Perficient

AUGUST 5, 2020

With our team’s help, the client has been able to transition a significant portion of their userbase to a named user system and allowed us the opportunity to help develop the tools that their clients will use to manage these users.” — Austin Spinazze, Associate Technical Consultant. “I I have helped my colleagues in building their career.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2017

Thanks to connected technology, consumers’ expectations on the retail experience have changed. Upon surveying more than 100 retail operations leaders across 250 store locations, the study revealed barriers blocking growth and the key performance indicators being used for measurement.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Convenience store operator 7-Eleven is launching beer and cider delivery in select U.S. ” According to Fortune , the company will test the service in 18 markets: Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas-Ft. .” stores with the technology this year.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Through intelligent automation, our platform provides operational efficiency, improved customer experience, and faster payments, representing a $21 billion opportunity for lenders and borrowers.”. The funding will also go to support its effort to expand its software engineering and sales teams located in Austin, Texas. “We

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2017

Amazon is partnering with Galvanize — a 21st-century school for entrepreneurs, engineers, and data scientists — to offer Alexa Skills development workshops that will teach small developers and startups how to build skills for Amazon Alexa, the operating system for smart speaker Echo.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

Drako had founded several companies, including Barracuda Networks, and was frustrated with the lack of real-time information about his manufacturing operations. Cece and Drako met while running companies in Silicon Valley and later reconnected in Austin, Texas, to author a solution that could kill both birds with one stone.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

The company currently operates in Austin, Houston, Phoenix and Seattle. “We Austin was ranked 18 on the fastest-growing city list, for example, according to a Wallethub report from October 2018, and Seattle took number 25. Callbox Storage its headquarters in Dallas, and notched $3.5 million raised in 2017.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2018

Investors also took a liking to accounting technology, alternative small business finance and eProcurement, with B2B FinTech startups raising more than $107 million in all. The company secured $50 million in private equity funding from BV Investment Partners, Built In Austin said this week. Consero Global.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Retail innovation labs – incubators or tech hubs – aren’t confined to operations run by the likes of Amazon or Walmart. The location, which stocks products ranging from craft beers to handmade tortillas – has technology that lets shoppers use their phones for payments. The company already had operated an innovation facility in Japan.

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South State Correspondent

JANUARY 4, 2023

In addition, they may consider focusing on these five critical areas: Improve Operating Leverage. To improve the quality of their earnings, banks need their number one focus to be on making their operations more efficient. To the extent projects improve operating leverage and the total experience, so much the better.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 13, 2019

The new 5G mobile network technology is getting its first deployments, but that’s not the only communications game in town. A technology that tracks lost scooters people rent could play a role in the coming years in digital retail and payments, at least going by recent reports. Telco Alternative. Internet of Things.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

The logistics IT center is slated for downtown Minneapolis and will reportedly create 100 new technology focused full-time positions. Amazon is always looking for the best and brightest software engineers to join our team,” said Dave Glick, VP of operations technology for Amazon.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2019

We looked to technology to assist us,” she said. And as with Farmhouse Market, these new offerings often operate at intersection of tech and health. Membership-only wholesale retailer Costco stopped using the technology in 2013, but has re-introduced self-checkout options. The store, founded in 2015, works on a membership basis.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2019

That’s thanks in large part to mobile technology and the interest of other parts of the transportation ecosystem, including from ridesharing giants Uber and Lyft , both of which are on their ways to becoming public companies. That deal came after Lyft rival Uber bought bike-sharing operator JUMP. Scooter Expansion?

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Celent Banking

MARCH 6, 2015

Next week I will be moderating a panel discussion at American Banker´s Retail Banking Conference in Austin about the competitive pressures of community institutions. Consumers now expect a certain basic level of technological capabilities driven by their experiences across other industries. Even labor saving technology (e.g.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2019

They were to be available in some Chicago, Nashville, Austin and New York stores beginning on Oct. In other news, Outback Steakhouse is testing machine learning (ML) technology from Presto at multiple restaurants operated by one of its franchisees. 14, according to the report, and in California at the start of November.

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PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2019

The facility, which has been in operation since March, serves more than 100 Walmart locations in Guangxi and Guangdong. Beyond the distribution center, Walmart China is enhancing its logistics efforts in the country with the help of technology. The feature is on offer in Phoenix, Dallas, Austin and San Diego.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

Digital technology and payment methods are playing big roles in fueling advances and boosting the appeal of unattended retail. Vengo Labs CEO and Co-Founder Brian Shimmerlik told PYMNTS in a January interview , “We love shrinking down, and bringing the design and technology a whole new flavor.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Anxiety from outsiders promoting newfangled technologies that must be adapted in order for their bank to be relevant. Anxiety from insiders chiding them to innovate because this customer or that customer asked about some piece of technology their other bank has. Among bankers, there is anxiety. Two were acquired, and two shuttered.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Payworks ‘ gateway technology, Pulse, wants to provide the lifeblood to point-of-sale transactions for merchants using EMV, contactless and mobile wallets. Based in Munich, the company is taking on the European POS gateway technology market and has recently opened its U.S. headquarters in Austin, Texas.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Locale currently lists locations in Austin, Houston and Nashville on its website. Overall, Locale seeks to create a boutique experience, rather than a cookie-cutter apartment with another operator or extended-stay hotel. The Apart-Hotel Market. Gandhi pointed out that the quality and experience of apartment buildings have evolved.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

This volume of investment reflects the soaring demand within financial services for new digital innovations as these technologies prove their value and applicability in the market,” said Accenture Financial Services Group Chief Executive Richard Lumb in another statement. billion, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 47 percent.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 22, 2019

Online brands are stepping into the world of brick-and-mortar, opening their own physical locations to help consumers experience their concepts in real life with the help of digital technology. The brand’s latest chapter will include taking a leap into the world of brick-and-mortar with the help of technology-enabled storefronts.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 8, 2017

We used the CB Insights platform to surface 15 notable, early-stage startups developing technologies related to unmanned aerial, marine, and/or land vehicles designed for unstructured environments. Select Investors: Environmental Technologies Fund. Fortem Technologies. Starship Technologies. Hangar Technology.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor. 15 of the top 20 operate in the Greater Bay Area. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA. Operating Location: San Francisco, CA.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

But for prepaid debit card firm Netspend — which spent much of the past year making just such a transition — the challenge wasn’t as much a matter of changing technology as it was of changing the company’s mindset. At the same time, he said Netspend can reliably do all of that with its built-to-scale technology platform.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2018

Kroger operates nearly 2,800 supermarket chains nationwide, including Ralphs, Harris Teeter, Food 4 Less and its namesake Kroger stores. Kroger has been amping up its technology game over the last several years, expanding its omnicommerce offerings as it seeks to remain competitive in a crowded market. throughout 2018.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2017

After experiencing the awkwardness this could cause firsthand on a trip to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, cofounder Brian Chesky implemented PayPal, which enabled guests to pay online but still required Airbnb to deliver checks to hosts, which was a time-consuming process (and, um, checks!).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2016

The bold-yellow-lettering-on-blue-background-adorned movie rental stores that dotted the American landscape throughout the 1990s — Gothamist notes that, as late as 2004, there were around 9,000 Blockbuster locations in business across the country — now number a scant 51 independently operated franchises.

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CB Insights

MARCH 19, 2019

Move over, 4G — the next generation of wireless technology is here. 5G technology will enable wider network coverage, more stable internet connections, and faster data transfer speeds (from 4G’s 1Gbps to 10Gbps). 5G technology could integrate many unconnected, energy-consuming devices through low-cost connections.

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Filene

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Center for Performance and Operational Excellence: Fiserv, Christian Financial CU, Alliant CU. Speaking of those last two centers on Operational Excellence and Emerging Tech – you won’t want to miss our 1-2 research punch coming to California this April. Keeping pace with emerging financial technologies.

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Independent Banker

JANUARY 31, 2022

With the record growth of San Antonio, Houston and Austin, southern Texas is becoming a hub for business. The 2020 Census quantified the growth many residents were already sensing: Austin grew by 33% between 2010 and 2020, earning it the rank of fastest-growing large metro. Photo by Dennis Burnett. By Mindy Charski.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These ventures show credit unions are not standing still when it comes to technological disruption, and we hope much is learned from these early risk-taking efforts. For core legacy vendors, there is a three-to-four year window to put some new technology sparkle in your solutions or risk being tagged for replacement.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

Apple Pay is also now last in line on the web behind PayPal, Visa Checkout, MasterPass, Amazon, Walmart Pay on Walmart.com and soon Chase Pay, who all do one thing that Apple does not: They work across operating systems and browsers. So how did one of the most powerful technology companies in the world miss this mark so badly?

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The Zebra , an Austin-based home and auto insurance comparison site, announced its $38.6M Laka , a London-based community-driven insurance technology company, raised $4.7M AXA confirms its plans to sell its Eastern Europe operations to Austria’s Uniqa Insurance Group for $1.1B Deals & Exits. at an implied 12.4x P/E multiple.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 24, 2015

The technology gives users secure, on-demand access to hosted Android apps, while allowing icon shortcuts to be presented as they ordinarily would be. This ensures that users of other platforms and operating systems remain in a familiar environment. With version 3.1

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PYMNTS

JULY 10, 2018

The way restaurants serve their customers is going through a fundamental change, and the technology that enables restaurant operations must respond to these new demands. The Toast platform brings together an Android-based point-of-sale experience and solutions geared toward increasing revenue and improving restaurant operations.

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