PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

State governments began rolling out economic nexus laws after 2018’s South Dakota vs. Wayfair ruling. The Wayfair ruling enabled states and cities to apply sales taxes to businesses based on the latter’s economic activities within their jurisdictions, whether or not businesses have physical presences there. .

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Bloomberg ) see also If You Bought Crypto Because of Larry David and Matt Damon, I’m Sorry : Tallying the losses after last year’s Super Bowl crypto-advertising bonanza. They have each other’s phone numbers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The latest earnings reports from Big Tech giants and social media platforms show that advertising spend is through the roof at present, after basically falling off the roof earlier this year. did strong Q3 numbers, with PYMNTS reporting that “Alphabet said search and other advertising revenues rose 6 percent year over year to $26.3

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Musings on Markets

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I am in the third week of the corporate finance class that I teach at NYU Stern, and my students have been lulled into a false sense of complacency about what's coming, since I have not used a single metric or number in my class yet.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Similarly, Nigeria is currently pursuing plans to upgrade its identity management infrastructure program, as part of an effort to both promote the nation’s economic development and improve security. The named individuals and companies were charged with using stolen Social Security numbers, home addresses and birthdates of U.S.

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CFO Talks

JANUARY 30, 2025

Crafting Strategic Visions with Roger Castle In the latest CFO Club podcast, Leana van der Merwe sat down with Roger Castle, an accomplished CFO and finance expert with decades of experience across industries such as cloud management, online advertising, financial services, and telecommunications. Roger Castle: Hi, Leana.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In the third and final post, I will argue that Facebook's troubles with the market have as much to do with a failure of narrative, as they are about disappointing numbers, and present a template for what the company needs to do, to reclaim the high ground.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The New York Times witnessed 14 percent growth in its most recent quarter, with its total number of subscribers reaching a record 5.7 It’s the kryptonite of subscription merchants and brands, so keeping subscription offerings fresh and frictionless will help determine their long-term economic super-powers. Read All About It, Online.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 15, 2023

It succeeded spectacularly in attracting people to its platform, hitting a 100 million users in 2012, and then doubling those numbers again by 2013, when it went public ,with an initial public offering. Users: Numbers and Engagement. The Twitter Story. The stock dropped below $6 in 2019, before mounting a comeback in 2021.

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Musings on Markets

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In the years since, I have concluded that this is not true and that expense mis-categorization is not only common, but that it varies widely across sectors, making it difficult to compare accounting numbers or ratios across firms.

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Musings on Markets

JULY 22, 2021

Zomato, an Indian online food-delivery company, was opened up to public market investors on July 14, 2021, and its market debut is being watched for clues by a number of other online ventures in India, waiting in the wings to go public.

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Musings on Markets

APRIL 21, 2022

It succeeded spectacularly in attracting people to its platform, hitting a 100 million users in 2012, and then doubling those numbers again by 2013, when it went public ,with an initial public offering. While total user numbers have leveled off in recent years, albeit with a jump in 2021, the daily active user count has continued to climb.

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Musings on Markets

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Customers get the time-savings and convenience from having grocery shopping (and delivery, if chosen) done for them, but they pay in the form on both delivery fees and a service charge of 5-10% of the bill, depending on the store picked and the number of items in the basket.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 11, 2023

The emerging winners will be the ones who take a more nuanced approach, tailoring the answer to the strength of their own products and markets, as well as to how economic uncertainty affects their customers. Search advertising revenues experienced a sharp slowdown in areas such as insurance, loans, and mortgages.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2016

But it’s the recently published groundbreaking research by Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Stanford, and several other of his academic colleagues that finally put a pin in the fact that the generation that every brand is desperately trying to woo is, by and large, broke and is unlikely to ever attain the earnings potential of their parents.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

In terms of headline numbers, revenues were up 25 percent to 105.8 Drilling down into the numbers, the company said the recent initiative to assign “health codes” for individuals — a necessity if they want to move around the country — spurred 8 billion visits to the WeChat platform. billion yuan ($14.6 billion yuan ($3.2

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 13, 2019

The Economic Times of India reported that the initiative would also include a pan-India Edge computing and content distribution network. The firm has said the number of transactions made across the platform grew tenfold since January of this year. Amazon, Too.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

“The government has addressed a lot of economic reform requirements in the last three months,” said EY’s Khetan.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Amid the continuing drumbeat for taxes on global commerce done through digital means, the Czech government has approved a new seven percent digital tax on global Internet firms which will, as Reuters reports , be levied on revenues tied to Czech users across advertising, digital marketplaces and data sales. Health Records and Google.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

3), the numbers put up by the players on the field will pale in comparison to the dollars that advertisers, sports enthusiasts, snack food aficionados and brands will put up, just so they can be part of America’s largest television viewing event. That aside, whatever drama goes down on the gridiron on Sunday (Feb. The Price Of Airtime.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

MLB owners are pitching a proposal to play about half the number of games, 82, for the 2020 season, without fans, according to ESPN. ESPN reported the owners agreed to a 50-50 split of revenues with players, such as television and advertising rights, in a conference call on Monday (May 11). But the union has called foul.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 4, 2023

The real estate market is expected to grow, with increasing numbers of people investing in REITs and more opportunities available for REIT employees. As the real estate market continues to grow and develop, the number of jobs available in REITs also increases. Economic contribution of REITs in the United States.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

While adjacent revenue streams such as advertising and delivery services serve as a long-term growth engine for e-commerce, growing the number of users and transaction sizes is key to growth and boosting profitability. The sector’s GMV grew to $139 billion in 2023 and is expected to reach $186 billion in 2025, growing 16%.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Retailer John Wanamaker in the early 1900s is famous for saying that he knew that half of his money spent on advertising was wasted, but he just didn’t know which half. The fact remains that an increasing number of consumers are choosing, and will choose, to conduct their shopping online.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

It costs merchants nothing to join or remain on Sky.Garden; all they provide is their shop name, MPesa phone number and a few personal and business details (such as operating hours). Hunja explained that eCommerce in Kenya currently caters only to those at the top of the economic pyramid.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

percent since March, according to a World Economic Forum report , and this grim number rivals that of the Great Depression. These stark economic realities reveal why many U.S. This could be especially crucial as many in the publishing industry confront advertising revenue declines. The Department of Labor found that 23.2

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

But that doesn’t mean veteran business owners aren’t comfortable with technology: 42 percent told Chase they are investing in mobile advertising, more so than non-veteran entrepreneurs. Researchers also saw a 5 percent drop in the number of SMBs that plan to increase the number of part-time employees on their teams.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

In terms of the headline numbers, in the latest quarter that ended in early August, sales were down 3.1 These are all macro-concerns, of course, but they do have a lasting impact on the micro-economic side, where decisions are made, where firms navigate their immediate and longer-term environments. percent to $4.4

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The case ushered in a wave of state- and municipality-issued economic nexus laws that tax remote sellers based on economic activity rather than physical presence. Wayfair ruling paved the way for broadened U.S. tax laws, and some businesses and public sector stakeholders are now pushing back.

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CFO Thought Leader

JUNE 6, 2023

Back in 2009, as the economic downturn dispatched a daily dose of bad news, Lanka was tasked with separating Goldman’s nervous bankers from their long-tenured messaging device of choice: the BlackBerry. Back in 2009, as the economic downturn dispatched a daily dose of […] We don’t do this, as many of our competitors do.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The economic potential is also considerable, as in 2018 it is estimated that gig workers earned $1.7 Fiverr has pointed to content marketing, graphic design and advertising as key services. It’s no secret that the gig economy has grown by leaps and bounds. As many as a third of U.S. workers are involved, in some way, in project work.

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Musings on Markets

OCTOBER 19, 2021

First, it will reduce the number of noise disclosures, i.e., those that pass the materiality threshold for earnings, but don't have a significant impact on value. I don’t think so, but you can see why the company was tempted to go with that inflated number to push a “big market” narrative.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Following those difficult economic times, however, staying in someone else’s home conjured up the image of drifters or lower income travelers. They received media coverage, but they found that advertising could be costly. It would also go on to offer a “hot deal” and an “inn of the month” to give advertisers more exposure.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Euromonitor used the same optimism, comparing it to other BRICs and predicting it as the country likely to see the strongest economic growth. India’s smartphone users are expected to number 244 million in 2017, surpassing the number of smartphone users in the U.S. Free Basics and Free Internet.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Gennette also called out retail tariffs, uncertainty about the economic environment and unseasonable weather patterns as issues the long-struggling department store retailer is expecting to face this shopping season. Of course, the internet and 24/7 shopping has made those old formulas obsolete.”. percent who did so the year before.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

These two platforms offer a real-time case study of the power platforms can wield – and the economic opportunity they create – when they morph from focusing only on adding more features to their core businesses to using their core platform assets to identify and ignite new business value for others.

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Future CFO

JUNE 26, 2023

The increased number of sophisticated attacks in the region gives real cause for concern, as seen in the case of the popular 3CX phone service application which was turned into a trojan as part of a supply attack, said Vivek Gullapalli, Chief Information Security Officer, APAC, Check Point Software Technologies.

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