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JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Innovation by Any Other Name. Back here in the U.S.,

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s why recommendations are consistently ranked by consumers as one of the most important features a merchant can offer an online shopper, why merchants gladly oblige and why brands strive to make products that are consistently ranked high by consumers. Saving Main Street. Even more of them are closing.

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AUGUST 24, 2019

That’s because stadiums and sports teams are looking for more opportunities to connect with at-home and online viewers as they come to represent another segment of attendees. These teams are looking to mobile apps to innovate payments in a way that will revitalize purchases and the game experience.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But luckily, where there is a problem, there is typically an innovative entrepreneur selling a solution – and in the case of sleep, there are a lot of solutions out there. The user and the advanced bot work through a series of six weekly online sessions aimed at healing “broken sleep,” according to Sleepio. “It But does it really work?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The fee-free card is Goldman Sachs’ latest inroad into the retail consumer business after establishing its online Marcus brand in 2016, which makes unsecured personal loans. 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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JANUARY 26, 2018

Finding a pair that fits her waist comfortably without needing to be hemmed six inches is a nearly impossible task even in a store, where she can try on pair after pair — let alone online, where she essentially has to guess whether the jeans will fit, and then go through the rigmarole of returning them if they don’t. Innovation Trajectory.

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JULY 30, 2019

Delivery is not the only way that QSRs are trying to reach more consumers, of course — especially younger consumers married to their mobile devices and who all but take for granted the availability of ever more robust digital consumer experiences. Beyond Delivery. McDonald’s. Mobile-Order Ahead. percent offer services via third-party apps.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2017

While many in the Greater Boston area stayed indoors to keep clear of the arctic chill that had descended upon the region, eight teams hunkered down in offices in the middle of the Financial District with another goal in mind: reimagining the retail and payments experience using AR/VR technologies. Payment-enabled, of course.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There were cheap sofas in abundance on the planet — and of course extremely expensive options out there. The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There were cheap sofas in abundance on the planet – and of course extremely expensive options out there. The plan from our perspective was to create a user experience online first that would enable shoppers to easily customize a piece,” said Royer. But something simple, purpose build and of high quality for the middle market.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. The Step Into Tech: The RunIQ . We started in the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

When Buy Online, Pick Up In-Store Goes Horribly Wrong. It seemed like a no-brainer: A consumer finds and pays for something online and picks it up at the store faster than they could have it delivered. Like you, I suspect, I’ve attempted to use the buy online, pick up in-store option on many occasions over the last couple of years.

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). Of course, we don’t really expect or even want gifts for our ninth anniversary. We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. And that’s just barely scratching the surface.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 13, 2016

Today’s roster ranges from an artificial intelligence data analytics service for brick-and-mortar stores to expand into e-commerce, to providing the crash course most of us unfortunately still need to understand what the heck Read More.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t. Good luck with that.

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Independent Banker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. View credit card balances, transaction history. Stop payment requests.

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Independent Banker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

In a Federal Reserve Bank of Boston survey of mobile banking and payment services released in August, roughly three-fourths of about 600 community banks and credit unions in five Federal Reserve districts that were polled were offering some kind of mobile service. View credit card balances, transaction history. Stop payment requests.

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JULY 16, 2018

It’s Boston. It’s February (or maybe it’s May, because it’s still snowing in Boston). And these merchants and retailers are recognizing that, over the course of the next two to three years, that $400 billion is going to inflate to something like $1.2 Picture this. It’s snowing. A driver has to pull over and get gas. trillion.”.

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JUNE 25, 2018

Then I went to Whole Foods on the North Shore of Boston Saturday morning to do some grocery shopping. Another had an offer with a promo code to get $10 off my first online order, which would be delivered free to my front door in two hours or less once I linked my Prime account to Whole Foods. Prime Time at the Grocery Store.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

The digital transformation of the commerce ecosystem, which had been underway long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, flipped into overdrive overnight, as consumers were forced to change their habits and shift almost everything they once did in real life to an online substitute. The Surprise in the Unsurprising. The Power of Persistence.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. That retailer is, of course, Amazon. First, the rapid growth in online sales, of which Amazon has a 50 percent share. percent of consumer retail spending in the U.S.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. The company says it is improving on the nail salon model by offering online booking tools, ethical business practices, and high-quality services at reasonable prices. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group.

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JUNE 1, 2020

One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. It doesn’t appear that this experience is exclusive to fancy hair salons in Boston. percent of consumers who have shifted more of their shopping online, 85.7 Don’t Touch This. Think about that for a minute.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

For a startup that’s done some pretty heavy lifting to successfully recruit merchants to join an innovative new eCommerce platform, being front page news lauding its accomplishments is always great news. And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. .

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MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Her proposed course of action is likely to deliver anything but more uncertainty. Overall, according to the Global Fraud Attack Index that we do with Forter every quarter, fraud attempts are up 217 percent, putting nearly $5 of every online sale at risk. Angela Ahrendts.

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JULY 22, 2017

Kieta and Victor Moreno — online memorabilia traders — noted the bump will be present for the next few days, particularly with items more relating to O.J.’s Sheen auctioned off two pieces of precious Ruth memorabilia — his 1927 World Series ring and the original copy of the document selling Ruth from the Boston Red Sox to the Yankees in 1919.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 4, 2017

Kernel is an early-stage brain-machine interface company formed by Bryan Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree and the OS Fund. The device uses EEG electrodes to monitor and analyze brain activity during the course of sleep. Select Investors: Innovation Commission 2030, Laurent Alexandre, MAIF Avenir, Xavier Niel.

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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. Redefining media and communications of every kind, of course. Yes, retail for sure—a quick search online turns up hundreds of stories about retail omni-channel.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2016

Restaurants — the epicenter of payments innovation, it seems — were on the receiving end of a couple of new opportunities this week that could drive even more feet into them and help them grow. Online Lending. Online lender OnDeck also reported a mixed bag of earnings on Monday. Here ya go… SIZZLE. Restaurants.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Given the still nascent state of consumer adoption of mobile payments technology, time and opportunities for growth and innovation in the mobile arena at the community bank level still exist, banking technology experts say. Typically the younger segments are more innovative and are looking for new ways to do things,” Brown offers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. The bit obviously needed some refining, which it got over the course of the next 30 years while “Late Night” and the “Late Show” were on the air. In December of 2017, Even went live and online for 1.4

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NOVEMBER 9, 2020

there are indications that the opening of data flows between financial services companies has led to strong innovation (and demand for that innovation), and more regulation may loom. is arguably ground zero for open banking and, if investment flows are an indicator of where the FinTech-driven innovation will be, then the U.K.

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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. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. trillion searches a year.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Of course, business openings are just one part of this story: Business exits (AKA failures) are the flip side of that small business coin — and where those same dismal scientists say there’s even more cause for concern. And that trend line really hasn’t reversed course all that much since then.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. I believe that this inflection point will accelerate the four big shifts that have been taking place right before our very eyes over the last decade — shifts that will now set the course for how every single player in payments and commerce and retail should be planning their 2017 and beyond.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2016

I, Shopper, take thee, Online Retailer, to be my faithful partner in commerce. THE MOVE FROM PHYSICAL TO ONLINE TO MOBILE. Consumers are increasingly moving their shopping and buying not only online, but online via the mobile devices. Something that most online retailers don’t have – or even come close to having.

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Retail Payments Online Mobile 90

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Samsung’s global march added another stopping point this week, as Thailand became the latest nation to come online for Samsung Pay. Android Pay on a watch does not actually even need an internet connection for a limited number of transactions (though to fully complete the transaction the watch must eventually go online).

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