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AUGUST 8, 2017

AI enables retailers to learn more about consumer preferences by having technology perform tasks that would typically require some level of human intelligence. Now, more than ever, consumers expect a certain level of personalization when interacting with a brand.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In some cases, brands like Loblaw and Nike are letting shoppers use their mobile phones to pay for their purchases at their physical stores. The finding was reported by Boston Retail Partners in its 20th annual POS/Customer Engagement Benchmark Survey. By March, 200 additional lanes are set to arrive at the company’s other 13 stores.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. Cosi now plans to close 29 of its underperforming company-owned stores and has secured $4 million in debtor in possession financing from a string of investors who want to buy the chain out of bankruptcy.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

It’s providing an enhanced service that everybody is already familiar with, it’s not a brand new payments system where people have to figure out, ‘How do I use this? The Tracker highlights the contribution of different stakeholders, including institutions and technology coming together to make this happen. Kenneally explained.

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MARCH 25, 2019

In fact, she noted, their behavior at the turnstile will much more closely resemble their familiar everyday payments experiences – they will just take out their Mastercard-branded plastic card and, quite literally, tap and go at the turnstile. Contactless technology in the U.S., Riding the Inflection Point.

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JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). The biggest driver for the connected car, said Frieden, is recognizing the importance of the millennial market and the technologically-enabled ways that millennials buy what they need. “So, Picture this. It’s snowing. Hands-Free Commerce.

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JANUARY 6, 2018

Boston and the areas surrounding New York didn’t get quite as lucky and were actually buried under more than a foot of snow, but the damage was done. We imagine they are still figuring out how shovel technology even works. In fact, deliveries of firewood now have a two-week wait in Boston and its surrounding areas.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Data from Tracxn Technologies released this week found less than half the volume of venture capital going to B2B startups in between January and August of this year compared to the same period the year before. “Our platform puts more eyes on the job to match orders with invoices. million in seed funding, announced on Thursday (Sept.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The growth of mobile banking over the last few years is a trend that should put the technology at the heart of every financial institution’s strategy. This is a message that US banks appear to be hearing loud and clear, at least according to the findings of a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

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JUNE 10, 2016

According to Brad Powers, Passport’s CTO, none of it would be possible without mobile payment technology. In fact, he said, without the rise of mobile payment technology, most parking apps would have never gotten off the ground. People want to own their brand.”. Keeping it all secure. Getting users involved.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. Fearful of giving up ground to a tech intermediary — Apple , Google , Amazon — many OEMs are working with third parties to develop their own branded apps and connected in-dash experiences. population had a phone in their homes.

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APRIL 16, 2018

And not because everyone who touches the consumer shouldn’t consider data privacy and security part of the deal they must have with their consumers if they want those consumers — their crown jewels — to keep coming back. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things.

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Millennials have been practically handed a smartphone as they emerged into the neonatal world and have grown up with touch technology. But the similarities end there. Google Announces Android Instant Apps.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Large banks and nonbanks, merchants and technology companies are pressing to solidify their inroads into the financial transaction business. Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies. It’s become a familiar story, usually with a new splash. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Payments are and will be embedded in each of these experiences, enabled by an intermediary that will authenticate the user or the user’s device and enable secure, private and interoperable commerce experiences. The Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston, by contrast, gets me far less excited, even though I use it a lot.

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MAY 27, 2016

At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. Stopping these hackers once they get in is nigh impossible, but NuData Security and the National Anti-Organized Retail Crime Association (NAORCA) think something can be done before all that.

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JUNE 21, 2016

With the desire for seamless omnichannel experiences eclipsing cost as the most important factor in food delivery, it’s no wonder that store-to-door apps aim to provide simple yet secure payment processes to stay competitive. When you order your first Favor, you’ll enter the payment information, which we store securely.

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. Wearable technologies? The regular drumbeat of stories about data breaches at brand-name retail chains probably doesn’t help.). Social channels?

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

In London too, Apple Pay works on the Underground, buses and trains, and the company is keen to serve Boston, New York and other cities with tap-and-pay mobile services. But security is an ever-present concern. However, our research continues to show that security remains a key concern for all mobile payment users.”

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Again another financial wellness platform using machine learning technology. HQ: Boston, MA. A TON of really old technology is being used in mortgage lending. In fact, Fiserv recently sold ALL of their mortgage technology to a PE firm. Info: Fiserv is a leading global leader in financial services technology solutions.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Read our future of data security report for more on this topic. ). It comes as no surprise, then, that big tech players like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are investing heavily in data security — especially as several have fallen victim to data breaches themselves.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Advances in technology improved the mass production of textiles there and gave rise to new merchant centers outside Istanbul. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. Suddenly, shoppers had more options to buy the same things at more competitive prices closer to home.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

This year, Google reported that 15 percent of those searches were for brand-new search terms, but down from the 20 to 25 percent they claimed in 2007. We’ll have to wait and see what Amazon has in store for Blink , the Boston-based outdoor security camera company it bought last year. This Is the Human Brain on Habits.

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OCTOBER 9, 2017

Advances in technology improved the mass production of textiles there and gave rise to new merchant centers outside Istanbul. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. Suddenly, shoppers had more options to buy the same things at more competitive prices closer to home.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The charges came three months after a previous legal action, where Holmes was on the receiving end of a civil lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), amid allegations of “massive fraud.” billion) for its investors in the biggest technology IPO Europe has seen as of this summer. million users, up from 9.2

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. Making WeChat available on the phone extended Tencent’s footprint to many millions more people.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition. Noting that property crimes tallied up $14B in losses in 2015, Zuberi calls home security a “multi-billion dollar market [with] a hungry audience” and says the industry’s “efforts to innovate leave a lot to be desired.”

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing. But there’s no question that the way these institutions function has shifted, pushed along especially by the financial crisis and technology trends. Table of contents.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Race Data brought bank client on stage who is thrilled with the product, he also states that the technology gives context to bank call center employees as well. ^KT. It’s all done through the smartphone, with bank-level security. Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). Branded version is available. ^KT.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. From one perspective, the position of management consulting as an industry has never seemed more secure. Those companies made plans.

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