PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2021

The social media-focused platform company’s business model is simple: it’s a retail destination for consumers looking to sell their second-hand apparel and other goods or pick up desirable designer items for fraction of the price. Unique to Poshmark are social media aspects like the ability to share “likes” on favored items. “We

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The China Securities Regulatory Commission , China’s security watchdog, is setting up a technology regulation bureau and will announce Yao Qian as its new department chief, the Chinese business publication Caijing said on Wednesday (Dec. 11), as reported by Coindesk. Yao was the head of China’s central bank digital currency initiative. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

Apple reportedly said that the service will not allow advertisers to track what subscribers are reading, which means no targeted ads based on consumed news stories, as is the case with social media. As PYMNTS has regularly documented, subscription eCommerce is among the hottest areas of digital retail.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The experiential retailer b8ta is also launching a new community-driven store, this one aimed at fashion and lifestyle apparel. The company started in 2018, calling its concept “retail as a service” (RaaS). For example, customers can expect to see a dressing room experience at Forum that uses RFID technology.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Google Maps is getting a makeover and retailers will be a beneficiary as it enables more location sharing, data access and social media integration. billion in 2018 and is expected to reach over 25.2 It can detect patterns and opportunities for retailers on a very basic level (where are my customers coming from?).

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of years, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users — which amounted to the social media giant exempting some businesses from the privacy rules its customers thought they were protected under.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

The announcement comes at a time when rival cosmetics firms like Estee Lauder and retailers like Sephora are making big investments in new technology, in part due to the influence of beauty bloggers and online selfies. percent of its total sales during the first half of 2018, which is up from about 5 percent just three years ago.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

User goes to Walgreens and registers the retail store in app. William Mills III, Chief Executive Officer of William Mills Agency is live blogging today at FinovateSpring 2018. He has more than 34 years of experience in financial technology and is a recognized leader in financial and technology marketing. Tweet #Finovate.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Text messaging, social media, Pinterest and memes have all been offered up as avatars of destruction — and the general consensus seems to be that the death of conversation is a direct result of the digital age and probably has something to do with millennials. Kirk Bresniker, chief architect of Hewlett Packard Labs for HPE.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

Through this year’s Levi’s Haus Miami activation, the brand partnered with TikTok influencers Callen Schaub , Cosette Rinab , Gabby Morrison and Everett Williams to create customized denim using Future Finish 3-D denim customization technology. Social media isn’t a game of one size fits all and nor is social commerce,” he says.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Retailers are starting to tap into the camera,” said Ted Mann, CEO of visual search technology provider Slyce. They expect the retailers to be able to support it.”. Slyce is working with retail partners to embrace events outside the store and developing new kiosk technology to work within the store.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology. But it’s not just payments where the NFL and other sports can shine when it comes to digital and mobile technologies. Attendance at NFL games declined from approximately 17.8 million people in 2016 to 17.2

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo rolled out shopping chatbot Uniqlo IQ on Thursday (August 2), which acts as a digital concierge service. As retail moves deeper into the digital realm, shopping needs to be not just portable and perpetual, but personal as well. billion hours by 2023 in those three sectors.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Even people without a mind for business remember that motto as one of the guiding principles of retail and other forms of commerce — absorbed, perhaps, in a high school class or via any number of articles, TV shows, commercials or bits of pop culture that have riffed on that theme. Location , location, location. Instagram Role.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

JULY 23, 2019

The coffee chain has invested in offering discounts, fast delivery, lower prices and promotions on social media. Luckin’s strategy for its fast expansion process has focused on delivery, technology and offering customers steep discounts.”. million (800 million yuan) in 2018, which Fei said was expected.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

are seen as increasingly bullish on the retail landscape in China, even amid trade wars and the worry of recession. Indeed, American retailers are heading east: They’re opening the doors to brick-and-mortar stores in China, while listing on China’s dueling marketplaces, Tencent and JD.com. Luxury Moves.

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APRIL 1, 2019

And eCommerce innovators around the world are providing these kinds of offerings: Los Angeles’ FabFitFun delivers boxes full of products from different categories such as fashion, food, technology and wellness. The share of Americans aged 14 to 21 who subscribed to internet-based video services in 2018 is 80 percent. as of Q4 2018.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Retailers need to offer not only excellent service, but also the features that let customers subscribe with speed and ease. In Q3 2018, merchants used product ratings, product details and messaging in a bid to drive subscription conversions. Shopify , in particular, created a mobile app called Shopify Ping.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As reported, the social media giant was hacked through a vulnerability in the Facebook source code, which gave the attackers the ability to steal access tokens, which they in turn used to keep Facebook subscribers logged in. billion through the first six months of 2018, where last year showed $18.4 As has been reported, the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2017

But the fast-food giant is playing quick catch-up with its in-store tech, mobile ordering and delivery initiatives — and is doing so by taking a page out of Snapchat’s playbook by blending unattended retail with marketing. The goal is to roll out these technology upgrades in all of its worldwide locations by the end of 2018.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

These technologies bring more options for consumers to order and pay for their meals, such as kiosks and mobile ordering. Borrowing from the strategy of fast food restaurants, Dine Brands is working on a new order-ahead technology. In one new approach, some QSRs are offering delivery beyond the home and office. Only a few – or 3.3

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The discussion featured Karen Webster and Arman Aygen, head of Technology and Innovation at UL. Maybe authentication — and customer onboarding — involves the use of social signals, those digital crumbs left by consumers on social media and other online platforms. Trust Evolution.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2018

Standing one’s ground in an Amazon -dominated retail market doesn’t happen by accident. The retailer has announced that it will be adding more than 1,000 new employees to its technology teams this year, increasing the size of its tech department by more than a third. Yep – that means hiring. Hedge Funds.

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APRIL 25, 2016

billion (32 percent) in 2018 and $52.5 The insight comes from a Unity Technologies report that looked at gamers’ openness to viewing a variety of ads – intermittent fullscreen pictures, omnipresent banners, half- or quarter-screen videos and fullscreen videos that deliver in-game rewards upon completion.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Online resale has become all the rage — even for retailers like Neiman Marcus — from a little bit of everything on OfferUp to fashion-focused Poshmark and high-end The RealReal and 1stdibs. According to the 2018 Global Brand Counterfeiting Report , luxury fashion brands are a favored target. Social Media. Online Resale.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2018

At first glance, 2018 is shaping up to be a year that has brought meaningful consumer, regulatory and legislative backlash against lax online privacy. social media users are “very confident” that those platforms would protect users’ data, according to Pew — with 64 percent calling for more regulation of online advertisers.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 22, 2018

No matter what, though, the present and future of real Christmas trees — even if bought in a weekend frenzy — owes much to digital technology, eCommerce and the consumer preferences of younger buyers. To learn more about why, PYMNTS this past week caught up with Doug Hundley, a spokesperson for the National Christmas Tree Association.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Social media, according to the brand, is the secret sauce ingredient that makes its platform so successful — and the uncountably large number of food pics snapped by avid Instagram and Facebook users worldwide. Technology can give restaurants the insight they need to stay ahead of trends,” Tastewise CEO Alon Chen noted.

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OCTOBER 29, 2018

This happened despite sophisticated technology capabilities that successfully flagged many other types of inappropriate postings, like pornography, and kept them off the platform for years. Only 38 percent of hate speech content was identified by their technology in Q1 2018, they reported, resulting in the removal of 2.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

All five technology companies are facing political backlash, though — and probably increased regulations over their products and services, as some lawmakers are nursing antitrust concerns. That’s a steal by any standards, but particularly in Hong Kong where iPhones can sell for as much as four times their retail price.

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Insights on Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Networks across banking, financial markets, insurance, retail, consumer goods and others have moved into production and are realizing business value. In November 2018, CLS launched CLSNet, an automated and standardized service for bilaterally netting payments for FX trades not eligible for the CLS settlement service. IBMLive Twitter.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Even now, efforts to expand Faster Payments for use in retail are being explored, presenting their own unique challenges. Yet, P2P apps without those same safeguards are already well established among the US consumers and are making headway in retail as well. Are these a few years away? Absolutely. Fingers-crossed.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 22, 2020

During a busy year we saw Jill supporting her local community, blogging with Mark Cuban, spinning up new PPP technology and innovating with things like curbside banking. For more than 20 years, John has helped City National grow its niched commercial and private banking businesses with strategic technologies.

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JULY 3, 2017

It can be buffeted dramatically by shifts in the global economy, emerging technologies and even factors as arbitrary as the weather. Good news for consumers: as of January 2018, that’s not going to be a thing anymore. The Rise of CNP Fraud.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Even now, efforts to expand Faster Payments for use in retail are being explored, presenting their own unique challenges. Yet, P2P apps without those same safeguards are already well established among the US consumers and are making headway in retail as well. Are these a few years away? Absolutely. Fingers-crossed.

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