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DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

T-shirts may seem like a simple product, but according to Spreadshirt, there is a ton of hard data and analytics at the core of even the softest shirt. Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6

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OCTOBER 22, 2018

fans traveling to Boston for the start of the World Series will want to pack — and possibly purchase for the first time — sweaters, as this week will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy New England’s crisp fall weather. In fact, they have favored brands, with iTunes and Google Play cards popular favorites. billion in assets and $11.3

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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. We see evidence of this every day. Put on a Retail Happy Face. Simultaneously, U.S.

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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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AUGUST 18, 2016

Big Data is big business. That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. And one of the most valuable forms of data right now is behavioral data because it tells a retailer or brand where a customer or potential customer goes, does and spends their time and money on.

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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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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

And adapting to those evolutions – and following them through, ” The Tie Bar CEO Allyson Lewis noted in an interview Lewis is how the eCommerce Tie Bar brand made a full migration to permanent physical stores — now up and running in Boston, Chicago and New York. The brand has grown gradually and cautiously during that time.

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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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AUGUST 16, 2016

That “team of geeks” would be the folks at Adore Me , the disruptive eCommerce lingerie startup founded by a Harvard Business School student in 2011 after he couldn’t find his girlfriend any affordable lingerie online for their anniversary. By simply switching one model for another, Adore Me’s data team discovered that it could triple sales.

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OCTOBER 4, 2019

Online retailers are expanding their brick-and-mortar footprints – and using feedback from eCommerce customers to inform the selections in their new stores. Amazon , in one case, has added a suburban Boston location to its roster of Amazon 4-star stores, marking the fifth location of its type in the United States. Bass & Co.

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DECEMBER 8, 2016

Clavis Insight, a world leader in digital shelf analysis, insights and analytics, recently formed an alliance with leading Big Data and predictive analytics provider IRI. Our solution is oriented toward brand manufacturers who are looking to monitor their brands’ product listings in the online marketplace,” said Silverman.

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JUNE 1, 2016

Wayfair, an online home furnishing retailer, is launching a home-grown display display advertising platform to improve consumer targeting through customized messaging. It also put the collected consumer data to better use through product recommendations, which are more relevant than they used to be.

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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. and not by a small margin.

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MAY 18, 2017

From responsive mobile websites to on-demand offerings, consumers are increasingly demanding that retailers, both online and in the real world, cater to their needs in the moment. . And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference. On-Demand Days .

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JANUARY 26, 2017

Layer3 is betting big on basic and premium channel bundles, going against major players AT&T, HBO and CBS and others that have embraced online streaming via desktop and mobile apps to compete with the likes of Netflix and Hulu. and has since rolled out to Chicago.

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MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. What will factor into any restaurant or restaurant group’s success in tomorrow’s online world are the numbers and demographics of just how tourist-traveled your city, town, or region is going forward.

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APRIL 16, 2018

That lawmakers have now put any big tech company that uses consumer data in the same bucket: bad guys out to make billions of bucks at the consumer’s expense. It’s that last point though — one now central to the current Facebook data debate — that I find most unsettling. They aren’t all like Facebook.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. It’s clear from the data, at least in the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

To serve customers who want to shop in stores and online, retailers and solution providers are working to offer a unified retail experience across multiple channels. In some cases, brands like Loblaw and Nike are letting shoppers use their mobile phones to pay for their purchases at their physical stores.

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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. 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. That retailer is, of course, Amazon.

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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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Articles via USA Today, Payments Today, The Financial Brand and Bloomberg. The hackers pulled off the largest theft of customer data from a U.S. financial institution in history, stealing personal information of more than 100 million people.

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APRIL 14, 2020

According to CDC data, only about 23 percent of American adults are getting the recommended amount of exercise per week, data consistent with measurements by the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) indicating that about a quarter of all Americans have gym memberships they report using regularly.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

With PwC’s projected significant increase in the AI market over the next two-and-a-half years — alongside Boston Retail Partners’ research showing 45 percent of retailers ramping up AI use in the next three years — it’s no wonder consumer behaviors have begun to change as well.

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JANUARY 27, 2017

Digital companies like Amazon have long demonstrated the effectiveness of precision marketing through online and social media, but it’s been impossible for restaurants and retail operating in the brick-and-mortar world to duplicate those capabilities,” said Jain. They also accelerated the adoption of our new online ordering platform.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. “Brand degradation and competitive pressures to either price or experience can be real threats to the survival of struggling retailers,” said Sharon Bonelli, senior director of leveraged finance at Fitch.

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MAY 29, 2019

According to JD Power, “Nearly 90% of retail banking customers who are highly satisfied with the advice provided by their financial institution say they “definitely will” reuse their bank or credit union for another product” (The Financial Brand). Customers will inevitably face data breaches, identity theft, and fraud.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2017

One platform benefitting from the mobile scramble, NewStore, a Boston-based omnichannel mobile commerce platform provider and software developer, recently received $50 million in Series B financing to help fund efforts to expand its mobile platform’s capabilities and partner with new retailers.

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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. To tap into the craft spirits and new alcoholic beverages trends, major alcohol companies such as Diageo, AB InBev, and Pernod Ricard have all started to invest in emerging brands.

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MAY 20, 2016

“The idea of curbside pickup is that shoppers are demanding the ability to get purchases however they want and wherever they want,” said Laura Kennedy, director of retail insights at Boston-based Kantar Retail. “A The data show that operating earnings from sales have declined by up to 25 percent as a result of a shift from in-store to online.

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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. That subtle checkout conversion mission is still ongoing, but now, Affirm is branching out beyond the regular confines of in-store and online retail. Using Data To Stop Data Breaches.

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MAY 29, 2019

According to JD Power, “Nearly 90% of retail banking customers who are highly satisfied with the advice provided by their financial institution say they “definitely will” reuse their bank or credit union for another product” (The Financial Brand). Customers will inevitably face data breaches, identity theft, and fraud.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

million in tokens for DENT, a mobile data ICO; and over $1.1 This solution will make it easier for receivers in those markets to receive and use funds instantly (via their bank-issued Visa-branded debit card or Visa-branded prepaid card), and senders may choose the option by which to send those funds. They also stole $13.8

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AUGUST 4, 2016

Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Chatbots are viewed as the developers’ answer to consumer frustration, but they’re just another layer in between the user and the brand, becoming just another tech feature to help the user fix another tech feature.

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