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Football Season To Kick Off New Payments Plays

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As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

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Reimagining The Bar Experience Without The Booze 

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In 2019 alcohol consumption in the U.S. It is not quite fair to say that America has become a nation of teetotalers or is even well on their way to becoming one. billion in sales between October 2018 and October 2019 — a roughly 200 percent jump — and kicked off something of a spiked seltzer follow-on craze.

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Is It Time For Apple To Allow Others Access To The iPhone NFC Chip?

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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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Data Dive, Go Big Edition: Apple, Amazon And CloudKitchens

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According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. The 350,000-square-foot facility is planned for Westborough, Massachusetts, a community roughly 35 miles west of Boston. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment . India, the U.K.

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How The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Driving Remote Online Notarization?s Adoption

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The surge in national interest and demand for digital alternatives to traditionally paper-based notary services led to greater consumer awareness and inspired a wave of legislation governing how those services should enforce digital notarization processes’ anti-money laundering/know your customer (AML/KYC) aspects.

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Why The Dollars Are Actually The Greatest Show On Turf

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As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. As of 2019, it seems the two are working hard and getting a jump on that cashless Super Bowl vision. According to data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), stores will bring in around $14.8 Snack Time.

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Drizly’s Dramatic Year

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The signature innovation of Drizly – founded in Boston in 2012 – has been to more or less bypass the three-tiered structure in enabling alcohol eCommerce. The goal for 2019 is simple, and summed up in a single word: growth. The firm recently announced that it brought in $34.5

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