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DECEMBER 6, 2020

The $9 billion price tag would make this one of the larger SPAC mergers of the year, behind the MultiPlan merger with Churchill Capital Plan for $11 billion and the pending United Wholesale Mortgage $16 billion deal with Gores Holding IV, Bloomberg reported. In addition, Foley launched another SPAC, Foley Trasimene Acquisition Corp.,

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JULY 16, 2020

Advertisers will be able to tag ads with the new information. billion investment in India’s Jia Platforms. On Tuesday (July 14), Google said it would invest $10 billion in India through various arrangements. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who was born in India, announced the investment plan.

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MAY 28, 2020

Google’s security experts had their hands full in April, as its Threat Analysis Group ( TAG ) emailed 1,755 warnings to users whose accounts were targets, the California-based global technology company wrote on its blog Thursday (May 27). Slovenia, Canada, India, Bahrain, Cyprus, and the U.K.

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AUGUST 7, 2019

A “From Facebook” tag will be will be visible in all marketing for Instagram and WhatsApp brands. Facebook is close to launching its WhatsApp payments service in India. The service has been in beta mode in India for 1 million users, but the nationwide debut has been delayed due to government regulations.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

but its price tag of $999 and up might be hurting demand in some of the largest Asian markets. According to news from The Wall Street Journal , shoppers in Asia, including in India and Indonesia, are choosing Chinese smartphones from the likes of Xiaomi, OPPO and Vivo over the iPhone X. Apple ’s iPhone X may be doing well in the U.S.,

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JULY 31, 2017

Visa , a global payments technology company serving more than 200 countries and territories, has announced two new appointments to its India and South Asia teams. “At Visa, we take pride in our people, our biggest asset,” said TR Ramachandran, Visa’s group country manager, India and South Asia.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has made some payment moves to boost the National Electronic Toll Collection (NETC) in the country, according to the Business Standard. . The requests are going to be handled by the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI).

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APRIL 15, 2019

Amid a change for Foxconn Technology Group, the iPhone will reportedly enter mass production in India, as the country has become the fastest-growing market for smartphones around the globe. Demand has been declining in China for Apple products partly due to the large price tag. and Huawei Technologies Co., Bloomberg reported.

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APRIL 12, 2019

To help grow its business in India, Naspers-owned PayU has acquired U.S.-based The company is paying $70 million for the firm, which is based in Cupertino but primarily operates in India, according to reports. He added that “PayU is very bullish on India as a market.”. based Wibmo. The firm has also invested in FinTech startups.

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JULY 22, 2019

The revamped experience was unveiled in India before rolling out to France in March. . Users are greeted with “Let’s go shopping” with a price tag logo and a search field that asks, “What are you looking for?” The new shopping experience launched by Alphabet’s Google focuses on personalization and browsing, 9to5 Google reports.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Purchases can be categorized as business or personal spend, while users can also add custom tags to purchases. Earlier this year, Microsoft integrated peer-to-peer (P2P) payment functionality on its Kaizala solution in India, an enterprise communications platform.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Amazon Mulls Registering Services as Separate Entities in India. Amazon is reportedly considering registering a portion of its entities, like Amazon Music, Audible and Prime Video, in India, CNBC TV18 reported. Data portability has turned into an important portion of the antitrust discussion domestically and in Europe.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

The revamped experience was unveiled in India before rolling out to France in March. Users are greeted with “Let’s go shopping” with a price tag logo and a “What are you looking for?” The new shopping experience rolled out by Alphabet’s Google focuses on browsing as well as personalization. search field.

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JULY 19, 2017

The company today announced news of its plans to offer QR codes for scan by customers and merchants, building on its QR efforts in India, Thailand, the Middle East and Africa, as well as its collaborations with industry players to create new global QR standards.

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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 fact remains that the consumer base in India contains 800 million mobile phone users. After all, he said, the retail market in India alone may touch $1 trillion in 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For Chennai, India-based women’s fashion brand eShakti – to take one recent example – making it easier for customers to rectify fashion purchase errors (or avoid them in the first place) is a good start. From rue21 to Walmart, retailers in the clothing and accessories market are enabling ways to make shopping a little easier.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

but the husband and wife team behind it works mainly out of India. With the company’s artificial intelligence technology, dubbed Vue.AI, Mad Street Den provides eCommerce sites with a slew of AI-powered offerings, including visual search, recommended automated emails to customers and tagging of products without human intervention.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

It is unclear whether the iPhone X’s $999 price tag will drive Google to raise its prices as well. Google has launched a mobile wallet to compete with WhatsApp, Uber and Truecaller in India, a nation on the brink of going cashless. Take My Money.

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JULY 2, 2019

Mobike laid off its teams in Asia Pacific countries, according to a recent report , and those teams were made up of about 15 full-timers plus contractors through India, Thailand and Malaysia, among other countries. Laid-off team members were told that Mobike was ramping down its business, but they weren’t told why.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

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. We saw the community do this on their own through Groups and posts, like in the aftermath of the flooding in Chennai, India, in 2015, but we knew we could do more.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Participating merchants will be able to reach potential buyers from China as well as India, Brazil and Canada. Demand has been slumping in China for Apple products, in part because of the hefty price tag. By contrast, Amazon charges third-party sellers by the month or per item. Weaker Demand.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

We inspect materials, workmanship, details, any tags, labels, logos, hologram stickers, date and/or serial codes, and identify the time period of each item. In July, Amazon announced the expansion of its anti-counterfeiting program called Transparency to Europe, India and Canada.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Amazon is set to become the eCommerce leader in India, and bitcoin companies are keen to tag along for the ride. However, the demand for bitcoin in India through Purse is unclear despite a booming cryptocurrency community. Shalon has pleaded not guilty and remains at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

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AUGUST 28, 2019

Participating merchants will be able to reach potential buyers from China as well as India, Brazil and Canada. Demand has been slumping in China for Apple products in part because of the hefty price tag. By contrast, Amazon charges third-party sellers by the month or per item. Weaker Demand.

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JULY 5, 2017

Meanwhile, its entertainment arm, Alibaba Pictures Group, snapped up Chinese online movie ticket service Damai this year and has now acquired a majority stake in another film ticket website, TicketNew, which operates in India. Facebook is piloting a new profile picture masking feature for users in India. In Other News….

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. You know, you just deal with the cards that are in front of you, and the good news was, when I was running technology, I became very passionate because we had developers in India and kind of around the world, Poland and various places.

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AUGUST 9, 2019

In Africa, China, Latin America and India, one finds the same thing as in North America and Europe: an increasing penetration of mobile-savvy customers expecting not only to get whatever they want, whenever they want, but also for it to be an easy and straightforward process.

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JULY 13, 2016

billion price tag represents a hefty profit for Apax, which bought Epicor for $1 billion.
. Looking at equity raises a bit further, Neogrowth, based in India, raised $35 million to help expand efforts in the country to extend loans to those who have little or no credit history. The deal is slated to be completed late next month.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Last week in India, the government proposed a tax on eCommerce transactions that will likely increase operating costs for sellers large and small. However, the government’s actions seem to imply that it views the eCommerce field in India as inherently unequal. The jousting over eCommerce taxes — especially for U.S.

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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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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And the book starts with a devastating heat event in India, where tens of millions of people die. And at that time, Union Square Ventures’ Fred and Brad had started the firm, they had just raised the first fund. WENGER: Yeah. I don’t know what it takes.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In India, Shell, for example, has introducing a new fleet card as part of a wider fleet management and payments service. In India, Shell has rolled out a suite of solutions for fleet managers designed to lower the cost of fleet ownership. Shell Combines Cards, Telematics for Indian Fleets. banking license, it said.

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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 Facebook is close to launching its WhatsApp payments service in India. The service has been in beta mode in India for 1 million users, but the nationwide debut has been delayed due to government regulations.

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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. CLYMER: Tag Heuer. And Louis Vuitton has a watch business and division. So we were well aware of their impact.

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