PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Don’t look now, but retailers and commerce are getting more visual with reality. the company that owns popular social media video platform Snapchat, to provide 5G content for users, including enhanced augmented reality (AR) experiences. Recently, Verizon announced that it’s partnering with Snap Inc.,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2018

The eCommerce retailer invested $22.6 Here’s how these companies are investing in R&D — and ushering in the next generation of retail technology. Facebook recently made a play to up its P2P payments cred as other social media and messaging services break into the space. Amazon spent the most on R&D by far.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

It also created an Instagram-like social media platform through which celebrities can recommend products. competes with large eCommerce retailers such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Another fashion retailer focused on women, Meilishuo , is reportedly eyeing an U.S. Xiaohongshu, which is backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Retail chain Destination Maternity reportedly filed for bankruptcy on Monday (Oct. According to CNBC , the retailer is “buckling under the weight of an onerous debt load and struggling to compete with better capitalized competition.” The company owns 458 stores in the U.S., billion in 2013, representing a 2.10 Larger Trends.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

But, in the narrow context of Q2 and the retail world, it is pretty hard to argue against it. And the boats – the retailers themselves – have been buoyed by the tide. Walmart , Target , Macy’s , Urban Outfitters , Nordstrom – the stores change, but the general drumbeat has been largely the same in retail in 2018.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

years in 2013, according to a recent estimate. Among the most anticipated are IPOs that will impact the mobility-as-a-service and ride-hailing ecosystems, social media, and data analytics. years in 2017, up from 6.9 There is no guarantee any of them will happen, of course, though some seem much more likely than others.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2017

From pioneering the infinite social News Feed to breaking down consumers’ psychological barriers around privacy to driving politics and news (and fake news), there’s no denying that Facebook has transformed the virtual world, for better or for worse. The physical world? Not so much, though not for lack of trying.

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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. 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

JANUARY 8, 2018

According to the PYMNTS/USA Technology Unattended Retail tracker, there will be 3.6 People who [had] never had caviar in their life [before] ended up buying it from the machine, filming it and sharing it on social media.”. But vending machines are branching out in big ways and getting more high tech. On-Demand Design.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A lifestyle brand for millennial buyers with an eye for design – but perhaps not the pocketbook for designer prices – the watch and accessories startup MVMT started on its path in 2013. After doing some research on suppliers, the duo found quite a staggering gap between wholesale and retail prices in watch brands.

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Celent Banking

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Thanks to the mBank’s business achievements and potential of the brand as first and the biggest internet bank in Poland, BRE Bank Group decided in 2013 to change company name to mBank. Rather than copying other financial institutions, mBank sought to deliver a best-in-class digital experience inspired from the world’s best retailers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

To kick off this week’s Grocery Tracker, a reminder that brick-and-mortar is still kicking in certain retail aspects, even as 2017 grows closer. For example, an NDP Group study found that, while half of consumers in 2013 were unaware of GMOs, that percentage has declined to a little more than a third.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 28, 2019

According to Johnson, their average customer is between the ages of 24 and 32 and is an avid social media user, particularly Instagram. At the time [2013], ‘influencer’ wasn’t a thing, but I was trying to create this online persona,” Calveiro said. She’s going to weddings,” she said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. BMO on Taking a Digital-First Approach to Retail Banking. eCommerce promises to bring more subscription services as well as retail into our daily lives. It’s not just food, cosmetics or streaming media that will drive this.

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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 Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.

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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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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction. The tactic worked – in 2013, Gentle Monster’s oversized glasses were used to portray the main character of a huge Korean drama show. These striking designs paid for themselves in media exposure. months, including an annual operating cost.

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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

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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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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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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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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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 15, 2014

There’s no question that wearable technology could explode in 2015, but we could (and many did) say the same thing about 2014, and perhaps about 2013. Similarly, SAP recently launched a partnership with consumer electronics giant Samsung to build on wearable devices for retail and other markets. That nuance is vital.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Catania pointed to millennials being the third biggest generational spender in 2013, surpassing the Gen Xers and baby boomers just three years later. As for boomers, Marsal pointed out one study that found that baby boomers are the generation that is most likely to be wary of social media because of privacy concerns.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

When I use my cellphone, I am unaware of what is allowing me to send videos or post comments on social media. There are a number of participants who want to get involved once we launch the site, and I am expecting more participants on the redemption side from sectors such as retail and hospitality. What drew you to that?

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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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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

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report. Founded: 2012.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Continued investment in retail initiatives such as Amazon Web Services (for retail, naturally), higher shipping costs (consumer want it NOW), web programming and a host of other initiatives, none of which are surprising. The company has racked up net losses since going public in 2013, though they have narrowed each quarter this year.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 15, 2016

In addition to being mobile-only, imaginBank is social media friendly, as well. The bank won the 2011 and 2013 Banking Innovation Awards from the Bank Administration Institution, and was recognized as “World’s Best Retail Bank for Technology Innovation” by Euromoney magazine in 2013 and 2014.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JANUARY 19, 2016

And with the Revolut app, users can make instant money transfers through SMS, social media, and email make instant money – all without fees or a bank intermediary. Top 5 most popular retailers with the Revolut community (based on transactions). The app is available for download at the Apple App Store and at Google Play.

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CB Insights

APRIL 10, 2019

From creating checkout-free retail stores to eliminating concert tickets, here are 16 industries that are starting to transform with facial recognition technology. Linking facial recognition to personalization for shoppers presents a big opportunity in retail. Social Media/Entertainment. Law Enforcement.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Until 1939 that is, when the last Thursday in November fell on the 30th and retailers flooded President Franklin Delano Roosevlents office and begged him to consider moving the date. There was the small matter of a raging depression — and retailers argued that the shortened shopping season could do them in. The Sky Is Falling .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

The Ad Age story notes that it will also be supported by TV advertising, social media efforts and a summer-long “experiential” tour. The app will also allow users to record a 15-second “digital lip-sync video” that can be shared on social media using the hashtag #ShareaCoke, the brand told Ad Age.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Though the outage lasted approximately 20 minutes, it was still enough time for consumers to flood social media with reactions and rants. With the exception of a single tweet from Amazon’s Spanish-language helpdesk clarifying to a customer that they were working on the problem, the retailer kept mum.

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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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