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Wells Fizzles, Lyft Sizzles And Samsung Snatches A Sizzle From A Fizzle

April 14, 2017
Samsung Paid Around $215M For Viv Virtual Assistant Back In October
Payment Methods // March 02, 2017

Embattled Samsung, South Korea’s largest consumer electronics company, has reportedly paid $215 million for Viv Labs, the virtual assistant startup it acquired in October. According to a report in Business Insider, citing a filing, Samsung said that when it inked the deal it was valued at...

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Wells Fizzles, Lyft Sizzles And Samsung Snatches A Sizzle From A Fizzle

April 14, 2017
How to construct a payments platypus of sorts — you know, a mish-mosh of opposites that may not on the surface dovetail well but still get put together once in a while, less evolution than, perhaps, ever-amusing? Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. Sizzle Lyft: Lyft got, well, a lift, in the past […]

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Samsung Paid Around $215M For Viv Virtual Assistant Back In October

March 02, 2017
Embattled Samsung, South Korea’s largest consumer electronics company, has reportedly paid $215 million for Viv Labs, the virtual assistant startup it acquired in October. According to a report in Business Insider, citing a filing, Samsung said that when it inked the deal it was valued at 238.93 million won on October 7, and the Korean won […]