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The stories come with significantly different price tags: $185 million and $13 billion. Yet, some common threads unite the respective bids by LendingClub for Radius Bank and by Morgan Stanley for E-Trade , with a nod toward the changing financial services landscape and serving customers through “one-stop shop” platform models.

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MAY 20, 2020

Partially driven by the crisis, Facebook will debut Facebook Shops immediately, which it says will make it easy for small businesses to open an online store on the social platform as well as Instagram. “That’s because they think they can’t — it’s not that they don’t want to,” Sandberg said in an interview.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Every product in the stores are rated 4 stars and above, is a top seller or is new and trending on Amazon’s online platform. And digital price tags with every product show both the Prime price and list price. Customers are also able to test out Amazon devices, along with smart home accessories that work with Alexa.

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JUNE 12, 2019

. “The Ivalua platform uniquely empowers state and local governments to deliver the efficiency, transparency and value realized by the world’s leading brands to government. The project began in 2016 with a price tag of $30.5 Now we can deliver even greater value in less time than ever before.”

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JANUARY 22, 2020

Content creators are responsible for staggering amounts of output, providing the essential images, music tracks and videos that make online consumption possible. A lack of convenient disbursements could quickly frustrate creators and push them to abandon platforms for those with more robust payment systems.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Today’s shoppers can find eCommerce niches for just about anything for which they are hunting, whether they are searching for the lowest price tags or products with ecofriendly missions. The online thrifting market combines both of these factors, making it especially popular among both demographic groups.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Secondhand apparel is getting another go-around, more than ever before, especially online. 2015, items marked “new with tags” bumped up nearly a quarter, and this January, that number is slated to pop up even more. There is apparently big business in online consignment shops. million-item inventory. million just this week.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

This is moneycorp’s second major acquisition this year after it picked up the Brazilian online marketplace Novo Mundo. Providing customers with mobile, telephone and online payment capabilities on a multi-currency platform, moneycorp also enables them to exchange money through 120 currencies. The company said it took care of 5.9

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Higher volumes of consumers are continuing to shop online even as brick-and-mortar stores reopen. Businesses and financial institutions (FIs) are following suit, reordering their products and services for a new digital normal — but unfortunately, fraudsters are tagging along. About The Tracker.

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AUGUST 12, 2019

She wondered if she could find the book online or somewhere else. The house contains items that come with small wooden tags that printed with the hashtag #SHOPTOSTAY. If the traveler likes an item, they can scan a quick-response (QR) code on the tag and take the product when they leave.

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MARCH 14, 2016

This gives all brands in the platform access to targeted engagement and 100 percent organic reach,” Alhermizi remarked to the outlet. A new app is poised to move social content marketing away from user-generated content and put the power in the hands of brands themselves.

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AUGUST 24, 2018

Moving beyond text-based online search for its customers, Forever 21 has unveiled visual search for its website and mobile eCommerce platforms. The news comes as H&M has given its mobile app and eCommerce site a digital makeover , bringing a myriad of new features to online customers such as visual search.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2019

H&M is trying to prevent the online resale of its collection created with Italian designer Giambattista Valli. 7) launch, to one of each item so that shoppers couldn’t buy multiples and immediately sell them online. “We It’s just when someone makes a business out of it that we don’t like it.”

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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. Marketplace platform revenues were off 3 percent year over year to $2.2

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MAY 28, 2019

With abundant choices in many aspects of their lives, consumers expect a range of options when it comes to online shopping, ranging from picking out clothes to making travel plans. And, to meet their day-to-day needs, more consumers are tapping into digital platforms seeking top-notch customer support and seamless service.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Bitdefender said in its Mid-Year Threat Landscape Report 2020 that four out of 10 pandemic-themed emails in the first half of the year on average were tagged as spam. “As Bitdefender also said worldwide ransomware reports have surged by 715.08 percent year on year. Attempts to infect users with ransomware in 2020 have not slowed down.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

H&M has given its mobile app and eCommerce site a digital makeover, bringing a myriad of new features to online customers. The upgraded platforms now let shoppers search for an item by using an image, Chain Store Age reported. H&M is also rolling out a voice-activated mirror in its flagship New York City location.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

Dallas-based Wingstop is has arranged it so gamers on Amazon’s Twitch live streaming service can use their Wing Calculator within the platform before placing their order. Domino’s has GPS tagged 400 U.S. stores so that managers can get a complete view while customers track their orders online. Human or Robot … You Decide.

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APRIL 14, 2019

The big price tag to acquire new video games also highlights the fact that competition is fierce to land exclusive rights to top content. The event was focused on showing off its TV+ platform. The aim is to drive more recurring revenue from online services. In 2017 Apple spent $1 billion on original content for its TV platform.

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OCTOBER 6, 2019

Launched in San Francisco as an on-demand storage company that would pick up and tag items from your home, then store them in a warehouse, it eventually started to expand into other cities. There were also plans to roll out a white-label platform so that brick-and-mortar merchants could run their own rental business.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It started as a simple online form: Users would fill out their destinations, the number of travelers in their group, their dates of travel and a bit of information on what they are like. The Platform. They can indicate which people they would want to stay with by tagging profiles, similar to a dating website.

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MAY 10, 2017

The role social media can play for SMBs is exemplified in the case of Spearmint LOVE , the online baby and children’s clothing and accessories retailer recently selected to sit on Facebook’s 2017 U.S. The online mom community represents a highly engaged and active base of consumers. Small Business Council. It makes sense.

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APRIL 22, 2020

To that end, as TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil told Karen Webster, online collaboration is about more than screen time. With the right connectivity in place, he said, online remote support can help companies function smoothly and navigate any number of challenges. Measuring The Returns.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Digital payments volume is increasing as emerging technologies enable more seamless online transaction experiences for consumers and businesses. Fraud takes many shapes and forms and comes with a hefty price tag. Merchants and FIs have been turning to such solutions to help customers quickly and securely transact.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help create a marketplace solution to this problem, Sid Khattri developed an online platform called Vertoe that helps shopkeepers with people looking to visit landmarks without having to carry a suitcase or a backpack. Stores on the platform can range from small coffee shops to gift shops.

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MAY 16, 2018

Perusing through social media platforms like Instagram, Jessie Zeng came to a realization: Followers wanted to know where they could buy the clothing worn by their favorite celebrities or influencers, but their requests often went unanswered. Fashion Through Social Tagging.

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JUNE 15, 2018

According to Chain Store Age , the 10,000 square-foot store will carry more than 8,000 items offered both in-store and online, focusing on fresh foods, fast delivery, value and everyday convenience. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current.

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APRIL 15, 2019

That’s despite third-party sellers making up just one-third of Amazon’s overall online sales, according to Motley Fool reports last month. But taking this route places an immense amount of pressure on a supplier to provide an eCommerce experience as good as, if not better, than what Amazon can offer — a tall order, for sure.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

“We are confident that this deeper collaboration with Dada-JD Daojia will enhance our omni-channel footprint and deliver a better O2O (online to offline) customer experience,” said Wern-Yuen Tan, president and CEO for Walmart China, reported Reuters. Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The shift has been spurred by online technology and retail channels, he said. All the while, data is accruing as consumers conduct online shopping, he noted. The firm is also looking for ways to get the data collected through payments platforms.

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MARCH 2, 2019

So Copaken did what everyone does when they want to buy something online: She went to Amazon. It’s a big problem, which is why this week, Amazon announced that it is stepping up its game in an attempt to wipe the phonies and fakers from its platform – and keep them off. Moreover, IACC President Robert C.

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JULY 23, 2018

PayU , the online payment company owned by Naspers , announced Monday (July 23) the acquisition of payments technology platform ZOOZ. In a press release , PayU said the price tag was undisclosed, but that the deal supports PayU’s expansion into high growth markets.

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JULY 21, 2017

The price tags attached to the deals were reported as $3.7 The $470 million price tag will be funded by $90 million in cash and a $380 million loan. For one, the lines between online and brick-and-mortar are starting to get very blurry.” billion and $470 million, respectively.

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MAY 29, 2020

But the price tag is rarely painless. In addition to promoting flexibility for shoppers, the technology can integrate directly into back-office platforms like their B2B eCommerce portals and other sales channels. Financing Modernization.

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APRIL 24, 2018

The company said it plans to use the funds to advance its sales and marketing, further develop its security platform and increase its ability to supply advanced technologies to security companies’ IoT-related digital transformation efforts. -Israeli firm Armis recently raised $30 million in new funding.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The latest Payments and the Platform Economy study examines how marketplaces are responding to the counterfeit threat as well as how they are continuing to innovate the customer experience. Online Resale. Sales of counterfeit goods through online marketplaces are expected to hit $1.8 billion per year to fake online sales.

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APRIL 16, 2018

According to SimilarWeb, more than half of online traffic for general merchandise originates from mobile platforms. When it’s time to check out, customers go to a dedicated counter where the cashier makes sure they scanned the correct number of items and removes a security tag.

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