PYMNTS

MAY 8, 2020

Now more than ever, people are counting on technology to help them make contactless payments, shop, and manage their finances without leaving the house,” said Sang Ahn, vice president and GM of Samsung Pay’s North America service business, in a statement. NFC works with digital wallets and powers contactless payments. smartphone users. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2020

Already eCommerce figured to play a major part in the various fashion weeks across the globe this week and next due to new technology and a willingness for designers to make their clothing more accessible. This season, Shibata will place orders from Japanese brands online. It has 12 items from MINJUKIM on its website. “It

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 11, 2016

When Apple launched Apple Pay in 2014, it obtained advantageous terms for transactions, and banks seemed eager to be aligned with Apple’s brand. A bit of the shine is off Apple Pay today due to low usage numbers, and some banks are playing hardball– at least in Australia. The banks involved are Commonwealth Read More.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

We have long thought that thoughtful governmental adoption of emerging technologies such as cryptocurrencies (when accompanied by non-restrictive legislation over these technologies) is the best way to ensure the U.S. Ohio is the first U.S. state to offer this way of paying for business taxes, noted Overstock in the press release. “We

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2020

Launched in 2012 by Payal Kadakia under the name Classtivity, ClassPass closed $2 million in seed funding in March 2014 after rebranding. The new funding will be used to scale its branded model worldwide. ClassPass members can reserve fitness classes using the company’s proprietary booking technology.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2016

The Harris Poll announced the results of its 28th annual EquiTrend Study, cataloging the brand equity or strength of consumer response to companies in multiple segments, and despite a rough winter, Macy’s captured the top spot in the department store category. Though it posted more modest gains, Best Buy won for electronics retailers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The startup has offices in Silicon Slopes, Utah and Santa Monica, California and was co-founded in 2014 by Evan Walker, who serves as the company’s chief executive officer. Using the Route App, users can visually track and protect online orders as well as resolve issues. Route+ offers retailers an end-to-end post-purchase experience. .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2019

The privately-held appliances brand sells vacuum cleaners under the Shark logo, while its line of food processors, coffee makers, pressure cookers and blenders are sold under the Ninja branding. In the United States, Shark vacuums run the market — it’s the top selling upright brand and owns 35 percent of the market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Matt Taylor, co-founder and CEO of running apparel brand Tracksmith has found himself and his company a little slice of Boston’s running history. Taylor said marketing activities reflect his current scale as a small D2C brand. Taylor founded Tracksmith in 2014. a shoe fitting technology that was recently purchased by Amazon. “And

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Wendy’s designed an interactive ad campaign for gamers on Twitch, a leading video streaming platform (acquired by Amazon in 2014). There could be a lot of opportunity in the esports industry for brands. The post Food Brands Reach Toward Esports Players appeared first on CB Insights Research.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2019

Trax, a global technology company based in Singapore, has acquired U.S.-based The amount Trax paid for Shopkick wasn’t disclosed, but it was acquired by SK Telecom in 2014 for $200 million. The amount Trax paid for Shopkick wasn’t disclosed, but it was acquired by SK Telecom in 2014 for $200 million.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Though Avon in some ways the great-grandfather of every direct-to-consumer brand out there today, when the company got its start in 1836 the original goal wasn’t even to sell cosmetics or beauty products at all. In 1929 the firm officially switched its name and branding to Avon — and the rest, as they say, is history.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

Nearly every chain now has an app presence, so it’s easy to forget that the technology was rare just 10 years ago. Former CEO Patrick Doyle even famously claimed that Domino’s was a technology company that happened to sell pizzas rather than a pizza chain. The Future of Mobile Ordering .

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

Enova Chief Compliance Officer and General Counsel Sean Rahilly said in a press release , “Any errors in our systems, especially those that impact our customers, are taken very seriously by our team, and we have invested in technology and processes to ensure appropriate resolution of such errors.”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Chinese technology company Tencent has announced it’s going to start researching cryptocurrency and its implications for an ongoing project in blockchain, according to reports. The purpose is to introduce a brand new program for users that’s geared toward the diamond industry.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2018

LendingPoint Merchant Solutions combines LoanHero’s merchant onboarding, program management and reporting technology with LendingPoint’s credit underwriting, risk management and customer service expertise. Since its founding in 2014, LendingPoint has issued nearly $500 million in consumer loans to more than 70,000 borrowers.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2018

Meanwhile, the next stage of parking kiosk technology appears to be underway in Spain. Starting in 2014, the city of Madrid began installing smart meters that did more than accept a wider array of payment options, from cash to credit cards to mobile app-based payments. percent per year. percent between 2017 and 2021.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Starting with the release of Apple Pay in 2014, there was a veritable rush of proprietary mobile wallets sent to market, a host of “. We [consumers] are looking at brands differently. Mobile payments have long been billed as the next big thing. Pays” for consumers to choose from. Unlocking Stored Value . The Changing Payments Paradigm.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

It was a good day for Jumia Technologies on Friday (April 12) — and that’s a good signal about the future prospects of eCommerce in Africa, home to some 1.3 Some of its brands include online takeout service Jumia Food, travel booking service Jumia Flights and classified services Jumia Deals. Jumia Scope.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 27, 2019

Jain was responsible for offerings such as beauty and personal care at Amazon, where he arrived in 2014 after working at Procter & Gamble for 16 years. While at P&G, the executive worked in marketing, business creation, information technology and sales. Jope was recently promoted to the role of chief executive at Unilever.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

Moka was founded in 2014 and was one of the first FinTechs in Indonesia. A Moka acquisition would be on brand for GOJEK, which has a pattern of acquiring companies to expand its payment capabilities. . It’s raised about $40 million from investors like Sequoia Capital. Moka has terminals peppered all over the country. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2018

A “material contributor” to growth in the first quarter included the new branded prepaid card for TurboTax customers, CEO Steve Streit said on the post-earnings conference call Wednesday. Green Dot launched its tax refund operation in 2014, Streit said. That surpassed Wall Street expectations of about $297 million.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2016

In a world where startups seem to be working out of garages one day and throwing out billion-dollar valuations the next, it can be difficult to believe that a technology that’s been hanging around for a while is about to suddenly take off. “It also points to a more refined use of the technology.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2019

Near-field communication ( NFC ) technology isn’t exactly new. JPMorgan Chase launched a contactless card called Blink back in 2005, then killed it off in 2014 ahead of the push for EMV chip cards. JPMorgan Chase will roll out new Visa-branded contactless EMV cards this year. However, the U.S. In the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Domino’s CEO Richard Allison said on a call with analysts that he was pleased with the second-quarter performance, but noting “we are a work-in-progress brand,” he said there have been and will always be many areas where the brand can improve. He noted that GPS tracking technology would be rolled out by the end of the year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

But Smith was committed, and believed that among outdoor enthusiasts — particularly millennials like himself — a digitally-native brand with a story to tell and a unique way of pursuing its core mission would have an awful lot of appeal. “My Its first offerings for consumers were backpacks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2017

As PYMNTS and most of the financial press recently reported news on, UnionPay as a card-payment network operator is growing, topping global brands Visa and Mastercard when it comes to the number of cards in circulation. According to research from RBR , at the end of 2016, more than six billion UnionPay-branded cards existed worldwide.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

“This digital adeptness has immensely affected the areas where teenagers meet, where they shop and what they spend their money on,” according to a report from Forbes , which helps explain why many once-popular teen retail brands, like Aéropostale , Abercrombie & Fitch and Gap, have been struggling lately.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

While the Madison Reed brand may be a new name to some, the company has actually been around since 2014, quietly collecting data to help perfect their hair coloring product line. Its hair color quiz and mobile app leads users through 12 hair coloring questions.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 1, 2017

“We love hearing the stories from these small business owners who are able to quit their day jobs to sell on Amazon full-time, hire more employees to grow their business and, in many cases, start other businesses — it’s very energizing for Amazonians to know that the technology we are building is helping so many people pursue their dreams.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Virtual reality (VR), a technology that has captured the public eye for decades, has long piqued consumers’ curiosity. The technology was originally relegated to the world of fantasy and science – but in recent years, that’s begun to change. Of course, the use of virtual reality as a retail tool isn’t particularly new.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. Some brands like McDonald’s are turning to voice recognition technology to keep orders moving. Some brands like McDonald’s are turning to voice recognition technology to keep orders moving. Role of Cameras.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Ant Financial , the financial services unit of Alibaba , is rolling out a new brand to provide financial institutions (FIs) with support for digital transformation. The unit will launch with five key technologies for FI customers, including transaction, security, financial intelligence, next-generation interaction and blockchain tools.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2016

The eTail brand specializes in high-end cosmetics and is reportedly looking to raise $10 million with the IPO, according to reports in Internet Retailer. Launched in November 2014, BeautyKind was in beta for the first 5 or so months of its life, and has actually been out in the open and available to all since March of last year.

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Banking 2020

JANUARY 8, 2015

Powering innovation starts with transforming technology and its use. Unless you’re leading a brand-new company, your organization has history which may often times mean expensive, valueless IT investments that bog down competitive advantages. percent of revenue on technology, according to the 2014 Gartner IT Key Metrics Data.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

The latter firm had been one of the investors in the original $1 million seed round raised by Thinknum in 2014. The company said the technology is tied to “invisible computing” that lets users access healthcare and other information. Thinknum , which provides web-sourced alternative data, has garnered $11.6 Mojo Vision.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 18, 2021

I wrote a piece in 2014, right around this time, that made the strong case for the decline of physical retail. Data assembled by ShopperTrak and published by The Wall Street Journal in January of 2014 only quantified the steepness of that decline — starting as early as 2011.

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