PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2017

With the mobile handset market getting crowded around the globe, Xiaomi, the Chinese handset manufacturer, is branching into new markets, eyeing any that aren’t already saturated. Typically, Xiaomi takes a 10–20 percent stake in the companies it invests in and gains the rights to brand and hawk the products.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2018

The deal will mean the other Birchbox investors — firms such as Accel Partners and First Round Capital — will essentially be losing their investments; according to reports, they will walk away from this deal with nothing. and in our global markets,” Beauchamp said in a statement to Recode. “As As of today, Birchbox claims 2.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2016

The writing has perhaps been on the wall for the company — if not since an orca (AKA killer whale) named Tilikum killed a SeaWorld trainer in 2010 — since the 2013 documentary “ Blackfish ” moved that tragic incident (and other, earlier ones) into the public consciousness. It’s like McDonald’s without the Big Mac.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Despite retail’s slump, the stock market did well in 2017. Consequently, some of Home Depot’s strength came from the overall strength of the market. billion investment in improvements across the brand. Since it was real estate that had tanked the economy, the market more or less froze solid for all but the well-capitalized.

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FICO

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Douglas Blakey is group editor banking and payments at GlobalData and has edited Retail Banker International and Electronic Payments International since 2010. He is chief of judges for the annual Retail Banker International Awards and lead market advisor for GlobalData's retail banking research division. Nikhil Behl.

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BankUnderground

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

I find that persistent debt booms led financially constrained firms to cut back on investment, across both capital expenditures and intangible assets. I show in the paper ( Albuquerque (2021) ) that financially constrained firms also cut back on intangible assets (investment in employees, brand, and knowledge capital).

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

The company, through KEES — its key exchange and escrow service — also allows for remote management of a firm’s existing hardware security module (HSM) structure, limiting capital expenditures by clients. As recently as 2010, the only thing that was really out there was a countertop terminal or maybe a handheld terminal,” she told PYMNTS.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can help brands sharpen up. Apple got pushed out of the number-two spot in terms of smartphone shipments for the Q2 of 2018, according to market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). million units, and record-high market shares of 15.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 23, 2019

The news that on-demand delivery startup Munchery has closed its doors — even after raising $125 million in venture capital funding — serves as reminder of how difficult it can be to gain a profitable foothold (much less a dominant position) in the on-demand food delivery space. The coffee chain said this week (Jan. Future Moves.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2017

Consumers no longer want to just be transacted with—consumers want to be in relationships with the retailers and brands that know them well.”. Founded in 2010, the company offers a SaaS-based subscription technology platform and builds tools for brands and merchants looking to add subscription services to their retail repertoire.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Select Investors: DST Global, DN Capital, SoftBank Group. Company Description: The UK-based financial services company runs sites such as Compare the Market, lesfurets.com, and Beagle Street, which let people compare insurance products. Select Investors: Institutional Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, General Atlantic.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 23, 2018

And fueling it all was the rise of television, where brands such as Mattel could market their toys directly to children — stoking the fires of demand. It once stocked 18,000 different toys in 1,450 global locations, owning a full quarter of the global toy market. Toys R Us went public in 1978.

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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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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 18, 2014

capital appreciation and dividends. The lion''s share of their growth, profitability, and capital have come since their re-branding to Open Bank in 2010. share at the end of 2010. Not so over the three years I have been keeping track. This, naturally, eliminated many of the smaller, illiquid FIs. BofI Holding, Inc.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2017

We have a significant level of awareness,” said Andrew Louie, brand manager of refreshment beverages at Kool-Aid’s modern corporate parent company, Kraft. The brand continues to be extremely popular, even though it’s over 50 years old.”. Sometimes, though, Kool-Aid has been popular in the wrong way.

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Gonzobanker

JULY 7, 2015

Yet while the demos and screen shots at events like Finovate have provided fascinating fodder regarding the future of digital banking, the FACTS show that these buzz-worthy players have had infinitesimal impact on market share. Capital One* 29,565,607 54,374,989 24,809,382. billion in 2010. USAA 31,334,006 62,995,318 31,661,312.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

While India-based Blume Ventures takes the lead for most active venture capital investor in the country, corporate and CVC deals to the tech sector have risen every year since 2012. The Times Group also runs a strategic investment division called Brand Capital. Intel Capital. One97 Communications + One97 Mobility Fund.

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Lex Sokolin

APRIL 29, 2019

At a high level, the target market has expanded several times over. Further, Wealthfront, and the rest of the roboadvisors, have developed brands that some people may at least recognize. Conversion is now way easier than in 2010. So yes, the market has shifted. Capital is being separated from distribution.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

In 2016, it got to the point where it seemed every merchant or tech firm that could affix the world “pay” to its name did so, and launched a mobile payment service to go with it: Apple Pay, Google Pay, Kohl’s Pay, Chase Pay, Capital One Pay, Walmart Pay, Target Pay, CVS Pay, Garmin Pay. When most people asked “what’s next?” The list goes on.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

While November 2010 saw the release of the new Windows Phone with a new platform, it never caught on with consumers. 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. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014. Price: $7.9B.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The growing popularity of DVD rentals in the early 2000s introduced more competition into the market, making them more affordable for more consumers. billion business, representing 64 percent of the home video entertainment market. Between 2008 and 2019, the DVD rentals market dropped like a stone.

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Gonzobanker

AUGUST 22, 2014

Between the end of 2010 and 2013, one new bank opened in the United States. . While we may see an uptick in the number of new bank charters from the near zero we have today, too many other industries with less regulation will attract capital. At the same time, the pace of new bank charters has dwindled to near non-existence.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 with a market cap of $12 million, down from $4 billion just a decade before in 2002 — the year that Netflix IPO’d. A year and $2 million in seed capital later, Hastings and a partner founded Netflix. Netflix turned that opportunity into the $42 billion business that it is today.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 16, 2020

The recovery : As financial institutions got to the other side in 2010/2011, there was a massive pent-up demand from consumers for digital services, as broadband was now common in most developed markets and the iPhone turned 3 in 2010. And it took the rest of the decade for the capital to gravitate to all the good ideas.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 19, 2015

The Series D round was led by Syncora Alternative Investments, and featured participation from IA Capital, Inventus Capital, Globespan Capital, Menlo Ventures, and other investors. IA Capital Partners served as an advisor to Syncora. Credit Sesame’s total capital stands at more than $35 million.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 3, 2016

I would say around 2010, 2011, 2012, with Apple having mobile payments acceptance in stores, checking out on mobile devices, that’s where we saw transactions become much more personal,” Dasilva said of in-store retail experiences. And, you can use that data to find out what they’re going to like and market to them.”.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. Yet the Gonzo team has to give a shout out to the late entry of Texas Capital and Independent Bank. Expect more of these slam-dunk in-market mergers that reduce locations 10%+.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2019

According to some estimates , the size of the global beauty and personal care products market will hit $716.6 But the marketplace is changing – particularly as social media-savvy DTC players have entered the market and attracted large and dedicated consumer bases. The brand has 65,000 Instagram followers. billion euros ($2.5

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. Pets.com catapulted into the American consciousness via an all-out marketing blitz that included appearances at the 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the 2000 Super Bowl. Total funding : $161M. The rise and fall of Pets.com.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

Hundreds of brands use Euclid products to understand customer behavior in brick-and-mortar stores, quick-service restaurants and shopping malls and then translate that understanding into better marketing to drive transactions. In Franson’s words, they’re “making sense of the physical world with data.”. million to date.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

The notion that Facebook is going to launch and ignite a global payments network, at scale, based on its own branded cryptocurrency and achieve global merchant and consumer acceptance is as likely as the predictions a decade ago that bitcoin and blockchain would, by now, become the internet of money. Curtain Call: The media goes nuts.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

What goes up must come down, and considering the rapid pace of innovation in retail today, it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that plenty of once-thriving brands are finding themselves speeding toward hard landings instead. Teen fashion wasn’t the only segment to see one of its bright spots flame out early. “Nobody.”

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Market volatility. Brown, instead of managers getting stock options or guaranteed bonuses, every manager got paid $7,800 a year (the equivalent of about $14,500 today), plus “a designated percentage of the profits of the company after these are reduced by a charge for capital employed.”. It had a great brand. Stock ownership.

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PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2016

The bad news: Plenty of brands are still teetering on the Chapter 11 brink, and life-saving alternatives seem to be in short supply. While the second full week of May was mercifully free from brands mercy-killing themselves, there were still plenty of market reverberations from the companies that did in the weeks prior.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

Rising inventory levels became a challenge based on a combination of factors: a fashion miss in our key women’s sportswear private brands, slow sell-through of warm weather apparel and the accelerated decline in international tourism,” Gennette said. The biggest miss, by the numbers, were the earnings figures.

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CB Insights

JUNE 11, 2018

The platform combines a number of tools — including data, APIs, and open source code — that developers can use for free to bring autonomous driving products to market. According to Gartner , Android made up 86% of the global mobile market in 2017, up substantially from 0% ten years earlier. Competition rising on the domestic front.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

The private equity firms that have backed the latest capital infusion are ones that are known for doing so as their investees get ready to go public. The Capital One data showed that such stepped-up activity will not occur in the next six to 12 months. After the withdrawal of the S7 from the market — and the resulting loss of $5.4

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