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Why Digital’s 3.0 Shift May Take Longer Than We Think

PYMNTS

There is an out-and-out frenzy to capitalize on the pandemic-fueled digital shift that gave consumers few options for accessing products and services over the last twelve weeks. Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say.

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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

responded to Google’s innovation quite awkwardly, first partnering with Google, then walking away from the partnership in 2004 as it sought to exploit the technology of acquired businesses such as Inktomi (2002) and AltaVista (2003). It’s very simple: innovation is a game that is played for a full 9 innings.

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Apple’s Long Strange Trip to A $2T Valuation

PYMNTS

Apple is on the cusp of a stock market first — becoming the first public company in history to capture a $2 trillion valuation. trillion market capitalization — almost double where it was just two years ago. And its market cap will hit $2 trillion if the stock rises about another 5 percent to $467.77

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. To you, manage your interest rate risk.

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

CB Insights

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: $6.3B.

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Who’ll Be The ‘Netflix’ Of Payments?

PYMNTS

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. A year and $2 million in seed capital later, Hastings and a partner founded Netflix. Netflix turned that opportunity into the $42 billion business that it is today.

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Fintech’s Third Crisis is Tipping Point to a Digital-Only Future

Fintech Labs Insights

The pull-back was swift and crushing with the Nasdaq falling 78% from its peak in March 2000 to the low point in Oct 2002 (a 2.5 Companies were abandoned and it led to a 5- to 6-year drought in fintech innovation. And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas. Projects were halted.

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