PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

million, marking the brand's largest quarterly sales since 2003, Reuters writes. TikTok , the popular social app among mostly younger Americans, has been a driver for toy sales, PYMNTS writes, as social media influencers key children into what toys are the hottest on the market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Digitally-focused CUs are reaping the rewards of this market demand and saving money by limiting the number of branch locations and ATMs that need to be maintained. It exclusively served United Airlines employees and their families, but expanded its member base in 2003, making it the eighth largest CU in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 23, 2020

million, the brand’s biggest quarterly sales since 2003; while board game and puzzle sales worldwide have surged by triple digits since lockdowns started going into effect worldwide in March. And toy sales have an unusual and unexpected champion in 2020, in the form of social media platform TikTok driving interest into the segment.

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Though it’s now primarily used as a music and culture site, Myspace was one of the first social media networks that allowed personal profiles. While Facebook — initially named Facemash and publicly announced as The Facebook — was launched in 2003, it was an invitation only site. September 2006: Facebook was opened to the public.

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Social Assurance

DECEMBER 31, 2014

In this social media-driven world, just what is long long ago? What is important for social media marketers is the habits they form. Nearly every mobile phone on the market is capable of capturing a picture and sending it. Myspace founded August 2003. 1997: First camera phone developed.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

DM: In 2003, I pushed the organization I was with to launch a surcharge-free network in Tennessee. This was an idea born out of just listening to customers who had a market need and solving what we thought was a local problem. PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done?

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

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. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. Date: March 20, 2003. Google and Motorola. Date: August 15, 2011. Price: $6.3B.

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