PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend. 23-25, 2020.

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Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Last year 111.9

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Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady. Last year 111.9

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Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

In the Q4 2015 Index, we reported that sporting goods had omnichannel the most together of any vertical, leading the way with the highest score in the Index, while Grocery/Pharma finished with the worst score. Scores for most merchants increased from Q2 2015 to Q4 2015 before stagnating in Q1 2016. That hasn’t changed. .

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Virginia Resources Seattle Mobile 102

PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Before we jump into the post, here are a few quick facts about Charlotte and its tech scene: The city had a population of 827,097 in 2015, making it the seventeenth largest city in the United States. Median household income (2015): $53,637. Is there anything people may find surprising about operating a business there?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

The Goldfish team will work out of Target’s tech office in Sunnyvale, California, under West Stringfellow — one of three entrepreneurs in residence who joined up with Target last year to help drive the firm’s latter-day efforts at innovation and out-of-the-box retail thinking. ECommerce was big business for Target in 2015.

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Retail San Francisco California Minneapolis 100

CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Modern-day retail is at an inflection point as retailers face struggling physical storefronts, massive debt, and inefficient operations, among other issues. Increased expenses, supply chain inefficiencies, and the need to enhance operating results contributed to the perfume retailer’s bankruptcy, which was court-approved in October.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this case , “a bit” goes back as long ago as January 2016, when it came out that beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Uber began to displace rental cars, at that point only in Boston. And, as has been known for a while, Avis has a pact in place with Waymo, to help manage self-driving vehicles based and operating in Phoenix, Ariz.

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Phoenix Trends United States Boston 112

Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Mike Butler of Radius, although a lifelong banker, came from outside of the region and implemented a business model and cultural change at his bank with new management and a "fast fail" innovation culture. In 2015 I wrote a post about creating a positive accountability culture. Mike is from Cleveland. And surprisingly a Yankees fan.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

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Bitcoin blockchain Video Apple 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. And that will become this salon’s standard operating procedure going forward. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. Don’t Touch This.

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Cards Study Maine Payments 147

CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

They’re also bullish on how Element AI’s cooperative platform and “non-predatory” approach to AI talent (in which academic researchers are paid like private employees) will accelerate AI innovation. Other early-stage AI startups operating in the AI-for-business niche include Saba Software and DataFox. Julia Computing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

The goal of the Wayfair worker is to work on “innovating better together,” becoming “fast fixers and builders” and to help customers to better “envision the spaces where they live their lives.”. It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small.

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Boston Branding Retail Examples 101

Celent Banking

MAY 31, 2016

While my colleagues were spread out across the US covering conferences in Boston, New Orleans, and other locations, I spent four days in beautiful Barcelona covering the Temenos TCF 2016 Conference , followed by another three days in sunny Orlando covering the FIS Connect 2016 Conference.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

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. This brief was originally published on 9/25/2015 and featured 25 select corporations. Some companies are grouped together by key partnerships or alliances.

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System Technology Michigan California 78

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Diana Chin (HR & Operations). Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. David Carr (Innovation Manager). In 2015, 70% of customers preferred to open bank accounts through mobile channels. Virtual reality?

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Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Technology enthusiasts draw pictures on whiteboards showing bots as the new king of the stack, out-stacking the last great stack — apps, which sit on top of the next-to-last great stack — mobile operating systems, which sit on top of the next-to-next-to-last great stack — the web. We take our weather very seriously in Boston.

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Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). In Boston, Oleana founder Ana Sortun opened the lunch and takeout venue Sofra.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. In March 2015, Messenger announced a significant upgrade to its platform. And the more money they make.

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Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Where’s the innovation & money in renewables? Now, several innovative new methods for storing solar energy are gaining traction, from lithium-ion batteries to substances that have high heat-holding capacities, like molten salt. The Powerpack is meant to last ten years while operating daily. Tesla’s Powerpack.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Retailers are leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality, to enhance operational visibility and personalize their customer service, a new necessity in fast-changing and demanding consumer market. “We’re in a test-and-learn phase as we consider what other investment routes we should explore.

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Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project.

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Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

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. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

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Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

2015 Second Update (12/3/2015). 2015 First Update (8/15/2015). But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. 2017 Third Update (10/31/17).

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Company US San Francisco Capital 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”. Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old.

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Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. I need a new pair of snow boots; it’s Boston, and winter is coming.”. Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old.

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Online Google Branding Retail 112