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[FOUR] Shift4

A tour through payments: part 3 (SQ, FOUR)

February 2, 2023

Block (SQ) I once argued how by taking the problem of merchant payments acceptance seriously, [...]

[ADYEN] Adyen N.V. [FIS] Fidelity National Information [FISV] Fiserv [GPN] Global Payments

A tour through payments: part 2 (Adyen, GPN, FIS, FISV)

January 16, 2023

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[MA] Mastercard [V] Visa

A tour through payments: part 1 (Visa and Mastercard)

December 22, 2022

This is my last post of the year. Before getting into it, here are some [...]

[SITE] SiteOne

[SITE] SiteOne Landscape Supply

November 28, 2022

SiteOne sources 135k landscaping SKUs from 5k suppliers and distributes to 280k customers, most of [...]

[VRSK] Verisk Analytics

November 28, 2022

One job of an insurance commissioner is to ensure that carriers under their jurisdiction have [...]

[SAP] SAP SE, Quick Blurbs

Quick Blurbs [SAP, Tripadvisor]

Posted on August 16, 2017December 5, 2017 by scuttleblurb

[TRIP – Tripadvisor] This stock had a few crazy trading days last week, opening down 8% before closing up 2.5% on the first full trading day post-earning and then rallying again days later, apparently sparked by rustlings of a take-out [TRIP’s chairman Greg Maffei stoked such hopes a few months ago]. At least opposes this hypothetical […]

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[TRIP] Tripadvisor

[TRIP – Tripadvisor] Good Asset, Fumbled Monetization Strategy

Posted on August 8, 2017September 10, 2017 by scuttleblurb

For many years prior to 2012, Tripadvisor was accused of “over-monetizing” its site, bombarding visitors with “pop-up” windows that redirected visitors to the sites of its OTA and hotel ad partners. In late 2012/early 2013, TRIP began replacing the antiquated pop-up model with in-line meta (so visitors could compare rates across different OTA and hotel […]