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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

responded to Google’s innovation quite awkwardly, first partnering with Google, then walking away from the partnership in 2004 as it sought to exploit the technology of acquired businesses such as Inktomi (2002) and AltaVista (2003). After a dalliance with Microsoft’s Bing in 2010, Yahoo!

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Fintech’s Third Crisis is Tipping Point to a Digital-Only Future

Fintech Labs Insights

In my 25 years in the fintech space, I’ve had the misfortune to experience three massive ecosystem shocks. To help gauge where fintech is now and how and when it will get back on its feet, let’s compare and contrast the three downturns and their recoveries. Umpqua Bank’s Homepage During Middle of Coronavirus Crisis (15 Apr 2020).

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AI Will Put 10 Million Jobs At High Risk — More Than Were Eliminated By The Great Recession

CB Insights

Khosla Ventures also backed Cafe X Technologies in Q1’17, alongside The Thiel Foundation, Felicis Ventures, and Social Capital. iRobot launched its Roomba home cleaning robots in 2002, and later developed robots for pool cleaning and floor mopping. Smart money VC Foundry Group backed Chowbotics in a $5M Series A round.

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Fintech Hall of Fame: The Top Digital Innovations in Financial Services

Fintech Labs Insights

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’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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Today In B2B: ICICI Integrates AlignBooks; Everpeaks Debuts Logistics Portal

PYMNTS

Bookkeeper360 Gets $1 Million for SMB FinTech Solutions. Bookkeeper360 , a FinTech that works with accounting solutions, has raised $1 million in seed funding, according to a press release. The round comes with a new confidence in small to medium-sized business (SMB) FinTech solutions, as Bookkeeper360’s total capital funding hits $2.1

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The Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century (Dec 2021)

Fintech Labs Insights

At FintechLab s we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated constantly ( current list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn List. In December, we added 7 new unicorns for a month-end total of 273. Their total market value is now $2.1 trillion, down $110B from last month. Unicorn count: Beginning (Dec 1) = 266. trillion. .

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120 Fintech Unicorns of the 21st Century: November 2020 Update

Fintech Labs Insights

At FintechLIVE , we maintain a list of 21st-century fintech unicorns* updated monthly (full list here ). Full Fintech Unicorn list (values as of 2 Dec 2020). Personal Capital. In November, we added just 3 new unicorns compared to 6 last month. Unicorn count: Beginning = 118. + 3 born this month. – Value Date/Source. 2-Dec-2020.