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. Take PayPal, for example. And therein lies the rub. 25-31, 2020.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

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. Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). HQ: Boston. Related: Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (August 2021).

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. Check out our latest lists: SMB online lenders (33) | SMB challenger banks (12) | SMB insurers (15). HQ: Boston. Related: Top 15 Online Digital Corporate Credit Cards for Small Businesses (August 2021).

Cards 15

Cards Online Utah Austin 15

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. The online home goods retailer also beat out earnings per share estimates by $0.10, posting a loss of $0.48 Wayfair, went public in late 2014 and has 5,700 employees.

Retail 100

Retail Boston America Management 100

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

APRIL 18, 2016

1 source of online fraud. 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. Remember ZeuS ?

Google 100

Google Mobile Branding Apple 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Notable projects: The Mayo Clinic OB Nest explores ways for women with low-risk pregnancies to reduce the number of their in-person doctor visits through a combination of dedicated nurses, a special online community, and in-home monitoring. Founded: 2014. Founded: 2014. Cardinal Health — Fuse. Founded: 2015.

Innovation 73

Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

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. Online Lending.

Lending 100

Lending Apple Cards Study 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Uber rode the tailwinds of smartphone adoption, app stores, well-developed technologies like GPS and (at launch) well-established mapping software provided by Google to blend the online and offline worlds around a consumer experience that before lacked certainty and reliability. One of those is Uber Eats , which launched in 2014.

Innovation 146

Innovation Cards Payments San Francisco 146

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. They want to look at their device and know the balance and pay a bill in real-time, rather than input it online.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

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

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

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. While it was easy to chalk things up then to the financial crisis and the consumer spending hangover that resulted, we dug deeper and discovered the enormous shifts in buying online from physical stores that had been underway.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

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

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

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

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. THE MOVE FROM PHYSICAL TO ONLINE TO MOBILE. Consumers are increasingly moving their shopping and buying not only online, but online via the mobile devices. Something that most online retailers don’t have – or even come close to having.

Retail 90

Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the middle market (deals worth between $10M to $1B in value), private, online networks and SaaS tools are giving smaller company executives and brokers the ability to conduct M&A transactions on their own more quickly and far more affordably. Even some big companies are opting to go it alone when it comes to mergers & acquisitions.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

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

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. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later. 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