PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. New Balance, by comparison, brings in a mere $3 billion annually — certainly nothing to shake a stick at, but still 90 percent smaller than Nike. The Step Into Tech: The RunIQ . We started in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

That sounds like a large number, though it is difficult to make an apples-to-apples comparison with cards issued by others, since as a general rule banks do not break out performance by individual cards. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Numerous applications, including card processing, online banking and bill pay, are overwhelmingly being outsourced. Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix.

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. Online foreign exchange services. Nigerian online credit card processor. Tags: Consumers, lending, student loans, credit, price comparison, discovery, lead gen, Y Combinator (investor). Source: Crunchbase. Maxwell Health. Payroll & beneifts platform. Latest round: $22 million Series C.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

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Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

One popular explanation for this is that millennials are simply shopping less in physical locations in general, preferring to do their shopping online. Gucci has also had some success with millennials — the company’s sales rose by 86% in 2017 following a targeted online “geek chic” campaign. Millennials are 6.4%

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Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Steering the ship — handling all of the engineering, manufacturing, marketing, and retailing, even when you’re taking 90 percent of the subsequent profits — was ultimately too expensive of a proposition, especially in comparison to other, less-handholding-oriented start-ups. via Beta Boston. via MDDI Online. via Boston Magazine.

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