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Greyhound Drives Omnichannel Security With AI, Advanced Learning Tools

PYMNTS

Greyhound, which United Kingdom-based FirstGroup purchased in 2007, serves more than 16 million riders each year across the U.S. The firm completed the first phase of its transformation in 2014, allowing it to use real-time analytics and IT tools to create dynamic pricing models and enable online and mobile app transactions.

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Visa Gauges Contactless Payments Progress 10 Years After Its Introduction

PYMNTS

say they have used contactless card technology to make a payment since the technology was first launched in September 2007. Unsurprisingly, millennial consumers are driving this trend. The credit card company’s annual Digital Payments report, released Friday (Sept. More than a third of U.K.

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Why Macy’s Is Where Martha Stewart Wants To Be

PYMNTS

Why shop at a department store when there’s an online marketplace where the same goods can be found for less money? The company has also shifted its focus to online sales and seen those figures climb consistently over the last year and half — although those digital sales do tend toward the lower margin.

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For eCommerce Content, It’s Experiences Over Speed

PYMNTS

Online luxury marketplace 1stdibs stands as an example of that kind of content, along with providing — as do some other companies — a demonstration of the appeal of both digital and physical forms of content to tie consumers to a brand or ecosystem. billion in 2007. In a discussion with PYMNTS on Wednesday (Feb.

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From Online to Mobile to Mobile-Only

Banking 2020

For everyone from lazy millennials in the suburbs to disadvantaged denizens in under-developed regions, this is a game-changer. M-Pesa, the mobile-phone based money transfer and micro-financing service launched in 2007 took less than three years to become the most successful mobile phone-based financial service in the developing world.

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Physical Retail Isn’t Dead – The Physical Store Model Is

PYMNTS

That’s because they’ve trained consumers over the last half decade that walking into a store isn’t as nearly as satisfying or productive an experience as shopping online—and not necessarily from those same traditional players. population was online. It would take another 12 years – until 2007 – for half of the U.S.

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Bankers and Strategic Bets. A Slow Embrace.

Jeff For Banks

How do we balance strategic direction, customer demand, and the futurist or wildly over-caffeinated millennial that tells us we have to implement every shiny new object or we'll die? Sticking with the Apple theme, in 2007, they launched the iPhone. Maybe those millennial futurists don't remember this. Online book stores.

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