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JULY 8, 2020

A new Apple service will let customers browse shops in person in a safe and convenient way through setting appointments, according to 9 to 5 Mac. The solution, Apple found, is to allow customers the opportunity to schedule a shopping trip ahead of time. However, several Apple stores are still not open for going inside.

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APRIL 30, 2020

For a company that doesn’t have a retail location open outside of China or South Korea because of the coronavirus pandemic, Apple acquitted itself nicely in the second quarter. In this difficult environment, our users are depending on Apple products in renewed ways to stay connected, informed, creative and productive. “In

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Legal marijuana may have a massive payments problem, but that’s not stopping retail innovation in perhaps the newest area of legitimate commerce in the U.S. Trends in legal cannabis retail are just now emerging, and fresh numbers from Colorado are providing insight into how the industry is evolving. Big Retail.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

13) unveiled its iPhone 12 , which as was widely expected, operates on high-speed 5G networks. The Apple-watching website 9to5 Mac said the new phone will charge similar to the Apple Watch, with its back against a magnetic disc attached to a charging source. on Tuesday (Oct. inch model and at $1,099 for a 6.7-inch

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

In today’s top news, purchases via voice assistant are up 10 percent year-over-year, and Afterpay is now available in-store nationwide with major retailers. Afterpay Goes In-Store Nationwide With Major Retailers. Apple Unveils Higher-Speed iPhone 12. Morgan reports third-quarter results that show a strong consumer base.

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APRIL 17, 2019

The race to 5G retail is on. The new, faster mobile network technology is a big part of the plans for many commerce and payments operators, even though specific use cases have been only slowly emerging as the technology and the devices to support it are deployed. 5G Retail Plans. That said, Apple is unlikely to wait too long.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) can make their operations run smoother by tapping into automated processes, electronic invoices and accounts receivable (AR) tools for digital payments. In payments innovation, mass transit is driving the global future of contactless payments.

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MAY 5, 2016

Now that Apple’s less-than-stellar earnings report has had time to propagate throughout the industry, the commonsense takeaway is that the company has lost a piece of the innovation mojo that has defined the brand for so long. Haters beware — Apple isn’t taking that criticism laying down.

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APRIL 10, 2019

From CVS to T-Mobile , retailers and technology providers are catering to the trend of contactless payment acceptance with new solutions and methods of handling cards from customers. CVS, for instance, brought support for the Apple Pay mobile wallet to stores across the country, per reports in October. locations, per reports last year.

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JULY 1, 2019

First National Bank of Omaha (FNBO), with $20 billion in assets and 5,000 employees, is building out its seven-person innovation group within the bank's namesake skyscraper in Omaha, Nebraska. The 162-year-old bank is remodeling the group's workspace to resemble a startup, with open, collaborative offices and Apple TVs adorning the walls.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Consumers shopping in droves via eCommerce channels is hardly a piece of breaking news — for the better part of a decade, that has been obvious to anyone watching the retail space. They are, Fiserv Senior Vice President of Retail Solutions John Nicola told Karen Webster in a recent conversation — and in great numbers.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In the connected age, consumers have more ways to interact with retailers than ever before. The executive also said the retailer saw an “1,000 percent increase” in purchases of pizza slices made through the SmartPay service since January 1. One of the retailers to tap into this technology?

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MAY 15, 2019

To help improve their operations, consumer services companies appear to have some very specific ideas about digital technology. The report also noted that many firms believe technology could also bolster their back-office operations. From Yelp to Apple , technology companies are providing solutions that could serve retail environments.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

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JULY 11, 2022

Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is a type of point-of-sale installment loan that partners with retailers to allow consumers to pay for their purchases in multiple equal payments. When online shopping, if a retailer has a partnership with a BNPL platform, the customer can choose it as their payment method when placing their order at checkout.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers? podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy.

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MARCH 2, 2020

It’s really difficult, the banking ecosystem is not fast and that’s just reality,” Jim McCarthy, industry expert and former innovation head for Visa, told Karen Webster in a recent conversation. The Headwinds Creating The Innovations Gap . But they all tend to have three things in common.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

Voice commerce may grab more headlines due to the presence of Google, Apple and Amazon, but conversational commerce – its younger cousin – is finding its own way as the information superhighway to a purchase. “We With ReplyBuy, we'll operate in two-way conversations into that experience. The pandemic was definitely an accelerator.”.

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DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first were the Pepsis, Heinzes and Krafts that either didn’t like their retail distribution or saw a pandemic-driven opportunity to get new products in new configurations to the consumer. Formed in 2008, Green Goo is a women-owned, family-operated company that started out making skin products and first aid salves for friends and family.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

Apple’s mobile payment service Apple Pay helped the company’s services business revenue grow 19% year-over-year to reach an all-time high of $10.9 Apple Pay processed over 1.8 billion in the first quarter of 2019.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from cool concept toward everyday consumer reality, and signs of that innovation are increasingly appearing in the retail space. Take the issue of retail security as one example. Retail Trust and AI.

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JULY 27, 2020

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. The pandemic has brought uncertainty to many businesses, but at the same time, it has sparked innovation,” said Ro Bhatia , chief operating officer at sticky.io.

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APRIL 5, 2016

but it’s adding significant innovation staff to its New York office. Job ads for more than a dozen positions in the Big Apple were recently posted, and quite a few of them directly relate to the bank’s innovation effort. Capital One Financial Corp. may be based in McLean, Va., Here are just a Read More.

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JUNE 27, 2016

At launch, the service was positioned as an innovative replacement for a well-entrenched standard considered not well-suited for a mobile and digital world. This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

But as time passes and a new decade approaches – one that promises even higher levels of digital innovation and disruption – it’s becoming ever more clear that 5G mobile network technology will help power the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0. Coal, steam and oil helped to fuel the industrial revolutions we read about in history books.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

As predicted, Amazon has a new Echo coming out in time for the holidays – and here’s how it plans to compete with Apple’s HomePod. Two of them, actually – the Echo and the Echo Plus, retailing for $99 and $150, respectively. Amazon And Apple Enter 4K Video Price War. This and more in this week’s tracker. Echo Rumors Confirmed.

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MAY 6, 2019

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference ( WWDC ), where the company introduces new products and services and an operating system upgrade, is slated for June 3. The company is planning to release updates for all of its products, including the Apple Watch and Apple TV, noted the report. That’s how it should be.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

As it makes its way to South Africa and continues to amass impressive partnerships with the likes of Alipay and PayPal, Samsung Pay might have completed three years in the mobile payments market, but its numbers still lag its main rival, Apple Pay. Samsung revealed yesterday that it had completed 1.3

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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MARCH 14, 2017

At least that’s the idea behind IBM’s MobileFirst for iOS app suite — apps, designed specifically for bank employees in different sectors, including corporate, private and retail, SME, and others. To create the suite – intended for various industries in addition to banking – IBM first […].

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MAY 20, 2016

Is the Apple Genius Bar to be supplanted by Genius Groves? But at least at some Apple locations, consumers will be having a more arboreal experience. In celebration of the 15th anniversary of the opening of the first Apple store, Apple decided to pull the curtain back on its new production — a new design for sales locations.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Just consider the ongoing rise of voice-assisted retail, which will play a major role in the evolution of smart homes. In fact, the eCommerce operator is itself facing more competition for the smart home market. The most recent example of that comes from IKEA, the home furnishings retailer. IKEA Steps Up.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted. The list goes on.

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MAY 30, 2019

As well, the current growth in voice-assistance technology in retail will play out in healthcare in its own way, thanks in large part to 5G, according to the report. “5G As well, the current growth in voice-assistance technology in retail will play out in healthcare in its own way, thanks in large part to 5G, according to the report. “5G

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

With one new product delayed and one giving a lackluster performance, it would have been nice for Apple if the new version of the Apple Watch had done well, but early reviewers are saying that’s not the case. Series 3 Apple Watch. It’s even more of a shame for Apple because of the company’s recent forays into chip design.

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APRIL 12, 2016

That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere. It’s what’s turned the retail word upside down as consumers with their mobile devices have decided they’d rather buy from their couch with their mobile phone than schlep to the mall. In other words, kick the door wide open to remote retail. Meeting the consumer where they are.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The first was that American mobile-wallet providers pretty much avoided it, starting with Apple eschewing QR codes in 2014 in favor of the higher-tech (and more secure) NFC technology. Jonker said the beauty of QR codes is that they offer a contactless payment that’s not completely bound to a structured retail environment. Second, U.S.

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