PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bloomberg reported this week that Boston-based home décor eCommerce giant Wayfair turned in strong third quarter financials, noting that the firm’s quarterly results “exceeded analysts’ estimates, suggesting the wave of home improvement inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic is lingering.”. SA Company Takes The COVID Pivot Outside — Literally.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2016

Boston doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of U.S. The credit card company and retail wholesaler announced on Tuesday (Aug. The credit card company and retail wholesaler announced on Tuesday (Aug. cities, like New York, L.A. The prize?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. And many retailers are heeding the call: According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 60 percent of health and beauty merchants are focusing on innovation. About the same share — or 60.9

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

LendingClub, the publicly traded digital-lending marketplace, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring Boston-based Radius Bank, which has $1.4 billion in assets and is partnered with several fintech companies. LendingClub will pay $185 million for the acquisition, which the company expects to pay for itself in less than two years.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

To enhance diners’ experiences in quick-service restaurants (QSRs), managers are utilizing digital innovations, enabling everything from faster orders to more efficient kitchens. However, they’re less enthusiastic about high-profile innovations such as mobile apps and kiosks.). More than six in 10 – or 65.3

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

And, as America found out what actually happens when the wrong name gets read on stage, PwC found out what happens when Twitter decides to rename your firm — as our CEO (and former PwC employee) Karen Webster told those assembled at the Innovation Project’s annual awards dinner last night. And the winners are… Best POS Innovation.

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Perficient

AUGUST 25, 2020

Hiral Shah , lead technical consultant, recently shared her thoughts on advocating for your work with BuiltIn Boston and Laura Kenny , Talent Acquisition Coordinator , wrote about in the article How Perficient Employees Slay Impostor Syndrome , a topic that everyone has the potential to experience. Be Proactive. Put effort into Networking.

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Bank Innovation

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Payments giant Mastercard has acquired Boston-based SessionM, a nine-year-old software company that helps clients improve customer relationships through data analysis.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 19, 2020

The Boston-based online sports gambling company announced Friday (June 19) it will sell 16 million shares of its stock. In addition, the company said some DraftKings stockholders will sell 24 million shares at $40 per share, bringing the total offering to $1.6 million in the first quarter, Boston Business Journal reported.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2020

The city can’t hope to compete in every way with heavy-hitters like Boston, Seattle, San Francisco and Silicon Valley, which captured nine out of 10 jobs between 2005 and 2017. The logic behind the institute is that innovators do their best work when they are surrounded by other innovators.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Rinse has a solution for both, and thanks to a $14 million Series B funding round led by Partech, it’s taking that solution to two new cities: Boston and Chicago. The $14 million of funding Rinse recently secured will not be going into the company’s tech as much as into building out its team as it looks to launch in new markets.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. The company is going to merge with Diamond Eagle Acquisition and SBTech. The company currently has offices in New York, New Jersey, San Francisco and Las Vegas.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

17) in an announcement that it has raised $180 million in new investments, which push its valuation to $7 billion and come in advance of what the company stated is a “potential initial public offering” (IPO). We believe Deliveroo has the potential to become a much bigger company over time.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic, which has led to a surge in demand for a range of products and services, has also put unprecedented strains as well on the supply chains of companies, especially those will tracking inventory with the equivalent of pen and paper, analysts say.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

Technology innovation can happen at any place at any time. As rental prices for prime real estate in large cities continues to rise, startup companies and innovation centers look to the surrounding areas. The Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s list of top 100 Hoosier companies included 22 from Hamilton County.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

And as the space evolves, companies, universities, and hospitals are looking for ways to stay ahead of the curve. One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Start small.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

The company, started by celebrity chef Danny Meyer, said the kiosks should make staff more available to focus on food preparation and the customer experience. The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston. An earlier version was opened at an MIT cafeteria.

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Perficient

JULY 30, 2020

BuiltIn Boston , an online tech community, recently interviewed Hiral Shah , a lead technical consultant at Perficient, to discuss the importance for women to self-advocate and the benefits she has realized as a result. It has been two years since I have joined this company, and my experience has been phenomenal.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2019

It said the company “has quietly been retooling an ambitious, but troubled, robotics program that was once led by an executive who left the company amid accusations of sexual harassment.”. Boston Dynamics was known for creating animal-like robots with artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities — including BigDog, Cheetah and AlphaDog.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2020

Although they look kind of dog-like, they’re actually quadruped robots designed by Boston Dynamics and leased by Ford. Although Ford is leasing them, Boston Dynamics has recently started selling the robo-mutts for $75,000 apiece. And while Boston Dynamics is one of the better-known names in the robot game, it’s far from the only one.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 21, 2016

As part of a broader digital-first strategy, Radius Bank partnered with Gradifi, a Boston-based startup, to launch a new MasterCard debit card that will help members reduce student loans. The new debit card will be available in the fall, the company said this morning. Here’s how it works: costumers will Read More.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With blizzard Stella faded like Blanche Dubois’ southern charm, Boston still had its winter chill. But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. What would a discussion about payments, innovation, cybersecurity and all manner of commerce be without a few laughs?

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PYMNTS

APRIL 21, 2020

General Motors’ car-sharing company Maven has been shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic and other lingering concerns, the company said on Tuesday (April 21). Halfway through the year, the company began winding down the number of cities in which it operated, shutting down in major markets like Boston, Chicago and New York City.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 23, 2017

You will all know by now that I love the innovations in retail banking in Turkey, and Gürhan didn’t disappoint. First, there … Five financial innovations you may have missed I just attended an EFMA conference where the opening presentation talked about the most innovative banks in the world.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2019

Amazon also announced six new Alexa healthcare skills from healthcare providers, payors, pharmacy benefit managers and digital health coaching companies that are now operating in Amazon’s HIPAA-eligible environment.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2020

CarGurus, an auto marketplace based in Boston, has acquired car shopping platform startup Autolist, according to reports. CarGurus is a successful company that went public in 2017, and it’s going to keep Autolist as its own brand and website. The company will test new products and initiatives, however.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Chief Information Officer John Lauderbach said in a press release in early January, “Our adoption of the company’s premium point-of-sale technology has already proven successful by enabling faster, more frictionless transactions for both our associates and customers.”. Fiserv CEO Jeffery Yabuki was set to be CEO of the merged firms.

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PYMNTS

MAY 7, 2020

Amid lockdowns and a global economic collapse not seen since the Great Depression, the luxury industry faces a challenge like never before, according to a Bain & Company survey. Bain & Company said it anticipates that a recovery to 2019 levels will not occur until 2022 or 2023. It will take time for the market to recover.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Mastercard has launched Threat Scan, a global solution to help banks spot authorization weaknesses before a breach occurs, the company announced in a press release on Tuesday, Oct. The new service is being featured at the Mastercard Cybersecurity Summit in Croatia from Sept.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The dine-in payment feature will launch in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia, New York City, Vermont, and Washington, D.C. The San Francisco-based company's app update comes as people rely on food delivery platforms to reduce face-to-face contact with people amid the pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

Amy’s payments industry insight and unique experience in properly scaling a company will be valuable assets to our growth strategy,” said Paytronix CEO Andrew Robbins. “I The release said AffiniPay is “consistently ranked among the fastest growing companies in America,” including by Austin Business Journal and the Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. And why innovations that introduce more intelligence into the digital versions of those accounts that require little to no change of the consumer are highly valued by consumers, merchants and issuers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

PYMNTS explores these stories and others in this week’s Payment Rail Innovation Tracker. First to test the infrastructure will be Siam Cement Public Company, which will adopt the technology for its procurement and supplier payments operations. And when it comes to legacy rails, the U.S. RTP Gains Community Bank Traction.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

Atul Gawande will resign as Haven’s CEO to serve as chairman of its board of directors, the Boston-based organization announced on Wednesday (May 13). The founders pledged to focus on how to reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction by using data analysis and said they were committed to being a part of the solution.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Such has been the case for Boston wine bar haley.henry , an eatery known for small plates, tinned fish and all-natural, small-batch wines shipped from all over the world. The good thing for us was we started an import company for our tinned fish 2-1/2 years ago,” she said. “So But in some regards, the eatery was actually very lucky.

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Abrigo

MAY 11, 2020

title insurance companies, their subsidiaries, and agents, to determine the beneficial owners (natural person) behind certain entities used in “covered” residential real estate transactions, including cashier’s checks, certified checks, traveler’s checks, personal checks, business checks, money orders, funds transfers, or virtual currency.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2018

When Dunkin’ Donuts came up with the slogan “America runs on Dunkin,’” the company was pretty clearly being metaphorical. That’s no longer the case, as the fast food company has decided to take a turn for the literal in their newest marketing campaign.

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