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APRIL 3, 2019

“Made In is built on the idea that better cookware makes better food,” the firm’s co-founder and president noted in a video on the Made In website, saying the company carries that belief through its entire process, from manufacturing and packaging to sales. by a third-generation manufacturer based in the Southeastern U.S. . —

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

At the time, Lopez Research Analyst Maribel Lopez predicted the product would be expensive over the short haul: “We’re talking about brand-new materials that have been made for this, and also a new manufacturing process,” she told Reuters. The firm pointed to a “sluggish” smartphone market, coming right into a seasonal slowdown.

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AUGUST 29, 2020

That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000. An increasing number of manufacturers are making biped and quadruped robots available for industrial production. Such robots aren’t cheap.

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JULY 5, 2018

Well, consider the example of Samba TV , a company that pays hardware manufacturers to put its tracking software into their TV sets so that Samba can craft targeted ads based on viewing habits. Samba also offers digital tags that let companies figure out who visits their websites after ads appear. Watching Ourselves.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For the food industry — that waste adds up to a $990 billion price tag, according to Alex Garden, chairman and CEO of Zume Inc. However, pizza was just their prototype — and in 2018, they began building out to the firm’s broader ambition — exporting their technology to any restaurant that wanted to use it to expand their operations. “We

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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. That may explain why Berkshire's stock price was unaffected by Munger's passing.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

There are a lot of sneaker manufacturers out there ready and quite willing to dispute that assertion. The merino wool blend they use is proprietary, and the price tag for one pair is $95. Claiming to have the “world’s most comfortable shoe” is a big statement. But Allbirds isn’t quite your average shoe company.

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APRIL 28, 2016

industrial research for real estate firm CBRE Inc., It might not have been a pressing question a few years ago, but the influence of a consumer base coerced by Amazon’s pioneering delivery options has put every decision affecting inventory management under the spotlight. David Egan, head of U.S.

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JUNE 28, 2017

Like most entrepreneurs, Jude Al-Khalil found herself solving a problem for herself and her personal network when she first started Bikyni , a clothing firm that has been called “Warby Parker for bikinis.” The Bikyni innovation pares down to simple, stylish bathing suits without pumped up price tags.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Amazon Echo is the clear leader, outselling Google Home by a wide margin, according to analyst firm Canalys. Chinese smart speaker manufacturer Baidu was third, with 13.1 But Amazon is winning that race a bit more convincingly according to data out this week. And Amazon is the sales leader in the global market, capturing 36.6

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The firm stopped formally breaking out the iPhone’s sales figures as of Q4 2018 – and according to estimates, shipments declined 11.8 The firm pointed to a “sluggish” smartphone market, coming right into a seasonal slowdown. Apple has been hit particularly hard by the decline, given the centrality of the iPhone to its business.

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DECEMBER 7, 2018

Venture capitalists and equity investors targeted companies that apply big data technologies, including artificial intelligence, to an array of use cases, including fleet and manufacturing — leading to more than $322 million raised for B2B startups this week. Reports in Reuters said this week that private equity firm KKR & Co.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. Although Zoom and similar tech platforms may not kill business travel entirely, they will hobble it materially — and those firms that depend on travelers to keep their own businesses alive.

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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. FOWLER: Yes, I was at LVMH for a number of years, mostly with Louis Vuitton for the first few years. This is 20 years ago.

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