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Spanish telecoms and multimedia giant Telefonica confirmed its place among Europe s top operators with a 38.8% rise in net profits for the year 2000 to Euros2.5bn. Earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortization EBITDA rose 9.5% to Euros11.9bn.Multimedia filial Telefonica Media didn t fare so well, posting net losses of Euros627.1m, compared with Euros103m in 1999. The subsidiary completed a string of acquisitions last year, including the full incorporation of Dutch entertainment giant Endemol, Argentinean TV holding company ATCO and 70% of Spanish producer Lolafilms. Telefonica Media -backed digital satellite TV platform Via Digital also continued to lose money, while free-to-air broadcaster Antena 3, another Telefonica Media interest, posted profits.Telefonica pointed to economic recuperation in Latin America, where it holds a range of media and telco interests, and a diversification of income sources as factors contributing to its rise in overall profits. The company emphasized its positive results at a time when both telecoms and internet firms worldwide have experienced significant stock market upheavals.Telefonica underwent its own seachanges last year with the controversial stanley cup July departure of CEO and chairman Juan Villalonga and incorporation of new president Cesar Alierta. Other key personnel switches included the appointm stanley cup ent of former banker Juan Jose Nieto to head Telefonica Media and, j stanley cup ust this week, the naming of Stephen Killeen as president of Bryz On-demand market could hit $1.1bn in 2012
Dir/scr. Damien Chazelle. US, 2016, 128 minsStarry-eyed and saturated with pure romance, La La Land re-visits many of the narrative themes of Damien Chazelles debut, Guy and Madeline On A Park Bench, for a jazz-infused, jewel-coloured musical infectiously scored by Justin Hurwitz. Suffused with love 鈥?for Los Angeles, the films of MGMs golden age and Jacques Demy, and its intensely appealing star-crossed leads Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling 鈥?Chazelles dream-l stanley uk ike follow-up to Whiplash is as la-la-light as its title, tap-dancing its way into the hearts of incurable romantics everywhere.For Chazelle, the story is a slight rib around which he builds a modern rhapsodyThe films energetic ambition cant entirely paper over a story-telling softness at its core, though Linus Sandrens driving camera works hard to distract. If Whi stanley cup plash 鈥?also scored by Hurtwitz, like Guy and Madeline 鈥?cracked with tension, La La Land is its polar opposite. There is so much love and lightness here Chazelles film could - and does - take to the air.Offering the most simple of boy-meets-girl plots, Chazelle relies heavily on his leads and Stone and Gosling to work thei stanley germany r movie-star charisma to a punishing level. As the modern yet timeless lovers Mia and Sebastian they sing, affectingly, they dance, well enough - theyre immediate romantic icons, faces full of love and longing, torn between life and their art. Opening the Venice Film Festival before moving on to Toronto and the kind of Christmas release that mar
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Cake Ventures聽has announced a $17 million stanley cup seed and pre-seed fund focused on demographic change.The venture capital firm aims to invest in founders building companies and products catering to Americans over the age of 65, women, and Asian, Black and Latino people, Cake Ventures Founding Partner聽Monique Woodard聽wrote in a Thursday Jan. 12 聽blog post.Among the companies which backed the fund are Bank of America and Pivotal Ventures 鈥?a Melinda French Gates company, Woodard wrote in the post. Demographic transition is one of the most important changes to technology because it represents a sea change in the technology stanley kubek users, Woodard wrote. And when users change, stanley us technology must follow suit. For example, aging Americans will use technology and innovation as they face the challenges of late life, women influence the products and services used by both them and their families, and Asian, Black and Latino people look to technology and software to solve their unmet needs, according to the post. At Cake, we want to live just slightly ahead of where everyone else is looking and continually translate these demographic changes and how they impact your business for entrepreneurs, Woodard wrote.Citing examples of companies that have already succeeded by touching on demographic change, the post mentioned聽Weee!, which offers grocery delivery service for Asian and Latino foods.Weee! Founder and CEO聽Larry Liu聽told PYMNTS in an interview posted in March 2022 that the聽eGrocer聽keeps prices low w Rkhk 5 Things to Watch in Courts and on Capitol Hill that Will Impact Payments in 2024
Could it be that the much anticipated deal between Visa and Visa Europe may not be in the cards If Fridays stock market action was any tell, Wall Street may think theres a chance a significant deal between the two, telegraph stanley france ed to happen this fall, may not go down smoothly.The stock market, which sent Visa shares down 1.5 percent intraday before a rebound, took its cue from what Seeking Alpha said was chatter that one sell-side firm, Evercore ISI, had posited that the acquisition of Visa Europe by its former parent Visa may not take place 鈥?or if a deal does take place, it will be smaller than rumors from earlier in 2015.As has been widely reported, Visa has been in talks to buy the firm, which has been separate for eight years. Back in May, various financial media wrote聽that Visa approached Visa Europe with an initial deal value pegged at between $15 billion and $20 billion. The companies do have ties, as they maintain a licensing agreement. Visa Europe manages more than 500 million accounts and processed more than $16 billion in transactions in 2014. Under the Visa Eu stanley us rope gourde stanley ownership structure, comprised of more than 3,000 banks, there needs to be a thumbs up on the deal from at least 80 percent of that consortium, which effectively acts as a put that would drive Visa Europe into Visas arms.Visa, for its part, has said through CEO聽Charlie Scharf that the company would indeed like to take ownership of Visa Europe, and it has been estimated that any merger would take several
Cake Ventures聽has announced a $17 million stanley cup seed and pre-seed fund focused on demographic change.The venture capital firm aims to invest in founders building companies and products catering to Americans over the age of 65, women, and Asian, Black and Latino people, Cake Ventures Founding Partner聽Monique Woodard聽wrote in a Thursday Jan. 12 聽blog post.Among the companies which backed the fund are Bank of America and Pivotal Ventures 鈥?a Melinda French Gates company, Woodard wrote in the post. Demographic transition is one of the most important changes to technology because it represents a sea change in the technology stanley kubek users, Woodard wrote. And when users change, stanley us technology must follow suit. For example, aging Americans will use technology and innovation as they face the challenges of late life, women influence the products and services used by both them and their families, and Asian, Black and Latino people look to technology and software to solve their unmet needs, according to the post. At Cake, we want to live just slightly ahead of where everyone else is looking and continually translate these demographic changes and how they impact your business for entrepreneurs, Woodard wrote.Citing examples of companies that have already succeeded by touching on demographic change, the post mentioned聽Weee!, which offers grocery delivery service for Asian and Latino foods.Weee! Founder and CEO聽Larry Liu聽told PYMNTS in an interview posted in March 2022 that the聽eGrocer聽keeps prices low w Rkhk 5 Things to Watch in Courts and on Capitol Hill that Will Impact Payments in 2024
Could it be that the much anticipated deal between Visa and Visa Europe may not be in the cards If Fridays stock market action was any tell, Wall Street may think theres a chance a significant deal between the two, telegraph stanley france ed to happen this fall, may not go down smoothly.The stock market, which sent Visa shares down 1.5 percent intraday before a rebound, took its cue from what Seeking Alpha said was chatter that one sell-side firm, Evercore ISI, had posited that the acquisition of Visa Europe by its former parent Visa may not take place 鈥?or if a deal does take place, it will be smaller than rumors from earlier in 2015.As has been widely reported, Visa has been in talks to buy the firm, which has been separate for eight years. Back in May, various financial media wrote聽that Visa approached Visa Europe with an initial deal value pegged at between $15 billion and $20 billion. The companies do have ties, as they maintain a licensing agreement. Visa Europe manages more than 500 million accounts and processed more than $16 billion in transactions in 2014. Under the Visa Eu stanley us rope gourde stanley ownership structure, comprised of more than 3,000 banks, there needs to be a thumbs up on the deal from at least 80 percent of that consortium, which effectively acts as a put that would drive Visa Europe into Visas arms.Visa, for its part, has said through CEO聽Charlie Scharf that the company would indeed like to take ownership of Visa Europe, and it has been estimated that any merger would take several
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Banks, consumers and merchants have all raced to adjust their operations over the past year, changing their once-routine approaches to payments as open banking developments sweep across the globe. Financial institutions FIs and FinTechs are collaborating with increasing frequency to enhance open bankings availability and reach, especially in the United States, where creating seamless and safe payment experiences is becoming m stanley ca ore and more critical for merchants looking to keep customers engaged.Consumers are coming to expect security and speed regardless of where they shop, with recent PYMNTS data finding that 86 percent of Americans with annual incomes above $100,000 believe businesses should protect their data at all costs. Enabling this convenience and security requires merchants to adopt open banking solutions tha stanley cup romania t can allow for easy payment on the customer side and swifter data sharing on the merchant end, allowing businesses to create more tailored marketing and product offerings and to take control of the customer relations gourde stanley hip.In the latest U.S. Open Banking Tracker庐, PYMNTS analyzes why merchants must stay on top of emerging payment trends, including real-time and open banking developments, to meet consumers needs and take control of the customer relationship. It also examines the growing importance of contactless and account-to-account A2A payments within this space and how merchants can take advantage of these tools.Around The U.S. Open Banking Space Contactless Dygm IPO-Bound Credit Sesame Raises $43M
Malls are not exactly the healthiest of shopping species in the U.S.Much has been written about rising vacancy rates and the changing consumer shopping patterns which doesnt drive consumers to the malls the way they once did. At 8 percent, mall vacancies through 2014 were below their 2011 high of 9.4 percent, but a slight uptick from Q3s 7.9 percent and a tick up from the sub-6 percent rates before the financial crisis.聽聽But even more telling, is simply the lack of expansion. A new enclosed mall hasnt opened in the U.S. since 2006. Developers are being more ca stanley quencher utious. The one key here is that new supply has not been abundant. We have about 6.5 billio stanley kaufen n square feet of retail in this country, and we used to build an average of 2.5 percent to 3 percent of that a year. Weve been averaging only 0.3 percent over the past three years, shopping mall developer OConnor Chairman and Chief Executive Glenn Rufrano recently told The Wall Street Journal.However, while the U.S. shoppi stanley cup ng mall is certainly set to undergo its own retail renovation, the concept of the mall itself is still flourishing.Its just not flourishing in the United States.Around the world, however, is a different story as consumers in wildly different places like Iran and China are building malls at an astonishing rate, and modifying their shopping habits for these new centers of commerce.While adoption rates look good and early interest is high, some, though, are wondering if the international expansion of malls represent
Banks, consumers and merchants have all raced to adjust their operations over the past year, changing their once-routine approaches to payments as open banking developments sweep across the globe. Financial institutions FIs and FinTechs are collaborating with increasing frequency to enhance open bankings availability and reach, especially in the United States, where creating seamless and safe payment experiences is becoming m stanley ca ore and more critical for merchants looking to keep customers engaged.Consumers are coming to expect security and speed regardless of where they shop, with recent PYMNTS data finding that 86 percent of Americans with annual incomes above $100,000 believe businesses should protect their data at all costs. Enabling this convenience and security requires merchants to adopt open banking solutions tha stanley cup romania t can allow for easy payment on the customer side and swifter data sharing on the merchant end, allowing businesses to create more tailored marketing and product offerings and to take control of the customer relations gourde stanley hip.In the latest U.S. Open Banking Tracker庐, PYMNTS analyzes why merchants must stay on top of emerging payment trends, including real-time and open banking developments, to meet consumers needs and take control of the customer relationship. It also examines the growing importance of contactless and account-to-account A2A payments within this space and how merchants can take advantage of these tools.Around The U.S. Open Banking Space Contactless Dygm IPO-Bound Credit Sesame Raises $43M
Malls are not exactly the healthiest of shopping species in the U.S.Much has been written about rising vacancy rates and the changing consumer shopping patterns which doesnt drive consumers to the malls the way they once did. At 8 percent, mall vacancies through 2014 were below their 2011 high of 9.4 percent, but a slight uptick from Q3s 7.9 percent and a tick up from the sub-6 percent rates before the financial crisis.聽聽But even more telling, is simply the lack of expansion. A new enclosed mall hasnt opened in the U.S. since 2006. Developers are being more ca stanley quencher utious. The one key here is that new supply has not been abundant. We have about 6.5 billio stanley kaufen n square feet of retail in this country, and we used to build an average of 2.5 percent to 3 percent of that a year. Weve been averaging only 0.3 percent over the past three years, shopping mall developer OConnor Chairman and Chief Executive Glenn Rufrano recently told The Wall Street Journal.However, while the U.S. shoppi stanley cup ng mall is certainly set to undergo its own retail renovation, the concept of the mall itself is still flourishing.Its just not flourishing in the United States.Around the world, however, is a different story as consumers in wildly different places like Iran and China are building malls at an astonishing rate, and modifying their shopping habits for these new centers of commerce.While adoption rates look good and early interest is high, some, though, are wondering if the international expansion of malls represent