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APRIL 16, 2018

It’s why I said then that Google Search and Amazon and platforms like them — not Facebook — are among the new power brokers in our world. On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase. And not, it seems, to enable commerce.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Google, for instance, has its Midwest headquarters in the former Fulton Market Cold Storage building. Building upon its Boston-area staff, Facebook plans to open a new office in neighboring Cambridge next year. Cambridge, Massachusetts. The new offices will be located on the top three floors at 100 Binney St. San Francisco, California.

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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. We’re still early in that journey,” she said. We’re still early in that journey,” she said.

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JULY 30, 2019

Just look to Google. It recently introduced the ability to order food for pickup or delivery via services like DoorDash, Postmates and ChowNow through Google Maps. More than 400 Dunkin’ restaurants throughout New York City’s five boroughs are now offering delivery through Seamless, Grubhub’s New York brand.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Google couldn’t make smart glasses work, and Snapchat’s Spectacles haven’t exactly done a booming business either, but Amazon is optimistic that it has the missing piece to push this futuristic technology to success, and her name is Alexa. Rose-Colored Glasses. Kohl’s Partnership. Setting Trends. One year ago, that percentage was only 16.

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JANUARY 15, 2018

It’s what Google is hoping Google Home and “Ask Google” will do for them. In 2016, consumers “asked Google” to perform at least two trillion searches every year. This year, Google reported that 15 percent of those searches were for brand-new search terms, but down from the 20 to 25 percent they claimed in 2007.

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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 app, which was released in May, is available in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Of that 44 percent, 67 percent requested Apple Pay specifically, 18 percent requested Google Wallet and Android Pay, 8 percent requested PayPal and 7 percent requested Samsung Pay. “It Exxon is not the first brand to embrace Apple Pay. “I would rather not be out here answering all those prompts, dipping cards, sweating.”

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APRIL 18, 2016

Hey brand, want a better way to engage with your customer? And Messenger and Marcus’ big bet is that its chatbots will provide a mechanism for brands to strike up those conversations with their community faster, cheaper and as well – if not better – than a live person can do now. Find a developer and let them grab Messenger’s bot API.

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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.

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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.

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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

MARCH 27, 2019

It comes as no surprise, then, that big tech players like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are investing heavily in data security — especially as several have fallen victim to data breaches themselves. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Table of contents.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Despite the fears of some, several hoteliers have decided to give it a try over the past year, including some of the bigger name brands. Aloft Hotel — Boston Seaport & Santa Clara, California. Last December, 10 rooms at the Aloft Hotel in Boston’s Seaport got smart. Pacifica Hotels — Santa Barbara & Los Angeles.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Get the 47-page google in healthcare report. See how Google is using AI to transform the $3 trillion US healthcare system. Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Alphabet (Google) — Verily.

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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. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square. Dynamic Payments Mobile Amazon Apple EMV FaceBook Google ISIS NFC Square' What can I say? I crack myself up.

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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. Good luck with that. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees. This deficiency becomes a much larger issue when applied to ad-supported digital content platforms — from Facebook to Google to television networks — that exist today. The average height of a female in the U.S.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

As a quick Google search will quickly demonstrate, runners do not seem to be an underserved consumer demographic, nor would they have appeared as one to most observers in 2013, given the number of large, global brands selling athletic wear at the time. He also had a very up-close view of the problems.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Uber rode the tailwinds of smartphone adoption, app stores, well-developed technologies like GPS and (at launch) well-established mapping software provided by Google to blend the online and offline worlds around a consumer experience that before lacked certainty and reliability. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem.

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

In London too, Apple Pay works on the Underground, buses and trains, and the company is keen to serve Boston, New York and other cities with tap-and-pay mobile services. The startup wants to compete with Apple Pay, already in Canada, and Samsung and Google if they follow suit by the end of the year, which NanoPay predicts.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The media has declared chatbots the digital version of the little black dress: a technology staple that every brand must now have and every payment type must now commerce-enable. For instance, Google Play doesn’t operate in China, and Apple has had relatively few users until recently. We take our weather very seriously in Boston.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition. Algolia has now passed $10M in ARR and achieved “140% net negative churn and amazing brand awareness.”.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Branded version is available. ^KT. As a co-branding solution, it would work very well. Showing a data segmentation manager on a map of the Boston area. Now a more “Google”-like dashboard. Showing using a brand new device on a brand new connection. Who is the target audience? What’s the market strategy?

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NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

This is a message that US banks appear to be hearing loud and clear, at least according to the findings of a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Google, for example, has recently merged all its mobile wallet and payment offerings into a single brand. 2018 to be a tipping point?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Unity Software, a software platform aimed at video-game developers, pursued a bidding-based approach to its IPO in September 2020, similar to the process used by Google when the search giant went public in 2004. He also helped Google in an advisory capacity when Microsoft was considering bidding on Yahoo.

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APRIL 24, 2018

We look into how stores are being transformed into showrooms, community gathering spots, and even event spaces as retailers leverage the physical store as tool for brand marketing. It was an experiment by Ikea to better understand what types of technology could attract customers, and more broadly to introduce them to the Ikea brand.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. By combining deep-learning and crowdsourcing methodologies, our platform collects and classifies user requests in real-time and then deploys the data back to all conversational channels, including Alexa, Google, FB Messenger, Phone and Texting. HQ: Boston, MA. We license the technology to HW vendors and brands.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Thinking that way misses a much bigger point: That is, looking at an “average” percent of sales done in a physical store is about as accurate as following the Farmer’s Almanac ‘s prediction of the average amount of snowfall in Boston each winter by examining how furry the caterpillars are. Take books, for example.

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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. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up. Their twins. Our really, really bad weather.

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Twenty-eight percent of all consumers owned a voice-activated speaker – and that was before this holiday season, when Amazon and Google reported millions more. Google, with Google Assistant, recognizes this shift, too, and is making its own moves in the space with branded devices and integrations with consumer product brands.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

When I realized I needed to buy a pair of spinning shoes for a spin class three days later, I went to Google to find articles on the latest and greatest styles, and then to Amazon to read reviews and make my purchase. Consumers can search on Google for products “near me” and find the store address, hours and websites to buy from.

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PYMNTS

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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