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19) a partner program aimed at making it easier for brands to use and pay for augmented reality (AR) lenses. Snap ‘s lenses enable brands to superimpose content directly onto users’ faces and/or around them, resulting in branded content getting mapped into personal content, noted the report. and followed by the U.K.,

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The second flavor were the brands that had seen traction before the pandemic and flourished during it with innovative marketing, fresh business models and cool packaging. When those markets sparked a fan base and reorders, the company was born.

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OCTOBER 7, 2019

The acquisition will expand NCR’s service to 1,000 restaurants in the region. The Indiana- and Kentucky-based Midwest POS technology company has been serving the restaurant industry for more than 75 years. There are also add-on tools to advance brand loyalty. Midwest POS is among the first NCR Aloha dealers.

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In a nutshell, consumers don’t particularly care how companies get orders to their doors as long as it’s quick and the order is the proper brand. He is the cofounder and CEO of Thirstie , a leading national on-demand liquor, wine and beer delivery company with a content-driven eCommerce platform. “On-demand

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MARCH 16, 2018

What does it take for a fashion brand to stay on top of the trends? But not all brands excel at crawling the web for information relevant to their businesses. “A Brands and retailers work on a global scale, after all. For multinational brands, this functionality could help perfect their local pricing. Fashion Analytics.

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MAY 29, 2018

Brands from L Brands — which counts Victoria’s Secret in its portfolio — and Ralph Lauren , as well as Starbucks , are bullish on China. Here are their executives on how they plan to build their brands in the country. The company has made progress on the eCommerce front so far. Last, it planned to add the China.cn

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NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rapid consolidation in the banking industry is creating a growing band of regional banks that find themselves stuck in a solution provider market that isn’t fully capable of serving them. FIS has captured a dominant share in the regional banking space with its IBS core platform (formerly Metavante).

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I ask and ask and ask: what does brand get you? Forbes calculated brand value in their " World's Most Valuable Brands " by taking anything that a company achieves over an 8% return on equity. What if the company is more capital intensive, and has to carry more capital than other companies? i.e. brand.

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A robust digital strategy and API development plan are imperative for success : Partnerships and experiences serve as extensions of carrier brands, necessitating careful cultivation. These insurers grapple with challenges such as customer retention and brand recognition, underscoring the growing importance of AI solutions for their success.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For instance, Dine Brands , the parent company of Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar and IHOP restaurants, is teaming with Postmates to offer delivery from thousands of locations, according to an announcement. Dine Brands is not the only restaurant company to team with Postmates. restaurants.

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The company curates items ranging from home décor to spa and beauty products for hair care and skincare. The company packages the items and sends them once a month. All of the items—such as hand-blended hair serum and handmade fruit spray—are made by California artisans, with no big corporate brands included in the boxes.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Digitally native brands are trying on a new brick-and-mortar model for size: Instead of opening the doors to cavernous stores, they are opting to create smaller-format locations. In turn, brands such as Indochino can benefit by not having to stock many items. Already, the company has about 30 showrooms across North America.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

million, partly driven by a revenue jump of 19 percent in the footwear category, the company said in a statement on Friday (Oct. Patrik Frisk, president and CEO of Under Armour, told The Baltimore Sun that the company is focused on returning to profitability and is planning to invest in eCommerce and company-owned retail outlets. .

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JUNE 24, 2019

Razer, a gaming hardware company based in Singapore, has partnered with Visa to offer a prepaid card that will let the company’s 60 million users make payments all over the world, according to reports. The region is also the home to more than 213 million millennials.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When he first came up with the idea for an eCommerce technology company, Co-founder and CEO Finbarr Taylor was in the process of plowing through this story of medieval Japan. He needed a name for the company and liked the book. A new Shogun was born. Or you could find a tool like ours and customize and optimize on your own.”.

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JULY 15, 2020

The impact of COVID-19 on retailers is obvious as companies report plummeting sales, but the pandemic has also delivered a blow to the middlemen, which include makers of apparel and accessories, The Wall Street Journal reported. Giant suppliers that include Columbia Sportswear Co.,

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

regional banks. . This merger combines the best of both companies and provides the scale and resources to drive increased long?term He added that the two companies are stronger together and in a better position “to support our customers and drive economic growth in the communities we serve.” . term shareholder value.

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As a company known to treasure talent, embrace effort, and reward results, Perficient’s goal is to extend a number of qualified cohort graduates a full-time job in the software engineering and development field, where they will partner with one of the world’s biggest brands in the Detroit metro region. .

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MARCH 10, 2022

“Our long-term Acquia relationship continues to thrive and grow considering the extensive digital adoption that companies have faced over the last two years. The Acquia Partner Awards recognize 17 outstanding partners across four global regions.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Ridesharing company Gett, which operates under the name Juno in New York City, is shuttering its operations there and entering into a partnership with Lyft to take on its accounts, according to a report by TechCrunch. It has customers all over the world and works with about 15,000 companies, which is down from 20,000 earlier this year.

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DECEMBER 18, 2020

18) as part of its Q2 fiscal 2021 financial results that its flagship Nike brand’s digital sales surged 80 percent on a currency-neutral basis during the three-month period. The shoe giant said that included triple-digit percentage growth in North America and double-digit percentage increases in other regions. billion.

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JULY 1, 2020

That estimate comes from market intelligence company GlobalData, which predicts that total spending in the region will dip to $60.3 GlobalData analysts say the closure of a number of luxury-branded stores across Asia Pacific makes a short-term recovery unlikely. billion in 2020, compared to $62.4 billion in 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

1-800 Contacts unveiled a deal through which investment firm KKR will buy the company from AEA Investors, according to a Wednesday (Sept. The deal comes after a number of years of formidable expansion and innovation for the vision company that AEA Investors bought in 2016, according to the announcement.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Standard Chartered and Amazon.ae , the company's United Arab Emirates website, are launching a new installment payments method for customers, according to The Fintech Times. Major companies like Visa are getting involved in the new format, sometimes called alt-credit, offering the new service due to its rampant demand.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The TV sets would be made by a third party, and sources said they might carry Walmart branding. Other tech companies' devices, including Apple 's Apple TV, Amazon 's Fire TV and Roku , have also entered this kind of agreement. And the move would bring Comcast's services nationwide instead of just in regional ways.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

Tencent is a global technology company based in Shenzhen, China, and Dragoneer is an investment firm based in San Francisco. Each company will purchase $125 million of the notes. “I Tencent is helping the company reach the market through its WeChat platform. “We

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AUGUST 11, 2020

HMD Global , the exclusive licensee of the Nokia brand for tablets and smartphones, notched a $230 million investment from some of its leading strategic partners with the “first closing” of its current funding round. Also, HMD Global will grow its footprint in important regions for expansion. 11) announcement.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The company noted in a press release that the expansion of its real-time payout capabilities is the centerpiece of its digital growth strategy, which it is pursuing through both WesternUnion.com and digital partnerships. The legacy global remittance giant said on Monday (Nov. also called stc pay, for up to $200 million.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The company cited good sales of its cookies and chocolates amid the pandemic but said gum sales lagged. “We Our execution was strong, we continued to accelerate our strategic initiatives, and all of our regions were in growth.”. “Our Organic net revenue expanded in all four of the global company’s regions, according to management.

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MAY 8, 2020

By early 2019, Samsung Pay’s international presence grew to six global regions. Through collaborations, Samsung Pay launched a rewards program, the first mobile payments platform to do so, the company said. has seen slow adoption compared to other regions. By year-end 2019, it expanded into several new countries. .

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Answear.com sells brands including Levi's, Adidas, Tommy Hilfiger and Calvin Klein Jeans, according to its website. Transactions like Allegro or ATM show that our fears about the pace of growth in the region had been unfounded,” MCI Founder Tomasz Czechowicz told Bloomberg in an interview, according to the news service.

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OCTOBER 17, 2020

It’s our cryptic way of conveying the hurtful news that Tab, one of America’s proto-diet colas and the “drink of beautiful people” since 1963 will shuffle off its carbonated coil as Coca-Cola goes on a diet, trimming its roster of beverage brands due to the COVID-19 shift. Tell it to the “Tabaholics” (different company, same point).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Western Union stated in today's release that with the purchase, the companies have “extended the terms of their commercial relationship.”. Stc has 4 million customers and “an established regional brand in a fast-growing digital wallet market,” today's release states.

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JANUARY 7, 2020

This is the first time eBay has allowed direct video uploads, and the company thinks it will help to drive sales. The online marketplace company wants to eventually be able to use AI technology on descriptions, where a user could give basic details and the AI would flesh out the description. New Financing.

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MARCH 31, 2020

FinTech firm MatchMove has struck a deal to acquire a “strategic stake” in eCommerce solutions company Shopmatic, according to reports. MatchMove said LightSpeed is a “powerful, out-of-the-box solution, which enables you to launch your own branded payments platform within minutes.”.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The move will re-brand Bento as GrabInvest from here on out as products are launched via the Grab app in 2020 and beyond. The company serves a long list of micro-entrepreneurs, small business owners, driver partners and users in the region. They’ll use a well-known platform to make sure people know how to use the service.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Carvana, the company that lets consumers browse and purchase vehicles online, has added a new virtual financing option, according to reports. . The company has teamed up with Regions Bank to provide the possibility of virtual loans to consumers in Texas, the South and the Midwest. .

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