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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Although it is credited with being one of the first companies to offer wedding and bridal party dresses online, J.Crew’s e-store is ending its love affair with the bridal business, which was among the first of its kind when it launched back in 2004. Online retailer ModCloth launched its wedding collection online in March.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

LevelUp is front and center on the Chase site as its partner for online ordering using Chase Pay and Chase Commerce Solutions (aka Chase Paymentech). Grubhub founders Matt Maloney and Mike Evans wanted to solve a simple problem in 2004: make it easy for consumers to order food from local restaurants and have it delivered.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2016

While the shift to the online space is often seen as the great game-changer in retail, Loren Padelford, vice president and general manager of Shopify Plus , said that the change is actually to something more fundamental. Experimentation isn’t limited to online retail, said Padelford. In the last five years, it’s flipped.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Not until 2004 did cannabis become legal for non-medical use in certain areas of the country. One of their biggest ventures was an online platform aggregating New Years Eve parties across the globe. Their menus are out of date, and they rarely provide seamless user verification, online ordering and tracking functionality.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

Digital innovation is keeping brands competitive — but really standing out requires an additional level of outside-the-box thinking. That’s why they’re asking guests to order a Whopper meal based on however they might be feeling,” an online release stated Wednesday (May 1). Really outside the box, as it turns out.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2018

In the face of tough European and North American retail markets last year, the company’s sales fell for the first time since 2004, taking an 8 percent plunge to 35 billion Danish crowns ($5.8 Toys R Us is reportedly aiming to up its ante in the online space to remain competitive.

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

We have discussed the importance of the CLV metric HERE , or bankers can look up our favorite academic paper on the topic “ Counting Your Customers Research Paper 2004 ” by Fader, Hardie, and Lee at Wharton. A bank in New York has displayed deposit promotions online and on the windows of their branches for the last seven years.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The sequel, “ Meet The Fockers ,” released in December of 2004, was among the top-grossing films of 2005. Dining out, though, is just one example of the consumer’s “don’t have to but want to” activities that brands can meet with digital-first solutions to keep consumers engaged. It is also pretty hilarious.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2016

Crew opened the door on this with its bridal line in 2004 — and eventual store connect boutiques and eCommerce shops — of late the marketplace has gotten much more active with H&M, ModCloth, Amazon and ASOS all pushing their cheaper, faster and “off-the rack” wedding dress into the marketplace.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

But this week, his new multi-year contract gives him a coveted spot as a headliner on one of Nike’s “Just Do It” ad campaigns, as well as a branded line of Kaepernick shoes and apparel. And embracing a controversial ad campaign is something of a mixed bag for brands that try it. When it hits, it can be a very powerful tool.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

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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William Mills

APRIL 27, 2017

Omnichannel campaigns online. Showing how a banker could build an online offer in real time. He has personally advised more than 300 chief executives on marketing strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, company branding and public relations. I like this idea. Ramirez is CEO of Beyond the Arc, Inc.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2017

Triad customizes and manages digital media programs to transform busy websites like Walmart.com into publishing properties that benefit the advertising brands, host retailers, and shoppers who use them with a perfectly calibrated pitch. The team produces global campaigns that touch more than 15.8 Here’s an excerpt from the interview: .

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

The country was home to one of the world’s first mobile commerce innovations with the DotCoMo mobile wallet all the way back in 2004. That’s allowed small merchants to start accepting things like different card brands and new digital options like mobile wallets. “It

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CB Insights

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!, The companies served different user bases: Nextel was more of a business brand, with customers often drawn to its signature walkie-talkie technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online. We’ve been watching online sales now grow — even double — year over year, for many years now, but it’s still tiny, overall. Who in the world ever thought that there’d come a day when groceries would be bought online ?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

The Montgomery Ward story was a bit less dramatic: It went from mainly a mail-order business to a brick-and-mortar business until it declared bankruptcy in 2000 – and then in 2004, after its name and assets were acquired, it was brought back to life in a much smaller form as an online business. The Modern Era of the Catalog.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The company’s assets were acquired by Q Holdings in 2015, and the firm quietly relaunched the Quirky brand in 2017. Second, the thesis that one or two brands would quickly go on to own on-demand food turned out to be either wrong or too early. In September 2015, Quirky finally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

While it was easy to chalk things up then to the financial crisis and the consumer spending hangover that resulted, we dug deeper and discovered the enormous shifts in buying online from physical stores that had been underway. Shake Shack was a food cart in Madison Square Park when it opened in 2004.

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CB Insights

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. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. 2004: Free cash flow enables more innovation. “The current online shopping experience is the worst it will ever be.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As millennials head deeper into adulthood and make more money, the personal finance space is adapting to their unique money management attitudes in a few key ways: From in-person to online. The average millennial student debt load was $10,600 as of 2017 — about 2X more than what was owed by Gen X in 2004. From big banks to big tech.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

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. Unity relied upon a bidding system managed by Goldman Sachs, in which prospective investors were asked to bid on shares in Unity.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s the highest level since 2004. Aguilar, of OMNi, said that super apps underline the importance of the consumer experience, and panelists agreed that consumers want to engage with brands digitally, but through relationships that make sense to them and where they don’t have to dig through emails or text messages to find promo codes.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 19, 2017

Founded in 2004. The need to address omnichannel continuity between a bank’s online, mobile, and in-brand experiences is becoming increasingly critical as a cohesive, engaging experience becomes the expectation of customers. Company facts. Headquartered in Diamond Bar, California. Bryan Cheung is CEO. With Liferay, U.S

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

That Apple uses its closed ecosystem and the power of its brand to disadvantage others by denying access or imposing frictions on competing services like Spotify. 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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

But those concerns haven’t stopped consumers from using voice to access these new experiences, because they trust the primary enabler of those voice-enabled purchasing experiences – today that’s Amazon – as well as the underlying payment methods they use to make those purchases, which are network-branded credit and debit cards.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. David Novak, the former CEO of Yum Brands, recently stated that Crystal Pepsi was developed to reinforce consumer interest in purity and health.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. These well-positioned startups are not just competing with some of the biggest retail brands in mattresses, razors, shoes, and more, by launching their own brands.

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