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Real Innovation Solves Today’s Problems, Not Tomorrow’s

PYMNTS

Innovation happens when you least expect it. Those we call “innovators” are simply the ones who endeavor to solve the problems in front of them by any means necessary. Only later do others look at them and call them “innovators.” PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? The conversation is excerpted below.

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The Evolution Of eBay’s Global Payments Strategy

PYMNTS

The business would also need to address all these issues without sacrificing its user experiences, ensuring that its Mexican consumers can shop and pay on its sites with the same degree of ease, speed and convenience as its U.S. This is a set of logistical difficulties with which eCommerce marketplaces like eBay are all too familiar.

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

CB Insights

Apax Partners also first invested in King Digital in 2005, when the company was still distressed from a point of near-bankruptcy in 2003. Later, the retail giant sold its entire e-commerce operations in China to JD.com. Walmart participated in a $1.5B round to the company in 2011. After SMIC raised $1.7B

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