CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In parallel, Amazon has made several fintech investments, mostly focused on international markets (India and Mexico, among others) where partners can help serve Amazon’s core strategic goal. Market strategy outside the US. The patent expired in 2017 and opened up the market for competitors to launch off-marketplace payment solutions.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. Date: September 3, 2001. Google and Motorola. Date: August 15, 2011. Price: $25B.

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Jeff For Banks

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But he held firm that the regulatory environment, changing customer preferences, and the pace and expense of technology were driving the market towards bigger is better. It converted to a public company through a Mutual Holding Company conversion in 1990 and performed the second step conversion in 2001. They had to grow to survive.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

million from Benchmark Capital and changed its name to eBay. In August of 2001, The Industry Standard published a piece describing the firm as “ unstoppable ,” given its power as a platform that simply facilitated the sale of goods between buyers and sellers without taking possession of any inventory. With a market cap of $37.2

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PYMNTS

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. Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 with a market cap of $12 million, down from $4 billion just a decade before in 2002 — the year that Netflix IPO’d. But we all know how that movie ended, don’t we?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The iTunes storefront for purchasing music, movies and TV may remain up and running within the major apps, but it will be less of a central focus as Apple redirects its attention to the booming subscription eCommerce market. It also came to the market at just the right time – about 10 months before the iPod hit the market in October 2001.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

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 ). Market volatility. In spring 2001, Cisco’s shareholders had lost a total of 28.6%

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

You hear a lot about the new normal and stuff like that, but I really see it as banking at the speed of life,” said CarrieAnne Cormier , senior vice president of Retail Operations and Strategy at Avidia. The past year has been one of the most trying in recent memory for lenders as well as consumers. Preventing Financial Crimes.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Crescent Ridge Capital Partners’ elaborate Ponzi scheme. Select Investors: AllianceBernstein, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Glade Brook Capital Partners. Select Investors: CapitalG, Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Select Investors: BlackRock, Norwest Venture Partners, Sands Capital.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

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. 2001: Measure your company by your free cash flow. In fact, in 2017, all of Amazon’s operating income came from AWS, a once-risky bet on a “dreamy” business idea.

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MARCH 11, 2019

If you just thought of HAL in 2001: Space Odyssey telling Dave he was getting pissed, you’re there! In fact, large banks and fintech firms are using these capabilities heavily for marketing, delivery, pricing and other things. Hal9000 2001ASpace Odyssey GIF from Hal9000 GIFs. Oh, and you can’t just outsource this.

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JULY 7, 2016

With Brexit and other turmoil driving recent market uncertainty alternative investments are getting an even closer look. ” Onuosa went on to detail how franchise-related equities have outperformed the US stock market by 33%. Traditional bank underwriting for portfolio holders of operating franchise units is broken (i.e.,

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In this review of failure, we’ve looked in our venture capital database to find the most well-funded startup companies that ultimately failed or had an undesirable exit, such as an asset sale or an acquisition for less than the total funding raised by the company. The 101 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time. Total Funding: Over $100M.

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Tech and Finance

MARCH 7, 2016

million in December, the second highest since 2001. Gaining strength in the jobs market and more bargaining power for workers point to higher paychecks, and we expect average year-over-year wage gains to reach 3.2% Indeed, lower energy prices may even help their bottom line, given that operational costs may be lowered.”.

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CB Insights

APRIL 7, 2018

Lights-out manufacturing refers to factories that operate autonomously and require no human presence. Famously, the Japanese robotics maker FANUC has been operating a “lights-out” factory since 2001, where robots are building other robots completely unsupervised for nearly a month at a time.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In venture capital, returns follow the power law — 80% of the wins come from 20% of the deals. Get the 65-page report on teardowns for Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, and more. JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B

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