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Many businesses today see selling products in new markets as a growth opportunity. Expanding into a new market — even one as geographically close as Mexico, for example — would present a number of logistical hurdles that many businesses may not be equipped to handle. Appealing to a wider array of customers within the U.S.

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JULY 12, 2018

and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence. According to FT reports, Walmart has been approaching bankers to explore an exit by sale from Japan, as the international retail giant is seeking to divest itself of the struggling Seiyu supermarket chain.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

The South China Morning Post reports that the SFC has set up a form online through a page titled “Reporting corporate fraud and market misconduct.” The three former chairmen include Ding Hui, who is the co-founder of mainland fashion retailer Fujian Nuoqi.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The financial world has become more and more entrenched in digital channels, much to customers’ delight — 59 percent of FI consumers want to open banking accounts online rather than do so at a branch. Nearly one-third of millennials would prefer to do their banking exclusively online and eschew branch locations entirely.

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AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. And one of the most valuable forms of data right now is behavioral data because it tells a retailer or brand where a customer or potential customer goes, does and spends their time and money on. Big Data is big business.

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MAY 24, 2018

Necco had moved its operations to a large 50-acre site after leaving its longtime plant just outside Boston in 2003. The news comes as chewing gum companies and confectioners face challenges: Traditional checkout lanes that featured candy are fast being replaced by automated checkouts, and online grocery shopping is coming on the scene.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them.

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JULY 11, 2016

True or false: Thanks to mobile devices and apps, American consumers spend more time today shopping than they did in 2003. In 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that American consumers spent roughly 48 minutes a day shopping offline and online. Fifty percent of retail spend happened there.

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MARCH 2, 2020

As of last week — which saw the S&P 500 lose over $1 trillion in a day and the stock market across the board suffer its worst week since the dawn of the Great Recession in 2008 — concern is emerging that COVID-19 might just tip off a worldwide recession. And then there are the jerks.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

Merchants, especially in an increasingly tough retail environment, just want the sale. For proof, we need look no further than the two markets that many in the payments industry regard as leading the pack in payments innovation: Australia and the U.K. Surcharging has been permitted Down Under since 2003. I seriously doubt it.

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APRIL 29, 2016

The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. But there are such things as natural market forces, and price discovery that comes in tandem. Reports yesterday (April 28) suggest that the CFPB will soon preside over online marketplace lending.

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APRIL 17, 2018

He later joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers as a partner for a period between 1999 and 2003. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. in Australia and South Africa before taking up various roles with online city guide business CitySearch in 1996. JEREMY LIEW.

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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 a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Some were more visual – a marketing magazine online – but none were interactive. Jim Maxey, who ran Event Horizons, employed ten people simply to scan photographs, format them, and put them online for download. Most were launched by academic and research firms, and were there to collate information.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. Here’s IBM’s chairman minimizing how Amazon might transform retail and internet sales all the way back in 1999. PillPack allows users to buy medications online in pre-made doses.

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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. By June 2003, DVD rentals overtook VHS rentals.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Visa collectively lost $1 trillion of their market value last week as investors assessed the effect of lost sales on their short- and long-term performance. Museums are putting their exhibitions online for people who want to visit but are unable to currently. Then there’s the human fear factor.

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AUGUST 14, 2017

” But imminent isn’t the issue; in this area, Amazon is a looming threat extending into all aspects of the online payments and financial-services ecosystems. They also noted that there has been “a trend out of mail back into retail because people like going to retail pharmacies to get their drugs.”.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. Pets.com catapulted into the American consciousness via an all-out marketing blitz that included appearances at the 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the 2000 Super Bowl. The rise and fall of Theranos.

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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 customer is more empowered than ever, and as a retailer, that means you’re never safe from your competition.

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JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery.

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MAY 1, 2018

They didn’t bring it to market solo, either, relying on Bandai’s brand recognition in the gaming world. ViewSonic Airpanel Smart Display V110, Microsoft (2003). Pulled from shelves in 2007 for marketing itself as an alternative to illegal street drugs, this over-the-top energy drink has 2.5 Pippin, Apple (1995).

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MARCH 25, 2016

Their ‘Kodak Moment’ came in 2003 – seven years after its best year ever – and not long after a board report concluded digital was nothing to really worry about.”. “In In 2016, retail is on the verge of its own ‘Kodak Moment’ – and not because it doesn’t understand the impact of digital to its future,” she added.

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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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