Amazon, which has about $22 billion of cash in its coffers. set to expand to the East Coast.

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APRIL 14, 2019

The big price tag to acquire new video games also highlights the fact that competition is fierce to land exclusive rights to top content. It comes as iPhone demand is starting to slow, particularly in China. Apple has stiff rivals in the gaming market. The event was focused on showing off its TV+ platform.

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Despite production woes and worries about demand, Apple announced that pre-orders for its newest smartphone, the iPhone X, are “off the charts.”. We can see from the initial response, customer demand is off the charts,” said an Apple spokeswoman. While major promotions of the iPhone X from U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

According to a news report for CNBC , Raymond James Analyst Tavis McCourt said he was prompted to raise the price target after an internal survey showed “surprising” demand for the iPhone X, which comes with the hefty price tag of $999 or more.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Invitations were tagged “by innovation only” although Apple isn’t expected to change the basic iPhone design. Last year, the company missed expectations on waning smartphone demand, especially in China. Apple announced it will unveil its next generation of iPhones along with other products at a launch event scheduled for Sept.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Yet the image of the kiosk is unblemished, as self-service is in high demand and expected to be a $31 billion tech market within four years. Domino’s has GPS tagged 400 U.S. That’s doubly true at a time of fast-paced technological change like we’re experiencing now.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Facebook is reportedly looking to market Portal at a price tag of $499, but could go lower to spark demand. A formal announcement about the Portal device is planned for May. The device will be voice-controlled and include a wide-angle lens that can recognize users’ faces and link them to their Facebook accounts.

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APRIL 23, 2019

In the case of accessing capital, the Federal Reserve ‘s latest analysis has suggested that small business demand for financing in the U.S. There is also the demand for the industry to embrace small businesses’ need for automation, coupled with more strategic advisory services.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

Currently rated 3-stars by users and tagged as the “#1 Best Seller” in Amazon’s formidable stable of wearable tech, the world’s largest online retailer is clearly moving units of Halo out the door. “If And yet the popularity of Peloton rolls on, as the company still cannot manufacture its goods fast enough.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

Then came the advent of service companies, such as Salesforce, he said, and those firms brought on the Demand-as-a-Service model. The first step in working with merchants, said Karam, is “tagging transactions” — in other words, attaching to those transactions a customer ID, something that can be done through Thirdshelf’s technology.

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JUNE 27, 2016

A new survey from NPD tells us that an average meal kit on demand costs about $10 to $12. In April, on-demand meal kit service Kitchit closed down after finding itself unable to raise new funds. Heading to the grocery store and purchasing those same ingredients a la carte, however, would cost about half that amount, states NPD.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

TechCrunch noted that positive reviews for the high-end HomePod, which has Siri built in, boosted pre-order demand ahead of the launch, in spite of the speaker’s lofty $349 price tag. Customers could get lucky and find some available at their local Apple stores starting Friday (Feb.

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MARCH 2, 2019

Those fakes are hard for platforms to spot, he noted – and it’s even harder to tamp down demand for them. That demand, he noted, is likely to persist – and there will be platforms that pitch to it. “They are exactly the same factories, exactly the same raw materials, but they do not use the names.”. Moreover, IACC President Robert C.

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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. We offer food brands a full stack of hardware, software, and packaging solutions to allow companies to grow in an on-demand system,” he explained.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Weaker Demand. But weaker demand from Chinese consumers also can hurt foreign businesses, with Apple being the latest prominent example. Apple consensus estimates may decrease due to the possibility of weaker demand from China, said Jim Suva, a director and senior analyst at Citi, according to reports.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

That is made possible by RFID tags on each item that alert the machine if the customer walked off with it. The startup has also created software to forecast demand for the food items at each location that a machine is installed.

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MAY 16, 2017

One company that’s helping to move the ball for many living in various space sizes is startup on-demand furniture company Interior Define, based out of Chicago. To help bring high-end pieces of furniture to the public without having an out-of-reach price tag, the company works directly with two factories to help build on-demand custom sofas.

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MAY 24, 2018

Reported the Post : “Shipping costs have skyrocketed in the United States,” thus far into 2018, causing all sorts of other price tags to inflate. The shortage has also been making it tough to find available trucks (which need drivers, of course) and thus making speedy deliveries of goods (and, by extension, some services).

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APRIL 14, 2020

And in many ways it was — in fact, too perfectly positioned as demand for its bikes and workout community rapidly overshot demand, such that those trying to buy new bikes as of today are seeing the following message before they start shopping: “Our delivery timeframe is normally 2-3 weeks after purchase.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Growing number of working pregnant women and increasing demand from developing regions are the basic factors that will boost the maternity apparel market,” that report said. The move comes amid growth in the larger maternity market, however, with sales of that apparel expected to reach $7.7 billion in 2013, representing a 2.10

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APRIL 28, 2017

SiriusXM’s addition of Automatic to its connected car products, which TechCrunch noted came with a price tag of just over $100 million , will allow the broadcasting company to strengthen its position in the burgeoning space. Automatic will remain a separate brand, according to the companies, and users won’t experience any device disruptions.

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