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Chapter 11 Watch: Sears Watch, Restaurant Woes And Kim Kardashian’s Bodyguard

PYMNTS

” It’s an interesting move for the once-iconic Kmart brand, especially since those stores have been pretty much circling the drain since Sears acquired them in 2004. According to Nation’s Restaurant News , Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, which holds about $35.7 Garden Fresh Restaurant Corp.,

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

Innovations from 1995 to 2014 (with launch dates) Note: Ranking as of Jan 2014 Wells Fargo is first in the world to offer Web-statement access (launched May 1995) Security First Network Bank launches first full-service Internet bank brand (Oct 1995, disbanded 2002) PayPal launches first online optimized payment system (Nov 1999, bought by eBay in 2003) (..)

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Sizzle/Fizzle: AI Soars, Toys R Us Sinks And Start-Ups Struggle

PYMNTS

The stores will still stay open, but amid same store sales declines of more than four percent year over year, price matching with Amazon and revamping its online ops will likely be a tough row to hoe (recall that the company ended an exclusive arrangement to be Amazon’s toy vendor of choice back in 2004). Fizzle Of The Week: Startups.

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Should Facebook Buy eBay?

PYMNTS

That garage is now a private museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Almost twenty-two years later, another startup founded in 2004 in a living room (of sorts) — a dorm on the campus of Harvard University — could end up being eBay’s most promising buyer ever: Facebook. From the Living Room to the Basement.

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What Innovators Can Learn From Netflix

PYMNTS

The sequel, “ Meet The Fockers ,” released in December of 2004, was among the top-grossing films of 2005. The one thing PYMNTS has heard consistently in the 10 studies of a national sample of more than 25,000 U.S. Flexibility around terms and working capital now provide even more incentives for each side to get on board.

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Guest Post: 2012 Economic Year in Review by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

Housing markets have begun to improve with the national indices showing year-over-year growth of 3% to 4% recently. Gas prices are finally coming down, making people able to drive their brand new cars more; I am glad to be testing the $3.00 Dorothy has been with First Federal of Bucks County since November, 2004.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

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Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.” ( 2004 ). Each manager, in other words, would receive a portion of the company’s profits less the amount that they spent, in terms of capital, to generate those profits — a reminder to all that capital was not without costs. It had a great brand.

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