Because
large sales platforms often offer popular material, including e-books from famous authors, they may prove bigger targets for digital piracy.
Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's
largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.
Not exact matches
I just met with a
large Canadian bank and what they're looking for is not just a
sales tool or a service tool, they're looking for an integrated
platform to pull together every aspect.
It's not fancy, but it works: a
large share of the company's
sales leads is driven from their video - heavy social
platforms.
Our Online operation has annual
sales of just over $ 1 billion, which we believe makes it one of the
largest luxury, multi-branded online
platforms.
Three or four of these sellers on both
platforms account for a
large chunk of their respective
sales, with the share only expected to grow in the coming years
Notable startups include WeLab, a leading Internet finance company that operates some of Mainland China and Hong Kong's
largest lending
platforms, the CompareAsia Group, a firm that provides financial comparison
platforms throughout APAC, 8 Securities, a mobile trading and investing venture specializing in robo - advisory services, and iBox, a company that has developed a mobile point of
sale terminal for businesses.
It has
sales of around Eur600 million in a fast - growing market and operates the country's
largest distribution
platform with 30 storage hubs serving 70,000 points of
sales.
Autumn Cashmere oversized sweater $ 32 at Gilt (in the final
sale section) Equipment quinn silk printed shirt $ 94 at The Outnet (medium &
large available) Splendid jersey dress $ 26 at The Outnet (sizes M, L & XL still available) Rachel Comey Krill
platforms $ 136 at Tenoversix (sizes 7,8,9 still available!!)
Our online training
platform is designed to handle the needs of small organizations and
large enterprises, supporting course
sales and internal course delivery to both employees and customers alike.
Aimed at yanking
sales away from B - Segment mainstays like the aforementioned Honda HR - V, the C - HR is underpinned by the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA)
platform that made its debut with the fourth - generation Prius and boasts slightly
larger proportions inside and out than its rivals.
Even
larger than its predecessor — which accounted for 25 per cent of all Mini
sales — the 2017 Countryman is built on the same
platform as the new BMW X1 and offers an all - turbocharged engine lineup with the go - kart driving dynamics typical of the brand, not to mention the added traction that comes from the latest version of the standard All4 all - wheel drive.
Based on a stretched version of the Renegade and Fiat 500X
platform, this new Compass looks
larger than the outgoing model that's been on
sale since 2007, with slightly less - blocky styling than the little Renegade.
Discover the secrets to attract more readers, build your author
platform, and generate more book
sales at the world's
largest retailer.
KDP Select and the 90 - day exclusivity deal means that your eBook is not available at libraries either, or at Barnes and Noble (B&N), or on Kobo (the
largest overseas eBook distribution and
sales platform).
RIM and its
large base of BlackBerry Messenger users represent an exciting
platform for expanding the reach of commercial digital music around the world,» said Thomas Hesse, president, Global Digital Business, US
Sales and Corporate Strategy, Sony Music Entertainment.
According to an article from Journalism.co.uk, Future Publishing has recently seen a thirty percent increase in digital
sales, thanks in
large part to growth in the various
platforms it sends content to.
For both indie authors or traditionally published authors, a strong opening chapter translates into
sales (through book excerpts and previews), page views on services such as Kindle Unlimited, a
larger author
platform, and increased income.
If you just want to be # 1 in your category, you can get there with about 100
sales — as I mention in my more recent material, I think anybody can build a
large enough author
platform to sell 100 copies to actual readers in under a month, and 100
sales should be enough to get the ball rolling as long as you're also giving away about 1000 ARC copies to get book reviews first).
I'd agree with Jason Matthews on having a
large enough catalogue and also add there are a lot of technical challenges to doing it themselves — having DRM (digital rights management), working on multiple
platforms (iOS, Android), special / corporate
sales, etc..
Amazon Kindle is the most popular
platform for eBooks in the world and has the
largest market - share in eBook
sales.
Its own Surface range has had an excellent fourth quarter and is hoping to push
sales of other brands with the hope of creating a
large enough user base of the Windows 8.1
platform in the tablet sphere.
E-reading
platform Kobo may be a quiet company where retailing is concerned, given that many US consumers may not have even heard of the company that falls just slightly behind Amazon and Barnes and Noble is ebook and device
sales, but the company who has made more international headway than either of the two
larger platforms combined has now increased its retail partnerships in France.
Part of the push in
sales has to do in
large part with the publishing house signing key deals with ebook distribution
platforms, including the German Amazon store.
To a
large degree, the traditional publishers caused their own demise by focusing on the submitting authors»
platforms for
sales rather on the quality of the writing and ideas expressed.
Authors who simply view traditional publishing as the only way to publish, if they have
large platforms already, will continue to sell, but may seem some decline in
sales.
Based on
sales in February, Amazon Publishing now ranks as the 5th
largest publisher on the US Kindle
platform (excluding free downloads but including KOLL loans, for which we pay authors).
So even though I'm devoting a
large portion of the beginning of this blog about inane details revolving around the selection of a blog theme, the AUDIENCE of this blog is entrepreneurs, self - publishing writers, CEOs, CMOs and other marketers (both b -2-b and b -2-c), people involved in any kind of start - up, and anyone else who would find value in improving their
sales platform.
We've seen Bear Stearns get flattened trying to pick up one more nickel, and maybe Countrywide will get bought by Bank of America, but you also have banks with relatively
large mortgage - lending
platforms up for
sale as well, like National City.
Recently, Guillemot talked about Ubisoft's stance on Nintendo, stating that the company would invest in more games for Nintendo's
platform after it achieved more
sales, even saying that there is a shelved game tailored for the
platform waiting for the system to find a
larger market.
No doubt a
large percentage of these
sales belong to the consoles which have now thankfully become a viable
platform for the sim racing genre.
Whilst people are strongly advised to move away from the
platform, Windows XP is here to stay — it is embedded within many devices, from MRI machines in the health service to Point of
Sale systems in
large retailers which can not be easily or cheaply upgraded.
Examples include the way the information sector, which includes blockchains and smart contract
platforms, hosts many of the
larger raises across the entire industry, and as a result a skewed distribution on an industry - specific basis, or the way the finance industry hosts few truly outsized
sales but a very
large number of solid mid-range projects that are poised to deliver initial products on a relatively near - term basis.
OverDrive, the
largest distributor of digital materials to libraries, is also providing the
sales platform for paid e-book
sales on Pottermore.com.
Swarm, a blockchain for tokenizing private equity, just announced a few airdrop promotions, two of which encourage referrals, although by far the
largest token
sale on the
platform is one that just drops tokens to existing cryptocurrency holders.
At this time, it is not clear how ethereum, the
largest platform that has leveraged such a token
sale, and the
platform on which many are being launched, will be affected.
«WINGS has a proven track record of evaluating some of the
largest and most popular token
sales of 2017, we decided to use WINGS evaluate our project to stand out among the crowd» says Dror Medalion, CEO & Co-Founder of bitJob, «The WINGS
platform is the only functioning dapp on Ethereum giving us access to thousands of crypto - currency enthusiasts specifically interested in evaluating token
sales.»
The latest update to the wallet
platform sees the company integrate blockchain business management
platform Aragon's digital currency ANT as well as EOS, the blockchain
platform for
large scale business, who is coming off its highly successful week of token
sales, raising over $ 185 million in five days.
With more than 3,000 current device representatives instructed in DCS, it is now the
largest device
sales training
platform in medical
sales.
With more than 2,000 representatives trained on DCS, it is now the
largest and most popular selling
platform available for the medical
sales industry.
On the horizon are
large platforms such as Realty Desktop by HomeAdvisor and eRealtor by Homestore that promise to integrate contact, client, office, salesperson, transaction, closing, and post-closing management services on the same software system which should streamline and simplify all online salesperson activities from e-mail marketing to post-closing affinity service
sales.