PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

When you’re a government or hospital and held up so you have to ease operations, paying tens of thousands of dollars might make sense. Below, PYMNTS examines some of the latest data behind the rise in government bodies being targeted in cyber and ransomware attacks — and the price tags with which these attacks come. .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2020

To be sure, subsidiaries such as Waze and Google Maps, and newly installed efforts to bring banking into the Google ecosystem pale, at least as measured as revenue generators, next to efforts that generate tens of billions of dollars annually. buy products) those efforts. Banks, Too . In August, six additional U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2018

Beyond answering the demands of social media users who crave celebrity and influencer fashions, Choosy seeks to solve another problem: making expensive designer fashions available to the masses without the big price tags. Fashion Through Social Tagging. Instagram Drives Fashion Purchases. The Runway Ahead. Choosy raised $5.4

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PYMNTS

JULY 29, 2019

Apple , aiming to move beyond the iPhone to drive sales, is reportedly spending millions of dollars to acquire new video games to be part of the subscription gaming service it will roll out later this year. The big price tag to acquire new video games also highlights the fierce competition to land exclusive rights to top content.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Lyft publicly touted its year one stats with the program — according to their reports, it has paid out $500 million to drivers. Earny Founder Oded Vakrat said users can save hundreds of dollars through the service. About two in 10 — or 17.8 percent — of payments executives are focused on contactless payments. A whopping 42.5

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2016

In the first technology IPO of the year, SME security firm SecureWorks raised $112 million. priced 8 million shares at $14; unnamed sources said the firm had been eyeing a price closer towards $17.50 for 9 million shares. SecureWorks, owned by Dell Inc.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

The firm publicly denied these rumors — a few times — and as of its last earnings report the firm was showing some distinct signs of renewed strength with a 19 percent revenue increase to $341 million from $288 million at the same time last year. million, or $.05 26) called Grubhub+. In return for that $9.99

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

By 2021, close to 90 million – or 86.5 million – consumers will be participating in the digital platform ecosystem, per the PYMNTS and the Platform Economy Playbook. million buyers who operate in industries such as website development, logo design and blog writing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As one might expect, the price tag goes up the more genuinely once-in-a-lifetime the experience gets — and for the more luxurious and exotic packaging options, prices on the site quickly span to thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. It legitimizes that there’s a multibillion-dollar market here,” he noted.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Retailers from Kroger to Starbucks , as well as Shell , Dollar General and Macy’s , are rolling out their own mobile apps with smartphone-based payment options to meet the needs of the connected consumer. million consumers who are age 14 or older will compete a point-of-sale purchase at the coffee chain at least once bi-annually.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2018

As reported by Reuters , Mercari is set to bow on the public markets in Japan, and while observers of the stock market are watchful of a billion-dollar price tag — which means, of course, unicorn status — the enthusiasm underpins a business model of a different sort.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

Specifically, the case filed by shopper Devin Rose in the United States District Court for the Central District of California accuses the apparel company of using listings in Euros to lure customers in with a deceptively low-looking price only to sell them the item in dollars at a currency exchange rate far above anything being advertised anywhere.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The extra dollars could make a big difference in what families are able to afford and whether they try to stretch the diaper their child is wearing right now out longer, which puts [the child] at risk for infections.”. Millions of people who need [such products] are [living] without any incontinence supplies at all.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2018

New data from Greenwich Associates put a price tag on that effort: According to Bloomberg reports Tuesday (June 12), the financial services market spends an estimated $1.7 billion dollars every year on blockchain as banks and other companies emerge from proof-of-concept stage into market launches and commercial products.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

The company has some enviable market share in its home base of Britain, where it processes about 40 percent of all retail transactions, The New York Times reported Wednesday – and in total processes about 36 million transactions daily. The euro, after all, has been strengthening against the dollar. company interested in Adyen.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

All of these institutions are spending billions and billions, and billions, of dollars on compliance and AML, not to mention a ton of time and talent that goes into this,” Adjaoute told Webster. AML is more complicated, he noted, but AI’s proven strength is in noticing and tagging abnormal behavior, and making it apparent in real time.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

dollars, but this is expected to expand to more currencies later. was owned by Gery Shalon, an Israeli who headed a computer hacking and fraud scheme that involved over 10 companies and laid bare the personal data of more than 100 million people. The auctions will be held every day at 4 p.m. EST and on holidays and weekends.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

After just five days, Payne’s Star Wars geek-out has racked up just short of 142 million views and 3.2 million shares, plus the millions more on third-party accounts across the Web. Picking apart why viral videos become so still eludes scholars and philosophers alike, but the metrics speak for themselves.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2016

The latest research puts a price tag on the finances of better procurement, banking, cash management and innovation among small and medium-sized businesses. 290 million in venture capital landed at blockchain startups in H1 , revealed Juniper Research. But it may be more effective to actually show how much money can be saved.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 22, 2018

“But they weren’t really tracking their inventory, and while they sold millions of dollars worth of what they thought was one of their best products, it was actually one of their worst,” he recalled. “They had to pull it, because it was costing the company way more than they knew.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2016

Among one of the loudest of these blockchain champions is Ripple, a FinTech firm that has recently secured millions of dollars in investments and strategic partnerships aimed at promoting blockchain technology’s use for traditionally friction-rich areas, like cross-border payments and real-time payments. The Price Tag.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

And RedKix has just shored up $17 million in seed funding from some very big-name investors to attempt to buck said conventional wisdom. billion price tag represents a hefty profit for Apax, which bought Epicor for $1 billion.
. Investments for the week ended 7-15-16. That funding round was led by IIFL Asset Management.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And Joshua added tags to that, and so you could browse things by tags. And then during COVID, we raised the first Climate Fund, $160 million Climate Fund. Our latest funds are — our core fund is $250 million. And that’s a fraction of a trillion dollars. We’re almost done investing that.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2018

Customer trust is lost, reputations are damaged, but putting a price tag on these implications is difficult. ” The multibillion-dollar losses incurred by Facebook “because of that breach in trust” are proof that content abuse and data breaches have clear financial impacts. Facebook recently came close, though.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

After several years spent trying to infuse its multi-billion dollar business with more forward-thinking concepts with mixed results , last week, the retail giant announced that it will be conducting what amounts to an open call for tech innovation. Walmart is open — not just for business but to new technology ideas.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

What’s more, warehouses can be 200 to 500 million-square-foot buildings with aisles that largely look the same, making it difficult for human workers to quickly move through the space without making mistakes. While warehouse automation offers plenty of benefits for eCommerce merchants, those benefits come at a cost.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2019

Members purchased millions of Alexa-enabled devices, received tens of millions of dollars in savings by shopping from Whole Foods Market and bought more than $2 billion of products from independent small and medium-sized businesses. All in, 230 million malware alerts were received, 1.4 It sold out quickly.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

SiriusXM’s addition of Automatic to its connected-car products, which came with a price tag of just over $100 million, will allow the broadcasting company to strengthen its position in the burgeoning connected-vehicle services space.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What we really want is to allow millions and millions of women, who aren’t part of the platform today, to have a program that is right for them,” Salinas said. And actually, that might not be a bad tag line to put on all of 2019 retail — many advances miraculous and unexpected, but all just getting started.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The experts estimate that the United States government spent millions trying to enforce it and deprived the states of billions in tax revenue — all without managing to make any significant change in American alcohol consumption. The 13-year effort to curb alcohol consumption with a universal ban was pretty much a bust.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So, does that really come out to 400 clients, average fee of around $2,500, and it cumulatively adds up to $900,000, $2 million of revenue across all these different engagements? Michael: So just literally, client’s got an expenditure from such and such restaurant, you tag that as, that’s a restaurants thing. Michael: Okay.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

They can also transfer their $10 million investments — which back the yet-to-be issued tokens — to other eligible organizations. 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. That’s a pretty wide net.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

What do you recall from that fairly substantial, back then, a billion dollar acquisition was not nothing. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. There are 300 million people in Indonesia. You can make it into a million different things.” RITHOLTZ: Right.

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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. He said, “I’m going to pay you top dollar for, you come after school, I’m going to pay you. And the best we were taught was how to make the dollar, not to how to build it.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Plus, research places a price tag on B2B sales efforts, the alternative lending industry and small business expense practices. Expanded globally, the price tag of wasted money hits $1.4 338 million of small and micro-business expenses are going unclaimed every year in the U.K., trillion every year, reports said.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 28, 2017

To put that into perspective, there were approximately 170 million unique documents signed using DocuSign last year, with nearly 1,350,000 unique signers using the platform each and every day. That means that 68 million agreements had a financial component associated with it in 2016. What’s Next for DocuSign Payments?

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