CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

In the face of an existential threat from e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Walmart ’s Jet.com , mall owners and real estate investment trusts with a core retail focus have explored private market investments in retail technology, e-commerce companies, and direct-to-consumer brands as a way of strengthening their core strategic business position.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 16, 2017

Since 2012, insurance-focused technology startups have raised over $7.1B across more than 600 deals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

It was a good day for Jumia Technologies on Friday (April 12) — and that’s a good signal about the future prospects of eCommerce in Africa, home to some 1.3 Founded in 2012, Jumia became the first African unicorn startup in 2016 after a $326 million funding round that included Goldman Sachs, AXA and MTN. billion, according to reports.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s all the fashion these days to battle it out online for more market share when it comes to selling clothes to consumers. This isn’t Amazon’s first attempt at breaking into the luxury fashion market – the retail giant originally tried in 2012, but was not successful. Part of the problem is the eCommerce brand’s image.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Retailers and brands regularly announced their intention to up their game — and provide those treasured consumer experiences instead of mere transactions. They are often derided as expensive PR and marketing pushes, or criticized for lack of a mission focused enough to produce real results. Lab Changes.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2020

But Walmart had some tech upgrades of its own to announce, and the company was the source of some of the week’s more interesting speculation as market watchers began to openly wonder if it could be the buyer that GrubHub may (or may not) be looking for. In the home alone, Amazon reported 100,000 smart home products from over 9,500 brands. “It

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Accenture

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

An obvious reason is the inroads they’re making into the market, both domestically and globally: recent Accenture research finds that digital-only banks operating in the UK could amass a total of 35 million customers globally within the next 12 months, up from 13 million today. Why the intense interest in the neo-challengers? Profitability.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

When Gap bought Athleta in 2008 for $150 million, the move didn’t cause much of a stir — beyond being considered a hedge play by the retailer against the exploding popularity of Canadian athleisure brand lululemon , which debuted its initial public offering (IPO) in 2007. We’re not like, ‘Oh, it’s all about millennials.’

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The move will give Aon access to the $200 billion digital insurance market in addition to the ability to use CoverWallet’s platform to create client-forward initiatives to help with the company’s overall growth strategy. Honey began in 2012 as a way for consumers to easily locate savings while shopping online.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The products are, of course, but the industry itself – particularly the segment of the market dedicated to the delivery of fresh-cut flowers – does not have a particularly inspiring environmental record. As Tabis noted, it can ensure and certify those standards using the power of technology.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. In 2012, 20 of Salzberg’s friends beta-tested the product,” the article stated. It won’t be something that you hear a lot of or get marketed to a lot. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

A company called Buy It Installed , which launched in 2012, is ready to help the less skilled consumer with the task. The company allows online and offline consumers to purchase products with installation included, and then uses connecting technology to facilitate the assembly with an installation service provider.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Back to 2012. According to Blue Apron’s own website and other reports , the story begins way back in the halcyon days of 2012. In 2012, 20 of Salzberg’s friends beta-tested the product,” the article stated. It won’t be something that you hear a lot of or get marketed to a lot. Social Media’s Role.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Since its founding in 2012, the firm has specifically distinguished itself in a crowded field of tech-based underwriters, with its focus on the consumer group it calls the “underbanked middle class.”. Avant’s consumer-facing product is devised as a digital alternative to that market. This is the bank’s product backed up by our brand.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

Thriving or just surviving in the omnichannel age means offering comprehensive in-store and online features that both engage customers and connect them with brands. That’s how we built a lot of our services, and really our brand, online.”. We want to drive customers to come back to us and interact with our brand,” Song said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

When Panera Bread first rolled out its mobile order-ahead service in 2012, the idea was to attract consumers wary of waiting in lines for service. Understanding customers and their needs has been crucial to devising mobile order-ahead efforts since 2012. “We Earlier this month, the St.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Market Roger Karner told Karen Webster for this week’s edition of the Monday Conversation, the lights turn themselves off. Karner noted that Signify has been into IoT and connected products since its early days: 2012, two years before Amazon Alexa’s release. That’s because, in the connected future, as Signify ’s CEO of the U.S.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2017

According to PYMNTS research, most brands in the QSR space are losing the innovation race. After debuting mobile order-ahead services in 2012 and overhauling them in 2014, national bakery-cafe chain Panera Bread has become one of the leaders in the race to innovate among QSRs. . Panera gives its customers a verbal order assist.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The October edition of the PYMNTS Unattended Retail Tracker™ highlights how the latest developments in unattended retail technology are disrupting the ways in which consumers use public transportation, shop for vehicles, pay for fast food and more. Unattended solutions invite big changes to commerce.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. In a 2012 interview, then-CEO Ken Powell reported that one in four trips to the grocery store included the purchase of at least one of its products.

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Independent Banker

AUGUST 31, 2015

Today’s advanced technology provides new ways for ATMs to deliver a secure, enhanced customer experience, lower costs and increased revenues. This can be achieved in a variety of ways, including on-screen marketing and advertising programs that educate users about new products and services, increasing brand awareness and sales.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2019

The news follows big next-day delivery announcements from both Walmart and Amazon — in a week where both retailers had a lot of news about repositioning themselves in the market and reporting some pretty major changes. Big Debate Of The Week: Did Amazon’s Estimated Online Market Share Just Drop? market share. Badly,” he wrote.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2018

That market, he told Webster, is appealing for a number of reasons – not the least of which is that Android has nine times the user base of Apple. Singolda noted that ZTE is a natural partner for Taboola, simply because of how quickly they are taking on the market. Taboola had a great technology, but a bad business model. “I

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

I know some marketers have had to peel away some dollars from media, [but] there’s still a big hole where sports used to be, and there are definitely some deals to be had.”. DTC brands grew up digital,” he noted. That lesson is particularly applicable to DTC brands. Fast-forward to COVID-19. million monthly unique visitors.

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William Mills

MARCH 27, 2018

William Mills Agency, the largest independent public relations and marketing firm specializing in the financial industry, announced today it has entered into a formal relationship with TrendKite to provide comprehensive reporting capability to clients. To see more about the agency’s use of TrendKite, visit [link]. About TrendKite.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

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. It was Alexa , not Siri — despite being a part of the iPhone experience since 2012 — that put voice on the map as a powerful consumer access channel.

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2016

MCX is the merchant consortia formed in August 2012 with the intention of creating a mobile-only, merchant-owned payments scheme that ran over the ACH rails. Some of the same merchants who were part of MCX also supported NFC technology – Apple Pay’s enabling technology.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

JUNE 3, 2016

I’m in Frankfurt for the annual PayComm MEETS Europe, my chance to catch up with practitioners from the continental card markets. It’s really hard to keep up with all of the change in the market, driven primarily because of the regulation rather than new technology. From e-Commerce – Digital Agenda Assembly 2012 ].

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2017

JH: Three former college friends of mine, Dennis Liu, Jonathan Wu and Steven Ou, and I created Touch of Modern in 2012, and we all are still part of the company today. Customers come to us because they want us to do the heavy lifting for them to research new products that are differentiated in some way either through technology or design.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Providers like SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce are racing to offer the best products on the market and capture a greater share of corporate technology spending. 10/12/2012. The global software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry is estimated projected to reach $75B+ by 2020. 3/23/2018. Acquired by SAP. 11/11/2018. 10/26/2018.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2017

But it doesn’t have to be a video game system, as Mastercard’s head of market insights, Sarah Quinlan, told PYMNTS in a recent interview about the holiday shopping trends driving 2017 — anything powered by electricity is probably a fairly good bet. Kids don’t want toys,” she told Karen Webster.

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Jeff For Banks

OCTOBER 29, 2016

I recently mentioned to a community bank management team that community financial institutions are slower to close branches because their decision making goes beyond the spreadsheet and market potential. So they worry about other things that go beyond the fact that their branch in that market has little chance of being profitable.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2017

OL: Ronen Morecki and I founded Zooz in 2010 and launched the company in 2012. Waves is the world’s leading developer and supplier of software-based audio signal processing tools for the professional, broadcast and consumer electronics markets. PYMNTS: Can you give the history on the founding and launch of the company?

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Jeff For Banks

MAY 31, 2017

I read a recent interview of Members 1st Credit Union CEO Bob Marquette by S&P Global Market Intelligence (link requires subscription). In Brett King's 2012 book, Branch Today, Gone Tomorrow , he called for a 50% reduction in branches while asking what would banking look like in 2015. But perhaps it would've been nine in 2012.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Date: March 21, 2012. Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, Date: 2012. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pandemic has also accelerated recent trends in banking, especially among the millennial demographic, which tends to favor digital banking and online brands over traditional banks. Tech companies are chipping away at the traditional bank’s market share. get the full 45-page disrupting investment banking report. Investment banking.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2016

But what if the truly ugly face of in-store retail’s discounting dependency could be found on the shelves of one of America’s largest brands? “The great ‘value strategy’ charade is that retailers actually believe discounting to be a whole new market for them,” Lewis explained.

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