PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Brands are focused on creating beautiful content that’s valuable to consumers, but most of it now is lost in our long social media feeds, alongside posts of cats and family updates,” Mark Alhermizi, Tagly’s founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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JUNE 18, 2019

“Mink combines the endless variety of content from the internet, the newness and relevance of social media, and the convenience of the home. Mink first introduced the concept of printed makeup in 2014, and it says it has refined the process and technology in its newest product.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report. Founded: 2012.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2016

Not surprisingly, retailers are leading the way in email marketing, accounting for 50 percent of the total journey interactions tracked by Kitewheel in the study. From 2014 to 2015, app-based consumer interactions grew 10 times. But what about social media , you might be asking?

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PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2016

If you’re a retailer or a brand, it seems as though eCommerce and the rise of smartphones and mobile shopping have made your customers more cost-savvy and price-aware than ever before. Well, the rise of eCommerce and mobile shopping doesn’t have to mean doom and gloom for luxury brands or retailers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

In the latest edition of the PYMNTS weekender, coverage includes the latest about PayPal and Google’s views about bank charters, a deep, analytical dive into Facebook’s new payments idea, a look at the new rise of pet retail and other stories you might have missed or simply want to review. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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PYMNTS

JULY 15, 2016

When Amazon, the largest retailer by market cap, says that it had its best day ever , it’s hard not to call that a sizzle – and then some. Remember, Lending Club’s claim to fame, as all of the online lenders, was their technology prowess at building systems that could take data and mash it up and make better decisions, faster.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Venture capitalists are funding new entrants to the field, and features like authenticity guarantees, postings to social media, the use of data and post-sale services could propel the industry forward, according to a new report from Fung Global Retail & Tech. Recommerce Bigger Than Ride Sharing In China.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

19) that the one-time giant of online auctions has, in past years, been fighting an uphill battle to make inroads against Amazon, but the strategy will hinge going forward on becoming, well, the “anti-Amazon.”. One key test came amid a hacking scandal in 2014, with a data breach that hit consumers. Bloomberg reported on Monday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By 2022, the projected value of the online delivery market is projected to reach $55 billion. A Pizza Button.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, Celent recognized mBank’s digital platform redesign and in 2015, Celent recognized mBank’s Bancassurance initiative. Through 2014, mBank has grown to more than 4.7 Rather than copying other financial institutions, mBank sought to deliver a best-in-class digital experience inspired from the world’s best retailers.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

Launched back in 2014, […]. EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year. “We We spent last year and most of 2016 scaling and on the workings of the product,” Purdue told Bank Innovation. This year, we look at revenues.”

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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2016

It has been a particularly grim retail season for the mall staples that defined landscape of the late ’90s and early 2000s. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2016

Just ask NBA superstar James Harden , who has been the subject of intense online ridicule this past week or so after images of his first-ever, Adidas-designed sneaker leaked online. Let’s just say, the pics weren’t well-received by the sneaker-loving community, and Harden’s been hearing it on social media ever since.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

The healthy fast-casual restaurant launched a custom mobile payment and loyalty app with LevelUp in early 2014 to cater to its active, on-the-go customers. Our online ordering really makes that easy for the guest to make sure they’re getting exactly what they want.”. We’re a dietary-sensitive brand,” said Rettker.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since its founding in 2014, Mist Systems has worked to bring its Mist Intelligent Wireless Cloud and Enterprise-Grade Access Points to corporations across multiple sectors including retail, hospitality, health care, education and more. In a store, I can find where the closest retail associate is if I need assistance.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

“We saw a big opportunity for online beauty. We recognized that consumers were shifting their time and spending online, but beauty was a hard category for people to shop online because they want to try products before they buy them. What’s Next.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2017

The company launched the world’s first end-to-end solution for virtual billing and policy management in 2014 and counts global operators such as Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Telefónica Mexico and MTN as customers. PYMNTS: Can you show me some data or proof points on how the company has helped retailers? PYMNTS: What is next?

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The social media giant found that attackers were able to take control of user accounts through a function within the platform’s code, according to reports. Retailer Hudson’s Bay got story started in early April with the disclosure that Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America had their payment cards compromised.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. But before it became a social media heavyweight, Instagram was a simple prototype co-founder Kevin Systrom built while learning how to program. The messaging app Slack officially launched in 2014 and became a unicorn ($1B+ valuation) the same year.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

That sense of purpose, paired with a savvy presence on social media, brought the business a large and devoted following — and has seen the firm expand from shoes to other environmentally sound and charitably oriented accessories like bags, hats and sunglasses. The online customer is expensive to attract and not easy to keep.

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Banking 2020

AUGUST 20, 2015

Cash might diminish in use in some regions (Western Europe for example), but will elsewhere continue to be used for cultural reasons,” says the WPR 2014 from Capgemini and Royal Bank of Scotland. By 2024 all online transactions will be verified through a biometric method. Wearables will become seamless.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Certainly for the largest banks, contact centers are evolving into digital retail centers, managing new digital channels to handle more customer support activities previously conducted in-person at branches. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The social media giant announced this week that it is eliminating transaction fees on donations. percent as well as 30 cents per donation, which is comparable to similar online fundraising platforms like GoFundMe, Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Postmates delivers from any merchant in the city for orders exceeding $20.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2016

Even with the deluge of cloud-based apps and services for modern smartphones, 16GB isn’t a difficult barrier for the average MP3 audiophile or amateur social media photographer to reach. The next step up the iPhone storage ladder to 64GB, however, won’t come cheap. Consumers with these phones are free to chase that $0.03

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

In the wake of the outbreak, everything from doctors appointments to schooling to workouts went online. Education: Technology and online content make the classroom optional. Online courses & content. Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Online grocery.

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Long Lasting Ideas

JANUARY 5, 2015

In the age of Apple Pay, Google Wallet, and online banking, the old assumptions are shattered. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal states that the average Class of 2014 graduate with student-loan debt has to pay back some $33,000. Conservative bankers might dismiss social media. Don’t.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

His premise knits together a series of storylines that regular readers of PYMNTS are quite familiar with: That the Amazon Effect on retail , despite the company’s 4 percent share of it, is real and that it uses its diversified sources of revenue, like Amazon Web Services, to subsidize its retail business at the expense of traditional retail.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

The company came out of stealth mode with a splashy Fortune cover story in 2014, revealing to the public that it had raised more than $400M, at a valuation of over $9B. The final nail in the Pets.com’s coffin was the implosion of the dot-com bubble, which saw online companies like Value America, Garden.com, and Mortgage.com shutter in 2000.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 17, 2017

Many of Walmart’s patents also aim to ease shoppers’ journeys through the store, perhaps revealing the retailer’s concern that the scale of its stores may be overwhelming. New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In fact, the venture and entrepreneurial ecosystem grew by 20 percent from 2014 to 2015 alone. “As long as they do not use the Olympic logo, the Rio 2016 logo or our look, there is no infringement,” Sylmara Multini, director of licensing and retail for the Rio 2016 organizing committee, explained to Reuters.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Chris’ public posts including his playbook for dealing with COVID-19 were gobbled up on social media. Whether this turns out great or a bubble that pops, Chime has jolted the staid banking industry into thinking about who will acquire future retail customers and where value creation may emerge.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Amazon’s next big move could be in beauty retail. Retail partnerships to add value for SMB clients. Hot Pepper Beauty, one of Japan’s top online booking services, worked with Google AdWords to attract customers and increase conversions while lowering costs. Amazon’s next makeover: online beauty retail.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

“We were promised a future of jetpacks and flying cars — and it’s 2014. The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target.

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