PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

The new app is powered by LevelUp , a mobile payments platform created by Boston startup SCVNGR and the force behind PYMNTS’ mobile order-ahead tracker. We’re a dietary-sensitive brand,” said Rettker. Our online ordering really makes that easy for the guest to make sure they’re getting exactly what they want.”.

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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). Founded: 2016. Founded: 2016. 9. – Founded: 2016. HQ: Boston. Bellevue, WA. $54.

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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). Founded: 2016. Founded: 2016. 9. – Founded: 2016. HQ: Boston. Bellevue, WA. $54.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Between 2016 and 2018, for instance, the volume of orders placed through mobile apps grew by 130 percent, according to PYMNTS’ Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker. More than 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout New York City’s five boroughs are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand.

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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.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

William Mills Agency and Beyond the Arc will be live blogging at FinovateSpring 2016. Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Integrate with any online merchant site. Customers can store all of their online profiles in one secure location to improve user experience. Retail for a piece.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

When Sephora announced the launch of a new 2,000-square-foot concept store in Boston last year , it unveiled a marriage of brick-and-mortar and digital: The store allowed customers the ability to order products in-store from the Sephora website, and it announced same-day pickup through its Sephora app, too.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008. The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

We’ll get a peek at the latest consumer adoption of Apple Pay — our sixth quarter of results on that score — on March 17 at Innovation Project 2016. The program’s initial rollout includes the aforementioned 6,000 stores in 46 states, with 2,000 more set to be added by the halfway point of 2016.

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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 percent in Q1 2016. eps for the Q1 2017 quarter.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A The data show that operating earnings from sales have declined by up to 25 percent as a result of a shift from in-store to online.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

2016 likely has a few custom curveballs to throw. The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …).

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services. According to Mintel, one-third of online delivery users would even be willing to accept higher delivery fees if it meant receiving their food faster. That’s a hearty slice of the delivery pie.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 20, 2017

Chatbots launched in 2016 with a great deal of fanfare — if we had a dollar for every time someone forecasted that the bot was about to make the app obsolete, we wouldn’t be able to buy Facebook, but we probably could put in a pretty competitive offer for OnDeck. At least that response only took a few seconds to get. So what does the 2.0

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The Bank of Korea reported that in the second quarter of 2016, mobile payments rose by over 53 percent compared to the first quarter, and the daily average of mobile payments increased by 7.2 Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. Meanwhile, consumers in Asia have no such qualms, while the U.S. South Korea Is Mega Mobile.

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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. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem.

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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: 2016. Boston Children’s Hospital — Innovation and Digital Health Accelerator (IDHA).

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

By ordering ahead using their phones, customers are simply applying their online shopping behavior to a new, and very habituated, use case. It’s why consumers default to Amazon when they buy online, and why the eCommerce giant now owns north of 40 percent of all online spend, based on Q3 2017 retail sales data.

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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.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In a highly publicized 2016 survey, Mintel found that 40% of millennials preferred not to eat cereal for breakfast because it takes too long to prepare and clean up. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set. By 2016, that number had fallen to $155.5B.

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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. The number of consumers who have credentials now stored inside of WeChat doubled from 2015 to 2016. We take our weather very seriously in Boston.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Furman, in his speech, said that an Economist report published in 2016 showed that the top four companies in more than 40 percent of the 900 industries they examined controlled more than a third of the market. Clover Food Labs was one food truck with a Square reader in Boston in 2008.

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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%

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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.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Since a 2016 low, the number of US-based, VC-backed tech companies has steadily increased. 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.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. Fiserv is highly regarded for its leadership and innovation, and award-winning solutions for mobile and online banking, payments, risk management, data analytics and core account processing. Info: Covered Security acts as a personal security assistant looking out for your online life. HQ: Boston, MA.

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CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. For example, if a new CPG brand is trying to figure out how to price its products, it has a fairly routinized problem on its hands.

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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.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

That’s up from 50 percent in 2017 and 43 percent in 2016. Google, with Google Assistant, recognizes this shift, too, and is making its own moves in the space with branded devices and integrations with consumer product brands. Paying for things will happen online for pickup in the store later. From LA to San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

The emboldened financial sector has now challenged, in the first four months of 2017, more regulations than it did in all of 2016. Macy’s Backstage, the chain’s off-price brand — has been rolling out for the last two years, and the plan is to now open 30 more Backstage-branded shops housed within Macy’s full-price stores by the end of 2017.

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