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How Gift Certificates Evolved From Paper To Wearables

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That bit of technology came in handy for, say, deducting the amount of a purchase from a card’s value. We produced a small sampling for the stores in Salt Lake City,” Ron Goade, president of SSI Technologies , said on its website. Compared to traditional paper gift certificates, gift cards were a plastic card with a magnetic stripe.

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

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For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. in 2005, the thinking was that enhanced communications technology would help buyers and sellers better connect.

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21 Lessons From Jeff Bezos’ Annual Letters To Shareholders

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And nowhere is Bezos’ philosophy of business, technology, and leadership better articulated than in his annual shareholder letters, which he has written every year since the company’s IPO in 1997. 2001: Measure your company by your free cash flow. The main impediment to platform creation today is technology.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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It also owns 50 subsidiary companies that have 200 more subsidiaries themselves, including Geico (acquired in 1996), Dairy Queen (1997), and Fruit of the Loom (2001). You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.” ( 2001 ). In spring 2001, Cisco’s shareholders had lost a total of 28.6% table of contents.

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17 Of The Biggest Startup Frauds Of All Time

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The problem was that Theranos’ proprietary blood-testing technology was completely fictitious. Holmes’ claims about Theranos’ blood-testing technology weren’t just exaggerations or selective interpretations of clinical research data; they were quite literally impossible. The Outcome. Total Funding: $263M.

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