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MARCH 16, 2017

car insurance comparison tool that’s now being made available via Facebook Messenger. She said, “Our Facebook Messenger virtual agent experience is faster than any website or mobile app and easier to use than any online form. Through its $4.6 First up on the company’s growth plan is its U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Online sales in such countries as Spain, an EU member, are expected to grow by 20 percent , according to eMarketer. The need for an update in these regulations is particularly “due to the growth of online sales and of new market players, such as online platforms,” said the commission. billion ($2.6

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In the post, titled “Powering economic recovery through retail,” Google is pitching the offer as a way to help small retailers follow their customers online as the coronavirus pandemic reshapes the global shopping landscape. Overall, searches that contain the phrase “available near me” have doubled during the pandemic.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

CoverHound, the online property and casualty insurance platform operator, announced Tuesday (Feb. In a press release , the San Francisco startup that has sold more than 200,000 policies online said the Series D funding round was led by global insurer Hiscox and included participation from Chubb, Aflac Ventures, MS&AD of Japan.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 10, 2015

This post is the third in a series we’re writing on the FTC’s workshop on online lead generation entitled Follow the Lead. In our first post , we explored how online lead generation works. If that’s so, then all marketing is deceptive, especially in the online world, because all marketing works that way. Theodore R.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

consumers and 490 restaurant operators looking for digital strategies that help deliver improved experiences and boost average unit volumes. Finding revenue declines among smaller indie operators, the new research makes the observation that the more digital one becomes now, the better off they are going forward.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Honey was founded in 2012 as a way for people to easily find savings while shopping online. PayPal said it shares a common goal with Honey : to help simplify and personalize the online shopping experience, while increasing sales and engagement for merchants. That includes barcode scanning and price comparison apps. Amazon Focus.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Online bank N26 ‘s decision to exit the U.K. The Berlin-based digital bank said it would not be able to operate in the country anymore in the wake of Brexit, as it will no longer have a license to do business there. By comparison, competitor Monzo has 3.6 has customers feeling left behind, CNBC reported.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

According to a press release, the Texas-based airline is launching what it calls “Flagship Cellars,” a joint venture with online wine retailer Vinesse that will offer home delivery of a specially curated menu of selections normally only sold to its super-premium Flagship passengers. “We million per day. Tough Times, New Thinking. “We

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JANUARY 15, 2020

Less than three years after acquiring travel search startup Hipmunk , SAP Concur has announced that it will shutter both the consumer- and corporate-facing operations of the platform. “Concur TripLink with TripIt Pro is the preferred solution for customers who aren’t a fit for Concur Travel, an online booking tool.”

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JUNE 23, 2020

The Russell 2000 index shows 42 percent of small-caps are either just breaking even or operating a loss. Bigger companies have been faring better by comparison, with investors taking solace in large caps and the Russell 1000 index down only 3.3 The number is the highest since 2010’s 44 percent, the index says.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The joint letter to EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager was from 135 companies offering online services plus 30 industry associations. billion since 2017 for stifling competition in favor of its own shopping comparison service and advertising business, in addition to its Android operating system for smartphones.

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MARCH 3, 2020

With a round led by ACA Investments, comparison shopping platform iPrice Group has notched $10 million in Series B funding. million items from over 1,500 online shopping partners. The core iPrice unit ran at a 30 percent EBITDA margin and comprised about half of its revenue. It now purports to bring together over 1.5

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 31, 2019

Although payments revenue for the quarter still paled in comparison to the company’s quarterly […]. The company’s "payments and other fees" category banked a record $274 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared with $193 million in the same quarter of 2017, marking a nearly 42% increase.

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JUNE 12, 2019

More than 100 Goodwill store locations ranging from New York to San Francisco are uploading products like collectibles, clothing and furniture to the platform to drive in-store and online sales. Price Comparison Shopping. Goodwill organizations have worked with other tech companies to help sell their merchandise online.

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JUNE 15, 2020

But as the pandemic-driven digital shift gains traction, retailers have to be wondering if consumers will use websites to comparison shop for brick-and-mortar retail (webrooming) or whether they’ll go back to shopping retail to order online (showrooming). According to SaaS scheduling platform company JRNI , 74 percent of U.S.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Less out of Walmart this week, by comparison, though the in-store upgrades that have been a theme in this tracker for the last several weeks continued this week — and seem to have expanded as well. About a year after Amazon acquired online pharmacy PillPack for $1 billion, it seems its debut on Amazon’s marketplace is imminent.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Apart from the hefty fine, the EC has given Google 90 days to “stop its illegal conduct” and offer other price comparison services the chance to compete on a balanced playing field. Critics of the move, particularly stateside, have complained that the EC is targeting successful American firms that operate overseas. billion euros ($2.7

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JUNE 12, 2018

The huge growth in online shopping is not only keeping inflation at bay, but it is throwing off how inflation is measured. We don’t have as good measures of the economy as we should, in part because there are many new digital goods and new online channels,” Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the M.I.T. percent. “A

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JUNE 18, 2020

The company operates almost 1,000 retail stores under names like DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and The Shoe Company. percent for the first quarter of 2020, in comparison to a 3 percent rise in the same quarter of fiscal 2019, according to an announcement. reported that net sales plunged by 44.7 percent to $482.8

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JUNE 2, 2020

Try comparing the numbers of the COVID-19 economic asteroid hit to anything that came before, and it quickly becomes apparent that there is no apt comparison. percent have either improved upon existing online order-ahead for pickup features or added new ones during the past 10 weeks, while 50.1 Our survey reveals that 49.4

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JANUARY 21, 2020

One of the biggest questions that promises to play out in the larger world of restaurants — whether quick-service operations or others — is who will ultimately own their customers, and whether those businesses can get them back once they are lost to third-party delivery services and aggregators. But that comparison goes only so far.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For those who haven’t seen the news earlier this week, here’s what happened: Amazon reported that its online B2B operation , which launched in 2015 and is officially called Amazon Business, has achieved more than $10 billion in annualized sales — with more than half of those sales coming from third-party sellers using the company’s platform.

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APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By comparison, Sela said 60 percent of the big pizza chains’ business is digital, leaving room for small pizzerias to grow their digital order base.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

While Target crushed eCommerce and even reported decent in-store sales volume, others like Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters had weak in-store traffic that even fairly good online volume couldn’t overcome. Nordstrom’s Good Online Numbers vs. Target’s Great Ones . All in, overall comparable sales – both online and in-store – grew 17.2

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JUNE 5, 2020

percent of consumers were shopping for retail goods online as of May 23, up from the 32.5 percent increase of consumers who shopped online for retail goods on April 11 and 24.1 million consumers are now shopping online, compared to the 66.4 However, even the high end needs to be online. The research shows that 35.7

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JULY 2, 2019

The golden age of product reviews and price comparisons. However, as more age-restricted products move online, robust and seamless digital age verification takes on more importance, a trend that promises to grow in the coming few years. What about the golden age of age verification? Reduce Sales To Minors. In the U.S.,

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2021

Not only has the pandemic impacted businesses by shortening operating hours or closing businesses altogether, but it has introduced stimulus money that those same businesses have come to rely on as part of their cash flow, creating new challenges to testing the creditworthiness of prospective borrowers. 20/30/50 split over three years).

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FEBRUARY 21, 2018

“While I am pleased with our progress in brand health and product quality, we have not achieved the operational excellence and accelerated profit growth that we know is possible at Gap brand,” Gap Inc.’s s Chief Executive Officer Art Peck said in a statement, according to news from Reuters. percent in the holiday quarter.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Similarly, industry and society are moving on to new experiences in futuristic online “worlds” with functioning economies where real-world and virtual events commingle in an evolution of social media-style community offering safety from COVID and, increasingly, commerce. Murmurs From The Metaverse. million viewers.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

In an announcement , the FCA said that under new rules, customers will be able to easily find information on providers’ websites, including how and when services and helplines are available, contact details, how often the firm had to report major operation and security incidents and the level of complaints lodged at the company.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

As COVID-19 has demonstrated, many retailers struggled to move fast enough to create sustainable operating models for curbside pick-up, contactless delivery and more.”. Yevgeni Tsirulnik , vice president of Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions’ Digital Platform Products said the system aims to “ remove the lines between the online and offline.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

Tax-exempt organizations must carefully follow the legal regulations that enable them to operate as 501(c)(3) charities. Two of these — administrative and fundraising expenses — typically fall under a nonprofit’s overhead or operating activities and can include expenses related to day-to-day operations. .

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CFPB Monitor

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The FDIC’s Center for Financial Research has issued a research paper that discusses the use of the information contained in a “digital footprint,” meaning the information that people leave online by accessing or registering on a website, for predicting consumer default. The operating system (e.g. tablet or mobile). iOS or Android).

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MARCH 20, 2019

From SPOT to Starbucks , online platforms and retailers are providing consumers with new ways to place orders or make purchases from the car. company-operated transactions. By comparison, mobile ordering and payment accounted for 9 percent of those transactions in the fiscal third quarter of 2017. Currently, 58.7 times a year.

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APRIL 15, 2019

That look has many of those same pundits now fretting over how to value both adequately, since apple-to-apple comparisons, they say, are hard. And they are – mostly because there’s not an apple-to-apple comparison to be made. million drivers and operations in 300 cities. A Single Focus. The company reports 30.7

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DECEMBER 20, 2018

Dynamic pricing promises to keep making strides in 2019, with vendors updating their repricing software (“repricing” is another term for “dynamic pricing”), and online sellers engaging in increasingly fierce competition to win the buy box. earlier in December launched a repricing software product for Walmart online marketplace sales.

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