PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

We at PYMNTS, being writers, don’t do cakes and gifts for birthdays, but instead prefer writing retrospective stories like this, treatments that serve not only as a history of a particularly newsworthy company, but also a glimpse into the future of the industry in which it operates. Back to 2012. Presto Eats is a good example of that.

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Perficient

JUNE 26, 2020

I recently got to virtually meet with associate technical consultant, Tom Phillips , to hear about his journey into the technology field. Tom originally went to school for music at Berklee College of Music in Boston (not the only consultant in the music scene ). What excites you most about the tech industry?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

7-Eleven President and CEO Joe DePinto said in an announcement , “Retail technology is evolving at a rapid pace, and customer expectations are driving the evolution. Our team is dedicated to continuing 7-Eleven’s legacy of innovation with industry-leading digital solutions. The company works with around 100 brands in total.

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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. 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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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. Pharmacy operator CVS , for example, experimented with a program in Boston in which shoppers received free delivery on prescriptions and eCommerce purchases as well as other perks.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A number of customer experience submissions this year focus on building out separate digital subsidiary brands within traditional institutions. These brands are basically separate products that offer a digital-first experience to a certain demographic, but are closely tied to the main bank. Submissions were a mix of the two approaches.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 8, 2017

In an effort to raise the bar on the consumer experience, many in the retail industry have slowly begun integrating more aspects of AI, including machine learning and natural language processing. Now, more than ever, consumers expect a certain level of personalization when interacting with a brand.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

As if that’s not enough, McDonald’s — the granddaddy of the QSR industry, and which posted a better-than-average Q2 in terms of same-store sales both in the U.S. The company’s technology was in place at 700 of the company’s stores in the quarter that was most recent. The old QSR is dead. Long live the new QSR.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

This year, Boston Retail Partners principal analyst Ken Morris shared his thoughts with Glossy on the closing department stores and what’s happening as a result. While the many available retail technologies can be somewhat overwhelming for merchants, consumer demand is pushing for a more seamless experience. Not quite yet.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

The May PYMNTS Omnicommerce Tracker™ , powered by Vantiv, looks at the latest advancements in technology and how the rise of new consumer-friendly features are changing the retail landscape. And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. Nike and Adidas would also like to be the world’s best running brand, and both are much larger. And those collaborations are even more on display in New Balance’s new brand of physical stores. The Run Hub.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2020

Talk of “friction” in the payments industry is mostly about removing obstacles to consumer transactions, and how easily (or not) those payments get processed on the backend by merchants and banks. But there are other types of unwanted friction in finance.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2018

Unlike more traditional brands, Wiivv doesn’t have inventory. Through Hargovan’s business model and digital printing technology, he can simply make his products on demand. Additionally, Wiivv works on a B2B to C strategy, partnering with leading brands to provide Wiivv’s fit tech as a platform. The Business Model.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Cosi, the Boston-based sandwich chain renowned for its flatbread sandwiches, filed for bankruptcy in a Boston courtroom. “Without technology, this industry is not going to move much further.” Cosi operated 74 company-owned restaurants and 31 franchised restaurants in 15 states at the time of filing.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 14, 2024

For financial marketers, especially those in credit unions and community banks, the biggest event of the year, The Financial Brand Forum , is just two months away. For the most part, early-bird (or very-early-bird) prices are still in effect, so you can easily save $1,000 or more on a pair of tickets. But there is much more to choose from.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

In fact, she noted, their behavior at the turnstile will much more closely resemble their familiar everyday payments experiences – they will just take out their Mastercard-branded plastic card and, quite literally, tap and go at the turnstile. Contactless technology in the U.S., Riding the Inflection Point.

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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. This startup is laser-focused on one B2B industry: telecom networks. It’s all about working smarter.” ” SaaS.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Like so much of the retail industry, hospitality is all about customer experience. If they are too warm or too cold, no more fiddling with baffling industrial thermostats until they give up, frustrated and resigned to a poor night’s sleep. Aloft Hotel — Boston Seaport & Santa Clara, California.

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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. MOEs like this are rare in the credit union industry, but we expect with continued demands for scale there will be more. The most important aspect of this deal is Huntington. Credit Union Merger of the Year.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

It’s providing an enhanced service that everybody is already familiar with, it’s not a brand new payments system where people have to figure out, ‘How do I use this? The Tracker highlights the contribution of different stakeholders, including institutions and technology coming together to make this happen. Kenneally explained.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2016

Passport has designed similar mobile applications for the transportation systems in Chicago, Toronto and Boston. Millennials have been practically handed a smartphone as they emerged into the neonatal world and have grown up with touch technology. Could the app industry be at the perilous cliff edge of the maturity curve?

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Café X Technologies. Cafe X is a robotic cafe in San Francisco that serves premium coffee using mobile ordering and automation technology. It’s the first cafe of its kind from Cafe X Technologies, which is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation. Total Disclosed Funding: $5.1M.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

We used the CB Insights platform to surface 10 notable, early-stage eSports startups developing technologies related to competitive gaming facilitated by electronic systems, particularly video games played on computers or consoles by professional gamers (though many do it as a hobby or pastime). Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts.

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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. On those content-filled pages were advertisements hoping to catch the consumer’s eye, build a brand and influence a purchase.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

But while store-to-door, on-demand delivery services may have broken gastronomic ground when they first gained widespread use, their current pervasiveness means each program must reflect the omnichannel experience that customers have come to demand – and in many cases expect – from a growing number of industries.

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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. Wearable technologies? However, as with most disruptive forces, there are challenges to be overcome, and these lessons apply just as meaningfully to every other industry.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2016

According to Brad Powers, Passport’s CTO, none of it would be possible without mobile payment technology. In fact, he said, without the rise of mobile payment technology, most parking apps would have never gotten off the ground. People want to own their brand.”. Our only reason for this business is mobile payments,” he said.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

From the digitization of medical records to smart patient care platforms, technology is disrupting the healthcare industry. The Mayo Clinic Departments of Information Technology and Public Affairs teamed up with CFI to create the Mayo Clinic App. One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. Cardinal Health — Fuse.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Large banks and nonbanks, merchants and technology companies are pressing to solidify their inroads into the financial transaction business. Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies. It’s become a familiar story, usually with a new splash. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

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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. ” What a breach of etiquette to call out the retail security industry — however necessary it is.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Salsify , a startup that helps companies and their brands “win on the digital shelf,” has just raised another $155 million as it doubles down on product development and expands globally. 23) that they have closed on a deal with the Boston-based software and eCommerce company for $155 million in a Series E round of financing.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

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. billion) for its investors in the biggest technology IPO Europe has seen as of this summer.

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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. The crux of my presentation being… “Chip and PIN” had no idea that they would inadvertently launch “Fish and Cushion” and that goes for the payments industry as a whole. What can I say? I crack myself up. I crack myself up.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The story of Uber and the massive disruption to the century-old regulated taxi industry it created when it launched is well-documented. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. In 2016, Uber launched Local Offers with Visa , and in 2017, it launched the Uber co-branded Visa card issued by Barclays.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Race Data brought bank client on stage who is thrilled with the product, he also states that the technology gives context to bank call center employees as well. ^KT. Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). Branded version is available. ^KT. This certainly adds a lot of technological capacity to the community bank.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At the same time, financial upstarts have built technologies that could eventually cut into the relationship-driven work that investment banks are used to doing. But there’s no question that the way these institutions function has shifted, pushed along especially by the financial crisis and technology trends. Table of contents.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It kind of happens to all industries.”. Indeed, the PYMNTS research shows that rewards programs continue to be one of the restaurant industry’s favorite tools to retain customers, with several companies rolling out their first rewards offerings. Investing in AI technology that really makes a difference to the brand,” Ridgely said.

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