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PYMNTS
MAY 4, 2019
The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The concept was invented by a Guatemalan McDonald’s franchise operator, Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, in the mid-70s.
PYMNTS
JANUARY 19, 2019
It was bulky, the screen interactivity was buggy and – most critics noted – the Windows XP operating system worked wonderfully for desktop computers, but was a bad fit on a tablet, and mostly served to make it slow. .” That is not quite how the story turned out. After a splashy launch, the feedback on the early tablet wasn’t stellar.
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PYMNTS
JUNE 11, 2018
billion people every day on its platform, back in the dorm room days of 2004, it was “a technologically assisted way to find good-looking girls at Harvard and ask them out.”. That, Aberman said, can work well in an explicitly retail context. Facebook makes plenty of money charging all the people in its square for access, Aberman noted.
CB Insights
OCTOBER 29, 2018
That skyrocketing popularity is likely what made Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp think it was worth spending $580M to acquire the social network. And in the short-term, that would have looked like a good deal, as the social media site hit its peak in 2007 at a value of about $12B. Sears and Kmart. Date: March 24, 2005. Price: $11B.
CB Insights
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. But before it became a social media heavyweight, Instagram was a simple prototype co-founder Kevin Systrom built while learning how to program. Below we look at some of the biggest startup pivots in tech history, and why they succeeded.
CB Insights
JUNE 6, 2019
The company announced it was effectively ceasing operations immediately and filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, putting more than 1,100 people out of work overnight. In January 2019, Munchery abruptly ceased all operations, as it informed customers via email. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart.
PYMNTS
MARCH 19, 2018
His premise knits together a series of storylines that regular readers of PYMNTS are quite familiar with: That the Amazon Effect on retail , despite the company’s 4 percent share of it, is real and that it uses its diversified sources of revenue, like Amazon Web Services, to subsidize its retail business at the expense of traditional retail.
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