PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Pedicab drivers in cities like Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., can now accept credit and debit card payments thanks to mPOS systems that allow them to take cards while on-the-go. To download the November edition of the PYMNTS mPOS Tracker™, click the button below…. Around the mPOS world. About The Tracker.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2017

Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay. Moving To Mobile Payments .

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

NanoPay is finding that for mobile payments to take off, even among early adopters, using a phone to pay must be much more rewarding and convenient than tapping a card. Vodafone is the third-largest mobile operator in the U.K. Meanwhile, consumers in Asia have no such qualms, while the U.S. is mired in cybersecurity anxieties.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As internet retailers are expanding their operations into brick-and-mortar operations (think Warby Parker, Argent, Bonobos, and BaubleBar ), venture capitalists are also investing in “physical-first” startups focused on creating new brick-and-mortar business models. Funding and investor information is as of 9/6/17. .

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2017

The service is available in several major metropolitan areas, including Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Biggins explained how she initially encouraged restaurants to join the MealPal platform by conducting a series of tests at a Fresh Market location in Boston. million lunches over the past year. San Francisco and Miami.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. During this time, you can add a promo code, change the suggested runner tip, and choose which card you’d like to use.

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

About the same time, a consortium of large retailers known as the Merchant Customer Exchange released a free new mobile wallet, a downloadable payments and commerce app called CurrentC that lets consumers pay, receive discounts and earn loyalty rewards at more than 14 major chain stores. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant. Fees follow.

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MAY 11, 2016

Credit cards offer rewards but over 60% of payments are made on debit cards. Diana Chin (HR & Operations). Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Verifies the card and pushes that information onto the merchant. He can just download an app and fill out code.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 8, 2017

Many consumer businesses operate with very high fixed costs and oftentimes have excess capacity to fill, he explained. In this week’s episode of The Matchmaker Is In series, Bolus joined host Karen Webster to discuss how Boston-based VocoLife is matching these two sides together through the use of curation and dynamic rewards.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. FREE DOWNLOAD: THE COMPLETE LIST of 155+ US unicorns. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services.

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PYMNTS

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. Peace Among Merchants and Card Networks. Seriously a Sizzle!

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That means our focus in payments should be about swapping out mobile phones for plastic cards at the point of sale inside the store — right? Whipping out a card (or cash) has been how gasoline has been bought as long as there have been cars on the road. Charges are made to the card on file in the app. Take books, for example.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Higher-tech solutions have also appeared, including foot-operated elevators in Thai malls to minimize contact with buttons, as well as an ultraviolet sanitation solution from Ashla Systems that uses hospital-grade UVC rays to kill pathogens in empty elevators. Source: Farmer’s Fridge. Challenges: space and cost restraints.

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PYMNTS

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. How about Facebook gift cards? Consumers could download and use Bing on their mobile phones — Bing is an app in iOS and Google Play — but they don’t.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

But those concerns haven’t stopped consumers from using voice to access these new experiences, because they trust the primary enabler of those voice-enabled purchasing experiences – today that’s Amazon – as well as the underlying payment methods they use to make those purchases, which are network-branded credit and debit cards.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

After Amazon announced in March that it was planning to shut down Diapers.com and all the other eCommerce sites operated by Quidsi, the company it acquired in 2010 — the online retailer has pulled all of the Quidsi apps from its app store. Title: Amazon Pulls Quidsi Apps After Announcing Plan To Shut Down All Quidsi Sites. Product: Quidsi.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. Generally, consumers aren’t as app-happy as they once were, with comScore reporting that 51 percent of the population downloads exactly zero new apps each month.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. Generally, consumers aren’t as app-happy as they once were, with comScore reporting that 51 percent of the population downloads exactly zero new apps each month.

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