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JULY 22, 2016

So, how can you get your hands on the newest and hottest pair of Warby Parker shades — a “head-turning Haskell in Crystal, now with new silver mirrored lenses” that’s retailing for $95? Nope, you won’t be able to purchase them at WarbyParker.com or anywhere on the hip eyewear purveyor’s burgeoning list of brick-and-mortar retail stores.

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JULY 6, 2018

The volume is the highest seen since 2014. Juniper Research finds that chatbots can save billions of dollars annually in the retail, banking and healthcare industries. Capital is flowing and investors’ pulses are quickening, it seems. Chatbots and the bottom line: Talk about money where the mouth is — kinda.

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JUNE 27, 2016

All in, the retailer is asking federal judges in bankruptcy court to let them pay out $3.41 During this process, the [retailer] started experiencing the loss of some of their highly valuable employees throughout critical areas of their businesses,” stated court documents filed in U.S. 25, according to Marketwatch.

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MARCH 14, 2016

Brands are focused on creating beautiful content that’s valuable to consumers, but most of it now is lost in our long social media feeds, alongside posts of cats and family updates,” Mark Alhermizi, Tagly’s founder and CEO, told TechCrunch.

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MAY 14, 2018

Its areas of focus include cable TV, telecom and retail, and many analysts have said STARTEK is exactly the type of firm a player planning to go into cable home shopping might buy. It has been a fairly dramatic piece of the retail landscape for the last few years — albeit a quiet one. Evine is getting ready to expand.

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AUGUST 7, 2017

From pioneering the infinite social News Feed to breaking down consumers’ psychological barriers around privacy to driving politics and news (and fake news), there’s no denying that Facebook has transformed the virtual world, for better or for worse. The physical world? Not so much, though not for lack of trying.

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MAY 1, 2020

But what about the entrepreneurs who are still hanging onto their dreams of starting a retail business? Practical, in-person sessions with content specialists cover early-stage business challenges, such as creating a value proposition, bookkeeping, pricing and social media.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 23, 2016

Launched in 2014, Ant Financial Read More. Lucy Peng, CEO, Ant Financial Ant’s latest fundraising round – the largest ever anywhere – of $4.5 billion, and its overall valuation of more than $60 billion, have turned the Alibaba spinoff into one of the most valuable private tech companies in the world.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

” Retailers have come to recognize the incredible marketing opportunity presented by the multi-weekend music festival in Southern California. A 2014 Eventbrite study found that while music festivals are obviously a source of massive social media activity, comparatively little of it occurs while the festivals are going on.

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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. Pokémon GO: Pet Rock or Opportunity To Rock Retail? The Summer’s Best Retail Opportunity? . We found one gigundo sizzle and three moderately sized fizzles. Amazon Sellers .

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MAY 12, 2016

Not surprisingly, retailers are leading the way in email marketing, accounting for 50 percent of the total journey interactions tracked by Kitewheel in the study. From 2014 to 2015, app-based consumer interactions grew 10 times. But what about social media , you might be asking?

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MARCH 7, 2016

Snapchat’s inability to raise funds at a higher valuation than a year ago, as WSJ goes on to point out, may be an indicator that Wall Street investors have grown cautious about the social media platform’s trajectory. But Snapchat isn’t alone in this stagnation. Snapchat has raised more than $1.2 and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

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JUNE 21, 2019

In the latest edition of the PYMNTS weekender, coverage includes the latest about PayPal and Google’s views about bank charters, a deep, analytical dive into Facebook’s new payments idea, a look at the new rise of pet retail and other stories you might have missed or simply want to review. Why Pets Are Pulling Retail Innovation’s Leash.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Between 1999 and 2014, the fast-casual dining space grew by 550 percent and is projected to reach a revenue of $66.9 What’s helping this generation rely on chain restaurants, according to some, are mobile devices and social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram. billion by 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Venture capitalists are funding new entrants to the field, and features like authenticity guarantees, postings to social media, the use of data and post-sale services could propel the industry forward, according to a new report from Fung Global Retail & Tech. Recommerce Bigger Than Ride Sharing In China.

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

Launched back in 2014, […]. EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year. “We We spent last year and most of 2016 scaling and on the workings of the product,” Purdue told Bank Innovation. This year, we look at revenues.”

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

In 2014, Celent recognized mBank’s digital platform redesign and in 2015, Celent recognized mBank’s Bancassurance initiative. Through 2014, mBank has grown to more than 4.7 Rather than copying other financial institutions, mBank sought to deliver a best-in-class digital experience inspired from the world’s best retailers.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

The two began PostStitch in November 2014 as “the subscription concept was kind of booming,” Graddy told PYMNTS in an interview. The company follows industry trends by keeping up to date with social media and attending trade shows.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

Increasingly, companies like Oculus, which has been owned and operated by social media company Facebook since 2014, are already using it to enhance everything from the way enterprises train their employees to the way customers treat entertainment. VR as a Tool for the Retail Experience. VR as an Enterprise Tool.

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Celent Banking

MAY 19, 2017

Celent's Insurance practice has been at the forefront of IoT research since 2014 and has published many insightful reports. ordering something directly from a social media platform rather than a merchant’s site). At first glance, IoT’s impact on banking is less obvious.

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Celent Banking

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In our resulting report, “Customer Analytics Adoption in Banking: When Management Doesn’t Lead” (September 2014), we noted that about half of the financial institutions in the sample had some experience with data analytics. Source: Celent survey of North American financial institutions, July 2014, n=78. Lack of Leadership.

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MAY 23, 2016

It has been a particularly grim retail season for the mall staples that defined landscape of the late ’90s and early 2000s. Karen Webster described this scenario in 2014 as The Coming Physical Retail Death Spiral. “So Same-store sales in retail locations were up on average 1 percent from the same time in 2015.

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JANUARY 15, 2019

The announcement comes as, since 2014, more than 163 million women have launched businesses across the globe, at a rate that outpaces that of businesses launched by men. These entrepreneurs would like to sharpen their social media skills to broaden reach and grow their firms. To that end, Visa said on Tuesday (Jan.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Geographically, eBay wants to carve out a presence in emerging markets, including Turkey, and will aim at other ways to gain attention, such as reaching out to would-be consumers across various social media, including Facebook. One key test came amid a hacking scandal in 2014, with a data breach that hit consumers.

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AUGUST 31, 2016

Let’s just say, the pics weren’t well-received by the sneaker-loving community, and Harden’s been hearing it on social media ever since. With that said, PYMNTS decided to take a look at some of retail’s biggest winners and losers of the moment.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Attempts to connect through social media, email marketing or even in-person — there are tried-and-true ways of successfully connecting with consumers and ultimately incentivizing them to purchase. Since founding in 2014, OfferCraft has won top technology awards in the hospitality and gaming industry and had some media highlights.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since its founding in 2014, Mist Systems has worked to bring its Mist Intelligent Wireless Cloud and Enterprise-Grade Access Points to corporations across multiple sectors including retail, hospitality, health care, education and more. In a store, I can find where the closest retail associate is if I need assistance.

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DECEMBER 31, 2018

The social media giant found that attackers were able to take control of user accounts through a function within the platform’s code, according to reports. While personal data, including birthdays, may have been accessed, the retailer said that Social Security numbers were not. Department Store Hacks. Fitness Hacks.

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MAY 6, 2017

It’s been chronicled in these virtual pages that millennials are the driving force behind change – change in how payments are done, how banking is banked, how social media influences commerce (or doesn’t) and how shopping may become a hybrid of high touch across the digital and physical realms. What would Sinatra say?

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JUNE 9, 2017

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. The company is also dedicated to live and digital interface with its customers, with a robust social media presence and a highly engaged following that exploded around spring 2016.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2016

Celebrity-endorsed fashion, sponsoring sports teams and attracting consumers through social media are some marketing initiatives adopted by vendors. For instance, during 2014, Adidas entered a 10-year sponsorship agreement with Manchester United for $1.13 billion for advertising their brand.”.

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APRIL 4, 2018

With platforms such as Slice, pizzeria owners can compete with the larger players through a mobile-optimized website and tools that enable customers to place orders through social media channels. Introduced in 2014 alongside a handful of other experimental services, Uber Eats operates worldwide in 29 countries. A Pizza Button.

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JANUARY 29, 2018

That sense of purpose, paired with a savvy presence on social media, brought the business a large and devoted following — and has seen the firm expand from shoes to other environmentally sound and charitably oriented accessories like bags, hats and sunglasses.

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MAY 1, 2019

The slowdown stood starkly against the 66 percent paid clicks growth seen during the fourth quarter of 2014, when costs were down 29 percent. Take Shopping Actions, which let retailers list products on Google Search, Google Express and Google Assistant on both mobile and voice devices – and in exchange, Google gets a cut of the purchases.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 8, 2016

The advertisements — which began in 2014 but received a big push in 2015 via digital banner ads and real-world printouts to reach 5 billion annual impressions — appear to have had an appreciable effect on Aerie’s sales. The real changing factor here is social media has changed the visual dialogue,” Foyle said. “We

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JUNE 8, 2017

The company launched the world’s first end-to-end solution for virtual billing and policy management in 2014 and counts global operators such as Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Telefónica Mexico and MTN as customers. PYMNTS: Can you show me some data or proof points on how the company has helped retailers?

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