PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Boston startup True Tickets is teaming up with the Broadway theater company The Shubert Organization for blockchain-based mobile ticket delivery , the companies said in a press release Wednesday (Oct. Shubert Ticketing sells tickets through its retail brand, Telecharge, as well as through hundreds of third-party agents.

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blockchain Boston US Customer Experience 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Amazon said in its announcement that Sidewalk will extend the low-bandwidth working range of such devices, with bandwidth sharing across neighbors representing a “network of networks” that will help devices stay online. The Sidewalk news comes as Amazon is slated to unveil new products and services at a virtual event later Thursday (Sept.

Boston 210

Boston Community Software National 210

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As the buyer of the luxury retailer brand negotiates with the store’s landlord, Barneys New York’s flagship store on Madison Avenue in Manhattan will stay open for at least another year in a smaller form. And beginning next week, exclusive private sale events are in the works for the most loyal Barneys shoppers.

Los Angeles 101

Los Angeles New York San Francisco New York City 101

PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

As other PYMNTS research confirms, consumers are set to spend $23 billion buying mobile tickets for sports and gaming events by 2023. 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.

Payments 161

Payments social media Mobile Seattle 161

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 24, 2020

And one of the most notable events of 2020 was the big appreciation in bitcoin’s price, tied as it is (and was) to optimism about cryptos’ future. Building The (Retail) Use Cases. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies. You might even consider it shorthand for the crypto space itself.

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cryptocurrency Bitcoin Course Boston 258

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

To serve customers who want to shop in stores and online, retailers and solution providers are working to offer a unified retail experience across multiple channels. According to the latest PYMNTS mPOS Tracker , almost two thirds – or 63 percent – of retailers plan to offer this option within the next three years.

Innovation 126

Innovation Retail Mobile Massachusetts 126

PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., KidPass customers pay a fee each month to try different kid-friendly classes and events. and Chicago.

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Los Angeles San Francisco New York City Philadelphia 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2019

As of the first day of August 1994 more people had walked on the surface of the moon than had bought things online, because online shopping did not yet exist. s two resident retail superpowers’ race for the consumer’s whole paycheck this week. She also forecasts headline retail sales to rise by 0.4 percent.

Retail 108

Retail Nashville Seattle Boston 108

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role. As PYMNTS readers know, that 2017 IPO was anything but glorious.

Industry 110

Industry social media New York City Retail 110

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

In fact, in general, a “more is more” attitude prevails – from the decorations to the lights to the proliferation of sales events, it seems the entire commerce ecosystem has adopted a “go big or go home” mantra for the last eight weeks of the decade. Thus far, it doesn’t seem like anyone is all that interested in going home.

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Apple Massachusetts Data Cards 101

PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. The opportunity has not gone unnoticed by grocery stores and online delivery services, either, of course. Social Media’s Role. As PYMNTS readers know, that 2017 IPO was anything but glorious.

Industry 100

Industry social media New York City Retail 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. percent) and going to leisure events (44.5 Like payments terminals.

Cards 147

Cards Study Maine Payments 147

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

But, back to the earth-shaking events of nine years ago. The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). If we had a nickel for every mobile wallet that had come and gone in that time period, we would at this point be larger than The New York Times.

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2018

After all, here in Boston, our local Irish population is eight times the size of the motherland’s, and Americans of every ethnic background get their green on one day a year. Patrick’s Day shopping: The $233 Million Online Spending Binge . Patrick’s Day — tends to run bigger, wilder and more raucous on this side of the pond.

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Illinois Boston Course National 102

Javelin Strategy & Research

JUNE 21, 2014

I had the pleasure of speaking at NextBankUSA in Boston the other week on the Future of Payments, as I see them. It was a fun event, and provided some latitude to go off topic a little, including one of my favorite British comedy skits on Chip and PIN. The retail experience does. What can I say?

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Google Apple Retail Boston 70

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

This is just a taste of what we’ll have in store at the 10 th annual Innovation and Insight Day on April 4 th in Boston. These technologies are at varying levels of maturity, but the potential to revolutionize the customer experience through AI may be truly transformational, and Celent was pleased to see so many projects in this space.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Branding Boston Innovation 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

In July, Grubhub announced it would be buying up LevelUp for $390 million in cash to expedite integration with restaurants and “create a seamless diner experience in-app, online and in-store,” said the 423,000 daily average grubs, up 35 percent year over year. In December of 2017, Even went live and online for 1.4

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Branding Cards Fraud Marketing 100

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The latest twists came in September, when one of the biggest technology and payments events of the year featured the announcement of Apple Inc.’s Consumer studies the Boston firm has conducted indicate increasing mobile-banking adoption and awareness and use of mobile remote-deposit capture applications.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Helping banks with customer retention by transforming data into knowledge about their customer’s engagement and key events on their journey. Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business). Retail for a piece.

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile. Seventy-one percent use online channels, 68 percent use physical stores, 66 percent use mobile and 59 percent use marketplaces.

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Maine Philadelphia Community Boston 169

PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

When Godiva wanted to create a digital ad and shopping campaign around Valentine’s Day — probably the busiest shopping season for the chocolate maker — but didn’t have the time or resources to pull it off, it turned to a Boston-based company called Zmags and a tool called Creator. Most retailers struggle.

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Meeting Company Retail Resources 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Going public is a significant liquidity event for a company, but is also a complex legal event. Those reports are then sent to the pension fund managers and retail investors who are clients of the bank, and they can decide if they want to buy or sell the stock based on that research.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

I’ve participated in every US event except one as well as Finovate Europe last year. There are a number of great events in FinTech but this one I do my best to attend each year. HQ: Boston, MA. Info: Covered Security acts as a personal security assistant looking out for your online life. HQ: Boston, MA.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. One popular explanation for this is that millennials are simply shopping less in physical locations in general, preferring to do their shopping online. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. The way we shop is changing.

Millennials 78

Millennials Industry Trends Branding 78

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

iHealth’s no-contact thermometers retail for less than $45, and Salesforce’s Workplace Command Center, which centralizes key real-time reopening metrics, starts at $5 per user per month as an add-on to existing Salesforce products. We discuss cashier-less checkout and other trends in our 2020 State of Retail Tech report.

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. From their humble, skunkworks-style origins in Palo Alto to their current offices in Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Seattle, and Boston, they’ve scaled up to attack new projects but keep the same focus on experimentation and innovation that helped them build the first Kindle. Retail/Consumer Goods. Technology.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

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. Company: Rdio.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

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. You notice it’s your friend’s birthday and have the perfect opportunity to send a … physical gift card that they receive 10 days after the event.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

And, yes, this likely sounds blasphemous from someone who’s been beating the mobile payments drum since 2005, well before the iPhone and the App Store changed how consumers, retailers and payments players all use mobile devices. Checkout lines will soon become passé, and checkout will become a non-event. Consider this.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doorman says it will no longer accept incoming shipments after September 29th and that those who use their Doorman address for online shipments should update their information. “We Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered. Product: Raptr.

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Company US San Francisco Capital 78