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APRIL 20, 2017

Trying to book a trip on Hipmunk seems primitive to the point of being useless. I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities. Aeromexico. Working in conjunction with artificial intelligence firm IV.AI

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MAY 27, 2016

Located in suburbs of Boston in the three cardinal directions that don’t lead to the Atlantic, the workspaces-within-a-store will range between 2,500 and 3,500 square feet and will feature dedicated areas for quiet and communication-heavy work. eBay’s Virtual Future.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Innovators — particularly payments innovators — love this particular bon mot and spend a lot of time trying to build that new payments mousetrap, in the hopes that the world will beat a path to its door. If you can do it better than what’s out there — the whole world can be your market. So what will the pair-up mean?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. The company says it is improving on the nail salon model by offering online booking tools, ethical business practices, and high-quality services at reasonable prices. Oh My Cream! Total Disclosed Funding: $6.6M.

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AUGUST 5, 2016

For a startup that’s done some pretty heavy lifting to successfully recruit merchants to join an innovative new eCommerce platform, being front page news lauding its accomplishments is always great news. And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. .

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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. In short though, the barrier of speed for online purchasing via Amazon is sufficiently truncated to to negate a trip to the mall. Okay, I found it much funnier than the audience but that happens to me a lot. What can I say?

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. It can’t do that, certainly not as well, without collecting lots of data.

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APRIL 16, 2018

That most of our elected officials don’t have any clue how Facebook, much less the platform business models that have powered so much innovation across industry segments for thousands of years, work. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. trillion searches a year.

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AUGUST 9, 2018

The goal of the Wayfair worker is to work on “innovating better together,” becoming “fast fixers and builders” and to help customers to better “envision the spaces where they live their lives.”. It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small.

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JUNE 14, 2017

Online ordering now makes up more than 25 percent of orders at the chain’s company-owned stores. Trials at the Boston-area restaurant showed how each adjustment would affect the rest of the assembly line. For instance, online ordering reduced wait time at the counter but made life harder in the kitchen.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online. We’ve been watching online sales now grow — even double — year over year, for many years now, but it’s still tiny, overall. Take books, for example. For most of the last decade, we’ve been talking about the same old, same old.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

While it was easy to chalk things up then to the financial crisis and the consumer spending hangover that resulted, we dug deeper and discovered the enormous shifts in buying online from physical stores that had been underway. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Messenger Chief David Marcus has even said publicly that his inspiration for Messenger is, in fact, the ecosystem that 860 million Chinese use to do everything from text friends, to hail a taxi, to pay bills, to make a reservation at a restaurant, to book a doctor’s appointment, to use QR codes to shop at their favorite physical stores.

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MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Fall has arrived in Boston and we are sizzling. It’s far easier to ask Alexa the weather, or to call Dad, or to order Caleb Carr’s new book, Surrender New York, then to have to log into three bots and spend 15 minutes getting feedback. Complain about regulators ringing the life out of innovation – well, too bad, they’ll say.

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JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. State of Innovation Report. It was a genuinely innovative insight into allocating capital, dressed up as a 2×2.

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MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. One popular explanation for this is that millennials are simply shopping less in physical locations in general, preferring to do their shopping online. Thanks to innovative new rental models, ownership is no longer essential.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Read more: The Guardian , Reuters , Bloomberg , The Guardian , Wall Street Journal. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

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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. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

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JULY 23, 2020

A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. After raising $9M in Series A funding in May 2020, the company stated it expected a 500% increase in sales bookings quarter-over-quarter (QoQ). Source: VergeSense.

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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. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

via Beta Boston. Torris said Boo.com also spent too much on advertising and promotions and failed to keep pushing forward on technology innovations. via MDDI Online. In a Boston Globe interview in January, he had indicated that the company’s financial performance was a pressing concern. ” via Boston Globe.

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JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Little known fact: Leach writes in his book that Georgia O’Keefe made a tidy sum in 1927 by painting posters that graced department store walls and windows.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Markafoni was an online shopping destination for Turkish consumers, specialising in clothing and fashion accessories.

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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.

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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.

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