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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

I recently had the pleasure to host a virtual roundtable with a couple dozen senior executives from Global 2000 B2B manufacturing companies. Most manufacturers had it in their ‘near-term’ plan, but COVID-19 has accelerated companies to prioritize it now. Is COVID-19 a wake-up call to ignite change in slower adoption companies?

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JANUARY 28, 2020

George Ruan and Ryan Hudson, the co-founders of online coupon service Honey, received a pre-tax haul of $1.5 billion after their company was sold to PayPal, according to a report Tuesday (Jan. The men are from Los Angeles and the company was sold for $4 billion. 28) by Bloomberg.

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OCTOBER 9, 2019

More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. 9) stop 22 online sellers from being allowed to either market or offer eCigarettes to anyone younger than 21. . There has not been any specific company or product identified in the illnesses or deaths. .

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MARCH 27, 2020

The online car selling platform’s March town hall meeting was supposed to be a victory lap to celebrate February, which was the most successful month in the company’s five-year history. The company also made radical shifts to its business model. The online car business will take a huge hit from the crisis disruption.

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JULY 7, 2020

To form a direct-to-consumer (DTC) online commerce strategy, Kidd & Company, LLC and T-street Capital, LLC have joined forces by creating a holding company focused on buying companies called Brand Holdings, LLC. In that role, he spearheaded the shift to a DTC online brand from a catalog company.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Several companies, including Twitter , are urging European Union regulators to “defend the Open Internet.” The companies expressed concern about how harmful and illegal content will be handled in the future. That’s even as “repressive regimes around the world use draconian legal frameworks to stifle online freedoms.”.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

online grocery retailer Ocado is involved in a patent lawsuit over robotically-operated warehouse technology with robotics company AutoStore , Reuters reported. The company, which was founded in 1996, is seeking financial damages and to bar Ocado from making and selling the products and importing them to the U.S.

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JULY 15, 2020

Certain segments of the market have surged, with millions of new subscribers for movie and TV streaming platforms, meal kits and other product boxes. The company recently announced that it will ask such users if they would like to pause service. How Outschool Is Taking A Flexible Approach To Meeting Demand For Online Education.

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JANUARY 11, 2018

EXCLUSIVE – German online lender Kreditech is making its way to India, Bank Innovation has learned. Kreditech’s entry into the Indian market comes because of payment processor PayU’s involvement in the company […].

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

We’re all consumers of media, of content, of subscriptions — and we do it all online, which means we pay for it all online. Merchants can change on a dime, really, and go out and make an adjustment to how they're going to conduct eCommerce and accept payments either online or in the physical space," said Evans.

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JANUARY 12, 2021

Salesforce is rolling out a new product to let B2C and B2B companies easily add loyalty programs at a time when the company says online holiday retail sales grew 50 percent to top $1 trillion. 12) in unveiling the company’s new Loyalty Management product. 12) in unveiling the company’s new Loyalty Management product.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

But George Connors , senior vice president of gaming and sports solutions at Fiserv , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation that other things have remained the same — like online gaming. market as regulatory restrictions were lifted from online gambling in recent years. The user experience has to be good,” he said. “If

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AUGUST 14, 2020

Amazon India has added an online pharmacy to its offerings in Bengaluru, one of the nation’s largest cities with a population of nearly 12 million. Reuters reports this is the latest initiative by the eCommerce giant to broaden its reach in a key growth market. In June, PYMNTS reported India’s West Bengal State Beverages Corp.,

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

He is the cliché of a profession that has a lot of suede sheen on it, but at least one company is in the market to bring used car sales into the digital future. “We It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4

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AUGUST 5, 2020

While video streaming services remain popular, research indicates more consumers are also turning to online gaming and gambling platforms. The Tracker also examines how both fraudsters and online gaming platforms are employing new emerging technologies to muscle bad actors out of these services. Skillz Takes Offline Bowling Online.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

the world’s largest healthcare company by revenue, has purchased DivvyDose, the Illinois-based online pharmacy startup, for about $300 million, sources told CNBC. Talks between the two companies were previously reported by Bloomberg. UnitedHealth Group Inc. , A UnitedHealth spokesperson declined to comment.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Yet when market volatility reached an all-time high in the midst of the global pandemic, the process of calling up sales representatives to inquire about product availability became not just inefficient, but unsustainable. That will be the main feature, to cut down the costs and timeline of go-to-market," he said. Out-Of-The-Box.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

11), reported by CNBC , that retail behemoth Walmart has struck a partnership with Instacart to offer same-day deliver across a few, select markets in the United States, focused on four initial pilots in Oklahoma and California. Amazon, for its part, said online grocery sales tripled in its latest quarter. News came Tuesday (Aug.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Consumer packaged goods (CPG) – which just four years ago had only a 1 percent penetration rate online – are capturing the digital shift in a dramatic way during the pandemic. As the crisis pushed online grocery into exponential growth during the crisis, CPG companies are finally starting to sell and advertise online.

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MAY 27, 2020

Among the numerous ways small businesses have been affected by the global pandemic, the sudden race to launch online operations has been among the most profound — and may ultimately be among the most long-lasting changes to the SMB community. “It does seem absolutely logical, up until the point that you start calculating costs.”

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Tens of thousands of stolen Fortnite accounts are being sold on the black market in a $1 billion a year trade, according to Bloomberg. The news outlet cited a report from Night Lion Security , which looks into companies' vulnerable points. If any of them match up with the game's accounts, they're sold on the black market.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Robinhood Markets Inc.’s s brokerage website experienced technical issues Monday with some customers unable to make trades on a day when the market was rebounding from last week’s rout. markets opened and continued through midday. New York time, the company posted a statement on the website […]. At 11:18 a.m.

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DECEMBER 29, 2020

parent company of luxury online retailer Mytheresa , announced that it's filed a registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a press release. found that the market fell 23 percent this year. MYT Netherlands Parent B.V., A study by Bain and Co.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

15) extensive potential new regulations for digital services that would cover online marketplaces, social media and other platforms, offering first drafts for the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA) to the public. The European Commission released on Tuesday (Dec.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Zara’s parent company, Inditex SA , said it would continue its plan to expand online as it reported positive first-half results. Even in those markets which do not currently have our brick-and-mortar stores.”. The full online catalog will be operational by 2020. billion in its fiscal first half.

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APRIL 22, 2020

Online auto sales are the only game in town. That’s good news for consumers who shop for cars online, which they did at an 86 percent rate during 2019. A small percentage of car purchases were made online last year. Even if someone doesn’t buy a car online, they are researching that purchase online,” said Russell.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

And that opened up an entirely new playing field for online gaming establishments now free to operate in any state that would allow them. But now gaming and sports betting is moving online and regulators are just now trying to figure out how to manage it.”. We’re not going to do that, and neither will any public company really.”.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The company said in a press release that it plans to raise about 1 billion euros ($1.2 Since its beginnings nine years ago, Auto1 has expanded into 30 European markets and has traded more than two million cars. It also touted the “accelerating shift” toward online shopping as another reason for its ongoing success.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

The automotive market continues to fire on all cylinders despite the pandemic as online and offline sales have either remained flat or trending up for Q3. CarMax’s business model is rooted in the physical dealership model as the company has increasingly leveraged its online channels. But not for long.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Apple has added a new one-click payment option to its online store for users of the Apple Card , according to a 9to5Mac report. Those using the card can now check out by just clicking the option for the Apple Card when buying something through the Apple online store. That means users can use ApplePay to check out more easily.

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JANUARY 3, 2021

MGM Resorts International is trying to acquire Entain , the British parent of major online-gambling player Ladbrokes , the Wall Street Journal reports. The Journal said the cash and stock offer for the company, which is valued at about $9 billion, follows a $10 billion cash-only offer that Lanbrokes rejected.

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MAY 14, 2020

Flexibility will be essential to survival, and the pressure is on for small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and financial service providers to migrate online as their customers continue social distancing. Travel companies are at a virtual standstill, and business across all industries is a far cry from what it used to be.

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MARCH 27, 2017

Online styling company Stitch Fix is in preliminary discussions with bankers regarding an initial public offering, according to Fortune. Founded in 2011, the company offers a subscription service of regular fashion “fixes,” or curated boxes of clothing compiled by both human stylists and data analytics.

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MAY 21, 2020

To help merchants recover lost pandemic revenues, BounceX said it is making its SMS marketing offering available to new customers. The company, which will be called Wunderkind in the near future, opens a new channel for merchants seeking to bolster online shopping revenue to offset pandemic losses, according to an announcement.

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MAY 27, 2020

Unanswered customer complaints is one common example, particularly for companies that are new to amplifying their online channels. A new category is starting to grow around this area of online reputation management, with Lexus one of the latest brand names to embrace it.

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JUNE 10, 2020

Consumers are now getting everything online and that’s going to shape their behavior for good. online or offline, safely or not). Modesty aside, Shift is one of the prime examples of how innovation and shrewd management led firms like Vroom, Carvana and even more traditional companies to this point.

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MAY 12, 2020

In Toronto, a new service called DMS ShopHERE , powered by the Schulich School of Business, aims to help small companies and artists move their businesses online. The aim of the program is to help build 3,000 online stores by the end of August.

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