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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

and Dutch regulators on Tuesday (Nov. 27) for the data breach in 2016 that impacted millions of users. The fines stem from a data breach in 2016 in which the names, mobile phone numbers and email addresses of 57 million users around the globe were compromised. Uber was hit with a fine by U.K. based drivers.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

During the 2016 holiday shopping season, eCommerce accounted for a larger portion of the retail sales, representing a 24 percent share of the holiday retail spend, up from 21 percent in 2015. In November 2016, greater than 25 percent of holiday retail was eCommerce, up from close to 22 percent in 2015. “December’s 2.9

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Fintech News

JANUARY 7, 2024

This growth is expected to carry on this year onwards, growing at an estimated 15% through 2025 to US$417 billion and to US$760 billion by 2030. By 2030, that value is forecasted to stand in the US$210-360 billion range, according to the e-Conomy SEA 2023 report.

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JUNE 10, 2016

Compared to 2015, bitcoin has had a stellar 2016. What the results show is that bitcoin is: 1) Nowhere near its Nov. But when it comes to bitcoin’s price, it’s all relative. 2013 peak of over $1,200.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Investors just delivered another $90 million into the coffers of Loadsmart , a digital freight startup, the company announced Friday (Nov. Loadsmart said it has instead focused on what its online shipping platform can do for companies in the transportation business on a value-added basis, “coupled with API integrations.”.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

“We are thrilled to have the support of world-class investors who bring a highly strategic network to help us continue with the vision, with zero pivots, that Clive [Mitchell], my co-founder, and I started with in 2016,” Nigel Verdon , co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Railsbank , said in a statement on Thursday (Nov.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) on Friday (Nov. The SEC claims that Tolstedt publicly discussed and endorsed Wells Fargo’s “cross-sell metric” as a way of keeping track of the bank's financial success from mid-2014 to mid-2016. Stumpf agreed to settle the charges by paying a $2.5 Stumpf also already agreed to pay $17.5

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NOVEMBER 18, 2020

New York-headquartered Tel Aviv telemed startup K Health announced that it has partnered with Mayo Clinic and separately closed a $42 million Series D funding round led by Valor Equity Partners, according to a VentureBeat report on Wednesday (Nov. The new investment raises K Health’s total funding to $139.3

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NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Google announced on Friday (Nov. The original Expeditions Pioneer Program launched in 2015 for educators and in 2016 was made available on the Android operating system. 13) that the Expeditions app will not be supported anymore and will be removed from the App Store and Google Play after June 30, 2021.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Supermarket group Sainsbury's is planning to slash 3,000 jobs, according to a Times report on Friday (Nov. Sainsbury's purchased Argos in 2016 for £1.4 The group's Argos business will see the most layoffs. Sainsbury's is shuttering its meat counters, fresh fish departments and delis. billion. . “As

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

That looks like a solid handoff into the holiday season, according to economists, and yet another indication that the Fed will likely raise the interest rate by the end of 2016. The reports come out ahead of the Fed’s next meeting on the subject on Tuesday (Nov. percent, the biggest gain since Nov.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Shares of Slack were up 4 percent in midday trading Monday (Nov. Two of the sector’s biggest deals have been IBM’s takeover of Red Hat in 2019 for $34 billion, and Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016 for $27 billion. Slack’s current market cap is around $24 billion, the report said.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The company revealed Monday (Nov. According to the latest I nternet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide, Etsy, along with Amazon and Walmart, has made some of the largest year-over-year increases in online traffic through both its mobile and desktop platforms.

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

The incident occurred in Nov. which has prompted lawmakers to spend part of 2016 looking into shortfalls in FDIC cybersecurity policies. According to the report, the banking regulator said the data breach had to do with a former employee at the agency removing more than 10,000 records without receiving authorization to do so.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2016

GE may have something with its software business, announcing Tuesday (Nov. 15) that its software and services business is expected to hit $6 billion in sales in 2016. According to a report , $6 billion in sales is 20 percent higher than what GE lodged in 2015.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

Last year, on mobile alone, they jumped 30 percent on Black Friday and 50 percent on Cyber Monday when compared to Nov. As the 2016 holiday season quickly approaches, how can retailers keep up with the pace of these supershoppers? From November through mid-December, we see online conversion rates increase across devices.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In a press release issued on Tuesday (Nov. In 2016, Google acquired Apigee Corp., Google Cloud has announced a partnership with artificial intelligence and data analytics firm ThoughtSpot to develop cloud analytics solutions for the enterprise. ” Google has been pushing deeper into enterprise cloud operations for several years.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alibaba’s Singles’ Day shopping event on Nov. In 2016, 95 percent of people surveyed by China’s Payment and Clearing Association were aware of fingerprint recognition to make payments. This year marked the 10th annual Singles Day event, which is also called the Double 11 shopping festival because it falls on Nov.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

GivingTuesday and PayPal’s holiday campaign, which ran from Nov. billion in contributions it processed in 2016 , according to a report, which cited data from PayPal’s interactive tracker. In 2016, the company also hit a milestone by making its way into the Guinness World Records book — thanks to #GivingTuesday and charitable givers.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

A source told Reuters on Sunday (Nov. Walmart sold its Chinese online shopping platform to JD.com in 2016 in return for a stake in the platform. 24) that Amazon is opening a store on the Chinese eCommerce site Pinduoduo. . Amazon isn’t the only Western retailer that has made changes to its plans for China’s eCommerce market.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Office Depot’s shares have increased as much as 15 percent after the announcement on Thursday (Nov. Office Depot closed seven of its office supply stores in the third quarter and plans to close a total of 125 by the end of 2016, including the 65 in Q4.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Airbnb is making significant gains in corporate booking levels, and on Friday (Nov. The company found a 42 percent increase in the value of corporate bookings at Airbnb between 2015 and 2016, with SMEs making particular gains with the service. 11), the company announced a major plan to target even more of the enterprise market.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Tripwire, a provider of security and compliance solutions for enterprises and industrial organizations, announced Thursday (Nov. 3) a new study that shows retail IT professionals were overconfident in their ability to collect data needed to identify and stop a cyberattack.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

antitrust regulators are investigating Visa and Mastercard about their debit card policies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Nov. Following an FTC inquiry in 2016, Visa revised a rule that required retailers to ask cardholders to choose a routing network for their debit card transactions. When chip cards began arriving in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

International markets opened Wednesday (Nov. Bitcoin Black Friday is just what it sounds like — an event where bitcoin merchants list deals and coupons on Black Friday, falling on Nov. The ticket machines are scheduled to start selling bitcoin on Nov. 9) morning on a down note: Stocks in London dropped 4.3 25 this year.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The largest funding round was a blast from the past: a whopping $75 million landing at a company in India in an industry that saw most of its attention from venture capitalists last year — and which has been noticeably lacking in 2016. million in funding announced last Friday (Nov. On Thursday (Nov. Alternative Lending.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

One pick might be Renata Hesse , who has served numerous stints at the DOJ since 2002 and was acting attorney general from mid-2016 through January 2017, according to Reuters. Biden’s transition agency review team for the Federal Trade Commission and the DOJ met Nov. Department of Justice (DOJ), Reuters reported.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

China’s State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) has warned retailers that it will be monitoring sales practices during Singles’ Day (Nov. Figures for 2016 are expected to increase even further. 11), according to a report by Seeking Alpha. It is the largest eCommerce shopping day in the world.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Opus, the provider of global compliance and risk management solutions, announced Thursday (Nov. the percentage of companies that faced a data breach because of a vendor or third party was higher at 61 percent, which is up 5 percent from last year and 12 percent from 2016. Opus said that in the U.S., Opus said that in the U.S.,

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

A grand prize of $100,000 will be doled out from Nov. The entire store will be 50 percent off from Wednesday, Nov. The 2016 fiscal year wasn’t the kindest to Old Navy or its head, Gap Inc. 18 through 25 to one lucky winner each day, along with thousands of other, smaller prizes. 23, through closing on Black Friday.

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MARCH 6, 2018

While the time of each infection varies by location, the cases began on Nov. The news comes after Cicis Pizza announced in 2016 that it had gathered enough evidence to prove a large number of Cicis locations had been compromised by a credit card breach , one that dated back to March 2016 or before.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2018

NCR , the banking and commerce solutions company, announced Tuesday (Nov. We have been working with NCR since 2016 to integrate our patented technology with SmartAssist, which successfully detects shrink at the checkout counter with NCR’s self-checkout solutions,” Malay Kundu, founder and CEO of StopLift, noted in the same press release.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Braun’s appearance was his first since being detained by authorities in July over his connection with the collapse of the German payments firm, according to a Bloomberg report on Friday (Nov. I guarantee one thing: We will invite him again as a testee to the committee,” Danyal Bayaz, a Green Party lawmaker, told Bloomberg TV.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

percent jump in 2016. During 2016, French shoppers spent €72 billion making purchases online. The performance for 2016 included the holiday shopping season, which contributed €14 billion. Though it has been more than a year since the Nov. The French E-Commerce Federation announced Thursday (Jan.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We have built FreshDirect into a reliable and recognizable business to serve this purpose,” David McInerney , chief executive officer of FreshDirect, said in a statement on Thursday (Nov. Delhaize, founded in 2016 from a merger of Ahold and Delhaize Group, is among the biggest supermarket operators in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Reports in Vulcan Post on Thursday (Nov. Reports earlier this year revealed that investment in Singapore’s FinTech sector reached nearly $1 billion last year, overtaking Hong Kong in funding value in 2016. Two Singapore-based FinTechs are combining their services to create a unified supply chain financing tool.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 23, 2017

In 2016, the amount of life and non-life insurance products sold through online or mobile channels in China totaled just over $45B. Tencent became one of 8 investors to back a new online life insurer, which received regulatory approval in July 2016. Why does this matter? Partner/Name. Description. Joint Venture. Alibaba Health.

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