PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

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. Citing IDC, Bloomberg reported the smartphone market in China contracted 9.7

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Those two macro sentiments are helping to send the broader markets into freefall – after all, the slowdown would augur ill for any number of countries and any number of verticals. Cook blamed the ongoing trade war , and said the Chinese economy is weaker than expected.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

This indicates that, despite the overall growth slowdown, Facebook’s push to introduce live videos and become a source of news content continues to draw more of its users into daily sessions. Daily active users hit 1.23 billion worldwide, up 18 percent year on year and beating out 17 percent growth from last quarter.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Using the digital identity system, consumers can print their own bag tags and use a scanner and match tablet within the airport to move touchless through the system. The tablet will take your picture, and your biometric information will match against the mobile ID shared from your device,” American Airlines explained this week.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Consumers may indeed be shifting to the cheaper iPhones (note that the XR has a starting price tag of $749) and walking away from the iPhone XR, as the older lines got $100 price cuts when the higher-end phones were launched. (It At this writing, they are a bit above $203.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Facebook expects a slowdown in its core business in the near future, a prediction that has been cited as a primary driver behind its launch of Facebook Watch. According to The Wall Street Journal , Facebook is likely trying to brace for an anticipated slowdown in its core business.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The firm pointed to a “sluggish” smartphone market, coming right into a seasonal slowdown. A high price tag – and perhaps a high risk, since high prices are increasingly unattractive to customers, and Samsung is not the only firm rolling out with a dual-screen 5G phone. through AT&T and T-Mobile in the latter half of 2019.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The year opened with the stock market crashing for a month on the slowdown in the Chinese economy, and then, at the halfway mark, the U.K. Visa and Mastercard are working to tag team tokens together to create a universal security standard for transactions across channels.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

But what shocked me more than the slowdown — the slowdown actually makes sense. What shocked me more than the slowdown was the intoxication of capital, right? But my deal is I use one of these services where anything I find interesting, I just tag it as a “to watch.” RITHOLTZ: Watch it later.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 24, 2023

The price tag was just shy of $9,000 — a reduced rate. Temporary employment declined before some recent recessions and during economic slowdowns. But the devices — which were installed in the house’s dining hall and lower common room — lasted just a few weeks.

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