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APRIL 14, 2020

Retail demand has risen sharply for items like home cleaning supplies and groceries, while dropping off in other product categories, leaving companies to adjust to these shifting purchasing patterns. The shift to work-from-home is not without hurdles, however, and fraudsters are looking to capitalize on confusions created by the transition.

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JULY 14, 2020

Given the ongoing impacts from COVID-19 and the uncertain global economic conditions, we have continued to focus on preserving capital and maintaining a strong balance sheet.”. In February, Molnar told PYMNTS why Afterpay went public nine months after its first-ever capital raise. “We Total sales were $11.1

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JULY 19, 2016

Lending Club, which has been struggling to recover from loan errors and the departure of its Chief Executive (among other issues), has named Patrick Dunne, a veteran of BlackRock, as its new chief capital officer. The former CEO was also charged with inflating monthly loan volumes back in 2009 by giving the loans to family.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

AR/VR doesn’t, however, seem like an obvious entrant into retail spaces on first blush, particularly retail spaces that are already physical. In fact, InContext thinks virtualizing real experiences might help bring some of those erstwhile shoppers back to physical retail.

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JULY 14, 2020

It is expected to be available in retail stores this month. “As we enter the second half of the year and retail re-emerges across the world, it’s critical we help our partners drive business growth, both online and offline,” said Nick Molnar , Afterpay Co-Founder and U.S. . CEO, in a statement.

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JULY 6, 2020

consumer — and by extension, retailers. The Business Roundtable’s CEO Economic Outlook Survey — which in part measures plans for capital spending and hiring through the next six months — fell to 34.3, That’s the lowest reading since the second quarter of 2009. Retail added a bit more than 700,000 jobs. according to CNBC.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2018

Sizzle of the Week: Retail’s 2018 Rebound. Retail has had a rough couple of years, as most players that aren’t Amazon have struggled to cross the digital, omnichannel chasm. On the whole, with some notable exceptions, retail has landed on our Fizzle list more often than the Sizzle list in recent memory. Retail sales are up 5.9

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

On this day in history in the year 2009, the world of payments and commerce was changed forever. No, we’re not talking about the launch of Square – that was in February of 2009. True in 2009. The skies parted, the Earth shook and the song of angels was heard from on high. Well, that’s how we remember it, anyway.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

A popular eCommerce retailer, which has been called the “Costco for millennials,” is attracting potential investors, according to The New York Post. With warehouses in New Jersey, Dallas, Las Vegas and Atlanta, Boxed offers bulk-sized products similar to those found at big warehouse retailers like Costco Wholesale.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2018

The name stuck — and served the retailer well. But early American retailers weren’t always motivated by price when creating their own private label brands. In 2009, the private label brand entered the world of the mega eCommerce retailer when Amazon decided to create its own brand of electronics accessories called AmazonBasics. “We

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Bank Innovation today released a beta of its relaunch, the most significant rebuilding of the site since its start in 2009. Let us know what you think of the rebuilt site by emailing info@bankinnovation.net.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

BigCommerce , the eCommerce platform for retailing brands, announced news on Wednesday (April 25) that it has closed a $64 million round of funding. In a press release , the company said the fundraising round was led by Goldman Sachs and included participation from current investors General Catalyst, GGV Capital and Tenaya Capital.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 6, 2017

Today, Bank Innovation releases its most significant redesign and relaunch since the site initially dropped online in 2009. We hope you love the new Bank Innovation. When we started Bank Innovation, while the crosswinds of the credit crisis were still swirling, we were the lone voice for innovation at banks.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

We have undertaken our most significant redesign and relaunch since Bank Innovation initially dropped online in 2009. This beta officially kicks off today and marks a new chapter in the life of Bank Innovation. We hope you love it. When we started Bank Innovation, while the crosswinds of the credit crisis were still swirling, we […].

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2018

After news surfaced in May that Golden Gate Capital was considering a merger of Eddie Bauer and Pacific Sunwear of California , the private equity firm has created a new operating company comprised of the two retailers. Golden Gate acquired Eddie Bauer out of bankruptcy protection in 2009 with a cash bid of $286 million.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Walmart will provide an update as to how the retailer did against Amazon during the holiday shopping season when it reports fourth-quarter results. And while the retailer is expected to show profit margins that are the lowest in years, it’s also expected to report an increase in sales, reported The Financial Times.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

TechCrunch noted that, in 2009, Sequoia Capital made an investment in Pine Lab and remains its largest single investor. It closed on an $82 million round in March with private equity firms Actis and Altimeter Capital investing in the company. With the round of funding, Pine Labs has raised a total of $208 million.

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MARCH 9, 2018

The investment was led by GGV Capital and Digital Sky Technologies, with participation from Founders Fund, AME Cloud Ventures and Vaizra Investments. Lore is known for founding Diapers.com, which he sold to Amazon in 2009. Boxed is not alone in the home delivery space.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

This newfound cost consciousness is reshaping the retail industry in everything from spurring the rise of fast fashion at the expense of mall “anchor stores,” to the increasing popularity of off-brands or store brands in the supermarket, to the shift in the apparel business, to off-price retail outlets over full-priced department stores.

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MARCH 16, 2016

Sometimes, even the brightest LED television screens fade away, and sometimes, the most expensive battery packs that an electronics retailer can stock end up losing their charge. Best Buy announced Tuesday (March 15) that Brad Anderson, former CEO of the organization and current member of its board of directors, is retiring from his position.

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MARCH 11, 2020

Pepsi has had a distribution agreement in North America with Rockstar as of 2009. The move comes as Pepsi and Coca-Cola have both been moving into the energy drinks market, CNBC reported.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Brookfield’s access to large-scale capital and deep operating expertise across multiple real estate sectors, combined with GGP’s high-quality retail asset base, will allow us to maximize the value of these irreplaceable assets,” Kingston said. Some analysts, however, feel that GGP is pursuing the option out of desperation. “We

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PYMNTS

MAY 3, 2017

Corporate venture capital has been an increasingly popular trend over the last several years — particularly among larger, established and older firms hoping to stay on the cutting edge of technological progress. Past Salesforce investments include Web-storage company Box Inc., document-sharing startup DocuSign Inc.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

In 2009, the Uber app introduced consumers to a whole new way of getting transportation and a way for black-car drivers with the capacity to serve them. In 2009, Uber made payments disappear. The Invisible Innovators . Yet, one of its most transformative innovations was making payment at the end of the ride a non-event.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

This growth has created major opportunities in the payments space, and companies like Stripe — the payments unicorn valued at a masive $35B — are hungry to capitalize on them. Stripe often states that less than 8% of total commerce occurs online, suggesting roughly $26T in global, omnichannel retail sales.

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JULY 20, 2018

That funding round also included Saban Capital Group, UVM 2 Venture Investments L.P., Brookside Capital and Oak Investment Partners. eBay had previously acquired Gmarket in 2009. In 2015, Giosis landed $82.1 million in Series A financing led by eBay and Singapore Press Holdings.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

That couldn’t ring truer for the state’s capital, which many consider to have a tech scene bursting with potential and growth. Last year, 147 companies in Austin’s digital tech ecosystem raised more than $966 million in new capital, with more than $3.9 You know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas. billion in exits.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

While much of physical retail struggled in 2017 from rapidly realigning consumer shopping habits, the team at Home Depot had an incredibly solid year, with same-store sales growing each quarter and a stock price that surged 42 percent. Despite retail’s slump, the stock market did well in 2017.

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TheGuardian

MARCH 3, 2021

Chancellor’s eye-catching policy could end up rewarding investment that would have happened anyway Rishi Sunak flags tax rises in budget as total Covid spending tops £400bn Budget 2021: key points at a glance One can usually take a mental break when the budget speech turns to capital allowances. It’s the tinkering bit. Continue reading.

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PYMNTS

JULY 13, 2016

Brick-and-mortar retail will forever remember the day that Nintendo released Pokémon GO , a mobile game that has caused millions of millennials to suddenly discover outside again. However, some retailers prefer to play cards of the kind as close to the corporate chest as possible. billion acquisition of Home Retail Group.

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APRIL 17, 2017

In a conversation with economist and author of “Matchmakers: The Economics of Multi-Sided Platforms,” David Evans, in 2009, Co-Founder and CEO Jack Dorsey initially hinted at ambitions of controlling both ends of the payments ecosystem with what he called a “more elegant” payments experience. And industry pundits fell in love. What’s Next.

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JULY 24, 2017

Since its founding in 2009, Artsy has grown to encompass more than 800,000 pieces of art by 70,000 different artists. The round was led by Avenir Growth Capital, with further investments by industry leaders in art, media and technology – some who have supported Artsy from the start and others who were just finding out about it.

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

Most people did not consider 2009 an ideal time to start any kind of small business — the credit markets had more or less squeezed shut, a staggering number of Americans found themselves on the unemployment rolls and the economy seemed like it might be on the brink of ruin. And that was a problem they could fix.

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MARCH 30, 2017

On Tencent’s part, the move looks to capitalize on Tesla’s fast-growing market in China, which last year accounted for over $1 billion of the automaker’s total revenue. Even Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving company, which has been working on its own autonomous tech since 2009, still sees a handful of times when driver needs to take over.

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MAY 6, 2019

Déjà vu because it was 10 years ago, in May of 2009, that Facebook launched the alpha version of Facebook Credits. First stop on Facebook’s capital raising tour: The big guns with successful payments rails, loads of money and a demonstrable appetite to invest in innovation. It shut down in 2012, 15 months after its official launch.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Disintermediating the established intermediaries has become something of an art form in payments and retail these days. Physical retail is being disintermediated by a host of new players using digital technologies and data that further erode their relevance. Take retail. See the Future — or Face the Inevitable. Yes, they do.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The past week was largely uneventful for the international food retail group until Friday’s trading, when prices slipped down 0.71 This has been the most challenging deflationary environment we have experienced since 2009 and the longest period of sustained food deflation in decades,” said Sprouts CEO Amin Maredia in the earnings call.

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