PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

That product never quite made it to market. In fairness, it was 1995 — Amazon was a year old and a bookseller online. The fact that Gates was right about the first two is arguable, what with the explosion of online mobile banking, digital payments and tech-based financial services. Disappointed now? At least not yet.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

It is an oft remarked upon irony that the tech company that had a voice-activated assistant first is now about the last to market with a device that can give it more of a presence outside of the phone, in the face of an Amazon Alexa army of 12,000 developers. Funds sent through the P2P service will be sent to the card.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

Founded in the days after the Web’s first round of booming and-busting adventures in 2001, Newegg was a very focused eCommerce effort that stayed afloat when lots of business were going belly-up, because in some sense it was selling the right thing to the right group people online: computer hardware and software.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 3, 2017

And they are addicted to jargon and marketing speak. Price/Earnings and Price/Sales are sooooo 2001. coli-based drug is the latest innovation in “synthetic biology,” which we breakdown here. A look at the online grocery market in India with a mention of CB Insights investment data. We see it every day. I love you.

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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: $210M.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

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. Before it entered the market, Netflix spent a lot of time researching the customer that it wanted to better serve. Embrace The Establishment. had a DVD player in their homes.

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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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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

What makes insurtech especially interesting is where it sits at the nexus of the pace of technological innovation and the reality of an ever-evolving regulatory landscape. ” Note that: Among traditional insurers, 43% are planning to “acquire or have already acquired innovative startups to help expand digital capabilities.”

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

And yet, for all the newness and newfangledness of toy innovation, it is remarkable how many of the classics are still not only available, but thriving. They may have gotten a modern update or two – some have undergone several – but their central appeal is the same, and their markets remain avid. Some favorites …. The Erector Set.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

After adopting the quick service franchise model in 2001, Spoleto My Italian Kitchen rapidly took off, both in its home country and around the world with QSR locations today in Mexico, Spain — and, as of the past few years, here in the U.S. The partnership with NCR continues to drive the digital platforms of our brand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

The intent of the regulation is to level the playing field for innovators by offering consumers an expanded number of point solutions that are different than what’s offered now by their existing bank. Digital music has been unbundled since the iPod and iTunes got a head of steam in 2001. Television programming is being unbundled.

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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. 2013: Decentralize decision-making to generate innovation. 2011: Self-service platforms unlock innovation. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2021

This year, the PYMNTS data and analytics team published 252 reports that tracked the data, innovations and disruptive thinking that are reshaping the payments and commerce business. As told by Citi and GE , the pandemic prompted a massive online shift as stores closed and consumers became wary about venturing out.

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PYMNTS

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. Customers will also be able to use the service online at Walmart.com.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Few places are more receptive to new ideas and innovative business models than Silicon Valley. Pixelon: Online video vaporware. LendingClub was one of many online lending services founded in the mid-2000s as entrepreneurs eyed the Byzantine financial sector as an area ripe for disruption. Autonomy: Big problems with big data.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. If making money on operations was a near impossibility, Kozmo seemed perpetually on the precipice of tapping into the public equity markets. via Forbes.

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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

JD.com took a huge risk by stepping into a major market and investor Capital Today made a $2.4B Semiconductor Manufacturing International generated huge returns for investor New Enterprise Associates when it built a semiconductor company with an experienced team in a fast-growing international market.

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