PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2019

Amazon Stores, a program that lets Amazon sellers curate pages for their brands and products, has helped more than 50,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) do more than $500,000 in sales across the globe in 2018, the company announced on Friday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2020

Wirecard, focused on online payments, in recent years created Boon, a mobile app payment system tied to Europe, and offered WeChat Pay to European merchants as recently as this year. Rapidly ascending stock prices belie optimism that the horizon (and profits) remain clear for companies. Both firms promised to transform their industries.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

Brick-and-mortar merchants are far from being free from the problems that plague their particular brand of retail, but even they have to look at online retail rising rents for warehouse space with a little bit of mirth. percent — the lowest such figure since 2001. As of Q2 2016, industrial warehouse space declined by 8.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Last year brought the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline, Europe’s attempt to boost online privacy and security for consumers — a law that just resulted in a $57 million fine against Google , which was accused of not doing enough to gain the consent of users when collecting data meant for targeted advertising. 52 percent.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

percent with the 2001 recession and hit 9.4 Online Brands. As traditional mall merchants go under, however, some online brands are expanding into brick-and-mortar locations. In April, a UBS report showed that online shopping by the average U.S. Reis pegged the mall vacancy rate at an all-time high of 9.7

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And while smaller DTC brands have been rapidly embracing them in recent years – because in many cases, they tend to be about as effective as advertising on Facebook or Instagram while also being quite a bit cheaper, according to reports – the biggest moves in catalogs in the last 18-24 months have come from some very well-established players.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

From that single blonde doll released at the dawn of the 1960s, there are now 800 different dolls that bear Barbie branding. So, Barbie got a slight upgrade in 2001, which tweaked her waist, and then a diversification in 2016 , which saw Barbies of various heights and shapes hit the market. Barbie has changed a lot over time.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2018

Seeking Alpha dove into the details, noting first and foremost that revenue per share has risen steadily between 2001 ($18.23) and 2017 ($63.21), with the exception of two years during the Great Recession. The brand had recovered from that dip by 2011, and earnings per share followed a similar trajectory.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The QSR began as a hot dog stand in New York City’s Madison Square Park in 2001 and has since grown to become a global brand, with more than 250 locations around the world. . New York-based burger chain Shake Shack is no exception.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

Born shortly before the turn of the century in Rio de Janeiro by Eduardo Ourivio and Mário Chady, the chain today, almost 20 years down the line, is a much bigger brand than even its founders ever expected it would be. The partnership with NCR continues to drive the digital platforms of our brand.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The “premium” pet food market as of 2001 accounted for about $5.7 Lots of brands include exotic-sounding ingredients, the report notes, not in such small amounts that they likely have no nutritional impact. A large dog will cost about $1,843 in its first year with an owner. billion in annual revenue out of $12.9

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

iTunes dominated after its 2001 release by putting two things in one place that had never existed before: a digital MP3 player that actually worked, properly paired with a store that made accessing music for a small fee much easier than trying to pirate it. Finn accounts will now be changed over to Chase accounts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

“[Our founder] conceived of the innovative idea of bringing one idea on one item to a print, on-demand platform that could be easily shared and developed the first prototype in 2001,” said Hugo Smoter, chief commercial officer for Spreadshirt. the Czech Republic and Poland. But, Smoter said, this is still just the beginning.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

That brought about an idea to create a card that would give kids — who didn’t have a credit card, but did have access to high-speed internet at school — a way to buy things online. By 2001, sales were good enough that Streit was able to persuade CVS and Walgreens to get in on the action. area Rite Aid stores in 1998.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

That’s where Reid Hoffman hatched the idea for LinkedIn in 2003 after inviting hundreds of his friends to create online profiles to get his idea for a professional online networking site off the ground. E-Bay acquired online ticket exchange, StubHub, in 2007. Speaking of online retailers, eBay went all out to court them.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

There is a possibly apocryphal story of Amazon’s early days (around 2001) where Founder Jeff Bezos was invited to Bentonville, Arkansas to discuss the possibility of Walmart purchasing his still young – and, at this point, struggling – online bookstore. Customers will also be able to use the service online at Walmart.com.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

Digital music has been unbundled since the iPod and iTunes got a head of steam in 2001. All of the things that stores and malls used to aggregate are available at one of literally thousands of places online, where they can be bought and shipped home, one product at a time, when and wherever the consumer’s impulse to purchase strikes.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, The companies served different user bases: Nextel was more of a business brand, with customers often drawn to its signature walkie-talkie technology.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. 2001: Measure your company by your free cash flow. 2001: Measure your company by your free cash flow. “The year 2001 will be an important one in our development.

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MyBankTracker

JULY 21, 2020

Unfortunately, after 2001, laws were passed to make sure that no non-U.S. That may be why many big financial brands, for instance, won’t work with people who aren’t legal American citizens. Another possibility is to directly purchase shares of American companies that are listed on foreign exchanges. stock market.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It was called Online Banking Report and was read by a sizable portion of major industry players. And each January, we ranked all previous recipients into a master list.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

DVD player sales doubled from 2000 to 2001 as manufacturers flooded the market with new devices. Tapping into that existing consumer behavior, Netflix’s initial innovation was to create an online ordering queue that allowed consumers to choose up to 25 DVDs at a time and to put those requests on a list. had a DVD player in their homes.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 30, 2024

files recently, I ran across an Online Banking Report article I wrote in 1997 about Bank of Montreal’s pioneering online mortgage application. It was the first time anyone had put a mortgage app online and one of the first online credit apps of any kind.** Cleaning out some (paper!)

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 1, 2016

In an era where most traditional brands dumped everything they could think of on the homepage, NextCard made due with just 50 words of copy, an almost “Google-like” experience (and this was before Google). See its circa-2001 homepage above. What I loved about its website was the almost total lack of copy.

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CB Insights

MAY 23, 2019

Pixelon: Online video vaporware. The Honest Company’s branding and promotional materials claimed that the firm’s goods were free of synthetic chemicals. LendingClub was one of many online lending services founded in the mid-2000s as entrepreneurs eyed the Byzantine financial sector as an area ripe for disruption.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2024

billion in 2001 to $8.2 Meatiest Marketing Idea Community Financial Credit Union for creating online resources to help survivors of economic abuse. Swanky Swag Award to Q2 for custom hats at The Financial Brand Forum in Vegas. Barb deservedly decided to retire in April after more than 23 years at PSECU. billion today.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. David Novak, the former CEO of Yum Brands, recently stated that Crystal Pepsi was developed to reinforce consumer interest in purity and health.

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