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Fintech Focus For December 4, 2020
Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 7:49pm | 2010Quote To Start The Day: One can look at a SPAC as the reverse of a traditional IPO. A SPAC goes public first—usually with a highly regarded executive team able to raise money from large institutional investors—with the intent to acquire a private company to put in its shell within...
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Fintech Focus For November 11, 2020
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 10:46pm | 2239Quote Of The Day: Get busy living or get busy dying. - Stephen King Fintech Movers: By adding fintech, SaaS businesses can increase revenue per customer by 2-5x* and open up new SaaS markets that previously may not have been accessible. - Andreessen Horowitz Benzinga’s Fintech Award winners...
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Fintech Focus For September 28, 2020
Sunday, September 27, 2020 - 5:42pm | 2058Quote Of The Day: If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war. - Leo Tolstoy Fintech Movers: Both fintech and big tech credit seems to complement other forms of credit, rather than substitute for them, and may increase overall access to credit. - BIS Russia’s...
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Bill Clinton Joins Presidential Podcast Playlist, Signs With iHeartMedia
Tuesday, September 8, 2020 - 4:31pm | 429iHeartMedia Inc (NASDAQ: IHRT) is bringing an exclusive podcast from former President Bill Clinton to its listeners in early 2021. What Happened: Deadline reports Bill Clinton will have a new podcast on iHeartMedia. The podcast will build on a podcast Clinton formerly hosted through his...
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Fintech Focus For September 2, 2020
Tuesday, September 1, 2020 - 6:21pm | 2275Quote Of The Day: Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. - Mother Teresa Fintech Movers: Two community leaders from Oakland, California, with backgrounds in real estate and impact investing launched a new investment platform Tuesday to provide capital...
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Fintech Focus For July 22, 2020
Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 6:57am | 2044Daily Perspective: Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. - Steve Jobs Fintech Movers: DARPA-backed blockchain analytics firm CipherTrace today unveiled “predictive capabilities” for its crypto tracing software—a move designed to better...
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Streaming Platform Like Spotify, YouTube Contributed To 80% Of All Music Sales In 2019
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 11:58pm | 347Streaming platforms extended their domination of the music market in the United States in 2019, according to data from the Recording Industry Association of America. Physical Sales Near Disappearance The subscription-based streaming services and free streamers that rely on advertisements for...
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Facebook Co-Founder's Asana Files To Go Public Via Direct Listing
Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 5:12am | 278Workplace management application Asana has filed their S-1 form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as it seeks to go public, the company announced Monday. Asana will go public via a direct listing, a company spokesperson told Bloomberg. This means that the company will...
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Spotify, YouTube, Other Streaming Platforms Exceed Trillion In 2019
Friday, January 10, 2020 - 2:16am | 325Streaming platforms like those of Spotify Technology S.A. (NYSE: SPOT), Alphabet Inc.'s (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) dominated music consumption in 2019 as sales of physical albums continued their downward spiral, according to the annual survey of Nielsen Music. What Happened...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Netflix, Raytheon, Spotify, Taiwan Semi And More
Saturday, October 5, 2019 - 11:00am | 690This weekend's Barron's cover story examines the race to zero trading commissions. Other featured articles discuss how to play a complicated merger and why Chinese stocks are lagging. Also, the prospects for a chipmaker, a music streamer, shippers, pot stocks and more. "Who Will Win...
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Benzinga's Bulls & Bears Of The Week: Apple, Alibaba, Spotify, 3M And More
Sunday, May 6, 2018 - 4:49pm | 799Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included the iPhone maker and a couple of top industrials. Bearish calls included the leading electric car maker and other consumer product outfits. The broader equity markets are still...
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Barron's Picks And Pans: Alphabet, IAC, Spotify, Under Armour And More
Sunday, April 8, 2018 - 1:07pm | 729This weekend's Barron's shows why Google's parent now stands out among the tech titans. Other featured articles examine a "dot-com hatchery" that is outperforming and why a recent IPO is no lightweight. Also, the prospects for a pair of apparel makers, one out-of-...
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Benzinga's Bulls & Bears Of The Week: Amazon, Facebook, Tesla And More
Sunday, April 1, 2018 - 9:30am | 699Benzinga has featured looks at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bullish calls included the e-commerce leader and an upcoming, unusual IPO. Bearish calls featured social media stocks and the big cryptocurrency. In the past week, investors' darlings such as Amazon,...
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Spotify's First-Ever Guidance, Explained
Monday, March 26, 2018 - 1:25pm | 335Streaming music provider Spotify has released its first-ever guidance ahead of its highly anticipated April 3 initial public offering. What Happened Spotify expects to grow its total paid subscriber base from 71 million users in 2017 to as many as 96 million by the end of 2018, Recode said....
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Spotify Investor Day And The Coming Wave Of Gen Z Investors, Consumers
Thursday, March 22, 2018 - 9:44am | 1363The largest percentage of the U.S. population isn’t Baby Boomers or Millennials. Members of “Generation Z,” born in 1995 or later, now make up more than 25% of all Americans. This generation is already dipping its toes into the turbulent waters of the stock market, and investors...