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JUNE 30, 2017

Who’s smarter: Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home? In a study by New York-based digital agency 360i, researchers used proprietary new Voice Search Monitor (VSM) software to ask Alexa and Google the same set of 3,000 questions and found that Google Home was six times more likely to answer correctly. In Other News….

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Millennials Eschew Bank Mobile Wallets. The study found that both millennials and non-millennials want to use mobile to manage finances, and cash is becoming less important to both groups.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

Retailers are bolstering their supply chains in China as they seek to enhance their service and offer customers fresh products. The post also pointed out that the retailer invested over RMB 700 million – which is approximately $100 million – to create the South China Fresh Food Distribution Center. Other Brick-and-Mortar News.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2017

Retail is a dog-eat-dog world, operating at times on the thinnest of margins. In a recent survey by Vantiv and Socratic Technologies, across 500 consumers, findings indicated that these buyers held, on average, 2.1 The fact remains that price is a competitive advantage or threat, depending on which side of the pricing war you’re on.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

A large portion of commuters, though (some 99 million), are finding ways to connect, either by using their smartphones or technology already built into their vehicles’ dashboards. Voice assistant technology, for one, has the potential to significantly boost in-vehicle commerce — for obvious reasons. About The Digital Drive Report.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Mobile technology by payments provider ACI Worldwide is a crucial part of the Co-operative Group’s (Co-op) new pay-in-aisle app, the firm said in a July 31 press release. . s largest convenience food retailers, Co-op has more than 2,600 stores and fuel sites across the country. One of the U.K.’s The Co-op was the first U.K.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2019

Make room for more contextual commerce and more retail innovation in the travel sector. That’s the view from one of Google’s latest retail-associated launches, an airfare insight and travel recommendations offering. The travel industry also is the site of recent retail-oriented innovation. Contextual Commerce.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

The company, which prides itself on determining which loan recipients are worthwhile, sees this money fueling its future growth and helping to license the technology to banks, credit unions and retailers.

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NCR

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There’s nothing more suitable for technology disruption than traditional small business banking. And there’s no better way to target Millennial entrepreneurs than with the technology they crave to help them in their business pursuits. And 77 percent of them said that technology makes them feel “more in control.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Accessing Amazon’s Alexa (13 percent) and Google Assistant (12 percent) through the dashboard were far less popular. But in-dash Google Assistant had a good deal of future interest: 31.9 In 2017, Starbucks launched ordering integration with Ford’s SYNC3 , the automaker’s voice-activated technology powered by Alexa.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2019

And while Tesla has been a connected vehicle leader, other players in the industry such as Ford, Daimler and Volvo are launching offerings equipped with technology. From automakers to retailers and online platforms, companies around the world are tapping into connected commerce technology in automobiles and mobile devices.

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PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2019

Once upon a time, it was predicted that the rise of smartphones would spell the end of traditional retail, but that hasn’t really happened. And roughly one-third use their devices to “showroom” — one of retailers’ biggest fears a few years ago — to compare prices at competitors. How are consumers using mobile devices in-store?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The lucrative “ bridge millennial ” consumer segment — relatively high-earning and highly educated, and approaching their peak earning years — are particularly fond of this technology, with 31 percent reporting ownership of a voice-activated device and 55 percent of those owners using them to make a purchase. The Numi 2.0

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

While beauty conglomerates like L’Oréal are making acquisitions to become more tech-enabled, tech giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) are pursuing the high margins in beauty through partnerships, consumer insights, e-commerce, and more. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Source: Think with Google.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Retailers scour social media to find influencers and designer bellwethers to turn trends into sales. In the payments ecosystem, we need look no further than the bridge millennial for how the connected purchasing experience will evolve over the next decade. Pundits identify bellwether states to predict election outcomes.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To help improve the retail shopping and shipping experience, virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) is catching on with big-box retailers in the U.S. AR could be on the cusp of having its moment, as a large brick-and-mortar retailer has fresh plans to appeal to shoppers willing to test out the technology.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

On the one hand, they’re using a relatively low-cost, unattended distribution method combined with even lower-cost word-of-mouth marketing, and the other hand, it’s one that’s associated with short-term, exclusive retail. It’s not just millennials and post-millennials using a free service any longer.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2017

The online retail giant is set to release the Echo Show to the world on June 28 of this year. The Echo Show retails for $229.99 percent of market share by year’s end, followed not so closely behind by Google Home, with 23.8 percent increase in usage from 2016 — driven primarily by millennial consumer adoption.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Millennials have shown remarkable interest in these solutions, which allow consumers to finance purchases with specific terms when they check out online. Millennials lead in the early adoption of BNPL, especially older “ bridge millennials ,” or those aged 32 to 41 who tend to have more purchasing power than their younger counterparts.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

No matter what, though, the present and future of real Christmas trees — even if bought in a weekend frenzy — owes much to digital technology, eCommerce and the consumer preferences of younger buyers. That is helpful especially for “millennial and Generation Xers,” he said. Christmas Tree Landscape. consumers bought some 27.4

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

Much thought is given to millennials and even Generation Z — consumers who were born during fixed periods of time, and who are having an increasing impact on payments and commerce. But let’s not forget the role of the teenager in digital retail, financial services and transactions. Retail and Teenagers. million in fresh capital.

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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

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Now more than ever, we see it as our mission to give today’s businesses the touchless technology needed to keep the kiosk experience safe and empower businesses to continue thriving.’’. It recently launched an application via Alexa Skill and Google Assistant Action powered by conversational experience platform Voicify. “Touchless.ai

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Almost half – 43 percent of high-income millennials – said they would be more likely to visit a gas station if its app offered them convenience, loyalty and savings, according to the PYMNTS Paying At The Pump report. percent – use Google Maps’ mobile app for gas. Fortune called the tie-up “a victory for Google.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2019

The department store retailer bolstered its omnichannel efforts while opening a distribution center for its off-priced business that taps into cloud computing technology; however, it struggled with inventory during the quarter. The collaborations allowed Macy’s to offer unique products and experiences to shoppers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This happened despite sophisticated technology capabilities that successfully flagged many other types of inappropriate postings, like pornography, and kept them off the platform for years. Only 38 percent of hate speech content was identified by their technology in Q1 2018, they reported, resulting in the removal of 2.5

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2017

What if we were to tell you that retail shopping isn’t dead? Google likes machine learning, having made the leap to buy Kaggle, which helps to create and promote contests focused on data and data science. We live in a time of extraordinary technological change,” Powell said. “We Bricks and Mortar , Alive?

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

While there are still some retailers today that have either a cash-only policy or still take cash, most consumers do not typically carry it on them. The data also shared that 56 percent of millennials do not feel comfortable carrying cash in their wallet, which could be due to concerns of either spending it all too quickly or losing it.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Vietnamese hackers have tricked the iPhone X’s Face ID user authentication technology — again. They created another mask using just 2-D and 3-D printers, at a cost of around $150, which tricked the technology easily. Even millennials are too old for Facebook’s latest release, a just-for-kids messaging app called Messenger Kids.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Google “used car dealer.” It’s hard to imagine that there’s so much technology and innovation happening up and down the mobility spectrum except for in this market — and it’s a $1.4 It’s 2020, we have technology everywhere all the time, and most people are doing all their research on their phones anyway. Click on the image tab.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

And in an example of how automotive manufacturers must form connected vehicle relationships with payments, retail and other tech players, Honda said it was expanding its in-vehicle collaboration to include Mastercard and PayPal — along with reaffirming its in-vehicle payments work with Visa.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Smartphones and connected technologies are becoming increasingly symbiotic in many consumers’ retail experiences. However, as connected technologies offer new linking opportunities for consumers and retailers, online merchants are facing new adversaries in the fight against fraud.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2019

Retailers looking to engage tech-savvy millennials and Gen Z consumers are quickly doubling down on their efforts to offer more visual content and enhance the discoverability of their products and services. Instead, they can use this software to simply share an image with the retailer.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Technology is taking us to a world where we never have to leave our homes. Rather than build a new warehouse or rely on tried-and-tested technologies for picking products off shelves, Target decided to try a “new breed of robots.”. Cohen owns a national distribution network and deals with some of the nation’s biggest retailers.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Regardless of the name, nonbank technology firms are wedging themselves between community banks and their customers by offering a slew of traditional and nontraditional banking products. The nonbank payment options PayPal, ApplePay, Google Wallet, Starbucks, Kickstarter and Square are household names. By Kelly Pike. Familiar and new.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

This is the percentage of all Merchant Link orders that are for EMV terminals — a transition, said Carcillo, that “has really taken off in the market segments we serve, in retail and hospitality.”. There’s a demographic push at work here, too, said Carcillo, which he defined as “millennial consumer groups.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2016

Thirteen years later, in 2016, American consumers now spend 46 minutes a day shopping, with women dedicating about 35 percent more of their day to retail pursuits than their male counterparts. That includes the two mobile giants who started this massive wave rolling to shore: Google with Android and Apple with its iOS-based mobile devices.

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