PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

We’re flying blind because we lack relevant data to build and then use the right frameworks to make confident, reasonable decisions that guide our businesses, and even our economy. Despite being inundated with data, we’re amazingly lost. What Innovation? We see evidence of this every day. Put on a Retail Happy Face.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In some cases, brands like Loblaw and Nike are letting shoppers use their mobile phones to pay for their purchases at their physical stores. The approximate value of Fiserv’s stock-based acquisition deal for First Data was $22 billion. In addition, First Data CEO Frank Bisignano was set to be president and COO.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In data that will likely surprise anyone who has avidly watched retail over the last few years, the market is trending strongly toward same-day delivery. According to the “2017 Digital Commerce Benchmark Survey,” conducted by Boston Retail Partners (BRP), some 65 percent of retailers will offer same-day delivery within the next two years.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

At least, that’s what leading psychologists say the data shows. There’s data on that, too. It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. More fundamental is that most resolutions require that people break old habits – and form new ones.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

The branding will reflect the financial institutions and not Google. Amazon To Build $40M Robotics Innovation Hub Near Boston. New Data: How Subscription Box Merchants Can Contend In The Amazon Age. The knives were out for Amazon this week thanks to a major sneaker brand. Deutsche Bank told U.K.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s why recommendations are consistently ranked by consumers as one of the most important features a merchant can offer an online shopper, why merchants gladly oblige and why brands strive to make products that are consistently ranked high by consumers. Saving Main Street. Even more of them are closing.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Sharon Klapka, Adore Me’s vice president of business and brand development, appeared at the eTail East conference in Boston on Monday (Aug. By simply switching one model for another, Adore Me’s data team discovered that it could triple sales. Go to your customers, ask them questions, measure the data. million in funding.

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2016

True Fit , the Boston-based startup that helps connect customers with shoes and apparel that fits them really, really well, recently announced a $25 million investment from Intel Capital that it will use to expand its business, according to a report from TechCrunch. 2015 that it used for expansion.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. Source: PYMNTS.com longitudinal study of over 40,000 consumers (data from the most recent panel on Nov. consumers — 47.2 23-25, 2020.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Jeff Binder, CEO of Layer3, was quoted by The Washington Post as saying, “We’re the first cable company in … 10 years to come that’s brand new. Consumers haven’t had a young innovative company to provide [pay TV] services to them since the mid-1990s, when Dish and DirectTV came on the scene.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Dunkin’ is one of the most widespread quick-service restaurants (QSR) brands in the world, selling coffee, donuts and breakfast items at more than 11,300 locations in 36 countries, including 8,500 restaurants across the United States. Dunkin’ is no stranger to such attacks and suffered from data breaches in November and February.

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PYMNTS

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. It’s that last point though — one now central to the current Facebook data debate — that I find most unsettling.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

That gives us all the data we need to make a custom insole for your foot,” Hargovan said. With the data, Wiivv can run the measurements through software that can biomechanically enhance the soles. Unlike more traditional brands, Wiivv doesn’t have inventory. Here’s how the service works: Consumers download Wiivv’s app.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

But despite the general interest in the area, the conversations around innovation and what’s next in technology isn’t always directed at women, or particularly tailored to their interests. We all want to know what ‘it’ is it in our technology, our clothes and our personal lives.”.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). The Available Data. The data is out there, said the executive, with unprecedented access to drive patterns, the number of fill-ups that a consumer conducts in a given period of time and other buying behaviors. Picture this. It’s snowing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

Secrecy is a funny thing for brands. It keeps consumers interested, because a consumer that is always guessing about the next product release is, by necessity, always thinking about the brand. Stringfellow was promoted to the permanent position of VP of internal innovation and operations. It is a delicate balance, of course.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. The two brands first started working together in 2015. According to data from the National Retail Federation (NRF), stores will bring in around $14.8 We in Boston hope for it to be our sixth!

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Data from Tracxn Technologies released this week found less than half the volume of venture capital going to B2B startups in between January and August of this year compared to the same period the year before. million in seed funding, announced on Thursday (Sept.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

All of those things are precisely what Sam Walton staked the Walmart brand on 56 years ago when he opened the first store in Bentonville, Arkansas. The brand was built on keeping prices low, and stocking shelves with a variety of merchandise categories that would keep consumers coming back week after week. That’s $62,941. Housing (18.5

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. Facebook uses that data to better serve targeted ads. Good luck with that. But wait a second.

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CB Insights

JULY 9, 2018

Whether you call it happy hour, apéro, or aperitivo, the couple of hours right after work and before dinner is a key drinking occasion for major alcohol brands. At the same time, startups are riding the craft spirits, cannabis-infused beverages, and alcohol-free trends, offering innovative products to happy hour drinkers. Cambusier.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

This is an innovation-seeking franchise that has built a solid brand and never got over its skis in execution. Eric has always been a student of innovation, and now at Coastal, this fearless leader has spearheaded a number of high-profile banking-as-a-service partnerships. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. The hope is that the brand/experience convo will lure in customers and keep them buying. Their retail experience needs a bit of reinventing , and she did that for the iconic brand when she joined them. You want to know what really sizzled this week? Burberry, Ms.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Select Investors: CAA Ventures, Greycroft Partners, GVR Fund, Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund. Maestro is a live and on-demand video experience platform that allows content creators and brand sponsors to engage and monetize audiences at scale. Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. Series A eSports Companies to Watch.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

At the rate so many once-solitary brands are shacking up with other companies, though, maybe the definition of the term needs to be widened a bit. “Our focus is solving meaningful problems for our organizers and attendees with world-class products and innovation,” Sellier said in a statement. Using Data To Stop Data Breaches.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. million in tokens for DENT, a mobile data ICO; and over $1.1 It’s a matter of some confusion and debate about who first came up with the concept. million-worth of NPXS tokens that were issued by payment project Pundi X’s ICO.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

This summer, Nike unveiled its latest brick-and-mortar venture in Los Angeles: Nike by Melrose, a physical store that uses local online shopping data to determine its in-store inventory. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Major retailers and brands go local.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Paytronix platform, used by more than 400 restaurants and other types of merchants to personally engage with customers, collaborated with PYMNTS on a recent deep dive into restaurant innovation and trends. Third-party providers are looking to control the guest data to a certain extent,” he said. restaurant market. The main problem?

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. This could come as a welcome relief, as lending decisions will be based on data about the viability and success of the business, which helps everyone.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Formerly beloved brands such as Aeropostale, American Apparel, and PacSun bit the dust in 2016, and the pace of retail deaths has accelerated since then. Additionally, many of these physical retailers have lost the cache they once had as new direct-to-consumer brands with a hyper-focus on specific products have taken off. RadioShack.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Already this year, at least 30 organizations — including coffee chain Dunkin’ and cloud provider Rubrik — experienced major data breaches. These high-profile data breaches (among many others over the last few years) have put the general public on high alert, with talk of data protection becoming an increasing priority.

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Javelin Strategy & Research

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. They have also mentioned the use of drone delivery, although this one looks more than a little sci-fi for now (along with providing inspiration for a brand new sport I’ll call for now “Skeet Shopping”). What can I say?

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Banking 2020

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Regardless of how and why they hit the market, some technology-driven innovations seem to lend themselves to particular vertical markets and/or disciplines. And here’s one more nugget of particular interest to the folks in banking: The issue of payment and data security remains a thorn in the side of many retailers. Social channels?

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Big-brand megabanks, the Visa and MasterCard networks, and big-box merchants had signed up to become partners with Apple’s universal retail smartphone app that uses Near Field Communication and tokenization technologies. Typically the younger segments are more innovative and are looking for new ways to do things,” Brown offers.

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