PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2017

It is currently operating in New York, Chicago and Boston, but has received driver requests from 49 U.S. Passengers go to the URL, enter the vehicle code, browse the menu and check out using a credit card or a mobile payment option like Apple Pay.

Mobile 100

Mobile Detroit Boston Chicago 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Digitally native brands, especially those that sell tactile products like footwear, are seeing an offline opportunity in opening flagship stores in major cities. Shoe brand Allbirds , in particular, has brought a large retail space in New York City. cities, such as Boston and Los Angeles, for additional brick-and-mortar locations.

Retail 100

Retail Los Angeles Branding New York City 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. And one of the most valuable forms of data right now is behavioral data because it tells a retailer or brand where a customer or potential customer goes, does and spends their time and money on. In other words, it’s a lot of that uber-valuable type of data.

Data 100

Data Meeting Company San Francisco 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. Fearful of giving up ground to a tech intermediary — Apple , Google , Amazon — many OEMs are working with third parties to develop their own branded apps and connected in-dash experiences.

Google 190

Google Branding System Apple 190

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Apple Needs To Diversify. Retailers like Kohl’s, Walmart and CVS are rolling out their own mobile-payment services and competing with Apple Pay, but it’s not because of overwhelming user adoption of mobile payments. But Apple needs to be quick. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. But In the U.S.,

Mobile 100

Mobile Payments Apple Samsung 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The weather is turning such that Boston has already had its first snow, and eating outdoors at restaurants is losing its appeal in the northern United States. Because while most readers are undoubtedly familiar with both chocolate milk and Oreos, both brands have gone far, far beyond their original roots. Why so many flavored Oreos?

United States 178

United States Boston US Apple 178

PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Boston-based venture Flywire was started seven years ago to enable these high value, low transaction volume payments via any payment method to be sent by these families anywhere in the world. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments. Apple And The Aussies.

Lending 100

Lending Apple Cards Study 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Meanwhile, Samsung is tackling the African market ahead of Apple and Android, and Google announces a way to avoid app downloads. Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Samsung May Beat Android Pay And Apple Pay In Tapping The African Market.

Samsung 100

Samsung Google Mobile Millennials 100

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Apple’s first retail store overhaul in 15 years is hailed by just about everyone as a Grand Slam Home Run – and the store hasn’t even opened yet (it will, in SF, on Saturday). The hope is that the brand/experience convo will lure in customers and keep them buying. Burberry, Ms.

Bitcoin 109

Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

The French grocery co-op partnered with TBWA, the global ad agency behind recent campaigns by Apple, Evian and Absolut Vodka, to bring Fresh Stories to U’s 800 independent supermarkets and hypermarchés in France. And in the Northeast, Instacart and Stop & Shop will be offering same-day delivery to customers in Boston.

Massachusetts 100

Massachusetts Seattle Boston Apple 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. ” These days, it’s known for how quickly the brand has regrown public trust in a short time.

Retail 100

Retail San Francisco California Minnesota 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We’ve all heard of smart speakers — Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod — but what about these other innovations, which are not dedicated devices but have connected capabilities baked right into the appliance? Innovations such as…. LG Everything. Users can also make adjustments by asking Alexa. Miscellaneous. Probably not long at all.

Google 118

Google Course Boston California 118

PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

Its chatbot platform, they hope, will spawn an ecosystem of developers who will find a variety of use cases to make bots a better (and more lucrative) use of their time then developing apps for the Apple and Android ecosystem. Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? All inside the Messenger platform.

Google 100

Google Mobile Branding Apple 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Amazon Takes Its Bite Out of the Big Apple. Good luck with that.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

3 post position, displacing Apple, at roughly 4 percent of retail sales. All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. Today, based on brand-new PYMNTS proprietary analysis, Walmart accounts for roughly 8.9

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square. Dynamic Payments Mobile Amazon Apple EMV FaceBook Google ISIS NFC Square' What can I say? I crack myself up.

Google 70

Google Apple Retail Boston 70

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

It comes as no surprise, then, that big tech players like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are investing heavily in data security — especially as several have fallen victim to data breaches themselves. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Table of contents.

Google 76

Google Apple Security Data 76

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees. Part of the disconnect with the Census data is that it measures averages, but nothing is ever average. The average height of a female in the U.S. is 5’4” — even though few of the women reading this are exactly that height.

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s s entry into the payments business with Apple Pay. Epperson, a managing director at the global business advisory firm AlixPartners LLP.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

This year, Google reported that 15 percent of those searches were for brand-new search terms, but down from the 20 to 25 percent they claimed in 2007. We’ll have to wait and see what Amazon has in store for Blink , the Boston-based outdoor security camera company it bought last year.

Innovation 109

Innovation Payments Google Training 109

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The move, according to CVS CEO Larry Merlo, will change the face of the CVS brand going forward, as it moves to take a more active and avid approach to influencing better health outcomes while at the same time reducing healthcare costs across the board.

Apple 131

Apple United States Boston Branding 131

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

The data digs into the likes, dislikes and habits of Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay mobile payments users. This was the top reason for not paying with a mobile app for Android Pay and Samsung Pay users, but Apple Pay users’ top reason was they didn’t know if the store accepted Apple Pay.

Mobile 100

Mobile Samsung Apple Payments 100

Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Well Covid survivors, in 2020 it was Zoom, but now as we switch from sweatpants to office-acceptable slacks, this year’s winner has to be Apple. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington. The Stock to Own in 2021.

Fintech 147

Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 147

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. For instance, Google Play doesn’t operate in China, and Apple has had relatively few users until recently. We take our weather very seriously in Boston.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Demoing first with apple watch. Is this the first time we have seen an apple watch as apart of a demo today? Branded version is available. ^KT. As a co-branding solution, it would work very well. Showing a data segmentation manager on a map of the Boston area. Jerry Filipiak (CEO & Chairman of the Board).

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition. Algolia has now passed $10M in ARR and achieved “140% net negative churn and amazing brand awareness.”.

Security 34

Security Capital Software Data 34

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I suspect it might be a tough hill to climb for the simple reason that anyone who is already a preferred customer of an airline probably uses their branded airline app. Or, alternatively, be the only platform available for consumers to communicate with brands – which they could be well positioned to become in lesser developed markets. .”

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Apple’s acquisition of Beats, Comcast’s acquisition of DreamWorks, Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp, and Oracle’s acquisition of Micros Systems were all done without an investment bank’s involvement — and those 4 deals were altogether worth more than $31B.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Thinking that way misses a much bigger point: That is, looking at an “average” percent of sales done in a physical store is about as accurate as following the Farmer’s Almanac ‘s prediction of the average amount of snowfall in Boston each winter by examining how furry the caterpillars are. Take books, for example.

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up. Our really, really bad weather.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

That was the year Apple introduced the first Mac, the Lisa, and a new shortcut for accessing work on the desktop. Google, with Google Assistant, recognizes this shift, too, and is making its own moves in the space with branded devices and integrations with consumer product brands. That just makes the point much stronger.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The modern-day department store, the intermediary that’s aggregated brands and buyers in a single physical location for more than 160 years, and the modern-day shopping mall, which has done the same for the last six decades, has steadily lost foot traffic, sales and profits to online competitors since about 2010.

Online 112

Online Google Branding Retail 112

PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2017

The news dropped this week that Alipay is leveraging First Data’s merchant base, via Clover, to bring payments and presence on par with Apple Pay. Sizzle: Alipay — Welcome Chinese consumers, to the U.S. With shopping made a bit easier. There are 450 million Chinese who use the service globally. businesses’ coffers.

Retail 108

Retail Mobile Baltimore Management 108