PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In a twist on contemporary retail trends toward online channels, consumers still largely prefer to return in-store. The easiest way to describe what we do,” said David Sobie, CEO of Happy Returns , “is that we’re the buy online, return to store option for retailers that don’t have stores.”. and Houston. and Houston.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

million Chinese nationals visited the U.S. in 2016 (the last year for which data is available), spending a net total of $333 billion. Only 5 percent of Chinese citizens hold passports, and the nation’s largest online travel service, Ctrip , predicts that number will double over the next two years. According to the U.S.

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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. Apple Pay got another big endorsement this week from the nation’s largest gas station chain, ExxonMobil. All 10,000 ExxonMobil locations are supposed to be online by the end of the year.

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CB Insights

MAY 8, 2018

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, AT&T and Verizon launched drones in Houston, Texas to inspect their towers — a process which would have been too dangerous and time-consuming to do manually. Domino’s partnered with startup Flirtey in November 2016 to make the first-ever commercial pizza delivery by drone.

Exercises 78

Exercises Data Technology Industry 78

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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Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Founded: 2016. National Medal of Science, Turing Awards, Kyoto Prizes, and many others. They’ve also got six foundry labs located around the world: Atlanta, Houston, Palo Alto, Plano, and Israel. Founded: 2016. Founded: 2016. Innovation Lab Name: Verizon Innovation Centers. Founded: 2013. Deutsche Bank.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74