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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The new partnership between the two firms will, according to their joint release, offer shoppers the benefit of seamless payments via their smartphones no matter where they happen to be in a store, using the combined power SES-imagotag’s digital price tags and Wirecard’s payment technology. Wirecard concurred with SES-imagotag’s enthusiasm.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Intuit closed a deal to buy Credit Karma for a price tag of $7.1 Sasan Goodarzi, Intuit chief executive, told the Financial Times the acquisition would only help them give customers a personalized financial experience that could help them find the right products for their needs. billion on Monday (Feb.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Chief Executive Officer Carlos Pierre said in a statement, “Every major city around the world is suffering from overcrowdedness and increasing rent prices.”. They can select which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, much like a dating website.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

percent — of payments executives are focused on real-time payments. percent — of payments executives are focused on contactless payments. percent — of payments executives are focused on price comparison tools. percent of payments executives are focused on contextual payments. About a third — or 33.2 A whopping 42.5

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FEBRUARY 17, 2019

In addition, there is about $10 million in “earn-outs” for the management of the startup including chief executive Oren Jacob, noted the report. Apple’s HomePod voice activated speakers haven’t resonated with consumers partly because of the hefty price tag. The aim of the acquisition is to help Siri perform better. Ditto for Google.

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MARCH 18, 2019

It is generally accepted that digital supply chain management (SCM) strategies are good for business, yet it can be difficult to put a price tag on just how beneficial enhanced SCM can be. Overall, the report concluded, supply chain management remains a priority for hospital executives, but, unfortunately, is not a key investment focus.

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AUGUST 2, 2019

“We are thrilled to work closely with MADE and Fred Segal on this shared mission to unite female creatives through projects like these that sit at the intersection of art, fashion and technology,” said Sherri Haymond, executive vice president of digital partnerships for Mastercard.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Big price tags and longer timelines. He elaborated that having a chief sustainability officer (CSO) does not absolve other C-level executives from involvement in ESG. Environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs can pose unique challenges to finance chiefs charged with maximizing returns.

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JULY 23, 2019

The FTC will also claim that Facebook didn’t tell about 30 million people that they could turn off a facial recognition tool that tagged people in photos. The consequences of the settlement on high-level Facebook executives has not been disclosed.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The specification works between all NFC-enabled devices , including smartphones, readers and tags. With almost two billion NFC-enabled devices in use today, the majority of smartphone users around the world have NFC technology as a standard feature in the palm of their hand.”.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

For instance, the feature can tag vendors that are minority-owned, women-owned or veteran-owned businesses, which are key to companies that must meet supplier diversity requirements. Coupa also announced the launch of Coupa Contract Lifecycle Management Advanced within its BSM platform, the result of its acquisition of Exari.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Adidas Chief Executive Officer Kasper Rorsted revealed that its new Blackburn Spezial shoe sold for 50,000 euros ($55,225) on the resale market. 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.

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APRIL 26, 2019

To settle charges of insider trading, the ex-chief executive of Heartland Payment Systems Inc. Through a release in December of that year, the companies said the definitive merger agreement came with a price tag of $4.3 agreed to pay a civil fine of $250,628. billion and would grow the U.S.

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MARCH 6, 2019

According to a report in Adweek, the shoppable ads will enable retailers to tag product images , and when users hover over them, they will find information including the brand name and the price for the product. The executive noted that 50 percent of Internet shoppers have mulled buying a product after viewing images.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We have informed the ICO and will take all other appropriate action, including in relation to data and communications,” Chief Executive Jack Tang said in a statement. Other clients were tagged as “dangerous,” while others were blocked due to “police enquiries.” “Urban is looking into this as a matter of utmost urgency.

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

“If you are a miner who produces responsible metal, once the bank buys the metal, it loses its identity,” Tradewind Chief Executive Michael Albanese, told CoinDesk. For the first time ever, the miner that produces responsibly is going to be able to tag their metal to advertise it to downstream buyers.”.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

The system relies on a basket that scans items with specialized tags as they are placed inside. “We need a good solution also for customers who wouldn’t like a completely digitalized system,” Yasuyuki Fukui, a Panasonic business-development executive, told WSJ.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Swap executives told The Wall Street Journal that, in Jan. 2015, items marked “new with tags” bumped up nearly a quarter, and this January, that number is slated to pop up even more. This time of year, consignment shops are seeing an uptick, namely because of the post-holiday calm.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In the past, the executive had been vaguer about the plans, saying the company was eyeing an IPO in 18 to 36 months. The executive said that greater than half of the stake he wants to buy comes from current investors of the ride-sharing company. If it’s too difficult to come up with a price tag for the stake, Son could walk away.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

The latest is global consulting firm McKinsey, whose new report has put a price tag on the potential of blockchain: $110 billion. In a survey of top executives at various financial institutions, McKinsey found that half of these professionals are still in the “wait-and-see” phase of blockchain implementation.

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MARCH 17, 2017

Swarovski is simply not ready yet,” said Robert Buchbauer, member of the Swarovski Executive Board, in a statement. “We The postponement was purely driven by Swarovski’s strive for excellence in execution.” Tag Heuer is releasing a unisex smartwatch later this year.

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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. In a blog post , Pebble Chief Executive Eric Migicovsky said that due to a number of factors, “Pebble is no longer able to operate as an independent entity.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Given the price tag on the Jet.com acquisition, it comes as no surprise that big changes are coming to Walmart’s eCommerce operations; firms generally don’t pay $3 billion for something and then make no changes to accommodate the purchase.

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APRIL 22, 2016

But the more startling stats that come out of this survey are these: Almost all banking executives, at 96 percent of those surveyed, know that the trend its toward digital services. But only 13 percent of those same executives say they have the technology in place to help support a move toward a truly digital environment.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The metrics that retailers use to measure their businesses are very much customer-centric, said the executive, who added that such metrics span the cost of acquisition, the lifetime value of customers, how many months it takes to pay back on a customer and so on. The shift has been spurred by online technology and retail channels, he said.

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JANUARY 18, 2018

Facebook has appointed Kenneth Chenault, exiting American Express chief executive officer, to its board of directors. 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.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2020

The initial focus on Wall Street and beyond may have been, and may still be, the price tag: At a reputed $30 billion, the bid price was roughly 10 percent over eBay’s closing price coming into The Wall Street Journal report that shed some light on the offer. No, thanks.

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JULY 16, 2020

He did it again when VHS then DVD were the bleeding edge of home entertainment, and movie studio executives suddenly had to offer terms to Bezos typically reserved for their biggest retail whales. Subscription service Amazon Prime launched in early 2005 with a $79 annual price tag.

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MAY 14, 2018

That deal came with a price tag of $4.65 billion , and Symantec brought in several of the company’s executives. Block wrote that it “seems rare” that a large corporation would trade its own executive team for that of a company it just acquired, a decision that might have created internal strife.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. The report cited a memo by wealth management executive Andy Saperstein, stating that there will be reach across “all client segments, across all advice and service preferences, at scale. Call it a tale of two bank deals.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

These payments were typically only processed during work hours, could take days to clear and came with a price tag of up to HK $200 ($25.50 Bank executives said the new system is expected to transform how consumers make small, everyday purchases and bring other changes, including speedier insurance disbursements. USD) per transaction.

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JANUARY 10, 2017

The process is one of sense, analyze and act, said Kanniganti, adding that the Zebra SmartSense combination of ultra-high-frequency radio frequency identification (RFID), video and microlocation tagging acts as a “platform for retailers … with a big picture view of what matters to retailers.”. “We

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JANUARY 10, 2017

Both millennials and Gen Z shoppers, no longer tagging along with mom, have been popping into stores to get their own membership cards. As a result, according to Costco executives, the average age of the card-carrying member has dropped by at least two years.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Wichmann, chief executive officer of UnitedHealth Group, noted in a press release. “We are grateful for the human spirit and resolve of our people, including our 125,000 clinicians who, with other frontline health care workers, demonstrated extraordinary collaboration, compassion and innovation,” David S.

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MARCH 28, 2016

As customers place items also equipped with RFID tags into the bag, those potential purchases are immediately registered to a central system. Embedded RFID tags and the running tally of what’s in the bag automatically charge connected credit cards, and customers can go on with their days. What are we doing about that?’”

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

But a new report from cloud accounting firm Sage has put a price tag on this burden: a whopping $600 billion for firms across the globe. Manual processes are expensive for small businesses, in both time and money. Taking time to crunch numbers or hand-pick data is a waste for SMB owners, for sure. Canada, U.K. Canada, U.K.

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