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JUNE 23, 2018

Now let’s do a match cut to outer space — like that famous early shot of the bone being tossed in “ 2001: A Space Odyssey ” — where, during the Gemini 12 mission in 1966, U.S. Brands are turning narcissism into cold hard cash. astronaut and still-living tough guy Buzz Aldrin took his own self-portrait.

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JANUARY 19, 2019

Audiences barely noticed it, reviewers panned it and by the end, it had cost the production company so much money that it ended up being sold off to Paramount when it couldn’t recoup the losses from the film. 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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OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2013, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw an opportunity in Nokia, a Finnish phone company that was losing ground to competitors. Ballmer left Microsoft that same year and new CEO Satya Nadella had to do significant restructuring and layoffs to streamline the company, including cutting 15,000 Nokia employees. Google and Nest.

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Money and Payments

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ok, so you may have been reading a complex thread on social media about the European travel rule for crypto companies and the impact it has on fundamental rights to privacy and freedom to provide services. This leads to the question how non EU countries deal with data that EU companies are forced to distribute all over the world.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

Ok, so you may have been reading a complex thread on social media about the European travel rule for crypto companies and the impact it has on fundamental rights to privacy and freedom to provide services. This leads to the question how non EU countries deal with data that EU companies are forced to distribute all over the world.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

And perhaps the most famous garage startup story ever is that of Bill Hewlett and David Packard and the garage they rented in 1939 to start the electronics company that would later bear their names. Over Labor Day weekend in 1995, Pierre Omidyar wrote the original code in his living room for the company that would later become known as eBay.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Rapidly ascending stock prices belie optimism that the horizon (and profits) remain clear for companies. Enron filed for bankruptcy in 2001 after accounting improprieties surfaced; much of the company’s business activities — logged as revenues and profits — had been done though special purpose entities (where it had ownership interests).

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NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The “premium” pet food market as of 2001 accounted for about $5.7 Lots of brands include exotic-sounding ingredients, the report notes, not in such small amounts that they likely have no nutritional impact. When the company first first started out two years ago, it sold exclusively through its own site MyOllie.com. “We

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JULY 18, 2016

The big daddy of the video rental industry at the time was Blockbuster , and it operated more than 4,500 such outlets. At the time, it wasn’t as if the $40 put a crimp in the Hastings’ family budget — he’d just sold a company for $700 million. So, too, are the cable operators. had a DVD player in their homes.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Get an excel file with the entire list of Berkshire Hathaway’s Aquisitions, including each company’s valuation, date acquired and investment stage. Buffet’s company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns nearly 10% stakes in juggernaut companies like Coca-Cola and Wells Fargo. Company culture. table of contents.

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JUNE 10, 2019

iTunes dominated after its 2001 release by putting two things in one place that had never existed before: a digital MP3 player that actually worked, properly paired with a store that made accessing music for a small fee much easier than trying to pirate it. In May, the company raised $500 million in venture funding.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As a consequence, we have three credit reporting agencies operating today, who are largely free to do whatever they want with the data they have — consumer complaint database be damned. The CFPB’s complaint database also tracked the companies with the highest number of complaints.

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OCTOBER 16, 2018

Today, Amazon is a hugely successful, precedent-breaking company. The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. In doing so, he carved out a unique way of looking at the world, at companies, and at tech in general.

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MARCH 7, 2019

There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still young – and, at this point, struggling – online bookstore. Walmart has recorded 18 quarters, or over four straight years, of comparable U.S.

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MAY 23, 2019

Some companies just push their luck a little too far. When that’s happened, some companies survive. Below, we take a look at some of these frauds and the lessons they can teach entrepreneurs hoping to launch their own products, companies, and funds. The Honest Company not so honest about labeling. Table of contents.

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JULY 9, 2018

Digital music has been unbundled since the iPod and iTunes got a head of steam in 2001. Store-based installment plans have existed for decades, but now point-of-sale credit innovators offer consumers the chance to finance the purchase of individual products in-store and online, via white label or branded solutions.

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The most recent startup to join the alt-investment movement is brandCrowder , a company that facilitates investment in franchises. Accredited investors can invest in single company funds, syndicated funds, and portfolio funds while non-accredited investors can participate in national deals that fall under Regulation D of the JOBS Act.

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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. When the company went back to the original formula, Peter Jennings broke into hit TV show “General Hospital” to announce the news and US Sen.

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