PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2016

But when the temptation to believe one is a background character in the 2016 version of “The Truman Show” grows strong, there is luckily the highlight reel from the payments and commerce news of the week which is ready to keep you thoroughly grounded in reality. We will be concluding our beta on June 28, 2016.”.

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MAY 1, 2017

Amazon, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, Starbucks and MoneyGram all dropped their latest round of performance data on the markets — and investors and analysts were exuberant and/or terrified, depending on how closely those results conformed to what they thought was going to happen. Startups tend to raise funding every 12 to 18 months.

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MAY 4, 2016

Nothing happens anymore without dependable partners. GF: I’ve spent my career primarily in startups and early-stage companies, and the hardest part of this job happens to also be the most fun. So, 2016 for Urban FT is about scaling the company to support our growth. PYMNTS: What do you wish you had more time to do? .

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DECEMBER 26, 2016

There are just five more days until we can leave 2016 behind for good. As 2016 becomes history, we should take special care not to forget it — lest we have to hear about being doomed to repeat it (there’s always that one person). If there’s one thing that’s for certain, 2016 showed us that the gig economy is here to stay.

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MAY 9, 2016

Not many companies can lay claim to losing as much value in 12 months as the entire market cap of the world’s largest retailer and still remain standing. But that’s exactly what’s happened to Apple over the last 12 months. billion less in 2016 Q1 than 2015 Q1. In 2016 Q1 Facebook earned $4.2 iPhone revenue – $7.4

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

In the four-day period between Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2016, top-performing subscription businesses experienced an overall TVP growth rate of 115 percent compared to the same holiday weekend period in 2015. Someone else has paid for it, and they’re not going to cancel the subscription midstream. Is that a fair assumption?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

percent during the shopping crush, an event that was sufficient enough to see Jeff Bezos’ net worth hit the 12-figure mark at $100.3 Early estimates from ShopperTrak indicated that foot traffic “decreased less than 1 percent when compared to Black Friday 2016.” On Friday (Nov. billion personal fortune earlier this year.

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William Mills

AUGUST 11, 2016

They discuss key insights from their article in the 2016 Bankers as Buyers Report titled, “The Payoff of Bank-Branded Mobile Wallets With Tender Reciprocity.” They authored an article for us for the 2016 Bankers as Buyers. CM: Guys what can we expect to see more of in 2016 when it comes to being branded mobile wallets?

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 28, 2016

In short, savings is front and center in the minds of millennials, and with 2016 just around the corner, there’s no doubt that upping those savings balances is at the top of many a millennial list of resolutions. Even with automatic savings deposits, a lot can happen in a year. Serious about saving? Get serious about your systems!

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CB Insights

JANUARY 4, 2018

While cyber direct premiums written hit just $1.34B in 2016, it’s estimated that cyber coverage could increase to $7.5B And I think that as we’ve seen a number of events happen over the course of the year, I think that the market will continue to get a bit more level set. to as much as $20B by 2020. We give away CloudFlare.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2018

So, how do misses – and the occasional hits – happen? Bears at the workshop range from $12-$65 depending on model, so the savings were pretty significant and attractive. The International House of … Something? A little too attractive, as it turned out. Police were called in several cities. Get it wrong?

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JULY 11, 2016

Thirteen years later, in 2016, American consumers now spend 46 minutes a day shopping, with women dedicating about 35 percent more of their day to retail pursuits than their male counterparts. Fifty percent of retail spend happened there. A LITTLE WALK DOWN SHOPPING’S MEMORY LANE. In 1987, there were 30,000 malls in the U.S.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

MAY 19, 2016

I happened to be talking about access to payment infrastructure ( something I blogged yesterday ) at a client event yesterday, and got involved in a discussion about how the fintechs might begin to work with banks in the new world of PSD2 and mandatory APIs. In January 2016 alone it transferred $1 billion. So why is it so popular?

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

And, like cash, it was designed to eliminate any ambiguity in how and when this currency was transmitted — once cash is handed to someone else, it’s gone. That happens via an exchange — a now massive part of the bitcoin ecosystem that began to take root in 2011 and really flourished in about 2013. It’s a game with a pretty big payoff.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

William Mills Agency will be live blogging at Finovate Fall 2016. 09:47 am Finovate Fall 2016 Day 1 Recap. End of Day 1, check back later today for our video recap of Finovate Fall 2016! This happens a LOT. 12:57 pm It’s almost SHOW TIME for the first of two afternoon sessions. William Mills and K.T.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In this report, we explore 12 key consumer areas that millennials have been accused of “killing” — and dig into the real story behind the clickbait headlines. In a highly publicized 2016 survey, Mintel found that 40% of millennials preferred not to eat cereal for breakfast because it takes too long to prepare and clean up.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Fines range from $12 million, or 2 percent of annual gross revenue, whichever is greater for lower-level infractions to ~$24 million, or 4 percent of annual gross revenue, whichever is greater for higher-level transgressions. In 2016, it was estimated that consumers spent 437 billion hours consuming content from ad-supported media platforms.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Tolstedt, who made $124M, was spared her job, while employees making $12/hour were sacked. So as it turns out that while a good economy has a lot of advantages for retailers — it also comes with one big problem, at least in 2016. Somehow fizzle doesn’t quite seem strong enough. Retail’s Labor Force. With unemployment at 4.9

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Since a 2016 low, the number of US-based, VC-backed tech companies has steadily increased. SoftBank’s 2016 acquisition of the UK’s Arm Holdings for $30B, a deal which reportedly took just 2 weeks to complete , was expected to generate $120M in fees for the investment banks involved. EXPLORING CHANGES TO THE IPO. get the full REPORT.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

These urban legends have truth in them, enough so that companies must take heed before its too late (because, after all, death happens in urban legends with alarming regularity). Someone else saw him pumping gas in Toledo. What better day to discuss the urban legends haunting the payments ecosystem than Halloween? It’s a sewer rat.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

He eats at McDonald’s and drinks “at least five 12-ounce servings” of Coca-Cola every day. What else could it be — a gift from shareholders?”. When Berkshire Hathaway or anyone else buys a company, they pay a premium for the company’s subjective assets. That premium is the company’s “economic goodwill.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

But with two billion users – a billion or so of whom check in with the social network once a day – the reality, he said, is that what happens on Facebook can have massive ripple effects throughout the rest of society. The first step in every 12-step program is always the same: Admit that you have a problem.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

To Musk, the cold, immutable efficiency of machine logic is as dangerous as any evil science-fiction construct: “AI doesn’t have to be evil to destroy humanity — if AI has a goal and humanity just happens in the way, it will destroy humanity as a matter of course without even thinking about it, no hard feelings.”. Vladimir Putin.

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APRIL 24, 2018

It’s also developing 12 smaller 35,000 square feet locations. Nobody else is doing it … You need to either be in the value space or the store experience space. We happen to be in both.” Retailer Camping World , which went public in 2016, wants to be the one-stop shop for everything RV.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Social media is also helping campers discover new places to visit, then share their experiences with others: 30% of millennials said that they picked a camping spot after seeing someone else go there. At the same time, boutique studio memberships grew by 70% between 2012 and 2015, with memberships hitting an all-time high in 2016.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

Think about it — did any of this happen before they had those twins? All of these bad things happened after that. Regardless, a funny thing has happened to Facebook ever since the emergence of fake news, Russian trolls throwing the 2016 U.S. Yahoo) at about 12 percent. magnitude earthquake. To name but a few.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

What words describe 2016 GonzoBankers? We hope you enjoy our take on the good, the bad and the bigly of 2016. . The 2016 Headline That Will Give You a Headache – “Wells Fargo CEO Says the Ethics Hotline Was Mostly Ethical.” The 2016 Gonzo Marketing Medal – Goes to Elevations Credit Union for its “Egg Lending” campaign.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2016

What words describe 2016 GonzoBankers? We hope you enjoy our take on the good, the bad and the bigly of 2016. . The 2016 Headline That Will Give You a Headache – “Wells Fargo CEO Says the Ethics Hotline Was Mostly Ethical.” The 2016 Gonzo Marketing Medal – Goes to Elevations Credit Union for its “Egg Lending” campaign.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2018

The Upside Down is the fictional parallel universe controlled by a hive mind and humanoid predators called Demogorgons, made popular by the 2016 Netflix smash hit “ Stranger Things.”. In some cities, helmetless riders take to riding them in bike lanes in the streets — serious accidents waiting to happen. As for the upside down?

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

They were running the business to raise money, and then to get someone else to take it on,” was how one person described it. The company had lost $81 million in the 2016 financial year with revenue of just $1.2 Advertising revenue declined sharply [2016], leaving the company unable to service its debt, and no suitors took a bite.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That’s “more accounts than E-trade added in all of 2016,” according to TechCrunch. For Credit Karma, an app that has no natural retention “hook” or sticky moment, the free tool is a powerful way to make stickiness happen. The Robinhood app engineering teams value user experience above all else.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2016 Third Update (11/8/16). 2016 Second Update (7/28/2016). 2016 First Update (2/15/2016). 2015 Second Update (12/3/2015). What happened: Early product sales disappointed, which was exacerbated by a high burn rate. Despite assurances, and all parties acting in the best of faith, that didn’t happen.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

That’s up from 50 percent in 2017 and 43 percent in 2016. All of that work was happening at the same time that more consumers were using order-ahead to avoid walking up to a cash register to check out at all. Paying for things will happen online for pickup in the store later. Today, some 59 percent of POS terminals in the U.S.

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MAY 1, 2018

DeLorean DMC-12, DeLorean Motor Company (1981-83). Notable for its gull-wing doors and unique body styling, the DMC-12 (usually just referred to as “the DeLorean,” as it was the company’s only model) was plagued by performance and safety issues. Galaxy Note 7, Samsung (2016). Allo, Google (2016 — 2018).

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The resulting deal happened at a premium to the price at which King had been trading. By February 2017, Walmart’s stake in JD.com reached 12%. This is what happened when Delivery Hero and Foodpanda butted heads. In late 2016, Rocket sold Foodpanda to Delivery Hero, its former rival. Walmart participated in a $1.5B

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

As often happens, the world we leave behind going out of 2016 is very different than the world we imagined 2016 would be going in. As is the general rule with years full of surprises, there are all kinds of objective lessons one can learn from 2016. There are, of course, a variety of ways to document that.

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