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. percent of its loans, down from 49 percent in 2013 – citing that validating income wasn’t essential to making a lending decision. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The latest iteration in the battle for gamer love will look familiar to those who were there for the last round in 2013 (or the round before that in 2006). Tech specs will be held up head to head, game catalogs will be scrutinized and compared and fans of one system or the other will insult each other on social media.

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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 So that faint whooshing sound you’re hearing?” And the proof is in the sales numbers pudding.”.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2017

Founded in 2013, Clarifai utilizes neural networks and provides customers with an image and video recognition API. On retailers’ websites, Clarifai’s image recognition API can help brands categorize and upload new products more quickly. “We We built what we call domain models,” Zeiler said. “We

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Since 2013, fitness tech exits have steadily increased, following a similar trajectory to overall deals and funding to the space. The fitness industry has seen 98 total M&As and IPOs since 2013, with 2017 already seeing 15 exits in the space. Using CB Insights data, we analyzed first exits in fitness tech since 2013.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2017

Travel companies have historically been some of the worst offenders for drip pricing, a technique used by online retailers whereby a headline price is advertised at the beginning of the purchase process, and additional fees — such as card surcharges — that are added later in the process to inflate the final cost.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2016

While there is some concern from investors that advertising sales are the sole source of revenue (hence the “mostly”), Snapchat’s great Snapbot unattended retail experiment shows that the social media company may have a few more revenue tricks up its digital sleeve. Resolution: Study up. . Oh, chatbots.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

With 12 words, one photo and a tweet, Nike has managed to capture the news cycle this week – and much of the market’s interest. For an example of a miss in the age of social media, there is Nationwide’s infamous Super Bowl commercial of 2015. But more than the media it put out, Dove also invested in its cause.

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Select investors : Amazon, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Bowman Capital Management LLC. But despite the popularity of its sock puppet mascot, the online pet supplies retailer went out of business just 9 months after its Super Bowl ad, doomed by an untenable business model and the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Powa Technologies.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 16, 2016

PYMNTS’ Karen Webster recently caught up with Chris Britt, co-founder and CEO of Chime, a mobile-first digital bank account founded in 2013, which, by his own account, is seeing notable success in the space, to discuss the endeavor and how meeting expectations for their roughly 120,000 customers is a key part of the company’s business plan.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Smarter Store: How AI is Powering the Future of Retail. We dive into the AI startups and use cases making the biggest impact in retail, looking at investments, patents, and the store of the future. D2C brands shun physical retail. Retail & Virtual Merchandising. Social media accelerates that cycle.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The Fed yesterday announced the formation of its Payments Security task force and has launched an online survey to collect comments on payment identity management, and data protection. The latest earnings report was not quite a total disaster either — Twitter did manage to beat expectations — but the the layoffs have come — and in force.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Now why, you might ask, would the biggest retailer in the world buy an eCommerce site that was facing a mega cash crunch in December and had to raise a whopping $550M just to keep the lights on? We said this in December 2013 when Target was hacked and every other time every other POS was hacked too. Unencrypted POS Data.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

in 2018, up from less than $2B in 2013. Social media is also helping campers discover new places to visit, then share their experiences with others: 30% of millennials said that they picked a camping spot after seeing someone else go there. Allie Aguilera, Policy and Government Affairs Manager, Young Invincibles.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Declared Bankruptcy: 2013. Coda Automotive sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections in May 2013, and announced it was restructuring its business as a battery technology company. Founded by Jane Park in Seattle in 2007, beauty brand Julep quickly grew from a scrappy startup to a major omnichannel retail operation. Founded: 2009.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 15, 2016

imaginBank users can also use CaixaBank ATMs for transactions and to manage their accounts. In addition to being mobile-only, imaginBank is social media friendly, as well. The mobile app for imaginBank is available as a free download from Google Play (Android) or from the Apple App Store (iOS).

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Retail: Shopping goes even more online as grocery joins the e-commerce revolution. Now, with experts stressing the importance of rapid testing and tracking in managing the Covid-19 crisis, wearables and other health monitoring tech that enable diagnostics are taking center stage. Remote learning technology. 3D printing. Online grocery.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2015

No one has been more successful at using social media to generate awareness and a positive image for their bank than Jill (@JillCastilla, @CitizensEdmond). Jill’s use of Twitter is a model for any bank CEO looking to engage on social media. Bank project management offices. Vendor management. “I

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CB Insights

APRIL 26, 2018

Furthermore, many of BAT’s AI products — like smart speakers, AI in retail, and autonomous vehicles — are similar to what FAMGA (Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Apple) is working on. City Brain crunches data from cameras, sensors, social media feeds, and government data, among other things.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

New Frontiers in Retail Tech. Download this research briefing to see how corporates and startups are shaping the future of retail with tech. They don’t need to rely on traditional retail stores for exposure. They’re competing more efficiently by rethinking not just the product, but also the retail model.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2013, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer saw an opportunity in Nokia, a Finnish phone company that was losing ground to competitors. Date: May 20, 2013. On the eve of Yahoo’s acquisition of social networking platform Tumblr, then Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a Tumblr post promising “not to screw it up.” Yahoo and Tumblr.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

After an initial $8M investment in WhatsApp’s Series A in April 2011, Sequoia put in an additional $52M in July 2013. It wouldn’t be until almost exactly one year later that investors really started flocking to the early social media startup. WhatsApp funding & valuation. Acquisition. Amount invested. $8M.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Facebook Phone, Facebook (2013). Google Glass, Google (2013-2014). Satisfries, Burger King (2013). Astro Pants, Lululemon (2013). It was reportedly lemon lime flavored and astoundingly managed to stay in production until 2008 when it was discontinued in the US. State of Innovation Report. Dreamcast, Sega (1999).

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. To build a successful personal finance management tool, it’s important to understand the dynamics of user acquisition and growth. In aggregate, they command $1.3 trillion in annual spending. The secrets of user growth.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Data and Analytics are a profit center rather than something that just needs to be managed. Demo: A Wealth Management Company (ACME)– GoodData can embed analytics directly in ACME’s dashboard. Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Back in 2013 this was their company stats: HQ Location: Charlotte, NC.

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Fintech Labs Insights

OCTOBER 16, 2016

The agreement enables consumers to make transactions of up to £30 ($36.60) at 400,000 retail locations. For more expensive purchases, Vodafone Pay users can use their Vodafone wallet (launched in 2013), which requires a PIN. Acting on a partnership it first initiated in February , PayPal partnered with Vodafone to enable U.K.

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