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How To Drive Success In A Digital 3.0 World

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In 1979, psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky developed the Prospect Theory , one of the foundations of behavioral economics for which they would win the Nobel Prize in 2002. Back in March, the consumers who were already living their lives in a digital-mostly world simply shifted more of their activities online.

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The Outside-The-Box Ways The World Is Beating Boredom

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Beyond his professional soccer career, he’s famous for his work as a model, a product spokesman, a cameo in the 2002 movie “Bend It Like Beckham” and as husband of former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham. And for beekeeping. No, that last part isn’t a typo. Christmas (Shopping) Comes Early .

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IdentityMind Global Appoints Business-Tech Vet To Board

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. “IdentityMind Global has a unique approach to bringing integrity back to digital marketplaces and the online lending environment through the use of trusted digital identities” Zander said in a company news release. Before that, he served as president and chief operating officer of Sun Microsystems until June 2002.

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eBay: A Look Back

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They may never have made a purchase on the online marketplace, but the odds are good they know at least one good story about something bought it on eBay story. billion in 2002. EBay’s had a tough time of it over the last couple of years — growing but at rates far below the rate of online growth overall.

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Why Digital’s 3.0 Shift May Take Longer Than We Think

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The Nasdaq composite index, fueled by the notion that startups could be overnight sensations by operating at the speed of “internet time,” rose by 400 percent in the late 1990s, only to crash by 78 percent in 2002, erasing all of its gains. Delivery times then were measured in weeks, not days or hours.

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eBay/PayPal: What Everyone Missed

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Back then, only the very, very large merchants had merchant accounts and could accept credit card payments online. They looked around for places that had a large concentration of senders and receivers online and a use case for payments that needed a digital upgrade. Three years later, in 2002, eBay bought PayPal for $1.5

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Wayfair And Building For What’s Next In Commerce

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Selling furniture online isn’t easy work — though the team at Boston-based Wayfair might make it appear otherwise. Through it can seem like a foregone conclusion today, when people routinely buy cars on the web, in 2002 — when Wayfair was founded in the ashes of the tech bubble having burst — there were doubters.

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