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JULY 19, 2018

For some entrepreneurs, innovative ideas can strike at literally any time – and for Monica + Andy founder Monica Royer , her business concept certainly hit her at an interesting time. I was so surprised when I had my daughter, and I realized there had been no innovation in what your baby wears in the hospital,” Monica Royer told Forbes. “I

Boston 101

Boston Branding Innovation Online 101

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Taco Bell is among the major restaurant brands that has teamed with delivery service provider Grubhub to reach customers. Johan Gerber, executive vice president of security and cyber innovation at Mastercard , told Karen Webster that cybercriminals are working 24/7 hammering away at those systems until a crack makes itself known.

Management 108

Management Fraud Payments Boston 108

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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. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend. 23-25, 2020.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

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APRIL 20, 2017

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. It also keeps track of flight statuses in near real time and allows customers to book tickets and manage group bookings. So what does the 2.0 American Express.

Groups 104

Groups San Francisco New York City Cards 104

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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. At the same time, startups are riding the craft spirits, cannabis-infused beverages, and alcohol-free trends, offering innovative products to happy hour drinkers.

Industry 64

Industry Branding Capital Trends 64

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava Group. Cava Group (formerly Cavamezze Grill), is the company behind the fast, casual Cava Grill restaurants and a fast-growing prepared foods wholesale business. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

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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. What Innovation? 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. A week ago it was 28 degrees.

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

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.

Fintech 143

Fintech Strategy Leadership Lending 143

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Select Investors: CAA Ventures, Greycroft Partners, GVR Fund, Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund. Select Investors: DN Capital, The Raine Group, 500 Startups. Maestro is a live and on-demand video experience platform that allows content creators and brand sponsors to engage and monetize audiences at scale. Dojo Madness.

California 49

California San Francisco Video Oakland 49

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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.

Retail 78

Retail Branding Company Capital 78

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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.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

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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. Since its founding, Adore Me has grown into a business that saw $43 million in sales in 2015 alone, 6.5 million users who visit its website, over 1 million Facebook followers and over $11.5

Data 100

Data Retail Industry Boston 100

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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. Its pitch to the family is to use their local Mastercard branded credit or debit card to make those payments. Here ya go… SIZZLE.

Lending 100

Lending Apple Cards Study 100

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JUNE 21, 2016

Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012. We need to be an extension of our partners’ service and brand.”. Flour, a Boston-based bakery with multiple locations across the city, is among the eateries Favor users can order from.

Resources 102

Resources Operations Technology Boston 102

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. The two youngest age groups show 60 percent and 50 percent adoption rates among smartphone users.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage during the holidays. Major retailers and brands go local. To do this, Target conducts community-based research — including listening sessions with local guests, groups, and community leaders — to best understand what to offer at a particular location.

Retail 64

Retail Los Angeles Strategy Community 64

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JUNE 10, 2020

Northeastern cities like New York and Boston with an incredible and nearly unexpected force, a bit like a tsunami that surged and almost overnight washed away the entire cultural practice of eating out. The global Covid-19 pandemic hit the restaurant industry in U.S. You’re crazy,’ this is going to be nothing.’”.

How To 132

How To Boston Groups Massachusetts 132

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

To enable pet owners to feed their dogs snacks sourced from sustainable ingredients, innovators are upcycling products that might go to waste. Co-founder James Bello initially worked at the headquarters of a major retail chain, and then moved to Boston to serve in their innovation group. The Market.

Millennials 144

Millennials social media Retail United States 144

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MARCH 26, 2019

The news that millennials were too lazy to eat cereal was catnip for many publications, eager to drive traffic for a their coverage of this controversial age group’s habits. In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. Casual dining.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

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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.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

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JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. Americans dine out more than ever before.

San Francisco 69

San Francisco California United States CA 69

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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. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. Spare me the cutesy icon that tries to make a joke about it.

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. HQ: Boston, MA. In today’s world there is uncertainty around many things, your finances don’t have to be one of them. Key Executives.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

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JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! Circuit of Appeals in New York.

New York 100

New York Lending Cards Retail 100

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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.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

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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.

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 78

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JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. That makes it the most important year of the last decade.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

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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.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

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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. It was also a look, maybe for the first time for some, at what was then a real innovation in shopping. I was traveling at the time, so that shopping experience worked really well for me.

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170