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MARCH 25, 2019

The Apple event, heavy on subscription commerce offerings, took place at time when the company is trying to find more revenue from services given recent stumbles with iPhone sales — a move that seems to be pleasing at least some investors lately. Magazine Subscriptions. One selling point of this service?

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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. cities each year.

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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 It can drive user attention effectively, and it personalizes the way our technology works.

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AUGUST 27, 2019

Menlo Park-based Enjoy Technology , the eCommerce startup led by Ron Johnson, former VP of retail operations for Apple, has raised an additional $150 million in Series C funding, TechCrunch reported on Tuesday (Aug. Enjoy Technology operates in 54-plus U.S. We think technology should make your life better.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

We have deep dives on cloud technology, business-to-business (B2B) payments and Visa’s deal to acquire YellowPepper. The “whose customer is it” question is now at the core of a number of the platform dynamics at play today and experiences that shoppers and retailers have with those platforms. Trackers And Reports .

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OCTOBER 23, 2020

It was a busy week for commerce and payments, as Apple Pay turned six and J.P. We have deep dives on Apple Pay, cross-border invoices and J.P. And, beginning next year, they will be able to spend their crypto collections with any of the 26 million retailers currently taking PayPal. Where does Apple Pay stand today?

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APRIL 27, 2020

Apple is still planning to launch new iPhone versions in mid-September but is curtailing the usual summer ramp-up in production by 20 percent, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday (April 27), citing sources familiar with the decision. Investors and analysts expected delays after Apple said it was going to miss revenue projections.

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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. Reducing network demands, the technology works even if cloud connection is lost.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. The move, however, was publicized in the fall.

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MAY 2, 2017

Mastercard today announced the appointment of CIO Ed McLaughlin to president, Operations and Technology. Everyone likes to talk about the T in operations and technology,” McLaughlin said. That’s how it lives every day, everywhere — the consumer experience is the operation.”. And likewise, knowing when to hold back.

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JULY 9, 2019

Automated retail might conjure up images of robot cashiers, but beyond a few convenience stores in Japan and Korea, that sci-fi development hasn’t yet become reality for the wider world. The latest Automated Retail Tracker explores these trends and new developments in the unattended retail space.

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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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MAY 24, 2018

Apple led the charge in the wearable band market during the first quarter of this year, with Canalys finding that the company shipped 3.8 million Apple Watches during the first three months of the year. Behind Apple, Xiaomi , which makes the Mi Bands, was in second place, shipping 3.7

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

A new survey has found that big retailers like Apple and Nike are losing favor in China, as consumers are showing a preference towards local brands. Online payment operator Alipay, owned by an affiliate of Alibaba, topped the list, while food delivery service Meituan Dianping broke into the top 10 for the first time.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In a pinch, there’s always the nearest souvenir shop, but do you really want to pay a premium for a cheap, tacky Big Apple sweatshirt that will most likely get worn today and donated to Goodwill tomorrow? These moves are tremors of a much bigger retail earthquake, according to USA Technologies chairman and CEO Stephen Herbert.

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Yesterday Apple announced entering the payments space with Apple Pay, a new way to pay in physical stores and mobile apps. At Celent we also published a report in March this year called Apple in Payments: What to Expect? In fact, those devices are only limited today to the newly announced iPhone 6 models and the Apple Watch.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Monese added support for Apple Pay for personal cards in the U.K. as well as France, Wirecard joined forces with Cimple Marketing for an Alipay implementation at Stockmann -operated department stores in The Baltics as well as Finland and Upco International Inc. Coverage includes U.A.E. In other news, Upco International Inc.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Help yourself: Unattended retail just got more seamless and widespread with USA Technologies ’ acquisition of Cantaloupe Systems, Inc. The deal is expected to close by the end of this week, according to a press release from USA Technologies. loyalty program into Apple Pay as the industry was first warming up.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

According to a recent report from CNBC , the eCommerce and cloud-computing operator has said that “its facial recognition software can detect a person’s fear.” The technology in question “can be used for facial analysis or sentiment analysis, which identifies different expressions and predicts emotions from images of people’s faces.

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APRIL 3, 2018

In what The Wall Street Journal described as a form of nagging, Apple is prompting users of its iPhone to enroll in Apple Pay, which has created a mixed reaction from the public. The prompts to enroll in Apple Pay are tied to the iPhone’s most recent operating system update, yet they’re subtle, reported the WSJ.

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JUNE 27, 2016

This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . Working with our partner, InfoScout, we fielded our latest quarterly consumer study of Apple Pay adoption and usage in early June and just completed our analysis. We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay. PLEASE GIVE ME A TRY!

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AUGUST 8, 2018

Global tech startup Beam Wallet is ready to launch a new mobile payment solution, which will link smartphones and blockchain technology to enable faster and simpler retail payments. The firm’s “network now operates in more than 400,000 stores” around the world,“with over 5,000 live stores on three continents.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Can Oprah Winfrey help lead Apple to new frontiers of digital commerce? Or is the media mogul and longstanding promoter of reading merely another aid in Apple’s apparent ongoing quest to be more like Amazon? It also follows, by about a year or so, Apple’s rebranding of its iBook feature to Apple Books.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Can Oprah Winfrey help lead Apple to new frontiers of digital commerce? Or is the media mogul and longstanding promoter of reading merely another aid in Apple’s apparent ongoing quest to be more like Amazon? It also follows, by about a year or so, Apple’s rebranding of its iBook feature to Apple Books.

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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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AUGUST 2, 2018

A certain amount of intellectual satisfaction — irony, perhaps — came from the conference call Wednesday (July 31) for Apple ’s latest earnings report. In it, CEO Tim Cook credited much of Apple Pay’s recent growth to its increasing use in mass transit. Visit a major U.S. OK, that might be an exaggeration. Contactless Visions.

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MAY 25, 2017

USA Technologies (USAT), a payment technology provider of cashless and mobile transactions in self-serve retail , announced Wednesday (May 24) a strategic agreement with Five Star Food Service, a full-service vending, micromarkets, office refreshment services and corporate dining company, to expand their partnership.

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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 28, 2019

continue to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations — same day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said — as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Costco Wholesale Corp. The store is located in the Shanghai area.

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APRIL 21, 2017

Apple looks to have joined the race to develop self-driving technology. Though, as is typical with Apple projects, details are vague at best. At the time, “future stuff” was widely thought to be a reference to augmented reality technology. With self-driving technology to boot? Everyone’s talking about it.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Apple is facing a new competitor in the mobile wallet market, thanks to a joint venture between two Swiss companies, reports said on Monday (Sept. and Paymit has the companies working on their own mobile wallet technology slated for launch early next year. The merger between payments tech firms TWINT Ltd.

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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. Google isn’t the only one giving Amazon some pushback.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Those promise to stand as two main traits of the 2018 holiday shopping season , and retailers that gain an edge and increase revenue during the all-important fourth quarter will likely have exploited such tactics during this period, at least according to new data that strives to paint a detailed picture of U.S. percent, reaching $124.1

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Apple’s vice president of retail, Angela Ahrendts, doesn’t see the Apple stores as simply places to learn and purchase Apple devices. Ahrendts made the comments just as the Cupertino, California technology powerhouse opened a new flagship store in Chicago.

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APRIL 12, 2016

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. That’s the mantra of innovators everywhere.

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

As we look to a new decade and as payments technology advances, eyes are turning toward point-of-sale (POS) insurance offerings for retail purchases. As recent PYMNTS research has confirmed, 58 percent of consumers would be more likely to buy retail products or spend more with merchants if insurance was offered at the point of sale.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Just in time for the holiday shopping spree — including Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday — online selling platform Etsy has announced it now accepts Apple Pay. 21) that its online site now allows buyers to pay via Apple Pay; previously, the company only supported Apple Pay when purchases were made on the Etsy iOS app.

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