PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for Uber. New Year’s Eve has been busiest night of the year for Uber. Uber expects to dish out 300 percent more rides on New Year’s Eve than it did last year. Uber expects to see nearly 38 percent of its monthly ride volume in one night.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said Thursday (Nov. The company’s former CEO Travis Kalanick, who was pushed out of the top job amid scandals at the company, had long said he wanted Uber to stay private for as long as possible, noted TechCrunch. If it’s too difficult to come up with a price tag for the stake, Son could walk away.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

The company already offers location identification services to companies like Snapchat and Uber, enabling geolocation within their own platforms. The following year, the firm revealed an extended partnership with Twitter for precise location tagging attached to collections of tweets, not only individual tweets.

Startups 74

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2016

Putting traditional car manufacturers eyeing the ride-hailing space on notice, Uber has reached an agreement with Volvo , enabling customers in downtown Pittsburgh to order up a self-driving car from their mobile app starting later in August. Volvo reportedly delivered a handful of the SUVs to Uber. It has 100 due by the end of 2016.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

Drivers for ridesharing app Uber — among other members of the gig economy — are requesting that the company share data with the drivers themselves. Speaking of changes to payments within the EU, merchants are about to confront a problem with a potential $100 billion price tag. Around the PSD2, GDPR World.

Compliance 74

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

Apple flipped a long-held policy in opening up the iPhone’s NFC chip to developers, Chase decided that it can afford to make its premier rewards card a bit less rewarding and Uber took a pass on an investment from Warren Buffet. Uber Rebuffs Buffett. I’m a great admirer of [Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi],” Buffett told CNBC.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 3, 2018

In the early 1900s, department stores came up with a novel idea to help their customers pay for their purchases: Customers could use metal plates — that looked like dog tags or tokens — at retailers such as Gimbels that tracked their spending. The card enables members to earn rewards on all of their purchases.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Uber and Lyft also made sure not to let the financial opportunity of the Cubs winning the World Series go by. 3), both ride-hailing services had surge pricing, with Uber charging 1.5 According to ChicagoInno , Uber even surprised a select few fans by allowing former Cubs outfielder Andre Dawson to tag along on some rides.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

The startup has developed a location-tracking smart tag and accompanying mobile app that sends alerts to parents when their child has gone outside a preset range. To date, Jiobit has raised a total of $4.2 million in two rounds of funding.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2016

As an “Uber of X” company, San Francisco–based Bannerman pairs security guards with businesses in high-rise buildings seeking protection. Security guards today rely very much on pen and paper and phone tag. So would you say Bannerman is “the Uber of Security Guards”? What does the term “Uber of X” mean to you? Absolutely.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

As noted in PYMNTS’ Uber of X tracker, similar services have struggled to ignite. And while there still remains plenty of buzz surrounding meal kits on demand, the jury is still out on the appropriate price tag for convenience. In other words, meal kits are mostly replacing meals from the home but at higher prices.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Google, previously an Uber investor, is now reportedly mulling an investment in its ridesharing competitor Lyft. It is unclear whether the iPhone X’s $999 price tag will drive Google to raise its prices as well. Yelp has previously requested that Google stop scraping from its site. Can I Get A Lyft? Take My Money. Where Is Your Wallet?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

And that is competitive with a capital C as Apple, Alphabet, Tesla and Uber are just the short list of Northern California all-stars that are also looking to reboot the wide world of automobiles — mainly with a focus on connected cars for the now, and self-driving cars for the (not too distant?)

Technology 55

Technology Marketing 55

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The merino wool blend they use is proprietary, and the price tag for one pair is $95. Apart from expansion, a large portion of the funds will go toward research and development, as Allbirds plans to extend its line of renewable uber-comfortable shoes with a wider range of materials. Allbirds’ total funding comes to $27.5

Retail 51

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Recruiting customers is hard to do — and comes with a big price tag. But it has had more trouble holding to market share, and more often than not finds itself splitting its customer base between itself, Uber Eats, DoorDash and Postmates as aggregator customers tend to flip between services depending on what meets their needs at the moment.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2017

SiriusXM’s addition of Automatic to its connected-car products, which came with a price tag of just over $100 million, will allow the broadcasting company to strengthen its position in the burgeoning connected-vehicle services space.

eCommerce 40

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Creative CFP

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The tag line was “Real-time accounting”. Learning this term saw the beginning of an incredible journey for me where I went back to enjoying finance work again. I stumbled upon cloud accounting while reading the Entrepreneur magazine and saw an advert for Xero accounting software. The idea of “real-time accounting” seemed unreal to me!

Accounting 52

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

AI, for example, provides insight into how marketplaces can dynamically set their pricing — something most clearly illustrated by Uber and other ridesharing services that can look at historical use patterns, geography and on-site eccentricities (road work or a blizzard, for example) to price and surge-price their fares.

Investments 42

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2017

The second largest deal of the week also involved China, this time as Didi and a number of fellow investors sank a reported $100 million in 99, the Brazilian ride-hailing company, which now ups the competitive ante against Uber, of course, in that region. In that scenario, the human team reads the message and selects how to respond. “It

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

These tools allow merchants to pre-calculate duties and taxes into an order’s final price tag to help consumers anticipate all charges involved. To do that, the Sunnyvale, California–based company is considering partnering with Deliv and Uber to execute the last stretch of a delivery.

eCommerce 43

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

And actually, that might not be a bad tag line to put on all of 2019 retail — many advances miraculous and unexpected, but all just getting started. They are household names today, as well as major forces that reset the direction of their entire vertical. . Texting, Normandin noted, is “the most ubiquitous form of communication on earth.”

Retail 54

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. SoFi and Uber Reshuffle Their Upper Levels. Uber said two big goodbyes to its chief operating and marketing officers, though the circumstances were bit different. The shuttering comes as JPMorgan has spent heavily on technology, with $11.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That would apply to companies and platforms as diverse as OYO, Uber and others. Facebook had been sued over the use of “tag suggestions,” and had allegedly broken the law by collecting the imagery without asking for permission. The Reaction. Amazon, for its part, has said that the TDS will impact smaller sellers in detrimental ways.

eCommerce 70

eCommerce Banking Sales Retail 70

PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2019

There were the purely practical items, like the waterproof phone case and the wireless tracking tags for high-value items. On the downside, for the $599 price tag, it seems only fair that the bag should also fold and pack one’s clothes as well.

Transportation 52

Transportation Advertising Marketing Technology 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

For the marketplaces, where once eBay had been in the ranks, the adherents include Lyft, Spotify and Uber. Sounds a bit to us like tag teams: One partner switches out but tags in another teammate who is game to go — and Libra tokens, of course, stay in the pot. The members can leave for any reason.

Currencies 43

Currencies Nonprofit Banking Securities 43

PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2016

Last week we saw Uber and Green Dot on a mission to pay drivers faster, Goldman Sachs loving the little guy, and hackers…well, hacking anything that’s not nailed down. Uber Expanding Instant Pay With Green Dot. Instant Pay is now available to Uber’s driving fleet. How fun for all of us! One move made last week may help.

Accounting 40

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2018

In mid-December, media outlets reported that analysts found the Ionic had failed to wow consumers — who balked at the $300-plus price tag that came along with it. Initial reports suggested that sales had been somewhat below par.

Forecasting 49

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PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2018

That can lead to frustrating, lengthy games of phone tag, whereas texting can be more free flow. People are so motivated by convenience due to us all being conditioned by companies like Amazon , Uber , and Airbnb to expect that,” Rea said. Rea explained this could be a major opportunity for Podium someday in the future.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2020

Apart from celebrities, Apple and Uber were also tagged in the hacking event that occurred Wednesday (July 15). The messages from hackers masquerading as high-profile people all had a similar tone and mentioned an intention to double and redistribute all funds donated in bitcoin to those who paid in.

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Securities Accounting Education Communication 64

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Given its hefty price tag and IT requirements, the technology was installed in conference or board rooms and not individual offices. It had the “fax” problem: The only way people could see each other was if the party on the other end had access to the same technology. And it was location-dependent.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2018

That’s why there’s surge pricing for Uber and Lyft at 2:00 a.m. Still, such a steep price tag could be a big deterrent and discourage many from ever trying the service. With Uber and Lyft, it’s simple for users to pop open an app, request a car and be on their way within five minutes. The Pricing Problem.

Investments 43

Investments Numbers Marketing Securities 43

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

But banning deals also would shut off a common exit strategy that pushes entrepreneurs to make the leap from concept to corporation — selling to larger firms for what they hope is a hefty price tag. Temper Of The Times. The Ocasio-Cortez/Warren proposal is indicative of the temper of the times.

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Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Economics Startups Marketing 115

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 2, 2023

And then within LVMH, I moved to Tag Heuer, which is a pure watch business — RITHOLTZ: Right. It was really kind of in the Tag Heuer timeline for me, career-wise, that I became aware of Ben and of Hodinkee. CLYMER: Tag Heuer. And Louis Vuitton has a watch business and division. So we were well aware of their impact.

Retail 64

Retail Advertising Numbers Economics 64

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. LINDZON: Uber. So it was like Uber growth. I, you know, some days I love the idea. Some days I’m like, wow. But, I went back and I said, listen, I got two choices. RITHOLTZ: Yes. LINDZON: So, yes.

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