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The Gap Sets Out Digital-First Strategy
The Gap Sets Out Digital-First Strategy
October 23, 2020  |  Retail

The Nike retailing model has shown itself again as The Gap announced Thursday that it will close underperforming stores, focus on the digital-first economy and...

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Increasing D2C Sales Keep Coca-Cola’s Earnings From Going Fully Flat
Increasing D2C Sales Keep Coca-Cola’s Earnings From Going Fully Flat
October 23, 2020  |  Earnings

With restaurant attendance down, movie theaters mostly closed and consumer enthusiasm for events outside their living rooms at a historic low point, Coca-Cola once again...

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Quibi And How To Go Out Of Business in Six Months Despite Raising $1.75B
Quibi And How To Go Out Of Business in Six Months Despite Raising $1.75B
October 21, 2020  |  Streaming

Quibi, the streaming service launched by media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, announced it was shutting down Wednesday (Oct. 21) after nearly $2 billion in investment but...

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Why JPMorgan Wants A Piece Of The SMB POS Market
Why JPMorgan Wants A Piece Of The SMB POS Market
October 21, 2020  |  POS Innovation

For SMBs, what’s in the cards … are more card readers. To that end, the banking giant J.P. Morgan is focused on enabling payments for...

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Paya CEO On Going Public And The Middle Market’s Business Payments Opportunity
Paya CEO On Going Public And The Middle Market’s Business Payments Opportunity
October 21, 2020  |  IPO

Current market volatility fueled by the global pandemic and subsequent economic disruption may seem to present an inopportune moment for companies to go public. Yet...

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Google’s Connected Economy Efforts, Overshadowed By Antitrust Suit?
Google’s Connected Economy Efforts, Overshadowed By Antitrust Suit?
October 20, 2020  |  Google

News Tuesday (Oct. 20) that Google faces an antitrust suit from the Department of Justice — focused on the core search business — makes us...

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Apple Pay At Six: How Consumers Are Using It At The Physical Point Of Sale
Apple Pay At Six: How Consumers Are Using It At The Physical Point Of Sale
October 20, 2020  |  Mobile Wallets

The launch of the Apple Pay mobile wallet has long been seen as Apple’s attempt at replacing consumers’ use of plastic cards for in-store purchases...

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Car Buyers and Sellers Prefer To ‘Click The Tires’ In The COVID Era
Car Buyers and Sellers Prefer To ‘Click The Tires’ In The COVID Era
October 19, 2020  |  eCommerce

COVID-19’s economic impacts continue to roil the auto industry, but rather than hurt sales, the pandemic is just increasingly moving them to digital channels. The age-old process...

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SPACs Lure Payments Firms (And Others) — With Speed Bumps Ahead?
SPACs Lure Payments Firms (And Others) — With Speed Bumps Ahead?
October 19, 2020  |  Markets

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) are gaining traction in the payments space — but might there be speed bumps ahead? To that end, as reported...

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