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The Buyers: Generation Z’s Shopping Preferences

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Generation Z are the next up-and-coming group of shoppers who retailers are turning to for the future of retail. Yes, those born between 1994 and 2002 are starting to push millennials over in terms of shaping commerce and eCommerce trends. Get ready, retailers.

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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

By comparison, non-high-tech industries lost 689,000 jobs between 2001 and 2002 but recovered the lost jobs by 2004. Between 1995 and its peak in March 2000, the Nasdaq Composite stock market index rose 800%, only to fall 740% from its peak by October 2002, giving up all its gains during the bubble. What caused a dot-com bubble?

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Why The Sweet Smell Of Tech Success Can Be Rife With Failure

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Microsoft was incredibly confident in the product, as were many big names in the early 2000s market: Acer, Compaq, Fujitsu and Toshiba all promised to put out versions of the Microsoft Tablet PC by 2002. ” That is not quite how the story turned out. Now if it could just get all of those backorders filled. The Famicom Console.

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

CB Insights

in 2005, the thinking was that enhanced communications technology would help buyers and sellers better connect. The companies served different user bases: Nextel was more of a business brand, with customers often drawn to its signature walkie-talkie technology. 32) in August of 2002. Toshiba was forced to write off $6.3B

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The Real Hunger Games: A Battle Royale In The Grocery Aisles

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The easiest possible summary is that in a post-apocalyptic future, the United States has become the Kingdom of Panem, which consists of a rich, technologically vibrant capital city ringed by 12 impoverished agrarian or industrial districts that are exploited for their resources by wealthy residents of the capitol. District 2: Walmart.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Bikes, Smith and Wesson (2002). HD DVD’s tech specs were put in place in 2002, but the format wasn’t abandoned fully until 2008. Enter the Nook, their attempt at staying relevant and maybe even reclaiming some of their lost market share from the online retailer. Jaguar, Atari (1993-94). HD DVD, Toshiba (2006).

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

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It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. What Cerent’s technology did was help connect long-haul communications lines and the local telephone and data network. round, which put Facebook’s valuation at $468M. When Snap Inc.

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