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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. While Asian consumers are going after smartphones made by Chinese manufacturers, largely because they can get feature-rich phones for a cheaper price, the hefty price tag of the iPhone X has actually helped Apple in terms of sales.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

Commercial fleet payments solution provider Fleetcor once again beat Wall Street expectations when it reported its 2018 third quarter earnings data Tuesday (Oct. “Our third quarter revenues and profits once again finished above our expectations,” said Fleetcor Chairman and CEO Ron Clarke in a statement.

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JUNE 14, 2016

6, put a $800 price tag on Amazon’s share value, CNBC reported. According to our analysis of Google trends search data, Amazon’s unit growth should show almost no deceleration during the Jun-16 quarter. We note that over the past 32 quarters our principal component regression analysis has correlated 0.95

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JULY 16, 2020

The company’s patented “Add to cart” and “Buy Now With 1-Click” checkout features debuted in the third quarter of 1999 when the share price had climbed to a dizzying $66. The Quarter-Century Checkup. Subscription service Amazon Prime launched in early 2005 with a $79 annual price tag. In many ways, it invented eCommerce.

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AUGUST 15, 2019

Customers can even comparison shop: Digital price tags alongside every product show the Prime price and list price. In the most recent quarter, Amazon’s Physical Stores division accounted for $4.3 A second location — this time in Lone Tree, Colorado — opened in November.

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OCTOBER 9, 2020

Google is experimenting with new features to drive online shopping dollars to YouTube and is encouraging some creators there to tag and track any products used in their videos. The Alphabet-owned Silicon Valley company reported its first drop in revenue in the second quarter of this year.

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JANUARY 14, 2020

Cross-website cookies have underpinned digital advertising for a quarter of a century, the Financial Times reported. . While sites will still have the ability to tag individuals with “first-party cookies,” third parties will not have the ability to put cookies on websites to create a picture of users as they traverse the internet.

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APRIL 23, 2018

According to Bloomberg , Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty cut her forecast for the number of iPhones shipped during the March-ending quarter by one million, and six million for the current quarter. The high-end device has a hefty price tag of $999, which shut a lot of buyers out of the market.

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JULY 2, 2019

Apple blamed its fourth-quarter revenue shortfall on its China business, with CEO Tim Cook saying at the time that the shortfall was 100 percent due to iPhone sales, largely in China. As of the fourth quarter, China accounted for around 15 percent of Apple’s sales.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Shipments of Apple’s iPhones plummeted around 20 percent in China during the fourth quarter of last year, as competitor Huawei Technologies was able to steal share. Local smartphone maker Xiaomi did worse than Apple in the fourth quarter, with sales declining 35 percent, noted the report. percent, making Huawei the No.

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APRIL 1, 2019

Apple blamed its fourth-quarter revenue shortfall on its China business, with CEO Tim Cook saying at the time the shortfall was 100 percent due to iPhone sales, largely in China. As of the fourth quarter, China accounted for around 15 percent of Apple’s sales.

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MAY 11, 2017

These “break fees” can be as high as 10 percent of a deal’s headline price tag, up from 2 percent seen in past years. Investments would be topped off at $10 billion.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

Thanks in large part to a strong showing in Apple’s June quarter, U.S. For the quarter ending in June, Apple surpassed Wall Street views, buoyed by sales of its iPhone X, which comes with a starting price tag of $999 and subscriptions from its App Store, Apple Music and iCloud, reported Reuters. 1) driving stocks higher.

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JULY 22, 2019

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. . 460,000: the price tag for the Florida city of Lake City to regain control of its data and systems after its ransomware attack.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Alibaba is at the forefront of a bid that would take Intime Retail Group private, with a price tag of as much as $2.6 billion price tag would offer up a 42 percent premium for Intime, as paid by Alibaba and Intime Founder Shen Guojun, at HK$10 a share — and Alibaba already owns three-quarters of the company’s stock.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Invitations were tagged “by innovation only” although Apple isn’t expected to change the basic iPhone design. The new iPhones are said to be critical to Apple’s holiday quarter. As for next quarter, Apple is forecasting revenue of between $61 billion and $64 billion, solidly ahead of the Street’s $60.9 local time. .

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

But social media is also driving retail innovation, and those trends are going to help shape commerce in the all-important fourth quarter and beyond into the 2020s. The feature is available through just-added stickers in Instagram Stories and tags in a person’s feed, and can be set with details like the date and product details.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

CNBC reports that while Macy’s declined to comment on the story, there has been a wealth of new job openings in the Southlake area, including some with descriptions for cafe employees, beauty brand experts and sales associates, with a tag stating that it’s for a “new retail concept at Macy’s.” They were down 0.6

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JANUARY 3, 2019

2), CEO Tim Cook said via letter to shareholders that revenues will be lighter than expected, at $84 billion for the quarter and down from a range of $89 billion to $93 billion. At this writing, shares of the tech giant are down 9 percent in intraday trading, as on Wednesday (Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The second quarter of 2020 was the worst of times for the U.S. And although their earnings and financial performance was stellar, it affected the world’s two most powerful retailers as they battled for digital and offline consumer spend and positioned themselves for the fourth quarter push. as the pandemic rocked the country.

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JUNE 1, 2020

555 billion is the price tag small businesses could see as a result of data breaches , according to recent analysis by iomart. researchers found that severe and catastrophic data breaches are on the rise, with the number of cases of compromised data jumping 273 percent in the first quarter of 2020. Taking into account the estimated 30.2

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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. The active buyer count in the last quarter was up 2 percent to 183 million.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

. $117 million | Value of investment activity in the Chinese economy this quarter to date, far below the roughly $540 million estimated for the same period last year, though there are still a few weeks left for it to catch up.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The iPhone will take center stage, of course, and there will be interest in average selling prices and whether the $999 tags will stick. Thus the impact will not be felt in the numbers reported for the quarter, but might merit some consideration moving forward. consumer headed into the holidays.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2019

According to a recent Bloomberg report, Apple’s iPhone shipments fell roughly 20 percent in the fourth quarter in China. The hefty price tag of Apple’s newest iPhones, coupled with an economic slowdown and extending smartphone replacement cycles in China has been hurting the smartphone maker.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

In fact, research firm Canalys reveals that Apple’s China smartphone sales grew 40 percent in the third quarter from a year ago to 11 million units, which is Apple’s best performance in China in eight quarters. Apple’s growth this quarter is only temporary. But some analysts aren’t sure this demand can be sustained.

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JUNE 3, 2021

Despite this, a quarter of the treasurers are not involved in the ESG agenda. Tags: Treasurers’ key priorities / Treasury-On-Demand / Real-Time treasury / Digitization. The forced reduction of travel and telecommuting during COVID certainly helped the treasurer to contribute to this. The issuance of green bonds comes in second place.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Nearly one-quarter of SMBs surveyed said they were affected by some kind of crisis event in 2018, a 5 percent increase from the prior year. Seventeen percent also said they spent more than $12,000 to address the issue, while 9 percent said the price tag exceeded $24,400. Reports in SmallBusiness.co.uk on Wednesday (Aug.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

“The thing that’s so cool about having those relationships is that they literally tell us, either through their posts, their tags, their emails or their tweets, what they’re looking for, and we respond in kind.” And then building direct relationships with the community we serve,” she told Retail Dive.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

2015, items marked “new with tags” bumped up nearly a quarter, and this January, that number is slated to pop up even more. Those items can include never-worn items with the tags still on, which may or may not be those gifts that they can’t return or say they weren’t a fan of during that gifting experience.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Separately, Apple reported that its March quarter results would be lower than some had expected, amid the slowdown in China. through AT&T and T-Mobile in the second quarter of 2019. Earlier in February, Apple reported a Q4 decline of 20 percent for iPhone shipments in China. The smartphone market in China reportedly contracted 9.7

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JANUARY 12, 2017

billion price tag would offer up a 42 percent premium for Intime, as paid by Alibaba and Intime Founder Shen Guojun, at HK$10 a share — and Alibaba already owns three-quarters of the company’s stock. The privatization of Intime might help Alibaba modernize China’s $4.5 trillion brick-and-mortar retail market.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

As for the iPhone X, concerns abound that the high price tag could keep iPhone owners from upgrading. wireless carrier, AT&T, said third-quarter postpaid handset upgrades were down close to 900,000 from a year ago. Natale of Rogers Communications noted in the Reuters report that at $999, the iPhone X is an expensive device.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The figures from AlixPartners come counter to various predictions calling for strong year-on-year advances in holiday spend, raising concerns that consumer confidence is weakening as the fourth quarter, the one where the bulk of holiday shopping happens, is starting up. “We

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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. This would use AI to properly tag and codify items while also relying on customers’ mobile cameras for more engaging experiences. “I

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JUNE 8, 2018

Additionally, demand for the iPhone X might have soured due to its price tag: It retails for around $1,000. every week since the iPhone X launch, and was true in greater China during the quarter ending last month. Cook also noted that top seller status has been true in the U.S.

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MAY 15, 2019

Approximately three-quarters – or 75.6 Special tags can trigger purchases with Apple Pay without the need for a special app. iPhones can read a near-field communication (NFC) tag that is specially encoded to display an interface for an Apple Pay purchase when a user holds a device near it.

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