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Smart Watches, Run Hubs And New Balance’s Retail Reset Button

PYMNTS

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. Said simply, New Balance is rethinking athletic footwear retail — how to sells shoes, where to sell shoes and how to carry on its relationship with its customers across channels — and in between sneaker replacements.

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Amazon Sidewalk Eyes IoT Beyond The Connected Home

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The movement toward stitching smart homes together to form “smart neighborhoods” hints at connectivity that extends beyond individual consumers to entire communities. Using Sidewalk won’t require new hardware, as the system is available as a software update to Echo and Ring products.

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Function Over Flash

Independent Banker

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Share of community banks and credit unions offering the following mobile banking features and functions: 84%.

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Function Over Flash

Independent Banker

Certain mobile functions and features are essential to the success of a community bank’s mobile banking offerings. Newfangled mobile capabilities could help community banks stand apart from their competitors. Share of community banks and credit unions offering the following mobile banking features and functions: 84%.

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Little Farm Boxes Take A Bite Out Of Big Agra

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Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms is taking a different approach, leveraging data to optimize value throughout the supply chain — and, of course, track production every step of the way. There are all sorts of technology-driven solutions cropping up in response to this demand.

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Talking in a Digital World

Independent Banker

Customer contact centers are reshaping retail service for the technology age. Increasingly, more digitally connected consumers are saying yes to that question with their community bank. For many community banks, telephone calls still generate the highest volumes of customer service interactions. Bob Meara, retail banking expert.

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Getting Mobile Ready

Independent Banker

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. So where do ballyhooed mobile banking and payments developments among the biggest players leave community banks?

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