PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

These reasons are driving a surge of interest in and use of remote online notarization (RON) services, according to James Schlimmer , managing partner of Naples, Florida-based notary firm Cottrell Title & Escrow. The state legislature adopted such regulations in late 2019, permitting these services for use beginning in January 2020.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

As more customers moved online, fraudsters took advantage of new and increasingly inventive opportunities to commit remote authentication fraud. Since the pandemic started, Crowe says, more customers are opening online or mobile accounts and making remote payments. Online U.S. By Elizabeth Judd. Education as an anti-fraud tool.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. We see True Tickets as a leader in the space and are excited to put their technology to the test on Broadway.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon announced plans for Sidewalk last year, and the company said in this week’s update that it is now set to launch the initiative at some point in 2020. Call it “home connectivity beyond the home.”. eCommerce giant Amazon announced new details this week about Amazon Sidewalk, its bid to create a distributed (localized) IoT network.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The year started out looking pretty promising to Loic Le Garrec , owner of Boston’s Petit Robert Bistro. Mild winter weather in Boston had led to stronger-than-average performances in January and February, and Le Garrec told Karen Webster in a digital discussion that as March approached, he had every reason for optimism. “I

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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. Not only that, but over the next decade, some 90 percent of sports bets will be made online.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. We see True Tickets as a leader in the space and are excited to put their technology to the test on Broadway.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

This technology has witnessed slow adoption in the U.S., The COVID-19 pandemic could be prompting consumers and merchants to reconsider the technology, however. consumers’ use of its contactless cards and digital wallets rose 150 percent between March 2019 and March 2020. . but new realities stand to change that.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. 23-25, 2020. 23-25, 2020. Take PayPal, for example.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

That trend continued in the second quarter and looks likely to be a dominant trait in the 2020s, only a few months away. in early 2020 through an agreement with Uber Eats.”. The company’s technology was in place at 700 of the company’s stores in the quarter that was most recent. Just look to Google.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

In an era of restaurant technology that provides diners with many choices, mobile order-ahead is more popular than ever with consumers. And rapid growth is expected to boost the market’s value to $38 billion by 2020. At the same time, downloads of delivery apps have surged — more than doubling — over the same period.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The digital transformation of the commerce ecosystem, which had been underway long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, flipped into overdrive overnight, as consumers were forced to change their habits and shift almost everything they once did in real life to an online substitute. The Power of Persistence. It takes guts.

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Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Building trust in your institution has a lot to do with technology, from implementing strong data security practices to humanizing your online customer interactions. With much banking moving online or to smartphones, interactions with customers can be less frequent. Use these 3 technologies to safeguard customer data.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

AI enables retailers to learn more about consumer preferences by having technology perform tasks that would typically require some level of human intelligence. What AI essentially does for retailers is help them to improve customer service.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

How will we shop in 2020? Café X Technologies. Cafe X is a robotic cafe in San Francisco that serves premium coffee using mobile ordering and automation technology. It’s the first cafe of its kind from Cafe X Technologies, which is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Even so, September 2020 was one of the strongest months for IPOs since Uber went public in May 2019. At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing. of investment banking revenues in 2020, per IBIS World.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. What’s next?

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. Wearable technologies? Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel. Social channels? There’s certainly a lot going on.

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Banking 2020

OCTOBER 20, 2015

All of this occurs in an environment where technology takes center stage and business owners may consume retail (for their personal accounts) as well as business services at a given financial institution. In this diverse group, the profitability challenges include price sensitivity in general and an aversion to fees overall.

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Independent Banker

MARCH 15, 2015

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. But does that same retail service trend, driven by the near ubiquity of online and mobile technology, really apply to the relationship-driven model of community banks? By Phil Britt. Sure, call me if you want. However, Cornerstone Advisors Inc.—a

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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. However, this isn’t the whole story. The new big-box store. Ikea as a model.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Loyalty programs will also keep increasing in importance in the coming months, and into 2020. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. The main problem?

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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. This list is not intended to be exhaustive of corporations working on autonomous vehicle technology. Top initiatives: Filed patent in 2016 for autonomous lane-switching technology.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

In this report, we dive into some of the technologies that will help address these concerns and influence the future of the office space, from autonomous cleaning solutions to people-counting sensors. Here are some of the new considerations and technologies that may impact each part of Rachel’s working day. Source: Elenium Automation.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This week we look at Monit , a Boston-based startup innovating in our favorite sector, small biz banking. Customers hook Monit to their accounting software (currently limited to QuickBooks online) and. Funding : $750k per Crunchbase (as Signal Financial Technology). How it works. Business model : Primarily B2B2C.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

This week we look at Monit , a Boston-based startup innovating in our favorite sector, small biz banking. Customers hook Monit to their accounting software (currently limited to QuickBooks online) and. Funding : $750k per Crunchbase (as Signal Financial Technology). Monit explainer (3 minutes). How it works.

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