PYMNTS

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. Based on data points from other studies, we assume that means mostly by car and even by RV. Don’t Touch This.

Cards 147

Cards Study Maine Payments 147

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. And here’s one more nugget of particular interest to the folks in banking: The issue of payment and data security remains a thorn in the side of many retailers. Social channels?

Retail 40

Retail Strategy Boston Industry 40

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Race Data – @RaceDataSystems – [link]. Turn data into energized relationships. Race dashboard: Large data set to work with. Helping banks with customer retention by transforming data into knowledge about their customer’s engagement and key events on their journey. Lots of useable data. ^KT.

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

This demand for timeliness and simplicity is evidenced by the demographics with which third-party delivery services are being most enthusiastically embraced: millennials, parents with children under 18, and city dwellers. Flour, a Boston-based bakery with multiple locations across the city, is among the eateries Favor users can order from.

Resources 102

Resources Operations Technology Boston 102

PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2017

What the data shows is that 80 percent of millennials who characterize themselves as happily employed are open to learning about new opportunities, as long as they’re provided by a trusted relationship. In our very first year, we had over 10,000 referrals in the Boston market alone. In fact, many are happily employed.

Boston 100

Boston US Marketing Industry 100

CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. Many of yesterday’s casual dining brands are dying, but not because millennials “don’t eat out.” Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). Dining out. table of contents.

San Francisco 69

San Francisco California United States CA 69

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. And not even because they’re job destroyers, which he said is the natural consequence of innovation, and innovation is goodness.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

This is the year that everyone takes a critical look at the innovations they’ve pursued over the last decade to decide what’s worth taking forward into the decade of the ‘20s and what’s best left behind in the decade whose door will close 358 days from today. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. The season takes place in the year 1985 – 10 years before eCommerce and Amazon, and seven years before today’s 27-year-old millennials were born. That’s what teenagers did 34 years ago for fun.

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170