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Twitch Buys Bebo In eSports Push

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Bebo began in 2005 as a social networking platform by Michael and Xochi Birch. It was said to have become “the market leader” in some countries such as Ireland and the U.K. The growth path of the company in addition to the larger opportunity in social media helped it get acquired by AOL for approximately $850 million in 2008.

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Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki to Speak at Bank Innovation 2017

Bank Innovation

Yabuki joined Fiserv in 2005. Fiserv CEO Jeff Yabuki has joined the speaker faculty of Bank Innovation 2017, taking place March 6-7 in San Jose. Under his leadership, the company has grown revenue to exceed $5 billion annually, and serves more than 13,000 institutional clients. Fiserv also supports this site’s Read More.

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Pinterest Lands Former Google, Square Executive As COO

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Pinterest has named its first-ever chief operating officer, hiring former Google and Square executive Francoise Brougher. She was credited with playing a key role in helping the company hone in its business for an initial public offering (IPO), a source told CNBC.

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Grocery Tracker: $100B By 2025

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— Whole Foods recently announced its latest move to cut costs and streamline its business operations in the wake of comparable sales declines. Technomic , a food industry research firm, found that freshly prepared foods generated $15 billion in sales for supermarkets in 2005. the market share is growing quickly.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

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 : September 2005. Date: August 12, 2005. Google and Motorola.

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AI Spotlight: FICO’s Machine Learning Facilitates AML

FICO

Walking into Bernie Madoff’s home in 2005, you would not have found piles of money under a mattress, behind a sofa or in his garage. This is a guest post from Nikola Marcich with the Policy team at the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry.

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Biggest PR Nightmares of 2017…. So Far

William Mills

Hordes of people took to social media to call his comments callous. March 3 – The New York Times reveals that Uber was deceiving authorities worldwide through a mirror app called Greyball to avoid sting operations where Uber is prohibited. His response was immediately met with backlash. The post Biggest PR Nightmares of 2017….

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