Sizzle SoftBank Mobile IPO: With $23.5 billion in corporate pockets, becomes the biggest listing in Japan on record and the second largest stock market listing in history — and per reports, helps cements the tech investment fund as one of the biggest players in the...
This week gave us the answer to a question that’s been popping up a lot as 2018 comes to a close: Which of the household name tech unicorns will be first out of a gate with their announced 2019 IPO? Airbnb, Slack, Palantir and Uber were all in...
While the legalization of marijuana is a contentious political topic, a fact that is not contentious is that in the 33 U.S. states (and the District of Columbia) where marijuana has been legalized for sale in some capacity, it has thrown off a fairly large chunk of tax...
Facebook has been a firm with its share of troubles lately. Earnings weren’t quite what investors were looking for, its usership base in the U.S. and Canada (its most lucrative markets, revenue-wise) isn’t growing and it’s suffered through a reputational beating over the last year. And...
In the age where news is instant and leaks are common, a genuine bit of surprising news is actually pretty hard to come by. But Amazon and Western Union pulled off just such a shocker in this week’s big sizzle, with the announcement that...
It was a good week for wearables and their future, as the devices continued to show indications of strong promise on the B2C and B2B fronts. A sizzle in its own right – and also possibly a sizzle within a sizzle for payments and commerce...
To steal a phrase from the movie Network, eBay is mad as hell, and is not going to take it anymore. The target of eBay’s ire is Amazon, against whom it filed a lawsuit in Santa Clara County, California earlier this week, alleging that Amazon has engaged...
It seems that Barnes & Noble as the world has known for the last four decades may be readying to sign off. The firm announced Wednesday of this week (October 3) that it will be naming a special committee tasked with reviewing bids for the...
Sizzle Of The Week: AR/VR’s Retail Gains Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have spent much of 2018 generating buzz as a potential tool for retailers looking to bridge the digital/physical gap and deliver an all-encompassing, omnichannel shopping experience. Retailers and merchants — big...
