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Retail Personalization May Not Come Soon

PYMNTS

Research from Boston Retail Partners (BRP) and Manhattan Associates shows that while 70 percent of surveyed North American retailers understand the importance of personalization and are putting it at the top of their objectives list in 2017, many don’t have any actual plans to put the wheels in motion for a few years out.

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Emerging Innovation in Banking

Celent Banking

Over the past few weeks we have been previewing various content themes we will be discussing at our Insight and Innovation Day in Boston on April 4th. See you in Boston! I would like to finish this series of posts by looking at the new Model Bank category we introduced this year – Emerging Innovation.

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Blue Apron Turns 7 As Meal Kit Industry Grows Up

PYMNTS

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one).

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Blue Apron Marks Seventh Birthday Amid Meal Kit Industry Changes

PYMNTS

Social media was largely considered more friend than foe, most consumers still used passcodes instead of fingerprints to open their mobile devices, and Tom Brady was merely a great athlete instead of the fountain-of-youth demi-god he is today (PYMNTS is based in Boston, so just go with us on that one).

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RSA Report: Digital Security Is An Untapped Opportunity To Rise Above Competitors

PYMNTS

The 2017 report is now available. For instance, social media scored low on the confidence scale, meaning users felt their information was not secure on these platforms … yet that’s where people posted the most personal information that can be used for identity theft.

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The Week In Very Weird Commerce

PYMNTS

The drink was so popular it often sold out, and baristas took to social media tearfully begging people to stop ordering it. So in some sense, it is not surprising that the team at Boston Dynamics chose a dog to be their robotic delivery beast. No one would say A, and no one who didn’t work for Boston Dynamics would say B.

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#InBound17 – Celebrating the Helpful Side of Business at HubSpot’s Yearly Inbound Conference

William Mills

This year’s HubSpot Inbound conference was held at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center September 25-28. With ninety percent of the information our brain stores being visual, it is important to have clear and high-quality images on social media when promoting content. Video Content is extremely important as well.