PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

What about retail stores, restaurants and hotels? Technology is making it easier for the workforce to put in the daily eight (or 10, or 12) hours from their own homes, but another change is taking place: Using commercial space left behind by retailers, or in eateries or hotels, as communal areas of work. WeWork Efforts.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Traditional retail is getting an upgrade. Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Cashier-less technology is one of the latest trends to dominate conversation.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It’s the big stage for retailers, the holiday shopping season – when all the consumer world is watching (and, merchants and payments providers hope, buying more than they did last year). And let these bad memories of holidays past guide you in the coming weeks to ensure that your retail and payments machine is running in top condition.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

CEO since 2013, Siegel will continue to lead the company following the acquisition. Morgan’s retail division, according to the CNBC report. Todd Siegel , CEO of cxLoyalty Group Holdings, said in a statement that the transaction is “compelling” and will benefit all of the company’s stakeholders. They will report to Lake.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In an email to merchants, the company said the reason is a change in retail strategy, and the site will merge with SpeedLvn, which retails products sold at Lotte’s physical stores. The move is indicative of the trend toward “new retail,” which is the blending of eCommerce and traditional retail.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 29, 2020

According to Mastercard ’s SpendingPulse transactional analysis, total retail spending for 2020’s 75 days of Christmas was up 3 percent, and eCommerce sales were up 49 percent — good for the stay-at-home economy and tough sledding for department stores. For Mastercard, the story behind the numbers is told by special adviser Steve Sadove.

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PYMNTS

MAY 16, 2016

The retail sector in the region grew by 209 percent from $4.4 Others, including the Confederation of Indian Industry and reporting firm Deloitte, predict the online retail sector in India will reach $1 trillion by 2020. But technology-led companies simply go bust. billion in 2010 to $13.6

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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. Amazon spent the most on R&D by far. billion in R&D in 2017, which was 41 percent more than it did in 2016. Amazon spent $22.6 billion in R&D in 2017.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 1, 2019

This is up from 35% in 2017, and way up from 18% in 2013, according to Financial Technology Partners’ 2018 Annual Fintech Almanac. Strategic participation in fintech climbed in 2018, with 41% of all fintech financings containing either a corporate VC or strategic investor.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Don’t look now, but retailers and commerce are getting more visual with reality. Our strategy is to partner with the best brands to ensure our customers have exclusive access to cutting edge technology and services. Recently, Verizon announced that it’s partnering with Snap Inc.,

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

21) that its acquisition of a virtual provider of similar plans will accelerate its omnichannel growth strategy and make its alternative financing method available to more retail partners and more credit-constrained customers. For its part, Acima has been playing — and growing — in the lease to own (LTO) market since 2013.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The delivery window has not been so protracted since 2013, and back then, eCommerce spending wasn’t nearly as popular as it is today. In Q4 of 2013, Amazon had revenue of $26 billion. Many of the logistics providers say they are prepared for the shorter season and that they have advanced far beyond the capabilities of 2013.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2019

8) that his office, as well as 42 other state attorney generals, have settled with Neiman Marcus over a 2013 breach of customer payment card data at 77 of the retailer’s stores. The Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh announced Tuesday (Jan. In a press release , the Maryland AG said Neiman Marcus agreed to pay $1.5

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2020

The financial technology company is regarded for helping to make trading in vogue with millennials, Reuters reported. “We Robinhood was at the heart of a recent increase in day trading, with retail investors stuck in their residences because of pandemic restrictions.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Grocery retailer Kroger is partnering with Berlin farming startup Infarm to offer “living produce farms,” Kroger announced in a press release on Tuesday (Nov. market, but it already has more than 500 farms globally and has teamed with 25 major food retailers in the U.K. This is the vertical farming company’s first venture into the U.S.

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Celent Banking

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The much-anticipated technology went public earlier this year, and the industry is already abuzz about specific applications. In October 2013, Banco Sabadell in Spain became one of the first banks to create a retail app that allowed users to locate the nearest ATM, check account balances, and use video conferencing for technical support.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2018

Providing Curbside with resources to grow its platform globally, Rakuten has acquired the mobile ordering technology company. The deal’s terms were not made public, retail news source Chain Store Age reported. Established in 2013, Curbside’s technology uses predictive arrival to help with order fulfillment.

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Banking 2020

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Here’s a perfect a snapshot of how crazy technology adoption can be. In early December, there was a flood of coverage of wearable technology, mostly focused on how 2015 will be the breakout year. Of course, while most such shows analyze the past, technology forces us to look forward, hence the nuanced approach.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

to $0.25), which will help offset the cost of technology investments that have been tied to initiatives such as the voice-activated features with Alexa, which were unveiled in mid-2017, and Easy Orders, which debuted in 2013.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

According to a report in CNBC , citing the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, mobile phone shipments were 14.51 Nevertheless, demand this February was worse than in years past, with the news report saying this shipment rate hasn’t been seen since at least 2013. Smartphone shipments came in at 13.8

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2016

And according the the Atlanta-based building supplies retailer, that flaw is putting both customers and retailers at risk. It’s the latest large retailer to raise the security concerns, with a lawsuit filed this week in U.S. Retailers pay more on signature transactions than they do for PIN payments — roughly $.05

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

In 2013, the U.S. Meanwhile, the next stage of parking kiosk technology appears to be underway in Spain. The brand-new Kiosk & Retail Report: Parking Edition examines how the parking kiosk market has changed in more than 80 years. In the U.S., demand for parking kiosks has grown. imported 223,000 kiosks. percent per year.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The new 5G mobile network technology is getting its first deployments, but that’s not the only communications game in town. A technology that tracks lost scooters people rent could play a role in the coming years in digital retail and payments, at least going by recent reports. Telco Alternative.

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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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Payments Source

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Despite what we assume are dedicated efforts to protect customer’s personal information, hackers are finding the loopholes in businesses’ process and technology data protection life cycle. It happened with Target in 2013, the Home Depot in 2014, and many others since, writes Todd Feinman, co-founder and chief product officer of Spirion.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2019

JD.com, one of the biggest eCommerce retailers in China, has teamed up with Google to launch a store on Google Express, according to a report by Reuters. . Google Express was launched in 2013 in a direct challenge to Amazon, in a bid for advertising revenue.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Banks will be able to offer the new solutions directly to their own customers or use Raisin’s platform to reach all potential retail consumers. This new technological solution means helping U.S. Raisin , which is backed by PayPal, was founded in Berlin in 2013 and has raised about $200 million in funding from investors.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2019

As 5G deployments start, the people who run hospitals and medical offices, along with companies that supply healthcare devices and payment services, are starting to figure out what the quicker speed and other features of the new mobile network technology will do for them. percent until 2013. 5G and Hospitals.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2017

One of the global trends that started in 2013 and remains popular today is physically tracking consumers in brick-and-mortar stores and then selling that data to retailers. With GPS technology in nearly every cell phone, it’s near impossible to not gain insight into consumer actions via their geo locations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Online auto retailer Vroom has announced a $146 million Series G funding round led by AutoNation. Launched in 2013, Vroom offers customers who buy a car off the platform seven days to test drive the vehicle after delivery, and allows for them to return it if they are not fully satisfied.

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Payments Source

APRIL 1, 2016

s relaunch of its online payments business in 2013 was greeted with skepticism. Amazon.com Inc.'s PayPal Holdings Inc. had a huge head start and credit card companies like Visa Inc. already had products that made buying something on the Web as easy as swiping a card.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2018

It’s why it’s surprising that sloppy data security hygiene and well-placed bad actors are a bigger security threat to the next generation than hacking technology. 500 billion: The approximate value of transactions processed by Braintree since being acquired by PayPal in 2013.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Artificial intelligence has started — slowly — to make its presence felt in payments and commerce, including in fraud prevention, via early deployments of the technology and cutting-edge AI algorithms. The race to get ahead on the technology is now gaining clarity as well. The 158-page WIPO study found that U.S. AI Payments Growth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2018

Between 2013 and 2016, the food and beverage segment of the kiosk market’s revenue increased by 8.4 Other revelations in the PYMNTS Kiosk and Retail Report, Food and Beverage Edition, include: More than $1 billion worth of kiosks were ordered in 2015. And it only appears to be growing. contact-form-7] About the Report.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2016

If you look closely enough, it can seem as if online retailers are stuck in a kind of moth-to-the-flame dance with the consumers that fueled their rise. As merchants entice shoppers with promises of free or low-cost express delivery, those shoppers get hooked on the promise and demand it of every retailer they visit.

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Retail Course Online Innovation 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 11, 2016

Professors at the University of Leicester in England studied nearly 12 million shopping trips from 2013 to 2015 in the U.S., The National Retail Federation estimated that about $17 billion in lost sales was connected to shoplifting in 2015.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

As the world — and the world of payment and commerce — ready themselves for the deployment of 5G mobile technology, the healthcare industry is anticipating the likely changes, some of which will involve wearables and billing. retailers, according to Adobe Digital Insights. percent until 2013. percent until 2013.

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Payments Mobile Technology User Experience 158