CB Insights

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Since Satya Nadella replaced Steve Ballmer as CEO in February 2014, Microsoft’s value has grown by approximately 200%. And with a current market cap hovering around $820B, Microsoft is close to becoming the world’s most valuable company. Want the full post? Become a CB Insights customer.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2020

Bank of America estimated that Amazon has poured roughly $39 billion into delivery services and technologies since 2014, according to Digital Commerce 360. The firm also recently allowed third-party sellers to resume shipping inventory to Amazon warehouses without the caps it had previously imposed.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

FLEETCOR posted $2.2 Yet, reports said there have been 366 complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against FLEETCOR since 2014. The publication reported late last month that FLEETCOR charges “more than a dozen fees” for professionals to use the card, including a $.10-per-gallon WEX Inc. ,

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

More US startup unicorns were born in Q4’18 than in any other financial quarter in history, capping off the best year on record for unicorn births in the United States. Notably, this growth in unicorn births took place during the healthiest year for IPOs since 2014. 2018 VC REPORT: A NEW UNICORN RECORD. years — down from 7.8

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

This week, NRF’s Retail’s Big Show , as it is commonly referred to, will host a virtual version of its four-day confab, including 90 sessions and 300 exhibitors who will speak to the future of retail in a post-COVID-19 environment. I wrote a piece in 2014, right around this time, that made the strong case for the decline of physical retail.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2017

The original concept behind the program was to test and drive sales post-morning rush, while featuring items like wine, beer and specialty food, like bacon-wrapped dates. In 2014, the company announced that it had plans to sell alcohol at thousands of stores. But that last call isn’t hard and fast. billion.

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Finovate

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Light Account has a monthly cap of 3,000 UDIS (investment units), which equals approximately 24,000 Mexican pesos. Pago was founded in 2010 and made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2014. Bimeo offers a pair of accounts for customers. The bimeo Total Account allows for unlimited deposits. Pago Mexico City-based fintech Sr.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

JAB continues to hold a stake in Benckiser, which merged with Reckitt & Colman in 1999, and then rebranded to RB in 2014. With a $5.3B+ market cap, Dunkin Donuts would be pricey, though not out of line of JAB’s prior deals. The company went on to acquire Mighty Leaf Tea in 2014, its first of 3 acquisitions in the space.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In June 2014, Stitch Fix raised a $30M Series C at a much higher $314.4M While Bonobos can scale through Walmart-owned Jet.com’s infrastructure, Stitch Fix will have to rely on IPO-generated funds to penetrate new markets and accelerate product development post-IPO. Later that year, its valuation leaped to $40.9M in Q4’13.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 18, 2015

Pictured (left to right): Coy Christensen, VP Product Development, and Jesse Kunicki, Development Manager, for Vantiv, demonstrating TriPOS at FinovateFall 2014 in New York. Vantiv became a public company in March 2012 (market cap $6 billion), and trades under the NYSE symbol, VNTV.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2019

Alphabet, with an $800 billion+ market cap, hundreds of millions of active daily users, and stable duology with Facebook for the bulk of web’s advertising revenue has inarguably succeeded since IPO went off 15 years ago today (Aug. 19, 2004). I don’t know what they’re really worth – and you don’t either.

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FICO

JULY 22, 2016

No doubt The Cheesecake Factory is taking a cue from Starbucks, which launched its Mobile Order & Pay service in December 2014. Starbucks’ market cap is about $83 billion. The post Mobile Payments: CakePay Is Eating the World appeared first on FICO. Waking up to smell the coffee. That’s a lot of coffee.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

Bitcoin’s market cap is currently well over $20 billion as value rose well over $200 in the past two weeks. In February 2014, Mt. Bitcoin entrepreneur Vinny Lingham, for one, recently warned in a blog post that additional quick rises in bitcoin’s value will likely create another boom/bust cycle in the bitcoin ecosystem.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MAY 17, 2017

In fact, late fees, which are capped at $7, are only issued after a 14-day grace period. ” Though overall the card may be good for consumers, the introductory line of credit, capped at $300 to $1,000, could possibly lead to a high credit utilization ratio, which lowers consumers’ credit scores. .”

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 25, 2016

FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2014 presentation. FinovateFall 2014 demo. FinDEVr Silicon Valley 2014 presentation. The post A Look at the First Week of Nasdaq’s Fintech Index appeared first on Finovate. FinovateSpring 2009 demo. MasterCard (MA). PayPal (PYPL). FinDEVr New York 2016 presentation. FinovateEurope 2012 demo.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

When Cook and Prime Minister Narendra Modi met to cap the trip off, it seemed a forgone conclusion that Apple would get what it was looking for: an exemption from a regulation requiring foreign-owned retailers to source at least a third of their manufacturing from local Indian sources.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2020

And its market cap will hit $2 trillion if the stock rises about another 5 percent to $467.77 Subsequent releases of the iPad (2010), Apple Pay (2014) and the Apple Watch (2015) stimulated a lot of consumer and investment interest in tablets, mobile payments and wearables, respectively. 11), giving the company a roughly $1.91

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2018

“48-hour stock change” and “peak post-announcement price” are based on high/low stock prices for each company the business day of and the business day following its announcement. Companies are arranged in descending order of market cap (as of 03/16/18). . Price: Peak post-announcement price: $142.82.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

In 2014, Uber was accused of attempting to sabotage Lyft by having Uber employees use burner phones to book and cancel Lyft rides to mess with their drivers. Some might say that given eBay’s market cap of $33 billion, compared to Amazon’s $887 billion, it might be a tad aggressive. So is it a sizzle or a fizzle?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Denmark’s NETS RealTime 24/7 initiative launched in 2014 and offers near real-time settlement of transactions — including P2P, mobile, online and credit transfer payments, as well as B2B payments. While there are no volume limits, there are caps on both consumer and business transactions of $26,000, according to FIS.

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Real Time Payments B2B Innovation Faster Payments 40

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Last week’s announcements capped off two years of investigation into the P2P lending firm, and its board has expressed some relief that it seems to be time to turn the page on the events of 2016. Riding a wave of market enthusiasm, LendingClub filed and completed its IPO in 2014, raising $900 million, the biggest tech IPO of that year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Details are scant about what that shop might look like, but what is known as of earlier this week is that Amazon has posted job listings for four new positions connected to the forthcoming store, it will be a separate entity from Whole Foods and it won’t use Amazon’s cashierless Go technology in favor of traditional checkout methods.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Date: April 25, 2014. Ballmer led Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia for over $7B in a deal finalized in 2014. Date: January 13, 2014. In 2014, Google sought to make an entrance into smart homes by acquiring Nest Labs, a four-year-old startup founded by two ex-Apple engineers, Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers. Price: $7.9B.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. Let’s not forget that it’s added something like $9B to Nintendo’s market cap in a week. Amazon Sellers . That best day – Prime Day 2016 and you all know the stats.

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FDIC Bitcoin Online and Mobile Banking Caps 41

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Today, mobile order-ahead at Starbucks accounts for 6 percent of sales and is posting double-digit growth quarter over quarter. Amazon’s become the largest retailer by market cap with its 300 million customer base by capturing a very small percentage of overall retail sales but big shares in certain categories — by doing exactly that.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2017

Post the PayPal split, it became the only thing on which that analysts and investors focused. It was shuttered in 2014. Facebook shuttered Gifts in August of 2014. With a market cap of $37.2 eBay also spun out eBay Enterprise in 2015.) It created its first “marketplace” for classified listings in 2007. Or so they thought.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Webpay failed to gain user traction and was shut down in 2014, unlike up-start Venmo (now a part of rival payments processor PayPal). With the talent acquired from GoPago, Amazon launched Amazon Local Register, a card reader for SMBs in August 2014. Its first entry point in the market was in payments in October 2014.

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2016

Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010 with a market cap of $12 million, down from $4 billion just a decade before in 2002 — the year that Netflix IPO’d. DVDs were delivered to the consumer by the post office and returned the same way. percent in 2014. That year, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy with only 1.2

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Payments Consumer On-Demand Returns 47

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Simple, an early contender founded in 2009, floundered following its 2011 launch before ultimately being bought by Spanish banking giant BBVA in 2014. Apple launched its mobile payments platform, Apple Pay , in the fall of 2014. But the road to the digital-only future hasn’t always been smooth. for stock and ETF trades and $0.65

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Finance Online and Mobile Banking Micro-Entry Advisors 77

Fintech Labs Insights

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

With winter winds putting white caps on the waves of the typically mild-mannered Thames, another FinovateEurope is officially in the books. Go here for a list of previous Best of Show winners through 2014. The post FinovateEurope 2016 Best of Show Winners Announced appeared first on Finovate.

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Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The company went public in December 2014. The market cap is at $4.32 The post Lending Club Raises Average Rate to 0.25% for New Loans appeared first on Finovate. At BAI’s Global Banking Innovation Awards, the company won accolades for Most Innovative Non-Bank Financial Services Organization. .

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The online bookseller didn’t turn a profit for six years — today, it’s the second publicly traded company ever to hit a $1T market cap. We also include an appendix linking to each letter at the bottom of the post. 2014: Bet on ideas that have unlimited upside. 2014: Bet on ideas that have unlimited upside.

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Innovation Product Risk Technology 78

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Three settlement windows each day will make settlement and posting of Same Day ACH payments possible. And the curtain call was inevitable — the end has been upon Yahoo since July, when it became public knowledge that Verizon would be buying for ~$4 billion the core assets of a firm whose market cap was once $125 billion.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In 1973, Buffett made one of his most successful investments ever in the Washington Post. At the time, the Post was widely regarded to have a value somewhere between $400M — $500M — though its stock ticker put it at only $100M. The Washington Post’s stock suffered too, even after Buffett’s acquisition.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2019

Amazon’s market cap is over $800 billion while Walmart’s is at $290 million, making one Amazon worth approximately 2.5 percent – but flash back to 2014: Walmart controls the exact same share of retail spend as it did then, while Amazon’s share has grown by nearly 300 percent. By the numbers, Walmart commands 9.1

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Consumer Product Third-Party Service Provider Process 40

PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2020

The “nonessential” category is witnessing new life in the age of the pandemic due to two new eCommerce sites — Bookshop , which rolled out in January of this year, and Libro.fm, which was born in 2014. Tea brands have to make payments for all sorts of expenses from tea leaves to bottle caps as well as café repairs.

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Automation AI Caps Economy 69

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

But there wasn’t a person on the planet, save us here at PYMNTS, who back in 2014 didn’t say Apple Pay was going to crush everyone, marginalize the card networks and kill PayPal. I saved the best for last — Apple and Apple Pay. You all know this story so well by now that you’re proficient on the details. Today, despite the story the U.S.

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