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AUGUST 15, 2018

Headquartered in Orange County, California and founded in 2003, CashCall is a big firm that consumers likely know best from its early commercials featuring the late Gary Coleman. The ad itself seems somewhat silly, which is probably why it is so memorable, but CashCall is far from a joke. At least, they did. What’s Next.

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

million, the brand’s biggest quarterly sales since 2003; while board game and puzzle sales worldwide have surged by triple digits since lockdowns started going into effect worldwide in March. A combination of fan-generated and TikTok influencer videos ignited the craze,” said Renee Lee, vice president of global marketing at Zuru.

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JULY 16, 2020

That’s not bothering the market much, as the Amazon juggernaut — or “flywheel” of continual revenue growth, as Bezos envisioned it — rolls forward backed by market confidence. Just as Amazon opened its first online marketplace for sellers, the bursting dot-com bubble took the wind out of its sails and knocked back the stock price.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

Metro Cash and Carry entered the Indian market in 2003 and largely operates as a wholesaler for local neighborhood grocery stores, hotels and restaurants. The company already runs a smart kirana program that has enabled 500 small retailers to transition to some form of digitization. “We

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The cash infusion is geared toward helping the online lender build up a capital bulwark in an environment that has been a bit of rough sledding for financing done over the internet in general. Online marketplace for shipping, freight and transport services uShip had a strong close to 2016, said CEO Mike Williams.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Typically, dislocations reduce the time to establish product market fit, so you don't necessarily have the luxury of experimentation,” Ansari said. There are super apps that govern a lot of commerce, but [here in the states] I feel like I’m stuck in 2003. And yet, if you aren’t digital- or mobile-first, you’d better be, said McCarthy.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

The iTunes storefront for purchasing music, movies and TV may remain up and running within the major apps, but it will be less of a central focus as Apple redirects its attention to the booming subscription eCommerce market. It also came to the market at just the right time – about 10 months before the iPod hit the market in October 2001.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

They’re still part of the market, particularly the holiday shopping market in 2020. With the bankruptcy of Toy R Us in 2017, the market didn’t only lose its dominant seller of children’s toys. That makes it that much easier for customers to scan an item with their phones and purchase it online (or within apps) in seconds.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The use of prepaid cards has exploded over the last decade or so — in 2003 consumers put less than $1 billion on prepaid cards annually, but by 2012 that figure had grown to $65 billion and by 2018 that figure is projected to reach as much as $121 billion. The user base of prepaid cards has grown significantly as well.

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

The South China Morning Post reports that the SFC has set up a form online through a page titled “Reporting corporate fraud and market misconduct.” The total spending came to as much as 12 million euros between 2003 and 2012.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

For proof, we need look no further than the two markets that many in the payments industry regard as leading the pack in payments innovation: Australia and the U.K. Surcharging has been permitted Down Under since 2003. And then regulators are forced to backtrack. Innovation by Any Other Name. A 2012 survey presented by the U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The financial world has become more and more entrenched in digital channels, much to customers’ delight — 59 percent of FI consumers want to open banking accounts online rather than do so at a branch. Nearly one-third of millennials would prefer to do their banking exclusively online and eschew branch locations entirely.

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JULY 12, 2018

and around the world, it seems the Japanese market is dropping from a place of prominence. Walmart first purchase Seiyu in 2002, but has faced difficulties gaining traction in the extraordinarily challenging Japanese market. The Japanese market for mass merchandisers fell 6 percent in retail value to ¥6.7

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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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NCR

AUGUST 10, 2016

In addition to having websites for the existing clientele, it’s a known fact in the financial industry that banks are investing millions of dollars to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to their online marketing strategy. This is how banks have excelled with online presences. But, things have to become even easier somehow.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. Back in 2003, the company came up with a groundbreaking new way to obtain people’s locations through the use of Wi-Fi signals to pinpoint locations, which today is one of the most widely used and precise ways of location tracking.

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CB Insights

APRIL 3, 2018

private market valuation is greater than the public market capitalizations of Marriott, Starwood, Expedia, Wyndham, and HomeAway. This deck from MySQL’s 2003 series B comes to us courtesy of MySQL’s former CEO and was posted online by Tech.eu’s Robin Wauters. Airbnb , current valuation: $29.3B.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2016

Early in August, The Oregonian reported that a private equity firm had paid more than $50 million to acquire Tigard-based ID Experts, a cybersecurity firm founded in 2003. The capital Radar raised will be spent on technology, sales and marketing. A lot has been happening for a firm called ID Experts. Investments for 8.19.2016.

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JULY 11, 2016

True or false: Thanks to mobile devices and apps, American consumers spend more time today shopping than they did in 2003. In 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that American consumers spent roughly 48 minutes a day shopping offline and online. The virtuous circle of commerce online began.

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MARCH 25, 2016

Their ‘Kodak Moment’ came in 2003 – seven years after its best year ever – and not long after a board report concluded digital was nothing to really worry about.”. “In Amazon isn’t an online merchant, they are the “world’s most customer-centric company where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online.”

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APRIL 17, 2017

In 1997, he founded Worldpay, an online payments processor based in the U.K. In May 2007, Voice Commerce, the voice biometrics company he founded in 2003, launched VoicePay, the consumer-facing application of the company’s secure voice-initiated transactions processing platform. When you’ve only got a market in the U.K.

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JULY 28, 2017

.” Metropolitan Police Service commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe said “warning lights are flashing”, with the full extent of online crime and fraud only just becoming clear. million people over the past year, marking a record high since Javelin began tracking identity fraud in 2003. Javelin has estimated that 7.7

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2016

The funding is a striking portrait of demand by investors with dry powder to gain entry into a nascent, technology driven market. But there are such things as natural market forces, and price discovery that comes in tandem. Reports yesterday (April 28) suggest that the CFPB will soon preside over online marketplace lending.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

He later joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers as a partner for a period between 1999 and 2003. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. in Australia and South Africa before taking up various roles with online city guide business CitySearch in 1996. JEREMY LIEW.

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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!, In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd.

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Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I started reporting on the space in the mid-90s, I thought banks would end up delivering the bulk of basic accounting functions through their online banking programs. So the market has been ceded to the entrepreneurs, and wow, have they shown up! Top 17 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (Feb 2022).

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

imberly Anderson, senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Cañon National Bank in southern Colorado, became her community bank’s loan compliance officer in 2003. It teaches bankers how to develop a compliance program, meet lending compliance requirements, and comply with deposit and marketing regulations. By Ed Avis.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 14, 2017

” But imminent isn’t the issue; in this area, Amazon is a looming threat extending into all aspects of the online payments and financial-services ecosystems. In addition to being active private-market investors , CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid have all been rumored acquisition targets for Amazon.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 20, 2024

When I started reporting on the space in the mid-90s, I thought banks would end up delivering the bulk of basic accounting functions through their online banking programs. So the market has been ceded to the entrepreneurs, and wow, have they shown up! But so far I’ve been proven wrong. 120,000 15 15 Zeni 20 20 Aug 2024 2019 SF 47.5

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MAY 10, 2018

The early consultants changed that by using market research and data analysis combined with niche expertise to help companies manage their supply chains, improve their product positioning, and enter new markets to beat their competitors. Consultants did this because clients weren’t. From the FAQ for BCG’s Gamma program.

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AUGUST 14, 2018

Perhaps the most glaring example of the tendency to dismiss innovative new players was when Apple’s iPhone hit the market in 2007. PillPack allows users to buy medications online in pre-made doses. “Microsoft will roll [Salesforce] over,” Thomas Siebel of Siebel Systems flatly told Bloomberg in 2003. We have ‘I’.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2021

And it’s an area often lacking in traditional online banking services. Founded: 2003. Market Cap: $26B (12 Dec 2021, NYSE:Bill). Market cap: $3.2B (13 Dec 2021); NASDAQ: AVDX. Related: Top 16 Digital & Online Insurance Providers for Small Businesses (SMB): Dec 2021. FAB Score*. Total Funding. Visits (Nov 21).

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 25, 2022

When I started reporting on the space in the mid-90s, I thought banks would end up delivering the bulk of basic accounting functions through their online banking programs. So the market has been ceded to the entrepreneurs, and wow, have they shown up! Challenger Accounting/Bookkeeping Online Providers in the United States.

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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!) 1,670 reviews, up 100 since Nov) 18.

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Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 26, 2016

Online payment solution SafetyPay began operations in its 21st country this week. The expansion also makes good business sense; half of the country’s population who have access to email have a habit of shopping online. “Our main goal is to make SafetyPay well known to the market. Canada, Europe, and Latin America.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 17, 2025

And its an area often overlooked by traditional online banking providers. Bill.com (see also #13 Invoice2Go) FAB Score = 842 ( down 120 ) HQ: San Francisco Bay Area Founded: 2006 Raised $496M including $216M in its Dec 2019 IPO ( Crunchbase ) Annual revenue (TTM): $1.2B ( Yahoo ) Market Cap: $5.1B ( NYSE:BILL 15 Aug 24) down $3.3B

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Fintech Labs Insights

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Their total market value is now $2.23 Total market value = $2.23 Secondary market May 21. In October, we added 22 new unicorns for a total of 260. trillion, just $20B more than last month (essentially flat). Unicorn count: Beginning (Oct 1) = 238. + 21 born this month (see Table 2, below). + Total (Oct 30) = 260. trillion. .

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