PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

And classic films aren’t the only place where a flop can presage a hit: In fact, many of today’s favorite consumer innovations come care of a failed first iteration that was widely derided before it was praised. In 2001, at the COMDEX Fall computer show, Microsoft ’s then-CEO Bill Gates introduced to the world to the Microsoft Tablet PC.

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Jeff For Banks

JUNE 2, 2023

The dot-com bubble recession began in March 2001 and lasted only 8 months. percent of all jobs in 2001 to 11.3 By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. High-tech employment fell from 12.1 percent in 2004, a decline of 1.1 What caused a dot-com bubble?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B. Price: $2.6B.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

It’s a growing, thriving aspect of financial technology that is becoming a category of its own – apart from the world of payments, robo-advisors, and PFM that characterizes much of what we call “fintech.” ” More than half have “already invested” in social media, data mining, and predictive modeling.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Reports emerged this week that Apple has begun the process of scrubbing the social sphere of all trace of iTunes. So far, all of the social media content from Facebook and Instagram pages has disappeared, though its Twitter account still has content for the time being. See you next Monday!

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. What Cerent’s technology did was help connect long-haul communications lines and the local telephone and data network. round, which put Facebook’s valuation at $468M. When Snap Inc.

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