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Adobe: Holiday Online Shopping Topped $188.2 Billion

Adobe: Holiday Online Shopping Topped $188.2 Billion
Adobe: Holiday Online Shopping Topped $188.2 Billion
January 12, 2021  |  eCommerce

The 2020 holiday season was rife with online shopping, which hit a record $188.2 billion, or two years’ worth of growth, according to an analysis...

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Affirm IPO Now On Track To Raise More Than $1.1 Billion
Affirm IPO Now On Track To Raise More Than $1.1 Billion
January 12, 2021  |  IPO

Affirm, which provides installment payments to online consumers, priced its planned initial public offering (IPO) at $49 per share, higher than its marketed range of...

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Starbucks Launches $100 Million Fund To Support SMBs
Starbucks Launches $100 Million Fund To Support SMBs
January 12, 2021  |  Investments

Starbucks announced on Tuesday (Jan. 12) that it is investing $100 million from now through 2025 to support small businesses located in minority neighborhoods. Get...

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Visa Opts Out Of Plaid Acquisition, Cites Complex Litigation
Visa Opts Out Of Plaid Acquisition, Cites Complex Litigation
January 12, 2021  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Visa has opted out of its $5.3 billion planned acquisition of Plaid after objections stemming from a Department of Justice (DOJ) antitrust lawsuit, The Wall...

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International Travelers Will Likely Need Negative COVID Test To Visit US
International Travelers Will Likely Need Negative COVID Test To Visit US
January 12, 2021  |  Coronavirus

Travelers from abroad seeking to visit the U.S. could have to prove they had a negative test for the coronavirus before getting on a plane,...

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Uber Teams With Moderna, Joins Lyft In Asking Biden For Part In Vaccine Push
Uber Teams With Moderna, Joins Lyft In Asking Biden For Part In Vaccine Push
January 12, 2021  |  Coronavirus

Rideshare giants Uber and Lyft are executing separate strategies to assist in raising awareness about the coronavirus vaccine while also assisting in expanding the number...

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Verizon, UPS Team Up On Drone Delivery For Retail
Verizon, UPS Team Up On Drone Delivery For Retail
January 12, 2021  |  Delivery

Verizon, Verizon’s Skyward unit and UPS Flight Forward are teaming up to provide drone delivery for retail products using Verizon’s 4G LTE and 5G networks....

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P&G Leads Parade Of Connected Products As CES 2021 Becomes Smart Home Show
P&G Leads Parade Of Connected Products As CES 2021 Becomes Smart Home Show
January 12, 2021  |  Innovation

If necessity is the mother of invention, then marketing is the art of creating needs you never knew existed. Nowhere is that dynamic more prevalent...

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Vaccine Distribution Set To Expand; New Data Shows Digital-First Behavior Will Continue
Vaccine Distribution Set To Expand; New Data Shows Digital-First Behavior Will Continue
January 12, 2021  |  Coronavirus

The COVID-19 vaccine is being distributed, but logistical hiccups, differing local priorities and the simple scale of trying to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people...

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