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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

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Founded in 2002, the goal of Spreadshirt’s platform is to eliminate headaches and hurdles when bringing great ideas to market. The startup concept was to create and activate an online shop system to sell and share ideas,” said Smoter. market was more difficult than any other European market when it came to growth,” said Smoter.

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Walmart May Be Looking To Sell Off Its Japanese Business

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and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence. Walmart first purchase Seiyu in 2002, but has faced difficulties gaining traction in the extraordinarily challenging Japanese market. The Japanese market for mass merchandisers fell 6 percent in retail value to ¥6.7

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How Interac e-Transfer Won The Ubiquity Game In Canada

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Interac ’s AVP of Online Products and Platforms Peter Maoloni explains how the landscape left a perfect opening for the company’s latest offering. Interac started out in the P2P space back in 2002. Now, it’s time to see if that larger scale bears out the lessons learned in the Canadian market.

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

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That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. Four years later, in 2002, eBay announced that it would buy PayPal for $1.5 In September of that year, eBay went public.

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Here Are 35 Casualties Of The Retail Apocalypse And Why They Failed

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Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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High-Frequency Trading: Is It The New Normal?

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Animation aside, that would probably be Moneyball , an absorbing analysis of the moves made by Oakland As manager Billy Beane to rely more on technology-driven data than old-school scouting to put together his 2002 roster. To be clear, it’s not as if the regulatory bodies have kept their hands completely off this market.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd.

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