Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 26, 2016

Online payment solution SafetyPay began operations in its 21st country this week. The expansion also makes good business sense; half of the country’s population who have access to email have a habit of shopping online. Founded in 2003, SafetyPay’s sales have grown 5X over the past three years.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, in 2005, the thinking was that enhanced communications technology would help buyers and sellers better connect. Zynga and OMGPOP. Date: March 21, 2012.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 24, 2017

“So our vision is to be the choice of millions who wish to send or spend overseas – either using our brand or other people’s – and blockchain connectivity is the way we’re going to be doing that.” Founded in 2003. Finovate: Tell us about your favorite implementation of your technology.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. However, this isn’t the whole story. The new big-box store. Ikea as a model.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

DVDs were a superior technology and a medium much easier for consumers to use (no rewinding) and store. By June 2003, DVD rentals overtook VHS rentals. That technology would only strengthen Netflix’s initial launch premise. By 1996, 85 percent of U.S. households owned a VHS recorder. DVDs came along in the mid-1990s, too.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

In 2003, iTunes for Windows arrived in October 2003, allowing non-Mac users, the vast majority of the computing world, to buy music from Apple and sync it to an iPod for the first time. The shuttering comes as JPMorgan has spent heavily on technology, with $11.5 Finn accounts will now be changed over to Chase accounts.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

From healthcare to education to entertainment to manufacturing, technology innovators are stepping forward to help answer that question. In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Telehealth technology. Remote learning technology. Online courses & content.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Companies across industries from food delivery to mobile payments disintegrate for all kinds of reasons, from technology errors and logistical challenges to overspending and outright fraud. Powa Technologies. Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering.

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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. 2003: Long-term thinking is rooted in ownership. The main impediment to platform creation today is technology. Today, Amazon is a hugely successful, precedent-breaking company.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

But just as their clients are always under threat from new players and technologies, consultants too are not immune to the forces of disruption. “The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.” The four functions of consulting. ” —Michael Porter.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

There are super apps that govern a lot of commerce, but [here in the states] I feel like I’m stuck in 2003. If you think about the last 20 years, there's not an engineer in Silicon Valley or in any kind of technology hotspot around the world that looks at payments and says, ‘Oh, this is rational,’” he told Webster.

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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. David Novak, the former CEO of Yum Brands, recently stated that Crystal Pepsi was developed to reinforce consumer interest in purity and health.

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