PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Millennials and Gen Z are driving the growth of the secondhand market and eCommerce, generally. Both are generations that have grown up with technology and feel comfortable using it to purchase products at all price ranges,” he said. Consignment site Luxury Garage Sale also puts products through a very intensive authentication process.

Sales 40

Sales eCommerce Retail Technology 40

PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

Moving much further down the ladder, and shifting geographic focus a bit, British Business Bank said this past week that it had expanded its relationship with Funding Circle, with intent to lend a further £40 million to small businesses through that platform. By 2010, Conversica had developed AVA — the automated virtual assistant.

Sales 49

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Facebook TV will serve up a blend of scripted and user-generated content, to be displayed under a forthcoming “Video” tab alongside users’ newsfeeds. Those numbers reflect a shifting strategy on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s part. The platform plans to fund longer-form, higher-end series with a more standard half-hour run time down the road.

Advertising 40

Advertising Restructuring Auditing Planning 40

CFO News Room

JANUARY 17, 2023

Slicing the data based on sector yields the following: Against, there are no surprises, with energy being the only sector to post positive returns and with consumer discretionary and technology generating the most negative returns. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

Economics 130

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 130

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. Talking about emissions reductions, we’ve made investments, for example, in our first ever investment in Africa, in a company called Shift EV. It’s that backed up for that shift itself. WENGER: Absolutely. RITHOLTZ: A couple of hours?

Valuation 117

Valuation Investments Marketing Technology 117

Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

Slicing the data based on sector yields the following: Against, there are no surprises, with energy being the only sector to post positive returns and with consumer discretionary and technology generating the most negative returns. I have seen no evidence, so far, that this is the case, but that may change.

Economics 100

Economics Valuation Treasury Forecasting 100

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

RITHOLTZ: See I would think they would want to work a little harder than you just so no one accuses them of slacking but maybe it’s a generational thing. JOHNSON: Well, I think you were seeing a big shift to C-shares where you had a bigger backend trail and a smaller upfront. JOHNSON: Yeah. So that was happening a bit.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 85

Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Finally, Charlie Munger's passing at the age of ninety-nine brought to a close one of the most storied key person teams of all time at Berkshire Hathaway, and generations of investors who had attached a premium to the company because of that team's presence mourned. Key Person: Who, what and why?

Valuation 113

Valuation Profit and Loss Entertainment Investments 113

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

No one likes watching ads, and many will go to great lengths to avoid them, including subscription services, time-shifted viewing and pop-up blockers, to name but a few. That’s a big problem for a media industry that is largely fed by advertising revenue. Hollywood is in trouble,” Federico Pacquing, Reedeux’s founder and CEO, noted.

Advertising 71

Advertising Entertainment Investments Securities 71

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The shift in consumer preference is not surprising, LG Electronics Senior Manager Angel Grant told PYMNTS in a conversation, because of how advanced smartphone technology has become. The firm stopped formally breaking out the iPhone’s sales figures as of Q4 2018 – and according to estimates, shipments declined 11.8

Technology 59

Technology Sales Leadership Budgeting 59

PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

The development and implementation of DocuSign Payments was actually a little bit of a paradigm shift for DocuSign, Levin explained. The Payment Tag is directly integrated into the document itself, enabling the sender to request a specific dollar amount, which pops up when the receiver signs electronically.

Invoicing 60

Invoicing Securities Accounting Sales 60

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The launch of Facebook Watch has prompted the social network to make an offer to major record labels: hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange for the rights to host user-generated content that incorporates background songs and music that users and Facebook do not own.

Nonprofit 51

Nonprofit Accounting Planning Advertising 51

PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, we know how that story played out: Apple Pay and the wave of other Pays it touched off (Android Pay/Google Wallets, Samsung Pay, Walmart Pay, Chase Pay, Kohl’s Pay…) generated a lot of buzz, but not a lot of traction.

Prioritization 46

Prioritization Retail Securities Technology 46

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

And a lot of times, that just generates more business too. Michael: So just literally, client’s got an expenditure from such and such restaurant, you tag that as, that’s a restaurants thing. We’re just kind of shifting everybody up a little bit year over year.

Planning 130

Planning Investments Accounting Math 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? 00:24:16 [Speaker Changed] And there sometimes moments and sometimes hours ahead of c n n in knowing what just happened in the election and how the odds just shift shifted and what John King’s gonna say next and what that’s gonna do in to s and p futures. What could go wrong?

Math 60

Math Profit and Loss Numbers Marketing 60

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As a means of generating more income, the mailbox monopoly could be monetized. … That Elf on the Shelf may be even more of a tough pill to swallow, at least in terms of price tag (and also ‘cause they are kinda creepy). It’s a systemic shift along part of the last mile, it seems, as paper mail declines.

Treasury 58

Treasury eCommerce Healthcare Economics 58

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. RITHOLTZ: When did it dawn on you that, hey, this could be a business and maybe generate a profit? CLYMER: It is.

Retail 64

Retail Advertising Numbers Economics 64

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 2, 2024

I mean, that paper on economic growth is a transcendent piece of work and really sort of shaped the way generations of economists have thought. 00:11:14 [Speaker Changed] Maybe it’s generational. Tag on top of that for healthcare. So you’ve shifted the healthcare benefits outta the company, essentially.

Healthcare 56

Healthcare Economics Math Education 56

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. And because I’ve worked with them, generations of wealth are going to be preserved and these philanthropical exercises are going to be put forth. Why don’t you speak to him? And they said, “We already do.”

Finance 107

Finance Investments Math Marketing 107