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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Facebook has announced it’s going to stop using its controversial Tag Suggestions feature, and facial recognition technology is going to be available to all of its users, Reuters reported Tuesday (Sept. Tag Suggestions, a feature that lets people tag friends, has been controversial.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

But they are also increasingly tapping into the social media platform to sell products as well, The Wall Street Journal reported. The feature is available via just-added stickers in Instagram Stories and tags in a person’s feed and can be set with details such as product details and the date.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In an attempt to lower its reliance on the iPhone, Apple is overhauling its leadership ranks and changing its priorities so that it is focused more on services, artificial intelligence, hardware and retail, reported The Wall Street Journal. Apple’s moves come at a time when demand for its iPhones is starting to slow.

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JUNE 6, 2019

The Wall Street Journal reports that the company started telling clients yesterday (June 5) that it is shuttering Finn, which had been rolled out as no-fee banking app that had been fashioned to target younger clients. billion tagged for this year and with significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts.

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MARCH 25, 2020

That price tag would be divvied up between Tokyo, the aforementioned organizing committee and the central government. As The Wall Street Journal reported, the country’s largest theme parks, Tokyo Disney Resort and Universal Studios Japan, had undertaken major expansions – the former with a $700 million makeover, the latter at $550 million.

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JANUARY 30, 2018

The Wall Street Journal reported news on Tuesday (Jan. The iPhone X sports features such as facial recognition technology and has a $1,000 price tag, higher than competing devices. Eyeing weak demand, tech giant Apple has cut production for its iPhone X planned for the current quarter. It’s a real headache.”

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APRIL 1, 2019

Amazon plans to slash prices on hundreds of items at Whole Foods stores in an attempt to attract customers and change the brand’s image as a high-priced grocery store, The Wall Street Journal reported. The lower prices will affect 500 plus products and will mostly focus on meat and produce.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2018

TechCrunch noted that positive reviews for the high-end HomePod, which has Siri built in, boosted pre-order demand ahead of the launch, in spite of the speaker’s lofty $349 price tag. Customers who placed early pre-orders received shipping notices that the device will be delivered on Feb.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Despite its high price tag and the hype before its launch, the HomePod is not compatible with Android devices or streaming services like Spotify that operate outside the Apple Music sphere.

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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. No, thanks.

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MAY 10, 2018

The new design moves the company’s wordmark outside the giant yellow tag, making it a less noticeable part of the layout, The Verge reported. The stores are not as lucrative as they once were since the smartphone market’s maturation, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

According to a report published in The Wall Street Journal , Apple said in a statement that there is a problem connecting the Watch 3 to cellular networks. The issue could be a big blow to Apple given Wall Street has largely been excited about the Watch 3 with cellular connectivity.

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JANUARY 17, 2017

Swap executives told The Wall Street Journal that, in Jan. 2015, items marked “new with tags” bumped up nearly a quarter, and this January, that number is slated to pop up even more. This time of year, consignment shops are seeing an uptick, namely because of the post-holiday calm.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

21st Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer — along with an investment from director Steven Spielberg, according to The Wall Street Journal. Dreamscape Immersive’s VR experiences are reportedly expected to run around 10 minutes each, each coming with a production price tag of over $1 million to produce.

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JUNE 13, 2016

Lending Club talked down its numbers on loans being sold to investors, with the additional disclosure, as noted by The Wall Street Journal , that the company has been buying at least some of the loans itself. One source told WSJ that the errors were the result of a new system that is involved in “tagging” loans.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

Turns out, too, that the famed iOS ecosystem is not the lure that it may be in other parts of the world, as The Wall Street Journal noted that many consumers prefer to spend their time in the confines of other ecosystems that span social media, payments and, of course, any other number of applications, notably WeChat.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Revenue was up 1 percent year over year to $7 billion, but Wall Street had been looking for $7.08 Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3 21) by a French regulator, in what the Wall Street Journal reported is the largest penalty to date under the new European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law.

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MAY 18, 2016

An even bigger hit came from Amazon’s sprawling network of fulfillment centers around the world, which tagged the retailer for $3.68 Spending on shipping clocked in at $3.27 billion to the $1.8 billion of revenue for a $1.4 billion loss — about 6.8 percent of overall merchandise sales.

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APRIL 28, 2016

told The Wall Street Journal that the inventory management market is no longer “driven by the 500,000-square-foot-and-above user.” David Egan, head of U.S. industrial research for real estate firm CBRE Inc.,

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MAY 11, 2016

This time around, among the more unusual features of the case was that Staples and Office Depot, according to Wall Street Journal reports, chose not to present any defense at all on the grounds that the FTC’s case was entirely inadequate and thus a defense was unnecessary.

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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. “It isn’t black and white. .” The less good news? They are not easy to buy.

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JULY 19, 2019

But sharp-eyed members noticed a glitch: The site had marked down almost all of the Prime Day-tagged camera equipment to around $94. Amazon’s private-label products account for approximately 1 percent of our total retail sales,” an Amazon representative told The Journal. It sold out quickly.

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AUGUST 4, 2019

Facebook is adding its name to Instagram and WhatsApp as part of a rebranding aimed at unifying all three apps, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday (Aug. A “From Facebook” tag will be added to Instagram and WhatsApp brands, and the Facebook name will be visible in all marketing. “We

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

According to The Wall Street Journal , Facebook is likely trying to brace for an anticipated slowdown in its core business. It’s also doing everything in its power to keep users inside its walled garden.

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JUNE 10, 2019

billion tagged for this year and significant focus on Chase mobile and digital efforts. The Wall Street Journal reported that Marketing Chief Joanne Bradford, Head of Risk Kevin Moss and Ashish Jain, the lender’s top capital markets executive, informed Chief Executive Anthony Noto that they would be leaving their roles.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

According to “sources familiar with the matter,” Walmart is in talks to buy Jet – a move that the Wall Street journal cheerfully dubbed “a disappointing end for one of the most ambitious challengers to Amazon.com Inc.” Should recent reports be believed. The Very Early Talks .

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NOVEMBER 20, 2017

And Chase Pay was officially added to their roster this week, as recent data indicated that the tryout rate for Chase’s emergent effort into mobile payments hasn’t managed to break out of the single digits after two years in the marketplace and its $100 million price tag.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 23, 2023

Then suddenly in the ensuing weeks, you get tagged to be CEO. And I went to a very old magistrates’ court in London, at Bow Street. RITHOLTZ: I — I have been looking forward to this for a while. And when we first booked you, you were like a junior analyst. That has to be a little bit of a surreal experience.

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MARCH 12, 2019

That all may come to a head, or at least be in the spotlight, as CEO Timothy Sloan is slated to appear on Tuesday (March 12) before the House Financial Services Committee, which as The Wall Street Journal reports has now come under control of the Democratic Party, with “a decidedly populist tilt.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 10, 2023

He just lays it out as he saw it, as a fly in the wall and lets you, the reader, figure it out. Can I just tag along? Michael Lewis ] 00:04:45 [Speaker Changed] So it different, it works only because when you drop that character into the middle of modern Wall Street, it gets very interesting. And the book is similar.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And “waiting on the wings,” in fact, maybe a slightly misleading way to tag that. A recent Wall Street Journal report picked out four key areas that experts think will be of particular fascination to cybercriminals: sensors and data gathering networks, energy and water supply systems, autonomous vehicle systems and waste management systems.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

That, at least, was the verdict widely accepted on Wall Street following a report via Digitimes. Perhaps the looming $999 price tag has something to do with it? Coming into the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported, slow iPhone sales may, in fact, presage a surge in demand for the X. Perhaps so.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Ebay beat the Street in its latest quarterly results and managed to see 3 percent gains on the top line based in part on holiday spending. And this was in the wake of a report that a baker’s dozen Wall Street firms lifted price targets on the name. What will it do with this new asset? Structured data initiatives are doing well.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 25, 2023

Keep in mind also that when I was going through school in the mid to late 90s, Wall Street was pretty appealing. Let’s sell the house and see what sticks against the wall. But my deal is I use one of these services where anything I find interesting, I just tag it as a “to watch.” RITHOLTZ: It was banging.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You know, right off the street. So, 00:02:52 [Speaker Changed] You know, you know that scene in Wolf of Wall Street where, where DiCaprio sits down in the room and makes that first call. What are the odds that we’re gonna see Santa Claus come to Wall Street? Oh, really?

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 16, 2023

LINDZON: Yes, living in Phoenix, then an Apple store opened up at Biltmore, then I stumbled across the street, never really an Apple user. And I was a customer and I was a Cramer fan at the time because I came from the street myself. Today we would call them finance bros, but you’d be on Wall Street. LINDZON: Yes.

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MAY 18, 2020

They justify the massive price tag by citing the coronavirus pandemic’s unprecedented scope and economic effects, arguing that combating them requires “bold action.”. Sources told The Wall Street Journal that negotiations between the two sides won’t begin until later this month. So Now What? .

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