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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. Perhaps the firm is building, plank by plank, a bridge to the consumer.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Circle , the payments firm that operates an app-based peer-to-peer payments network based on blockchain and which has financial backing from Goldman Sachs, said Monday (Feb. In addition to running its network on the technology, it also remains one of the larger firms in the over-the-counter market tied to bitcoin trading.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

consumers that alleges that the firm intentionally misleads American consumers as to the price of its products. Inditex — Zara’s parent firm and the largest apparel company on Earth — is considered the firm that put fast fashion on the map. Fast fashion retailer Zara is facing a lawsuit from U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

With its first vehicle expected in 2022, consumers are already joining a waiting list to subscribe to one of Canoo’s envisioned EV models — a sedan, an SUV or a purpose-built vehicle (PBV) — for mobile delivery and rideshare uses. “It That's what subscriptions enable,” he added. It isn't quite Cars-as-a-Service. Auto Subscriptions Go DTC .

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MAY 11, 2016

eBay and FedEx are pairing up to expand the eCommerce firm’s Valet service, which will be expanding it to 1,600 FedEx locations nationwide in the following few months. Valet was designed to make it easier to sell goods on eBay instead of having to individually list and price each item they wanted to sell.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Some of that money — supplied by investors such as Andreessen Horowitz , Nyca Partners and Max Levchin, founder and CEO of alternative lending startup Affirm — will go toward building an identity bureau, which will help lenders and financial firms verify identities. Flavors Of Fraud.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The big buy of the Connecticut-based firm instantly vaults Samsung into the world of automotive technology in a big way. The firm has signed deals with General Motors Co. That backlog literally triples the firm’s annual revenue. auto parts supplier Harman International Industries Inc. for $8 billion in cash.

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Adam Kae

AUGUST 27, 2020

Similar systems are used by consulting firms, educators, and in a variety of different industries. There are so many resources for big corporations, and they have the big price tags to go along with them. Adam started as an actuary for healthcare, launched his own accounting firm, and is now the founder of Adam Kae.

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JULY 29, 2019

In a statement , the company said it had “announced a strategic partnership with global innovation design firm R/GA to strengthen its focus on creating unique in-store experiences as part of its strategic move in reaffirming its place in the video gaming culture.”. That includes stores, and the latest example comes from GameStop Corp.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company realizes it’s time to improve its corporate travel and expense (T&E) management strategy, there are a few items on the list of must-haves: Spend control, transparency and analytics are probably high on that list.

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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. China topped the list of where counterfeiters operate (43 percent of overall counterfeit activity), followed by Russia (30 percent) and Indonesia (13 percent).

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Musings on Markets

MARCH 19, 2022

In addition to being traded on the MICEX, the Russian exchange, these companies all have listings in foreign markets (Yandex has a US listing and the other three are listed on the London Exchange). In the last few days, every company on the list has dipped in price by enough to be at least fairly valued or even cheap.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

Synchrony Financial, a financial analyst firm, listed the Internet of Things as number six on its list of top retail trends for 2016 and advised retailers to “leverage the data collected through connected devices to their best sales advantage.”. “It

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AUGUST 3, 2018

Over the last three years, the firm has been vetting, tasting and sampling hundreds of formulations to create products that satisfy modern needs and value. All in, the firm sells about 300 items on its website – all generic household staples, mostly for $3 a shot. And consumers aren’t the only one buying.

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MAY 6, 2019

That is what the latest data from analytics firm Ghost Data strongly indicated, anyway, as its survey of the site has found it is becoming one of the internet’s favorite breeding grounds for the illegal sale of counterfeit fashion items. Instagram has a counterfeit goods problem. Outside the U.S., the situation is often much worse.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Details are scant about what that shop might look like, but what is known as of earlier this week is that Amazon has posted job listings for four new positions connected to the forthcoming store, it will be a separate entity from Whole Foods and it won’t use Amazon’s cashierless Go technology in favor of traditional checkout methods.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

But fragrance firm PHLUR , which launched this summer, thinks it can do a bit better — mostly by letting customers stay in their homes when selecting their scents of choice. There are also high-end, smaller batch, premium labels, though those come with the associated premium price tags.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Today, Tradesy has over 5 million users and an investor list that would make most entrepreneurs envious. Social media, particularly Instagram, has emerged of late as a new rival alternative for the shopper looking to buy or sell secondhand couture. The company is considered the top eCommerce website for any fashion maven on the prowl.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As part of the signup process, shoppers fill out surveys denoting their preferences and the company sends them a box of clothes that match their listed desires. To be relevant today, retailers must find a way to connect with consumers on a personal level and fit conveniently into their lifestyles,” the firm noted in its IPO filing.

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JULY 13, 2016

Sure, but the experts agree that it was unlikely that anyone was going to outdo the dominance Google (and to a lesser extent Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL, Apple and various cable firms nationwide) already enjoy. The firm makes enterprise resource planning and retail management software. Might there still be ways to innovate with email?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

TransferWise has become one of Europe’s better-known payment firms since breaking on the fintech scene back in 2011. In a direct move into LinkedIn’s territory, Facebook has added the ability for businesses to post job listings in the same space they use to post a status update. While Facebook already allows its U.S. and Canada.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And at that time, Union Square Ventures’ Fred and Brad had started the firm, they had just raised the first fund. So you’re working at a contact list. So let’s talk about the thesis-driven venture capital firm, which is how USV describes itself.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

With a $45-for-three-months price tag, that subscription box has been popular among consumers — there's a waiting list to get it. I believe firms like Coca-Cola, which have tremendous marketing resources and research, will end up delivering a variety of different bundles,” Bogosian predicted.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

She’s been with the firm for decades. You were kind of young in the firm in ’92 when this took place. So we really left it standalone on the investment side and then integrated the rest of the firm. And then you … RITHOLTZ: And that’s going to create opportunities for firms that are filling that void.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Among the segments affected by the pandemic, air travel remains near the top of the list when it comes to industries that have been hard hit. Using the digital identity system, consumers can print their own bag tags and use a scanner and match tablet within the airport to move touchless through the system. CLEAR Sailing.

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AUGUST 26, 2019

The firm was founded by self-described obsessive dog owner Matt Meeker, who told Karen Webster in an interview that before BarkBox was a business, it was really just his attempt to make his beloved Great Dane, Hugo, happy. Tag, a smart dog tag designed to make it easier to find and return lost pets. “More than 3.5

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

From Alfred Sloan at General Motors to Jack Welch at General Electric to Steve Jobs at Apple, there is a history of CEOs being tagged as superstars (and indispensable to the organizations that they head), in successful companies.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Beyond the board of directors appointed, there also was a listing of the Association members that signed on. Sounds a bit to us like tag teams: One partner switches out but tags in another teammate who is game to go — and Libra tokens, of course, stay in the pot. Nonprofit and multilateral firms include Mercy Corps.

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MARCH 27, 2019

Though trained as an engineer, she is the founding force behind Frank & Eileen — whose simply tailored, button-down shirts have an extensive and impressive famous list of followers. That customer fit comes care of a very long research period in developing the firm’s signature shirt stylings. We just do,” she said. “It

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mindy is the owner of Creative Money, an independent RIA based in Seattle, Washington, that offers a unique 12-month financial planning engagement – or as Mindy puts it on her homepage, “financial planning that doesn’t suck” – which has allowed her firm to work with nearly 400 client households just this year. I’m so glad to be here.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. It’s about a much deeper relationship for us and it’s about delivering all of the firm, not just part of the firm. Discretionary, human beings, people like you and me and by the way, the way I started at the firm was through GOG. GOG, third engine.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

And how is it that you, what’s this car that’s in the parking lot, it’s got plates on it and a tag and it’s brand new. That’s a law firm, 20 people. That’s an analyst’s firm. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting list. RITHOLTZ: Really interesting list. RITHOLTZ: Right.

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Strategic Treasurer

DECEMBER 27, 2021

So, we formed a coalition which was over 20 organizations, financial institutions, consulting firms, media companies to help collect and distribute data. So, there can be faster development with tech firms, between banks, etc. what larger firms are seeing, and this is not that they’re being mean to small firms.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

As the world knows, Elon Musk sent a short missive – over Twitter, where all the missives are short – that he was considering a go-private deal, with an attendant price tag of about $72 billion, or at $420 a share, where the stock ended last Monday at around $356. Might the implication be that things are frothy among publicly-traded entities?

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Still, if a firm tells its partners that it wants deliveries to slow or wants to take a small percentage of what’s been originally ordered … there might be trouble ahead. Perhaps the looming $999 price tag has something to do with it? Suppliers Supply Some Downside to the Apple Ecosystem . For iPhones 8, a Slow Start….

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

He is the founder of MarketCounsel, which is one of the leading firms in that space, as well as the Hamburger Law Firm. We retained your firm. Chuck went on to be general counsel for a small firm like Fidelity Investments — RITHOLTZ: Heard of them, heard of them. RITHOLTZ: It’s great to have you.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Can I just tag along? A Wall Street firm published a note that I had been given shares in I E X to write flash boys. It, so Sam, I asked him, I’d like just a list of people who, who knew you before the age of 18, who could gimme some picture of you just to start out right. What could go wrong? And he did the deal.

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