August 29, 2024 The companies with the most low-wage workers are spending billions on stock buybacks instead of raises A new report sheds light on exactly where these companies’ priorities lie. While some Americans have been looking to tighten their belts recently, U.S. corporations have been on a spending spree—but that money hasn’t been going … Continue reading The companies with the most low-wage workers are spending billions on stock buybacks instead of raises
By Christopher Zara July 17, 2023 Lead-footed telecom investors are racing for the exits over fears that AT&T, Verizon, and other industry giants could be on the hook for potential health risks posed by decades-old infrastructure. According to a report Monday by analyst firm MoffettNathanson, four major telecom firms have shed a combined $18 … Continue reading Telecom stocks are shedding billions in market value. Here’s what’s happening
By Clint Rainey January 25, 2023 Activist short-seller Hindenburg Research on Wednesday accused Asia’s richest person, Gautam Adani, of perpetrating “brazen market manipulation” and decades of fraud to help his family amass their fortune. Late Tuesday, the investment firm run by forensic financial researcher Nate Anderson tweeted that the report’s findings reveal “what we strongly suspect … Continue reading Hindenburg strikes again: Billions erased as Adani Group is accused of ‘historic’ corporate fraud
By Clint Rainey July 26, 2022 The value of the U.S. dollar is the strongest it’s been in a generation, which means Americans planning vacations to Europe or wiring cash to family in Latin America are not upset. However, if you happen to be a U.S. company that earns a decent percentage … Continue reading The strongest dollar in 20 years is wiping billions off U.S. company earnings. Here’s why
Apple Drives Billions In Revenue Through Content by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, April 29, 2021 During its first-quarter earnings call, Apple on Wednesday reported that its services group generated record revenue of $16.9 billion, thanks to offerings in App Store, cloud, music, video, advertising and payment. Apple executives talked quite a bit about COVID-related … Continue reading Apple Drives Billions In Revenue Through Content
Andrew Latham August 20, 2020 The line between personal and business finance is extremely blurry when it comes to small businesses and entrepreneurs. According to the Federal Reserve’s latest Small Business Credit Survey, 11 percent of small business owners use personal loans to finance their companies and 45 percent only use their personal credit score … Continue reading Small Business Owners Are Wasting Billions in Interest — Fintech Companies Can Help
David DeCorte June 30, 2020 Criminal fraud is nothing new in the eCommerce space. The problem has been growing year-by-year for two decades, leading to a gradual increase in merchant costs. Data published by Aite Group suggests direct fraud losses will cost online merchants $ 6.7 billion in 2021. That doesn’t even account for the … Continue reading eCommerce Merchants Could Save Hundreds of Billions Each Year by Eliminating False Positives
Paul Schmidt — April 11, 2019 — April 11, 2019 It’s a culture of testing, iterating, and analyzing that helps Amazon swallow up more and more industries. However, there are still thousands of specialized retail and e-commerce businesses that employ a healthy workforce and will succeed for the foreseeable future. Given Amazon’s multi-faceted organization, it … Continue reading 12 Ways Amazon Optimizes Product Pages to Drive Billions
Advertisers Lose Billions Of Dollars To Ad Fraud by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, (November 30, 2018) Bots create close to half — or about 48% — of all internet traffic across all web sites, according to Reid Tatoris, Distil Networks vice president of product outreach and marketing. And while that number was published earlier this year, … Continue reading Advertisers Lose Billions Of Dollars To Ad Fraud
An Accenture study ties $180 billion in revenue losses to declines in trust across 54 percent of companies in its index. Greg Sterling on November 5, 2018 It turns out that trust has a dollar value for corporations; a loss of trust can impact corporate growth and profitability. Accenture has published a provocative new study … Continue reading Study finds decline in ‘trust’ costs corporations billions in profits
