PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

Math Camp, the company that created location-based app Highlight and photo sharing app Shorts, is being acquired by Pinterest. The cofounder of Math Camp, as well as most of the staff, will be coming along to Pinterest once the deal is complete. Math Camp raised $5.5 million in venture funding during its five-year life.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Walmart watchers are out in force today with the launch of subscription service Walmart+. While it has been widely touted as a hedge against Amazon Prime’s runaway growth, when the two programs are stacked side by side, something doesn’t add up.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Analysts believe the San Diego-based tech giant could make the math work, particularly if the deal involved selling off Intel’s manufacturing assets. Qualcomm would likely need to finance an Intel acquisition through a combination of debt and stock.

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CFO News

JANUARY 8, 2023

CFOs must display agility, resilience, curiosity, imagination, people-centricity and a transformative mindset as well as heart, says the veteran finance honcho.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 15, 2022

One seventh-grade math teacher at the school livestreams to the three other schools daily and travels to those schools for in-person instruction once a week. and Edgenuity Inc.

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Numbers Math Education Budgeting 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Whether it’s a few decades or a century, the math works the same. Hey, what a very different outcome than suggesting a loss of purchasing power — if you understand money and math, you have actually gained purchasing power. And over the past few centuries, those returns have greatly exceeded inflation.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 9, 2024

The Journal did the math as follows: California had 726,600 people working in fast-food and other limited-service eateries in January, down 1.3% UPDATING: Spent some time investigating the origins of Manzo’s NY Post claim and found myself (suprise!) from last September, when the state backed a deal for the increased wages.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

The coming ascendence of augmented reality and virtual reality have long been article fodder for tech enthusiasts, gamers and retail watchers alike. And for good reason – the story of virtual and augmented reality makes for some great copy.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 7, 2024

That’s not even math. A bit out of sequence, but worth mentioning: The Globe took a gratuitous swipe at LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik, who’d followed our work here with a piece of his own, citing a couple of tweets on the matter (combined here): Just one problem here, Gavin: The @latimes got its data mixed up. GovPressOffice.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 31, 2024

We discuss how he began as a math major but didn’t want to go into physics, engineering or academia, so finance was the next logical career option. Prior to joining DoubleLine in 2009, Sherman was a senior vice president at TCW Group Inc. He is host of the podcast The Sherman Show and a CFA charter holder.

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Global Finance

JUNE 4, 2024

The debate can be heated, but many impartial observers believe that it mostly comes down to this math: Governments fear the real or potential loss of tax revenue. It has been the target of lawsuits filed by groups running the gamut from truckers and Uber drivers to freelance journalists.

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Nerd's Eye View

JUNE 21, 2024

Also in industry news this week: A recent survey indicates that financial advisors continue to move towards ETFs and away from mutual funds when it comes to client portfolio recommendations, though a majority of advisors continue to see a role for active management in the investment management process A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging (..)

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The CFO Centre

OCTOBER 13, 2021

From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. Some we can see. Most we can’t. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers. The average human lives for around 80 years – […].

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Gox bitcoin drama got a little more dramatic this week. As a quick refresher, Mt. Gox is the now-defunct bitcoin exchange that shuttered in February 2014 after a mysterious “glitch” caused $500 million worth of bitcoin to go missing. Those bitcoin – or at least most of them — have remained missing ever since.

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Math Currencies Corporate Finance Valuation 41

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 25, 2023

Gaze, The Conversation, May 23, 2023 Math Professor Debunks the Dunning-Kruger Effect By Eric C. Griffiths Nature Human Behaviour, February 25 2021 See also : Debunking the Dunning-Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average By Eric C.

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The SaaS CFO

JUNE 4, 2019

Mix multi-year contracts, discounts, and churn into your internal pricing discussion, and you need a degree in math to determine the optimal pricing for you and your customer. SaaS Multi-year Pricing Discounts SaaS pricing can be a pretty complex subject.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 11, 2023

Bloomberg ) • From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns : Your first experience at work is not often forgotten. ( Washington Post ) • Hamptons Partygoers Cast a Worried Eye on New York’s Future : Paulson, Catsimatidis among those at Southampton Hospital gala Party’s theme tied to Palm Beach, now home to many attending.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Make sure you have the right math and language to explain results driven by direct and indirect marketing spend. As much as possible, CMOs must help their C-suite colleagues understand the math of marketing activities holistically and results throughout the full funnel. Build a tight relationship with your CEO and CFO.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2018

It’s All Math, All The Way Down. It’s all mathematics, and very high-level probability and statistics — math used in a different way than it ever has been. This is similarly new mathematical ground, which means it needs to be thoughtfully explored — and math, at base, makes a lot people nervous.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 19, 2023

How bad at math do you need to be to think that it’s only 5 stocks driving this market? Only 5 stocks driving markets?! Then why are Equal-weighted indices doing so well? Equal-weighted Nasdaq100 up 17% since the June lows for the market because “it’s only 5 stocks”? Recession is inevitable?

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Marketing Math Forecasting 113

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 1, 2023

But most of all, it was just simple maths according to Druck. The easy part is over. Barron’s ) • The Bear Market’s Survivors Share Their Biggest Lessons : With the S&P 500 in the longest bear market since 1973, individual investors maneuver differently from just months ago. The first was don’t lose money. I don’t like to lose.”

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Math Economics Numbers Marketing 113

Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2024

The Math Doesn’t Add Up ( Rolling Stone , January 24, 2024) How TikTok Is Wiring Gen Z’s Money Brain ( WSJ , May 4, 2024) _ 1. Source: TikTok Investors on Twitter : Quotes from TTI are via DM’s on Twitter; he or she remains anonymous as they work in the finance industry and are not authorized to speak publicly on behalf of their employer.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

His philanthropy includes sitting on the board of directors of Paul Tudor Jones’ Robin Hood Foundation and Jim Simon’s Math for America. Borish also previously served as chief strategist for Quad Group LLC. He explains what the trading experience was like on Black Monday, 1987.

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Nerd's Eye View

APRIL 12, 2023

When planning for retirement, it’s effectively impossible to precisely forecast the performance and timing of future investment returns, which in turn makes it challenging to accurately predict a plan’s success or failure.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2021

On each side of the equation, the math is simple. A surge in eCommerce returns driven by COVID-19-related policy changes is hurting retailers but helping logistics companies, the Financial Times reports.

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Math Retail eCommerce Sales 108

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Yet the fundamental math of bond returns bodes well for 2023, our columnist says. ( The bond market certainly DID NOT see the pandemic-induced inflation coming. ( A Wealth of Common Sense ) see also After a Terrible Year for Bonds, the Outlook Is Better : October capped their worst 12-month period ever, and the economy is under pressure.

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Math Communication Economics Marketing 120

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Wall Street Journal ) • From Math Camp to Handcuffs: FTX’s Downfall Was an Arc of Brotherhood and Betrayal : Gary Wang and Sam Bankman-Fried are offering dueling accounts of the FTX fiasco and of who’s ultimately to blame. Most economic downturns hit lower-income Americans hardest, but this time is different. Here’s your investing playbook.

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Math Advertising Investments Economics 113

Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

KCP Group ). • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life : Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math. ( Here are some of the most interesting things I found. ( The Atlantic ). •

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Cryptocurrencies — like bitcoin — are “produced by solving complex maths puzzles and governed by disparate online communities instead of a centralized body,” reports said. “The aim of the project is to show how an e-krona could be used by the general public,” Riksbank said.

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Currencies Banking Math Economics 105

The CFO Centre

OCTOBER 13, 2021

From the speed of light to the parabolic curve of a free-kick in soccer, maths underpins the laws of the universe. Numbers matter. Our mathematical universe is constructed of numbers. Some we can see. Most we can’t. We can also deconstruct our entire lives in numbers.

Numbers 40

Numbers Math Construction CFO 40

Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

24, 2023 _ 1: In particular, why average outperforms over the long run; Sommers credits not making errors (via Charlie Ellis’ “Winning the Loser’s Game”) but the nuance and math are fascinating. By Jeff Sommer New York Times, Nov. More on this later. 3: Remember, the crowd is right most of the time — indeed, markets ARE crowds.

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2020

For us to bring our level of efficiency close to our peers, the math would tell you, we need to eliminate over $10 billion of expenses.” To repeat, there is nothing structurally different about Wells Fargo that should prevent us from being as efficient as our large peers, but we are far from it.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

But, as a matter of math , if your preference for diversity and inclusion supersedes that of compositional merit or worthiness, you will necessarily get a repertoire that is lower in quality.

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Math Planning Leadership Budgeting 130

Adam Kae

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Want to see the math yourself? While putting the finishing button-nose sprinkle on my snowman cookie, I started to compare the make vs buy differences in my head. So, I threw together this little comparison! Check out this Google Sheet: [link]. Want to make this cookie recipe? Here's what we used: , [link].

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Math 52

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 24, 2023

You need to understand how math, statistics and probabilities work. Pour yourself a mug of coffee, grab a seat outside, and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads: • The Evolution of Financial Advice. To be a successful investor you need to possess a number of different traits.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

We take a similar attitude when it comes basic math and science — but when it comes to financial literacy, only 21 states require financial education, Dr. Annamaria Lusardi recently told Karen Webster. Money is also typically an issue. Often we hear: ‘We don’t have the money to buy the textbooks,’” Lusardi said.

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Education Math Economics Technology 103

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 23, 2024

link] • Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon : Want to really understand how large language models work? Hope came cheap enough, but I was also realistic. It might take months to gain a hummingbird’s interest in the feeder and for it to lose its fear of me. Here’s a gentle primer. link] SEE ALSO Watch an A.I.

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