Новости за 10.05.2021

Elm, the digital security firm owned by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, is exploring a roughly $2 billion initial public offering (IPO). That’s according to Bloomberg News, which reported on Monday (May 10) that Elm had hired Riyad Capital to advise on the IPO. Elm hopes to sell shares on the Saudi Stock Exchange by […]

Voya Financial Inc. will purchase the third-party health savings and spending accounts administrator Benefit Strategies, Voya announced in a Monday (May 10) press release. Headquartered in New Hampshire, Benefit Strategies offers administrative services that include COBRA, direct billing, health savings accounts and health reimbursement arrangements to more than 3,400 employers — and close to 370,000 […]

As consumers have shifted their food spending towards grocery over the past 14 months, major industry players have taken the opportunity to invest in their grocery offerings, and the space has grown increasingly competitive. A leaked memo from Walmart shows that while the retailer remains ahead of the pack for now, executives are beginning to […]

After years of forecasts of such an event, cybercriminals finally grabbed a vital piece of in infrastructure that they are refusing to unhand until someone pays them. The cybercrime gang known as DarkSide has reportedly shut down a vital U.S. pipeline, now in its fourth day of being unusable in what is being reported as the […]

In the middle of negotiating a merger deal with Tokopedia, Gojek has reeled in $300 million in investment funds from state-owned mobile operator Telkomsel, Nikkei Asia reported. Gojek is already Indonesia’s largest private tech company. It’s part of the battle to build “super apps” in an effort to keep consumers on a single website as […]

Global self-driving truck startup Plus is going public via a $3.3 billion merger with the special purpose access company (SPAC) Hennessy Capital Investment Corp. V (HCIC V). Launched in 2016, the Silicon Valley company Plus — formerly known as Plus.ai — has made a definitive business combination agreement with HCIC V to file a public offering on […]

This past weekend, a certain someone went on a certain Saturday night comedy show, and made an offhand, derisive remark about a certain cryptocurrency. The value plummeted about 30 percent. That was Elon Musk, of course, on Saturday Night Live, where he called Dogecoin – which he’d been touting for a while through social media […]

Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, said a $700 million investment and the work of 10,000 employees put a major dent in the company’s effort to eliminate the sale of counterfeit products from its site. The findings were included in Amazon’s 2020 Brand Protection Report which was released Monday (May 10), and shed fresh light […]

Planet Fitness added new members last quarter as consumers look to get back in the game. In recurring payments, upscale fitness equipment maker Peloton reported that the ranks of its connected fitness subscribers have surged. And in eCommerce, recent research indicates that consumers’ perceptions of merchant trustworthiness determine the arc of shopping behaviors, from the sharing of personal […]

Eddie Bauer, the 100-year-old outdoor sportswear retailer, will become the sixth retail brand added to the stable of SPARC Group, a four-year-old joint venture between mall owner Simon Property Group and brand licensing and development firm Authentic Brands Group (ABG). In a deal announced in a blog post Friday (May 7), ABG said Eddie Bauer’s existing […]

Whether it’s Walmart or Wagable, Chewy or Cat Person, the mix of retailers and service providers looking to take a bite out of the $100 billion petcare industry has never been bigger. With an estimated 11 million more pet owners today than before the pandemic, the trend is not only set to rise, but will […]

Mattel Inc., the toy company, rolled out a toy takeback effort called Mattel PlayBack that will let families “extend the life of their Mattel toys once they are finished playing with them,” according to a Monday (May 10) announcement. The effort is meant to harness materials from old Mattel toys for Mattel offerings in the […]

Party City Holdco Inc., the party goods company, posted an approximately 36 percent jump in brand comparable sales in the first quarter from the 13 weeks that ended April 4, 2020. In a Monday (May 10) earnings press release, the company also said that brand comparable sales climbed by approximately 0.4 percent from the 13 […]

Amazon, arguably one of the world's more technologically advanced customer-facing companies, is deploying a tool that dates to the 1860s to verify the addresses of some U.S. suppliers. The Seattle-based company is sending postcards to third-party businesses to verify name and address, CNBC reported. According to the U.S. Postal Service, the first postcard was printed […]