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DECEMBER 7, 2016

Retail performance mobile marketing expert Fidzup recently announced it raised $3.7 million in a new funding round with venture capitalists Cap Horn, Turenne Capital and existing investors. But when you speak to physical retailers, a click doesn’t generate any value. It doesn’t mean a visit for physical retailers.”

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JULY 16, 2020

He did it again when VHS then DVD were the bleeding edge of home entertainment, and movie studio executives suddenly had to offer terms to Bezos typically reserved for their biggest retail whales. Subscription service Amazon Prime launched in early 2005 with a $79 annual price tag.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Artificial intelligence may still seem futuristic to many, but a startup trying to bring artificial intelligence into our daily lives has piqued the interest of investors, reportedly raising $5 million in a Series A round of venture funding. But the startup isn’t stopping with the retail industry.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The FinTech firm — which offers software that enables sound-wave-based payments — is used by investors such as Amazon , Reliance Capital and Mastercard. But, of course, it is retail in general that will prove to be the most promising for sound-wave-based payments. The latter will deploy sound-based contactless payments.

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JULY 2, 2019

One of the biggest stories in retail continues to be Uber’s effort to move well beyond its core offering of automotive ridesharing. Bike and scooter sharing are expanding to more cities as mobility-as-a-service retail offerings continue to grow. and San Diego, Calif.”. But that doesn’t mean everything is coming up roses.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The world is full of people who want to look nice but don’t have the kind of enthusiasm (or time) for retail commerce that would keep them hitting the malls. For that world of emerging high-style, low-energy, low-time shoppers, there is StichFix : an online fashion retailer that comes with a built-in personal shopper.

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

For shoppers who rely on smartphones, the “face” of the modern retailer is becoming its mobile website and app. 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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Understanding the consumer is key for retailers, and leveraging Big Data can mean big returns on marketing investments. It’s no small task, by any stretch of the imagination, for retailers to make sense of consumer behavior. That ROI has been attracting attention from major retailers, other B2C entities and investors.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Although the $1,000 price tag was anticipated and expected, it was nearly universally commented upon, as it officially makes Apple the price leader in its category (by about $50, as the latest and greatest from Samsung clocks in with a $950 price tag). Apple Retail: Embracing The Town Square.

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MARCH 2, 2019

The problem was, she couldn’t find her size in the style she wanted on the Canada Goose website, or on other retailers’ sites. The problem is, the fake products today are of better quality and better price than the real names,” he said at Alibaba’s investor day in Hangzhou.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The physical retailer is joining forces with the online juggernaut and is debuting a “smart home” experience across 10 stores in Chicago and Los Angeles. Research from Fung Global Retail & Technology shows that smaller players are likely to vie for a piece of the pie that is 90 percent dominated by Alibaba and Tencent-backed firms.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

Designer resale retail online does not lack for options or enthusiasm. That further admonition to “buy better” has been fertile ground for a host of reselling eCommerce retailers offering the discerning customer access to high-end fashion brands at costs that are not quite stratospheric.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Though Capital One had lots of positive forward-looking statements to make after releasing its Q4 earnings information last week, its stock sank as what investors and analysts most noted was that the bank missed on both earnings and revenue. Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3 Capital One’s Earnings Flub. billion expected by analysts.

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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. The firm makes enterprise resource planning and retail management software. billion price tag represents a hefty profit for Apax, which bought Epicor for $1 billion.
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MAY 24, 2016

Kroger is one of retail’s more anomalous figures insofar as it is massive – and yet somewhat invisible. Said simply, Kroger taken across the various retail operations it stands behind is much, much larger than most people are aware. ” A big price tag is in part an outcome of a big operation. Will it work?

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MARCH 16, 2017

Alphabet’s investment was part of a $25 million round that also included input from existing investors Notion Capital Ltd and Rakuten Inc., The end products will likely be comprised of cheaper component parts to bring the price tag down. The current version retails for some $249.). among others.

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MAY 5, 2017

“Apple Watch is the bestselling and most loved smartwatch in the world, and we hear wonderful stories from our customers about its impact on their fitness and health,” Tim Cook noted in his remarks to investors this week. More than a dozen retailers have filed for bankruptcy this year and at least 10 more could be on the edge of doing so.

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Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Finally, Charlie Munger's passing at the age of ninety-nine brought to a close one of the most storied key person teams of all time at Berkshire Hathaway, and generations of investors who had attached a premium to the company because of that team's presence mourned. Key Person: Who, what and why?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

We were 75% retail. So bringing the two firms together, you really made us 50/50 retail and institutional, and that’s been very important. You can put those tags in there but still take a professionally managed strategy… RITHOLTZ: Right. And then unbelievable managers in ClearBridge and Martin Currie and Brandywine.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

The best that could have been said about the Q2 results so far, as tracked across retail, is that they are somewhat less disastrous than they were in Q1. And that brings the nagging question: Can Walmart continue to look so strong when the rest of physical retail is struggling so hard? By The Numbers. a share on $120.16

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AUGUST 21, 2016

Goldman Sachs — with its long track record of being the investment bank of choice for elite investors, corporations and governments — is probably not the first financial institution that comes to mind when thinking about touching the “common man.”. Goldman Sachs Goes Middle Class. and Canada.

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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. Because then I knew what the wholesale rate was and the retail rate. Import, export, finance, marketing, wholesale, retail, customer service, security, territory, logistics.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

The foot traffic is waning, and thus, so is investor enthusiasm. After early morning rumors started swirling that Ant Financial Services Group (which operates as an affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding) was considering acquiring MoneyGram — within hours the news was confirmed, and even had a price tag on it.

Economics 40

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

She was an investor. RITHOLTZ: The Bureau of Business Prevention is how the retail brokers used to describe compliance. HAMBURGER: When the minority investor or the capital partner — RITHOLTZ: They get paid first. Investors see this as a safe investment, right? If you’re going to do it, go to law school.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And it’s turned into a $100 million business with incredible investors and just a huge brand on the internet. How do you go out and find investors? And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. And that was 15 years ago. This really is a fascinating discussion.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

So if you’re watching sentiment, it’s the surveys, you know, the, the investor’s intelligence survey, bull Bear and correction. What investors are doing? Now hopefully investors are saying, I mean, what investors are saying, right? That means investors are fearful. What are they telling us?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

He was a pre-IPO investor in companies like Facebook and Twitter. LINDZON: So first year at ’01, ‘02, you have Apple and they blew out the store model, the retail model, which no one thought. And he just thought I was humorous, like as a 50k, 100k investor checking in on my investment, and we would talk about the internet.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

And we literally talk about during the show, I got a tag to present to the SEC, about their new single stock product. Anybody who has the curiosity and the basic intellectual capacity to learn about the markets can become a fairly sophisticated investor. I’m an investor and Advisor Circle. Why don’t you speak to him?

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JUNE 12, 2020

restaurants and retailers are starting to reopen as authorities lift COVID-19 restrictions and consumers contemplate returning to life as usual, or at least life adjusted for a post-pandemic world of things like people wearing face masks in public. But the GOP took that position before widespread civil unrest in U.S.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

It had gone from a fairly, fairly heavy retail business to a very institutional business. People that shop at the, at the big box retailers, the Walmarts, ’cause they import a lot of their goods. You’ve become a fairly big investor across things like cybersecurity, blockchain, infrastructure, ai. Yeah, exactly.

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