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Q4 earnings
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5.9KVISAVisa B2B Biz Nears The Trillion-Dollar Mark
Double-digit growth marked Visa's key metrics in the latest quarter, from processed transactions to cross-border activity. Management pointed to performance and potential as...
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2.9KEarningsTargeted Ads Drive Twitter Earnings Beat
Twitter beat out analyst estimates to deliver its first quarterly profit and an unexpected return to revenue growth. According to Reuters, revenue...
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3.0KEarningsQ4 Earnings Yield Stock Rally, But Corporate Clients Aren’t Driving Performance
This week’s B2B Data Digest offers a quick skim of the flurry of earnings data coming out of the corporate banking, finance...
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3.3KEarningsCostco Wholesale Has Visa Partly To Thank For Better-Than-Expected Q4 Results
Costco Wholesale, the warehouse club retailer, was able to post higher-than-expected profit for its fourth quarter, and it has lower fees to...
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5.8KeCommerceGroupon Shocks With Earnings Comeback
Is Groupon headed for a comeback? While it’s too early to tell as Groupon is still in an adjustment period, Groupon posted...
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Payment Methods
MasterCard CEO On The Digital Payments Ecosystem
Quarter after quarter, MasterCard has made its digital intentions clear: it wants to be leading the conversations. Besides the evolution of its...
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News
JPMorgan’s Earnings Deliver, But Challenges Loom
JPMorgan Chase kicked off earnings season today (Jan. 14) for the banking giants, beating expectations, as Jamie Dimon’s empire showed that the...
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3.0KIn DepthAlibaba Appoints New Mobile-Centric CEO
Alibaba reported its fourth quarter earnings yesterday (May 7) and showed its continued dominance in mobile leadership in the eCommerce world, but the news...
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3.9KMerchant InnovationGap Drives Digital Focus While Growing Storefronts
With a new, digitally-focused CEO leading the way, Gap’s fourth quarter earnings call yesterday (Feb. 26) was concentrated on its omnichannel push as the...
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Hmmm
Target’s Commanding M-Commerce Share
Breach, what breach? What a difference a year makes. Whatever hit to the bottom line Target experienced last year in the wake...
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In Depth
Omnichannel Paying Off For Macy’s
Better than expected fourth-quarter earnings for Macy’s point to only one thing: its merged channel efforts are paying off for the retailer....
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2.5KNewsWalmart Throws Its Weight Behind Mobile
As the demographics of brick-and-mortar stores versus online shopping continues to shift, Walmart has made it clear that the retailer is focused...
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News
Twitter Chirps About Google Deal, Yelp’s E-Commerce Future
Twitter didn’t divulge details about its payments or commerce strategy during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call yesterday (Feb. 5) — even when questioned...
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3.5KNewsYahoo Small Business Will Join the Alibaba Spinoff
When Yahoo spins off a holding company for its $40 billion investment in Alibaba, it will bundle in its Yahoo Small Business...
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In Depth
MasterCard CEO Touts Security Features of Apple Pay, MasterPass
Higher consumer spending helped MasterCard to a strong fourth quarter earnings Friday (Jan. 30), posting a better-than-anticipated profit increase of 29 percent to...
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Controversial
Alibaba’s Commanding Mobile Commerce Lead
To read more of our earnings coverage, check out our earnings wrap up. It’s not easy being the world’s largest commerce platform....
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Hmmm
Prime Turns Amazon Profitable Again
To read more of our earnings coverage, check out our earnings wrap up. Thursday (Jan. 29) was a big day for earnings...
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3.7KApple PayVisa Pushes Tokens For Apple Pay — And Beyond
Visa is already looking beyond Apple Pay. The world’s largest payment-card brand announced on Thursday (Jan. 29) that it beat analysts’ expectations,...
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3.0KHmmmSandberg Hints At Facebook’s Payments Intentions
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s plans for his social network are clear: “We’re making progress towards connecting the world,” he wrote in prepared...
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Mobile
Samsung And Apple Are Now Neck-And-Neck In Smartphone Sales
Barely 24 hours after Apple announced the biggest quarterly profit in history, smartphone rival Samsung Electronics reported that its own quarterly earnings...
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Hmmm
EBay Enterprise Spinoff, The Icahn Pact And PayPal’s Future
As eBay moves beyond what CEO John Donahoe called “a very difficult year” for the company, the e-commerce giant might be preparing...
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2.9KControversialAmex Passes Trillion-Dollar Volume Mark
While American Express posted relatively solid fourth-quarter earnings — beating analysts’ expectations — the positives for the company were overshadowed by the...
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4.6KHmmmDiscover Improves Rewards, Goes B2B With AribaPay And Takes Aim At Visa — At A Cost
Even though Discover’s payments volume rose and its loan portfolio grew by 6.4 percent, the card issuer’s net income plummeted 33 percent...
