Musings on Markets

DECEMBER 10, 2021

One of the big news stories of last week was Jack Dorsey stepping down as CEO of Twitter, and the market's response to that news was to push up Twitter's stock price by almost 10%. That reaction suggested, at least for the moment, that investors believed that Twitter would be better off without Dorsey running it, a surprise to those in the founder-worship camp.

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Quantive

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Quantive is pleased to announce the sale of The DataTech Group to Torch.AI. Torch.AI, the leader in artificial intelligence (AI) powered ultra-high-speed data processing, acquired The DataTech Group (DataTech). Quantive represented The DataTech Group throughout this transaction. Located in O’Fallon, IL, The DataTech Group provides government and private sector clients with the ability to use […].

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Mogin Rubin M&A

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ordered the company formerly known as Facebook to unwind its acquisition of Giphy, Inc. due to potential harms in the markets for social media and digital display advertising. Facebook completed the $400 million acquisition of Giphy on May15, 2020 but has held the businesses separate since June 9, 2020, under CMA orders.

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Essentials of Corporate Finance

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In HBO's limited series reboot of Sex and the City , a Peloton bike has a major role. And even though Peloton was aware that the bike would be used, it was unaware (spoiler alert) that a major character would suffer a fatal heart attack after using the bike. And while using a product in a television show is generally more of a Marketing topic, it is also related to Finance as Peloton stock crashed 11.35 percent the day after the show first aired.

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Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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