PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Online lodging marketplace Airbnb announced on Thursday (Sept. The company has been actively trying to expand in the past few years, and it recently launched a new service for people to not only book lodging, but to give them experiences and tours in cities. billion in total booking value, which is up 31 percent from the year prior.

Los Angeles 118

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

As the second decade of the 21 st century is drawing to a close, it is almost unimaginable that booking a flight or finding the right hotel room would present as a challenge. They effectively created ways in which they booked tickets that effectively captured the consumer experience,” he said. Moreover, travel is full of risk.

How To 172

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As digital and mobile technology changes the automotive market, vehicle subscription and online marketplace businesses are also growing, and undergoing changes. Automotive sales are increasing going digital — and more consumers are buying more used products of all types online. Toyota’s Move.

Nashville 130

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

There seems to be an awful lot of piling on these days on the big online platforms. Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands. Then there’s Amazon. Nothing is forever.

Innovation 109

Innovation Online Google Millennials 109

PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2018

Blockchain Capital. Blockchain heavyweight Ripple made headlines this week when it announced a $25 million investment in Blockchain Capital, a venture capital firm focused on backing blockchain startups. The funding comes in the form of Ripple’s own cryptocurrency and will be used to fund startups selected by Blockchain Capital.

Lending 129

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Retailers run the retail space as if it was their own store, and there is even a salesperson on-hand who works for Bulletin, but each brand gets to train them. Bulletin has also released an early version of software to make it easy to book a space and access sales numbers, and it will continue to improve upon that technology.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2017

David is taking on Goliath as Shipt, an online grocery delivery startup based in Birmingham, Ala., number one grocery delivery brand. Shipt has raised $40 million in venture capital on top of last year’s funding as initial investors doubled down on their contributions.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2021

Beyond the fact that many institutions are decades — or even centuries — old, with long-lasting customer relationships and brand awareness, traditional financial institutions also hold key data on their business customers that is vital to their underwriting and decision making. Embedded Finance Shifts The Competition.

Lending 164

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. They influenced those choices by changing the consumer’s path to purchase and payment.

Innovation 223

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2019

When Amazon launched in 1995, it looked to most as a one-trick eTailer that sold books online. A quarter-century later, that online bookstore has profoundly changed the retail landscape and every player operating within it. The trouble with existential threats is they very rarely show up and announce themselves.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Over the last decade, innovators have capitalized on the consumers’ growing desire to save time, using mobile devices and apps to create any number of ways to do that. They don’t have to sit at home and write checks to pay the bills — they can use online or mobile bill pay to get the job done. In fact, it tops the list. consumers.

Innovation 209

Innovation Study Mobile Online 209

PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Dosh Doles Out Rewards By Connecting Brands And Cards. Dosh is an online cash-back rewards app that built its business model on creating a connection between retailers and brands — Nike, Toms, Gap, Walgreens, Walmart, Target and Sephora are all partner firms — and payment card providers like Visa and Mastercard.

Cards 152

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2019

million in fresh funding, capital that will go toward “a B2B offering (that allows) individual travel agents at large online travel management companies and tour operators to offer a ‘seamless travel experience’ to their end customers, making the booking experience simpler, faster and cheaper.”. Multiple Payment Struggles.

Innovation 152

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

toy market and its sudden disappearance left toy brands — large and small — quaking, as they now find themselves competing for shelf space that is vastly diminished. “A Strategic Marks, a firm that buys and repurposes defunct brands, owns the KB name and plans to open 1,000 pop-up KB Toys stores this holiday season. But will it?

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. Restaurants can add incentive to a slow night, or pull back on promotions during full bookings. Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2020

Knowing that Nike and Amazon were in the process of breaking their sales agreement, we tried a third item: a copy of Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital and Ideology.” One thing is certain: eCommerce has provided a leveling platform for many direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands, and that momentum could be in danger.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2017

That ignores, of course, that it’s dangerous to live in a world of “statistical averages” since big chunks of in some segments have been shifted online — books (of course), sporting goods, apparel. Dealing with deal-hungry shoppers works for them because they are always able to offer the brands consumers want at a discount.

Retail 101

Retail Branding Online Course 101

CB Insights

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Using CB Insights data, we ranked the most active investors into unique travel tech startups since 2013, including venture capital and corporate venture investors. From new booking engines to events/activities to person-to-person platforms like Airbnb, there is innovation all over in travel. Car-hailing services are excluded.

Denver 68

Denver Capital US Innovation 68

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Online sales today are a speck on a pinhead, accounting for just $7 billion, or a little more than 1 percent of total grocery sales. Letting its Prime customers buy Bounty paper towels or Tide Laundry Pods or extra-large Milk-Bones online eliminated the hassle factor of having to go to the store to get them and then lug them home.

Retail 100

Retail Online Branding Innovation 100

PYMNTS

MAY 19, 2018

There have been a number of great commercial jingles in the history of commercials — tunes so catchy that they stick, almost forever, and remind us of brand names simply by nature of being so catchy. At that point in retail history, Amazon was mostly known as an online bookstore.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

in seed funding from Arab Angel, Victress Capital and other undisclosed angel investors. AUrate’s gold is all recycled, and all of the brand’s diamonds are sourced in New York and have gone through the Kimberley Process to ensure they are conflict-free stones. We make the jewelry we always wanted to wear, but could never find.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Search data helps brands understand shopper preferences. Beauty brands partner with Google Assistant and Home. Messenger taps brands for beauty bots. Instagram powers digital beauty brands. Google’s search data helps brands understand beauty shopper preferences. YouTube powers beauty influencers.

Google 72

Google Apple Industry Branding 72

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

Brands with a digital presence can’t do business without embedding payments in their online stores. These SMBs and service providers use integrated payments to slash paper invoicing and enable credit card payments online. Or was the brand there from the beginning, when she was deciding whether she wanted to buy a dresser at all?

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Payments Software Cards Trends 116

PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

In the past two years alone, there have been 650 venture capital investments for artificial intelligence technologies — totaling more than $5 billion — and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is predicting that figure will reach a market value of $70 billion by the year 2020.

Retail 128

Retail Customer Experience Boston Branding 128

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Select VC Investors: Khosla Ventures, Social Capital. Select VC Investors: Cue Ball Capital, Valley Oak Investments. 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. Café X Technologies. Oh My Cream!

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

JANUARY 31, 2020

Bryant formed the Bryant Stibel venture capital firm in 2013 with Jeff Stibel, founder of Web.com. Bank’s Adam Kruis, senior vice president and manager of working capital consulting, and Jennifer Swenson, vice president of corporate payment systems, discuss how the bank ensures smooth implementation of virtual card solutions.

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Jeff For Banks

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

First online bank, the imminently recognizable Orange Account, yadda yadda yadda. And it sold in 2012 for around book value. So its brand didn't blow away its buyer, Capital One, either. So its brand didn't blow away its buyer, Capital One, either. With a firm dose of capital. I suppose he was.

Fintech 60

Fintech Kansas Community Bank Capital 60

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The loans themselves would reportedly be co-branded. John Cronin, an analyst at Goodbody’s, told the Financial Times that by using banking partnerships, Amazon could “significantly extend” its SMB lending platform, “without any associated credit risk of regulatory obligations (in the context of capital and liquidity and so forth).”.

Austin 131

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2018

That is unless the shopper is online, in which case they might find themselves picking through 100,000 options. Though all claim to the best and hold the true secret to a life, there is only one book that has sold over 30 million copies on the topic : Dale Carnegie’s How to Make Friends and Influence People. .

Apple 101

Apple Fraud social media Payments 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

And yet Japan remains a heavily cash-based economy, Darren Abrahamson , managing director of Bain Capital Tech Opportunities told Karen Webster. That’s allowed small merchants to start accepting things like different card brands and new digital options like mobile wallets. “It

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South State Correspondent

JUNE 8, 2022

Some companies are law firms in state capitals that handle political money, some are franchises, while others are businesses that grow revenue and hire in lock step over multiple years. A bank in New York has displayed deposit promotions online and on the windows of their branches for the last seven years.

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Data Marketing Strategy Examples 195

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Despite the thousands of articles and books written by self-help experts over the years extolling the benefits of embracing change and incorporating more variety into one’s life, the truth is that trying new things can be a hard thing to motivate people or businesses to do. said John Collison, co-founder and president of Stripe. “As

Data 143

Data Cards San Francisco Online 143

PYMNTS

JULY 26, 2018

And BMW is hardly alone: Cadillac launched a car subscription concierge service of cars and SUVs last year called BOOK. Beyond BMW and Cadillac , the subscription market is growing as consumers and brands take note: Software vendors, too, are turning to subscriptions, according to the PYMNTS Subscription Commerce Tracker.

Marketing 110

Marketing Software Nashville Tennessee 110

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Petco said the upgrades include a focus on curbside pickup, same-day delivery, online appointment booking for veterinary care and more. Rival online pet supply firm Chewy staged a successful IPO last year. We think there is a real chance for Roblox to become the ‘metaverse’” — a virtual universe among online users.

Marketing 198

Marketing Company Online Management 198

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as of the end of July. In the book, he freely admits that his formula might not work for every company.

Innovation 245

Innovation Video Course Meeting 245

PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

Online Fraud. The latest CyberSource annual report on online fraud tells the tale of card-not-present fraud not just going down, but going down by a whole big bunch – across all channels. Mobile was down, online was down and even cross-border fraud was down. Problem – what problem?

Apple 100

Apple Branding Fraud Bitcoin 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

In general, venture capitalists are boosting their investments in Latin America, with funding reaching $594 million in 2015, a stark increase from $387 million in 2012, the Latin America Venture Capital Association confirmed.

Innovation 100

Innovation Apple social media America 100