PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Fake news alert! While the $9 billion price tag should have been a red flag to human traders, Apple did briefly see its stock rise to $158 before settling back down to around $156. billion in an acquisition of the Pixel division of HTC Corp, while Apple recently snapped up startup Init.ai in an acqui-hire deal to work on Siri.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Welcome to The Axis, your late look at payments news from around the world. Inserts, packaging and leaflets can come with near-field communication (NFC) tags and quick-response (QR) codes to allow customers to sign as well as pay using their smartphones for their subscriptions. and Australia. In Australia and the U.K.,

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Consider the beacon technology used at Frames in Tokyo, the robotic waitstaff in Shanghai or even the Brekk-E-Tag at Hungry Jack’s in Australia. For the latest in unattended retail news, trends, and developments, take a look at the PYMNTS.com Unattended Retail Tracker™ , powered by USA Technologies. While the U.S.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

And while Peloton is one well documented case of delays, tales of sold-out yoga mats, free weights, resistance bands, exercise balls and all make and manner of home fitness equipment have abounded in the national news. Consumers, it seems, are investing in building home fitness regimens — and in some cases spending quite a lot of money.

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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 saga, along with mounting concerns over “ fake news ,” are, in many ways, pushing corporate cybersecurity in a new direction, says Kevin Lee, the trust and safety architect at cybersecurity firm Sift Science.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Wall Street analysts at Piper Jaffray said in research to clients that in a survey of several hundred users, 16 percent will seek to upgrade to a new phone this fall, only slightly better than last year, and 24 percent will “maybe” upgrade, which is lower than the 29 percent tally last year. Fizzle of the Week: Juicero.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2016

It is looking to startups to potentially lead growth with big ideas and new technology solutions from small, agile companies. The interactive dressing room mirrors identify each item a customer brings in through a sensor that recognizes a code from an RFID tag attached to each garment or accessory.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

based payments startup that enables financial service developers to create cross-border payment tools and services. startup to be a source of technologies that will enable domestic businesses to more easily expand into global markets. The end products will likely be comprised of cheaper component parts to bring the price tag down.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2018

The startup got a lot of attention, with write-ups in The Wall Street Journal , Fast Company, The New York Times and CNN. The other often-mentioned feature of the pants was the price tag, which was initially around $300. The new price point is now $250 ($50 if one wants a pair with no electronics) on the eCommerce site.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

Bringing in Dering Hall was compelling, Chairish CEO and Co-Founder Gregg Brockway told PYMNTS’ Karen Webster in a conversation shortly before the news was announced, because Chairish itself has undergone what he called a “significant transformation” of its own — specifically, adding interior designers as a key customer segment.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Other firms have made similar moves, with crypto lending firm BlockFi partnering with Visa to roll out a new bitcoin-backed credit card in 2021, CoinDesk reported. In other news, Nigeria is now the No. 2 country in the world in terms of bitcoins traded, according to a report from Quartz. on leading peer-to-peer marketplace Paxful.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. This is obviously new news for this particular podcast, and it is — you hear the words that people say, you know, it’s an honor and it’s a privilege. RITHOLTZ: I — I have been looking forward to this for a while. GREW: It is nothing short of surreal.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

With us, the law firm is basically a customer of MarketCounsel for a lot of our startup work. For most of the clients that come to us for startup work, right? And so, you can decide that you want to sever your employment and then begin the startup work, but that’s not tenable — RITHOLTZ: Right. My wife, not so much.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

I can either just give it away for free, which, you know, I started the cash tag dollar sign… RITHOLTZ: Right. So the smartest thing I ever did in this where Social Leverage started is I took everything I made and just redistributed it to everybody I saw doing a startup around … RITHOLTZ: Just every company. Fox news is its own animal.

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