PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Kate Rettker, senior marketing manager and manager of the Protein Bar’s mobile order-ahead process, said the company has tweaked its app design to feature more distinct pops of color and better menu functionality, including adding photography. But the Protein Bar’s relationship with LevelUp goes back further than that.

social media 109

social media Mobile Boston Payments 109

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. They get completely annihilated when they are wrong,” Active Alts’ Brad Lamensdorf, portfolio manager of the SQZZ ETF, said in a phone interview with CNBC.

Retail 100

Retail Boston America Management 100

Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

While other sectors attract more mainstream press attention (payment, retail banking), the asset management industry is also deeply affected by “software eating the world” Asset Class Competition. Traditional asset management companies are increasingly facing competition on both sides of the performance scale.

Industry 42

Industry Management Innovation Analysis 42

PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

A 2014 study by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management found that’s the case, revealing evidence to support that seven-second rule of thumb. The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston. An earlier version was opened at an MIT cafeteria.

Innovation 105

Innovation Study Google Survey 105

CFPB Monitor

AUGUST 22, 2016

Lynn Drysdale, Managing Attorney, Consumer Law Unit, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc., Retail Bank, Citibank, New York, NY. Arjan Schutte, Founder and Managing Partner, Core Innovation Capital, Los Angeles, CA. Chi Chi Wu, Staff Attorney, National Consumer Law Center, Boston, MA. Jacksonville, FL. Ian Ayres, William K.

San Antonio 60

San Antonio Kansas City Groups CA 60

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. percent of all retail sales to 6.4 I joked that I’d be a shoo-in for the job.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

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.

Community Bank 70

Community Bank Community Operations Retail 70

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

GG: In July 2014, our cofounder, James Riel, was out at a bar when his phone died. For example, we have shareable smartphone chargers in 16 bars in restaurants in Boston Logan Airport. Airmall, the concessions management company, pays Oomf to make shareable portable chargers available at no cost for airport guests.

Boston 127

Boston Software Marketing Examples 127

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. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP. Is Mobile Fully Catching On?

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. Task management platform Asana went public via DPO in September 2020.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

I never did get the answer to what I thought was a simple question on Saturday afternoon: “What’s the weather going to be on Monday, April 18, for the Boston Marathon?” In 2014, Facebook began to do something about it. Amazon, all by itself, is the No.

Google 100

Google Mobile Branding Apple 100

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Merlos called out CVS’s 2014 $2.1 billion acquisition of Coram, a retail pharmacy chain that specializes in infusion services in home-based and outpatient settings. Currently it serves nearly 45,000 patients annually, from more than 90 locations nationwide including retail infusion sites and five CVS Pharmacies.

Apple 131

Apple United States Boston Branding 131

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. After a high of 614,024 SMB openings in 2014, the Census reported that only 452,835 firms were started in the U.S.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2016

As for the chatbots of today, he managed to sum of up the two-thirds of the Festivus grievance that consumers everywhere have been logging all year: “Overhyped and underpowered.”. Add that last third Karen Webster managed to catch in her article about the stalling bot revolution: kind of annoying. To: consumers. From: mobile wallets.

Mobile 100

Mobile Course Cards Apple 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But the most effective strategy for getting credentials registered was the launch in 2014 of its digital P2P scheme: Red Envelopes. WeChat’s decision to create a separate mobile wallet to store consumer credentials that also exposed an API for any other app to grab made it easy for retail and commerce apps to live inside of the ecosystem.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

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! Our Fizzle/Sizzle picks for the week.

New York 100

New York Lending Cards Retail 100

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

Managing money that doesn’t go as far — when it’s not tied up in debt payments — hugely affects how millennials budget and spend. GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. By 2016, that number had fallen to $155.5B.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

. “The general consensus of the employee base is that there was mismanagement of finances,” said one former company executive… The day after the shutdown announcement, one Mode manager of an overseas office described receiving frantic emails from headquarters requesting immediate transfer of all funds and assets back to the US.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2014 Second Update (9/24/2014). 2014 First Update (6/3/2014). Original 50 Startup Failure Post-Mortems (1/20/2014). Background: Pearl was founded in 2014 by three ex-Apple iPod engineers, and hired dozens of other ex-Apple employees. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17). 2017 Second Update (6/9/17).

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78