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JANUARY 3, 2019

Those two macro sentiments are helping to send the broader markets into freefall – after all, the slowdown would augur ill for any number of countries and any number of verticals. Look back beyond the panic of December’s stock market and the initial panics of January (the month already feels like it’s been dragging on forever, doesn’t it?)

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Corporate payment operations emerged as a particularly bright spot during the quarter, seeing a 28 percent year-over-year increase in organic growth, hitting $106 million in revenues for the quarter (up from $83 million the previous year). . Focus On Brazil. billion, reports in Reuters said Tuesday.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

With the advent of emerging FinTech startups, banks face some competition for payments. As a result, banks are investing in and engaging with FinTech startups to grow their customer base and their market share. A whopping 42.5 percent of payments executives are focused on peer-to-peer (P2P) payments.

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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 who placed early pre-orders received shipping notices that the device will be delivered on Feb.

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APRIL 29, 2019

But as ideas about men’s wellness and grooming have risen in prominence and popularity, the markets are changing. Firms like Oars + Alps are gaining a name making the types of products normally marketed to women — facial moisturizers and cleansers — and repackaging and designing them into a more male-friendly palette.

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JUNE 18, 2018

As reported by Reuters , Mercari is set to bow on the public markets in Japan, and while observers of the stock market are watchful of a billion-dollar price tag — which means, of course, unicorn status — the enthusiasm underpins a business model of a different sort.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The HomePod’s sound quality, one of the main reasons the Cupertino, California-based technology company took so long to bring the smart speaker to market, has emerged as a positive for Apple, but its inability to integrate with devices outside the iPhone, iPad, Mac or other Apple products will limit its proliferation.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

Even in the movement away from cash transactions and toward contactless payments (notably in ToneTag’s home market of India), constraints emerge. The larger addressable markets include person-to-merchant payments at $224 billion, and merchant-to-merchant transactions at $176 billion.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

This year could be the year that blockchain emerges from its current status as a largely hypothetical game-changer to one that’s put to the test. The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. Time-To-Market.

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JULY 1, 2019

The potential to reshape society, to connect people in new and transparent ways, addressing the unique challenges of emerging markets, is within grasp.”. In other news, Facebook has taken down a fraudulent sponsored post that has been shared with hundreds of thousands of users.

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OCTOBER 5, 2018

million unique visitors come to shop its wares each month — and make a move on the public markets. It’s been described as a “fancy price tag,” particularly for an eCommerce up-and-comer most people have never heard of. the site added over 1,000 new styles each week in 2017, from emerging, established and owned brands.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Going in, the world has a pretty good idea of what the morning will look like in broad strokes — analysts, Apple experts and market watchers have debated what we will see next out of Apple. But a big bounce in iPhone sales boosts Apple’s ecosystem ambitions — though as of now, the market is divided as to whether it will get one.

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JUNE 13, 2018

It’s not entirely clear yet how — or if — blockchain will transform the financial services market, but that hasn’t stopped industry players from scrambling to get a leg up on the technology and ahead of the competition. Reports also noted that the number of employees assigned to blockchain projects has doubled year over year.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Digital payments volume is increasing as emerging technologies enable more seamless online transaction experiences for consumers and businesses. Fraud takes many shapes and forms and comes with a hefty price tag. Merchants and FIs have been turning to such solutions to help customers quickly and securely transact.

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MAY 26, 2017

Today, he added, there is what he described as a “Henry Ford” problem with eProcurement offerings on the market: “You can have it in any color, as long as it’s black.”. According to Lundin, healthcare has an enhanced need for shared search capabilities, while transportation demands sourcing and tagging features more than other verticals.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Founded seven years ago, the New York-based Dering Hall was founded as a discovery platform to connect interior designers with new and emerging furniture brands. And, generally speaking, they’re buying big — in terms of both the number of items they buy and the price tags on those items. Chairish Inc.,

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JULY 5, 2018

That trend fits into the emerging ecosystem of contextual commerce , a phrase that refers to meeting consumers on their own terms — for instance, on social media sites that attract people with similar interests — and then offering them the chance to buy products related to what they are reading, talking and thinking about. consumers spend 4.4

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OCTOBER 13, 2017

Who doesn’t love an ironically named collection of shampoos, facial cleansers and body wash — especially when it comes cruelty-free and (according to their marketing) purged of hundreds of “potentially harmful ingredients” like sulfates, phosphates and parabens. But Brandless thinks it has a good handle on what customers really want.

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JULY 2, 2019

That holds true on the political and cultural level, where lawmakers, citizens, commuters and others are coming to terms with the placement of bikes and scooters, the retrieval and recharging process for them, and all the other seemingly mundane issues that can help make or break emerging ecosystems, or parts of them.

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JUNE 22, 2018

As mega-retailers struggle to stay competitive in an eCommerce world, inventory management technology has emerged as a critical component of their strategies. It’s a marketing tactic, he said, that encourages businesses to be young adopters of Fishbowl solutions, and hopefully graduate to a paid solution offered by the company.

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APRIL 16, 2020

The first is that 80 percent of those they surveyed planned to use the upgrade as a strategic lever to gain advantage in the market. When Ekata talked to acquirers and processors in the field in Europe, Kakkar said, they came across two very curious data points.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

The goal going forward, he told Webster, is “thinking AI-based systems,” designed to bring down the false-positives and spot emerging fraud patterns in real time. If they had a better system, the patterns would have emerged much more clearly and started that conversation much earlier.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2018

The new features from Instagram (described below) come at a time when mobile is becoming increasingly important to both consumers and retailers — providing opportunity for platforms such as Instagram that can put those two parties together, and do so in ways that more precisely match what consumers might be in the market for.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Barnum grew a series of small but well-marketed performances of human oddities into a full-blown traveling circus/freak show extravaganza for 146 years before the “big top” folded forever in 2017. It’s a dynamic that can be solved by access to speedy real-time rails – but it also comes with a hefty price tag for suppliers.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Garner has long evangelized the use of emerging digital payment technologies to power consumer services. At an event, there could be connected devices on the table bearing the organization’s QR code or an NFC tag so that attendees could tap the Thyng to make a digital payment. CEO Neil Garner and his team at Thyngs want to change that.

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MAY 2, 2016

As CIO noted, biometrics, which use technologies like fingerprint systems, facial recognition, iris scanning and voice identification, are a natural fit for retailers looking to improve their ability to target marketing efforts and boost security. Expect more in this area as marketers embrace the potential.”.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Although the $1,000 price tag was anticipated and expected, it was nearly universally commented upon, as it officially makes Apple the price leader in its category (by about $50, as the latest and greatest from Samsung clocks in with a $950 price tag). Perhaps there is something to that $1,000 price tag, after all.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Facebook’s market cap currently sits at over $385 billion. The first uses Lumos, Facebook’s image and video understanding, machine learning platform, to enable image search by content rather than relying on text or tags. Last week, the company’s Q4 earnings blew past analysts’ expectations in a number of segments.

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JULY 5, 2017

When The Information broke Alibaba’s news Thursday, June 29, insiders had reported that the smart speaker could hit the Chinese market as early as this week. The DingDong smart speaker by Alibaba’s eCommerce rival JD.com has been on the market for two years and understands both Mandarin and Cantonese – with, it reports, 95 percent accuracy.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

No one wears just one suit of armor, and no one shops in just one place when it comes to the mixing and matching of that armor, the hunting for designer names and comparing price tags against the waxing and waning of one’s bank account. Citing Bain again, a fair chunk at 9 percent of the market, to rise to 25 percent by 2025.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

It is a small example, but one that points to the much bigger emerging truth in the market, he said. Yapstone’s marketplace partners are increasingly investing not only in AI to understand their core businesses, but also to better understand the markets that are “just adjacent to their offerings.”. “A

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MAY 24, 2016

The big-box players like Walmart and Target have been eating up an increasing share of market for over decade, while wholesale clubs, predominantly Costco, have been eroding the grocery customer base for closer to two-and-a-half decades. ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. Stores wear out and look old.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And from a public market, that sounds like it’s a compliance and conflict nightmare. Previous transitions like agriculture emerged over thousands of years and was incredibly violent. But there’s no market for allocating resources to that.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

We’re still early in that journey,” said Stephanie Meltzer-Paul, Dunkin’ vice president of digital and loyalty marketing. It is a platform dedicated to connecting fashion-forward female customers with emerging and cutting-edge direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands they may be unlikely to encounter elsewhere.

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MAY 5, 2017

Just as Apple was talking up the Apple Watch during this week’s earnings release, reports were emerging that all is not right in Apple Wearable Land. The same might be seen in the student loan market — where young people are struggling to pay them off. Brexit: The price tag on this divorce is getting higher.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

Should you add more to marketing or in collections, right? Yeah, they were pioneers in emerging markets and really kind of global equity. And they’ve all been focused on, if you think about the big macro trends going on in the industry, one is private markets are here to stay. JOHNSON: …for most assets.

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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 In some cases, that resulted in us raising prices and those markets not growing the way we would like to see.”

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