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Killing The I-Bank: The Disruption Of Investment Banking

CB Insights

Unity Software, a software platform aimed at video-game developers, pursued a bidding-based approach to its IPO in September 2020, similar to the process used by Google when the search giant went public in 2004. Boston Consulting Group predicts, however, that only a few investment banks will ever again be able to grow to that kind of size.

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later. In 2004 in the U.S.,

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2019: What To Take Forward And What To Leave Behind

PYMNTS

For bridge millennials, those consumers between the ages of 30 and 40 who are the first generation of connected consumers with spending power, those percentages are even higher: 31 percent own a voice-activated device, 55 percent of whom used it to make a commerce purchase in the week we asked them to report on their purchasing experiences.

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