PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2018

Monica + Andy, which launched in 2014, started out with their “Cuddle Box” product: a hand-wrapped gift box that includes an organic blanket (in cotton or muslin) and a range of organic newborn essentials. The brand has expanded in both its digital and physical presence, boasting 250 percent year-over-year growth.

Boston 101

Boston Branding Innovation Online 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Same Day ACH has been a focus for banks since it was proposed in early 2014. It’s providing an enhanced service that everybody is already familiar with, it’s not a brand new payments system where people have to figure out, ‘How do I use this? Now, it’s coming to life. Phase 1 of the Faster Payments initiative launches on Sept.

Boston 100

Boston Fraud Strategy Payments 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

The new app is powered by LevelUp , a mobile payments platform created by Boston startup SCVNGR and the force behind PYMNTS’ mobile order-ahead tracker. The healthy fast-casual restaurant launched a custom mobile payment and loyalty app with LevelUp in early 2014 to cater to its active, on-the-go customers.

social media 109

social media Mobile Boston Payments 109

PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2018

Everyone remembers the snowpocalypse that wasn’t in March 2014, when weathermen warned New Yorkers to prepare for a winter storm straight out of the movie The Day After Tomorrow only to have that end-of-the-world weather turn out to be seven inches of gently falling snow. It also seems comfort food had a good day on the whole.

Boston 101

Boston Florida New York South Carolina 101

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. million, and $1 million more than the cost to air a commercial during the 2014 Super Bowl. The two brands first started working together in 2015. We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth! Go Pats!

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. 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. population had a phone in their homes.

Google 190

Google Branding System Apple 190

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Open since 2014, it is one of two northern California hubs — the other being located about an hour up the road in San Francisco.

Retail 100

Retail San Francisco California Minneapolis 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The concept comes with interactive walls and follows similar moves by sporting or other fashion brands. Lancome, as it stands, is one of the largest brands of L’Oreal, the French cosmetics group. Beauty companies are also acquiring other brands. Have & Be also owns Do The Right Thing, a men’s grooming brand.

Branding 132

Branding Retail New York Miami 132

PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2017

The Boston-based furniture and home goods retailers saw it stock price shoot up 20 percent to an all time high as earnings reports clocked in stronger than expected. We feel confident that we have built a category-leading retail brand that is exceptionally well positioned for long term growth.”. in August 2015. million, up from $41.2

Retail 100

Retail Boston America Management 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Founded: 2014. Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Founded: 2014. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA). Cardinal Health — Fuse. Founded: 2015.

Innovation 73

Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Good luck with that. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. And therein lies the rub. And the Pays still haven’t. 25-31, 2020.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. In 2014, Facebook began to do something about it.

Google 100

Google Mobile Branding Apple 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Boston-based venture Flywire was started seven years ago to enable these high value, low transaction volume payments via any payment method to be sent by these families anywhere in the world. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments.

Lending 100

Lending Apple Cards Study 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. One of those is Uber Eats , which launched in 2014. In 2016, Uber launched Local Offers with Visa , and in 2017, it launched the Uber co-branded Visa card issued by Barclays. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem. Fleets As The Fuel.

Innovation 146

Innovation Cards Payments San Francisco 146

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. HQ: Boston. Below is a ranked list of the 17 challenger business credit cards currently active in the United States. NEW : Looking for digital banks, lenders or insurance companies serving small businesses?

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two have been acquired by large banks, but they will stay on this list as long as they are operated as an independent brand. HQ: Boston. Below is a ranked list of the 17 challenger business credit cards currently active in the United States. NEW : Looking for digital banks, lenders or insurance companies serving small businesses?

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The move, according to CVS CEO Larry Merlo, will change the face of the CVS brand going forward, as it moves to take a more active and avid approach to influencing better health outcomes while at the same time reducing healthcare costs across the board. Merlos called out CVS’s 2014 $2.1

Apple 131

Apple United States Boston Branding 131

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

” For example, the rise of “athleisure” brands like Lululemon and Athleta has been attributed to millennials’ search for clothing options that let them easily transition from the yoga studio to the office. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

Uber does not publish user stats, but I saw a story that quoted 8 million user accounts (as of July 2014), without being specific as to whether that was only U.S. WeChat users can play games (and they apparently play a lot of them – accounting for $420 million in revenue in 2014), buy tickets and book and pay for taxi rides.

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Gupta later called Shah in 2014 to introduce him to the CARMERA concept. Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition. Algolia has now passed $10M in ARR and achieved “140% net negative churn and amazing brand awareness.”.

Security 34

Security Capital Software Data 34

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008. Things went off the rails, not surprisingly, in 2008 — courtesy of the financial crisis. Economists don’t think so.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Goldman Sachs is reportedly preparing to launch a digital wealth product, potentially in the form of a robo-advisor, under the Marcus brand, which has previously focused on high interest savings accounts and personal loans. In 2009, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley made almost $100B from trading alone.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle!

New York 100

New York Lending Cards Retail 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

That’s also like saying the average winter temperature in Boston is 37 degrees. Not wanting their digital futures to be tied to third party-branded wallets, retailers set off to develop their own mobile wallet solution – MCX/CurrentC – which turned out to be a complete dud. . Then, the retailers distracted themselves.

Retail 90

Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. There’s no question that the world’s weather patterns are undergoing a massive change. I saved the best for last — Apple and Apple Pay.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2014, the Grand Bazaar was named the world’s No. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. Search, once the online gateway for consumers and brands to discover each other, now holds short shrift to Amazon, where 60 percent of consumers now say they start their searches for what to buy.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2014, the Grand Bazaar was named the world’s No. Fewer buyers means that brands no longer find those outlets useful for distribution. Search, once the online gateway for consumers and brands to discover each other, now holds short shrift to Amazon, where 60 percent of consumers now say they start their searches for what to buy.

Online 112

Online Google Branding Retail 112