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JANUARY 14, 2021

Nike is suing 589 websites, the owners of 676 social media accounts and more than 100 unidentified companies and individuals for allegedly selling counterfeit versions of its Nike and Converse shoes online. Nike wrote in a lawsuit filed in the U.S.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Looking beyond COVID-19, Wall Street is betting the at-home fitness boom will outlast the social distancing era. Bloomberg News reported NEOU , the New York-based live streaming and on-demand platform for trainers, has raised $5 million in capital from investors including Ares Management Corp.,

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The company has raised a total of $288 million in funding from venture capital and private equity backers, including Great Hill Partners, Greycroft, PWP Growth Equity, Sandbridge Capital, Industry Ventures and Canaan. Its new store offers a mix of women’s ready-to-wear items, along with jewelry, fine watches, home decor and art pieces.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

BuzzFeed is planning to open a toy store in New York City later this fall. New York Post reported that the store, called “Camp,” will be located in an 11,000-square-foot space in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Freeman, senior managing director at GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group, recently said.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

The paper cited interviews and social media posts by customers who said the bikes they had been promised were weeks or even months behind schedule — often with no notice until the day they were scheduled to arrive or even later. Hunt , neither of which would comment on the matter, the paper stated.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

At the Fortune Brainstorm Finance conference in Montauk, New York, he said the social media giant’s launch of its own digital currency validates the space, and that Overstock would be open to partnering with Facebook on the project. Byrne’s relationship with Butina lasted from 2015 to 2018.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

That’s the oversimplified view of the business model adopted by Wardrobe , a new kind of peer-to-peer fashion rental company that on Tuesday (Sept. 8) is breaking out of its New York City beta test and into a nationwide launch. It has a network of dry cleaners (40 currently in New York City) that are happy for the extra revenue.

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JUNE 22, 2020

Jeff Blau, CEO of New York-based real estate firm Related Companies , a developer of the Shops at Hudson Yards, said vacated space at shopping centers were full of possibilities for future apartments or office space. But he said the perils of the pandemic had unfortunately “placed inexorable pressure on our business.”

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AUGUST 22, 2016

Social media company Tencent has now claimed that title. Alibaba still has the title of largest IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, but Tencent ’s rising market capitalization is pushing it out of the top spot in terms of Chinese tech firms. So, what’s behind the interest in China’s largest social media company?

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AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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OCTOBER 12, 2018

News this week surfaced that FAO Schwarz is planning to have a flagship store in New York City once again – this time at Rockefeller Center instead of the Fifth Avenue location where Tom Hanks tapped out “Chopsticks” on a dance-on piano in the 1988 movie “Big.”. percent stake in Starbucks.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Visa said Monday evening at a New York gathering in anticipation of the launch that events through a year-long campaign will include interactive workshops, tailored on a community-by-community basis. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms. What’s On Tap.

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JANUARY 30, 2020

30) from the Columbia Spectator , which covers news important to students at Columbia University and Barnard College in the global fashion capital of New York City. Even so, “Forever 21 bankruptcy signals a change in consumer tastes,” The New York Times declared.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

billion merger with Swiss firm Global Blue — which in turn will list on the New York Stock Exchange. Specifically, Global Blue focuses on tourists spending abroad, and offers products that help capitalize on tax-free shopping as they buy luxury goods. Pinterest: Pinned as the third largest social media platform in the U.S.,

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JUNE 8, 2018

The recent $14 billion worth of fresh capital for Ant Financial — the China-based firm that is now the most valuable privately held tech firm in the world, ahead of Uber — comes amid fresh fears among some banking professionals in the West that China is passing them by. Here comes China. That contrasts with the U.S.,

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MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. It’s a new concept that means both parties win.”.

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MAY 31, 2018

Talk about kicking the tires: JPMorgan is reportedly helping Cars.com to explore “strategic options, including a possible sale of the company,” according to the New York Post. The news represents the latest development in the quickly evolving ties between the digital world and car vehicle sales and service. and autoscout24.de.

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JUNE 3, 2016

There may be a few resilient, strategic entrepreneurs out there who don’t need venture capital to run a successful startup. Such was the case for several companies profiled this week by The New York Times , which shed light on the minority of startup owners that decide not to take outside investment. Enterprise Security.

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APRIL 19, 2016

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce.

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JANUARY 31, 2018

Reports at the time said the venture was a potentially innovative, effective strategy in this field, but reports from The New York Times this week cast doubts over the company’s plans. But the company’s website — and all social media accounts — suddenly disappeared, as did the money investors placed in the company.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Tech specs will be held up head to head, game catalogs will be scrutinized and compared and fans of one system or the other will insult each other on social media. The latest iteration in the battle for gamer love will look familiar to those who were there for the last round in 2013 (or the round before that in 2006).

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 25, 2014

September 2004, driving from a meeting in New York, on the grossly miss-titled Cross Bronx Expressway, Nathan Stovall, a reporter from SNL Financial gave me a call. The question: What was up with an upstate New York bank? And what is social media? He printed it as I said it. Our combination.

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MARCH 15, 2019

As reported in The New York Times and elsewhere, the extension may be voted on by Parliament to last a few months, or it may go toward the end of 2020. Thus, consumers have the ability to cover bills more easily, and companies can manage working capital more efficiently. would, in fact, stay in the European Union.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Model and social media celebrity Chrissy Teigen is, in many ways, the perfect brand partner for Target, as evidenced by her recent review of her new kitchen and cookware lines. In the last four weeks alone, Target has expanded grocery delivery to California, Montana, New York, Pennsylvania and Maine.

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MAY 31, 2019

Speaking at an investors conference in New York, the executive said he was “not convinced” that faster payments “are going to take off like crazy. More of today’s consumers are looking to the car as a smart guide to parking or safe driving, as a way to interact with social media and, most importantly, as a way to shop.

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MARCH 15, 2019

As reported in The New York Times and elsewhere, the extension may be voted on by Parliament to last a few months, or it may be go toward the end of 2020. Thus: The ability for consumers to cover bills more easily, or for companies to manage working capital more efficiently.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 31, 2022

At-large director Jill Sung (not pictured), President and CEO, Abacus Federal Savings Bank, New York City. I look forward to getting back in front of our regulators, senators and representatives for face-to-face visits to rebuild personal connections and gain their support during this year’s ICBA Capital Summit.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Then, Dealflow showed a new way to raise capital: “We’re solving the largest problem in the business of raising capital with software that creates targeted outreach to investors based on preferences data that we use to match investors with opportunities. HQ: New York, NY. Product Launch: September 2015.

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

The app that got famous for its disappearing messages is looking like it will either need to raise a some capital by sometime in 2019 or run the risk of going broke, according to a note by MoffettNathanson. Snapchat , according to recent reports , is having cash flow troubles.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

This includes a wide range of investors, including venture capital funds, private equity firms, corporations, and angel investors. Several new investors in the space focus specifically on food and beverage. E-commerce and social media support startup growth. SNACKING 2.0: STARTUPS SHAPING THE FUTURE OF FOOD.

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MAY 9, 2017

It is no longer quite a mom-and-pop operation anymore — in 2015 Cha sold a controlling interest in the company to Richmond-based Boxwood Capital Partners. Flash forward eight years, and sweetFrog has been hopping along pretty busily — there are now 350 sweetFrog locations spread across the U.S.

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OCTOBER 22, 2019

earlier this year, the program has hosted workshops in New York, Atlanta and, most recently, Washington D.C. Not much of a surprise, she noted, since the data also indicated that three-quarters of all dollars raised out of venture capital sources flow to firms with entirely male founding teams. “We Since its launch in the U.S.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 20, 2015

From social media to the use of all caps, every individual action can affect credit worthiness. We all acknowledge that as new tools emerge for both institutions and their customers, the fundamental dynamic between the two sides will continue to evolve. So what exactly are these new players doing to identify worthy borrowers?

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AUGUST 29, 2016

“You won’t find too many technology companies that could lose this much money, this quickly,” said Aswath Damodaran, a business professor at New York University, in the report. For a private business to raise as much capital as Uber has been able to is unprecedented.”.

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DECEMBER 31, 2022

Anita Drentlaw , CEO, president and CFO at $190 million-asset New Market Bank in Elko New Market, Minn. Jill Sung , president and CEO of $325 million-asset Abacus Federal Savings Bank in New York City. Sills: Our bank has about $100 million in new capital. Koger Propst , president and CEO of $3.2

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 29, 2015

Cloud-based enterprise platform, Actiance has raised $28 million in funding from new and existing investors. The additional capital takes the company’s total to more than $43 million. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Redwood City California, Actiance demoed its Socialite technology at FinovateFall 2012 in New York.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 7, 2016

Social media financial compliance specialist Gremln raised $1.4 If you add the $6 billion in new capital raised in the IPOs of Worldpay, Square and First Data, the 2015 total is a nice even $25 billion. HQ: New York City. Social media management & compliance for financial institutions .

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