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Is This The Last Year For The Xbox/PlayStation Console Wars?

PYMNTS

That’s a holiday tradition that pops up every seven or so years when Microsoft and Sony release their Xbox and PlayStation systems’ latest editions, then spend the holiday season slugging it out for dominance in the video-gaming market. Gaming market researcher Newzoo recently estimated that 2.7

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Predicting the Next Banking Crisis Is a Fool’s Game. Not Learning From the Last One: Equally Foolish

Jeff For Banks

bank failures per year between 1996 and 2006, and 3.6 Finally, resolution of failing financial institutions requires that the deposit insurance fund be strongly capitalized with real reserves, not just federal guarantee.” We knew there was tremendous hubris in the subprime market. Between 1941 and 1979, an average of 5.3

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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: November 30, 2006. Date: February 6, 2006. Google and Motorola.

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11 Lessons From Startup Chapter 11s

CB Insights

Coda Automotive was an early player in the electric vehicle market, an early failure, and a great example of why being early is not always an advantage — even if the future your company envisions is probably the right one. Another, larger problem was that the market for electric cars did not take off the way that Coda expected.

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Data’s Influence And Contactless Vending, In Style At Fashion Week

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In 1943, the fashion capital of the world at the time, Paris, was at war and under siege. In the era of the internet, Fashion Week became a full-blown media extravaganza that was live-streamed all over the world. The city was the home of the first-ever Fashion Week on Earth – and its original purpose was more practical than glamourous.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

A host of startups have emerged to capitalize on this trend. It’s even harder when your target market would rather never think about what you’re trying to sell them — retirement, for example. Below, we’ll show you: How to use pre-launch marketing to build trust and hype. In aggregate, they command $1.3

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The Curious Case For Breaking Up Tech Giants

PYMNTS

Before there was Google Pay , there were three earlier versions of Google payments, starting with Google Checkout in 2006. There’s been no shortage of capital to start new businesses. Apple and Google compete head to head for share in the smartphone market — and for commerce with their respective “Pays” even more broadly than that.

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