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. It soon found out that it needed more than just fast internet to attract the tech-savvy crowd. In the next few years, Fishers, Ind.,

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. Get the 47-page google in healthcare report. See how Google is using AI to transform the $3 trillion US healthcare system. 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.

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AUGUST 3, 2017

Plain cake, glazed, chocolate dipped, Boston creme, powdered sugar and jelly was the standard line – with perhaps the occasional cruller or blueberry cake thrown in for exoticism. Customers, after downloading the new app, log in via Facebook, Google or email and register a card or to use Apple Pay.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The app, which was released in May, is available in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play. The finding was reported by Boston Retail Partners in its 20th annual POS/Customer Engagement Benchmark Survey.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Innovations in 3D and augmented reality (AR) eCommerce are leveling the playing field and bringing conversion-centered visual technology to any online retailer. 3D photo tech available from several smaller suppliers as well as Apple and Google gives consumers the opportunity to shoot a product before buying.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

This issue has come into the spotlight before, even as recently as last year when Google came under fire after reports that they were using millions of people’s data to build a new search network. They denied it, saying all they had access to was patient information in order to organize things, nothing else.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

In an interview with Karen Webster, Chris Carder , co-director of Entrepreneurial Studies at Schulich School of Business, outlines the story of how innovation can become teamwork. It starts with a public-private partnership, has a great pizza story in the middle and ends with a feisty attitude in the face of a devastating pandemic.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. The company recently launched a new reader that’s compatible with mobile wallets, such as Google Pay and Apple Pay. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World. Tech giant Apple is also upping its payments game.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2017

We’ve all heard of smart speakers — Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod — but what about these other innovations, which are not dedicated devices but have connected capabilities baked right into the appliance? Innovations such as…. LG Everything. Miscellaneous. Probably not long at all.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Just look to Google. It recently introduced the ability to order food for pickup or delivery via services like DoorDash, Postmates and ChowNow through Google Maps. That said, mobile order-ahead apps — as can be the case generally when comes to many types of retail innovations — have lower adoption among smaller QSRs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2016

But it seems as if the Department of Defense doesn’t share the Department of Justice’s antipathy for the tech innovators of today, and a press release also issued on Wednesday confirms the fact. It’s worth noting that Schmidt won’t be consulting the DOD as a representative from Google. ” The kicker?

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Before there was Alexa , Bixby , Siri and Google Assistant , there was Emma Nutt. She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. Google’s recent announcement makes it clear that it isn’t about to let Alexa hog the road. population had a phone in their homes.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

If a guest orders a Boston cream donut every Monday for an extended period of time, for example, then skips a week, Dunkin’s AI can send a coupon for the donut to encourage a return visit. Further innovations in its mobile app, rewards programs and AI will be critical if Dunkin’ wants to maintain its presence.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Toyota has also worked on wheelchairs that can ascend stairs, wearables for the blind and helper bots to retrieve objects for bed-confined patients, among other innovations. Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is currently trying to develop self-driving cars and has been historically interested in robotics.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 29, 2017

Some of it works; disruptive innovation depends on thinking a little bit differently. So in some sense, it is not surprising that the team at Boston Dynamics chose a dog to be their robotic delivery beast. No one would say A, and no one who didn’t work for Boston Dynamics would say B.

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PYMNTS

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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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With a big focus on technology in Silicon Valley and Boston, New York City slowly made its way to becoming a powerhouse tech player. With New York City having tech company offices including the likes of Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, the city has a lot to offer in terms of tech job opportunity and growth.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

That’s a figure Webster said she found hard to believe, but Xiao said that’s because she does most of her dining Boston — where phones’ prominence is a lot lower and digital channels are far more strongly developed. Xiao said the majority of U.S. He said Bensen AI’s experience in the sector is instructive.

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PYMNTS

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. It’s why I said then that Google Search and Amazon and platforms like them — not Facebook — are among the new power brokers in our world.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Google couldn’t make smart glasses work, and Snapchat’s Spectacles haven’t exactly done a booming business either, but Amazon is optimistic that it has the missing piece to push this futuristic technology to success, and her name is Alexa. Rose-Colored Glasses. Kohl’s Partnership. Setting Trends. One year ago, that percentage was only 16.

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CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

It comes as no surprise, then, that big tech players like Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple (FAMGA) are investing heavily in data security — especially as several have fallen victim to data breaches themselves. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Table of contents.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Well, it is “an innovative new payment platform created to transform the payments industry by drastically altering the economics through Internet-based technology, generating significant consumer benefits.” Maybe it is the umpteenth attempt by Google to insert itself into payments. We profile innovators on PYMNTS.com every day.

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JULY 20, 2017

Filling that hole — and making it easy for customers to get their drinks delivered right to their doors — is an area that caught the eye of many an innovator. Boston-based Drizly , which raised more than $35 million, has a foothold in 70 cities and a stated ambition to be the “Amazon of Alcohol.”

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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. I think that the deliverance of FNC will come not from Apple, or Google, or Isis, or Facebook, or Square. Dynamic Payments Mobile Amazon Apple EMV FaceBook Google ISIS NFC Square' What can I say? I crack myself up.

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MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. If Google has its way, passwords will be a thing of the past – and hip, hip, hooray for that. Google is said to begin testing an alternative to logging in with passwords in favor of one that mixes a bunch of things to authenticate the consumer. And will people want and use it?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees. What Innovation? This deficiency becomes a much larger issue when applied to ad-supported digital content platforms — from Facebook to Google to television networks — that exist today. A week ago it was 28 degrees.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

Kensho’s previous investors include Accel Partners, Devonshire Investors, General Catalyst Partners, Google Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Promus Ventures, Work-Bench, and Xfund. Recently featured in a review of Boston-area startups , Kensho was named to OnFinance’s “50 Companies to Watch” roster in April.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day. If you’re Walmart, these charts – and those facts – are downright scary. and the acquisition of Jet.com has helped Walmart bolster its online grocery sales.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2020

regulators have levied $126 million in fines for data violations since mid-2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai calls for international cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) governance and U.K. France issued the largest single violation against one firm, fining Google €50 million. Google CEO Calls For AI Governance.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I hosted a digital discussion last week with an executive from Sift with more than 15 years of experience building trust and safety organizations for some of the biggest digital brands in the world – including Google , Facebook and Square. It can’t do that, certainly not as well, without collecting lots of data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The world of B2B payments saw its latest significant acquisition play this week with Boston-based private equity firm Great Hill announcing its intention to acquire VersaPay, a company that provides cloud-based invoice-to-cash solutions. Google, Amazon And Apple — The Connected Home Team Of Rivals . The B2B Receivables Revolution .

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CB Insights

AUGUST 3, 2017

They’re also bullish on how Element AI’s cooperative platform and “non-predatory” approach to AI talent (in which academic researchers are paid like private employees) will accelerate AI innovation. Frankel also sees the startup’s location in Boston as giving them an “unfair advantage” in talent acquisition. ” –Greylock Partners.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 5, 2018

While the technology exists to build a digital city “from the internet up” (Google’s parent company Alphabet is doing it in downtown Toronto ), not every city can get the Google treatment. She said her commute from 13 miles outside Boston can take well over an hour some days. The time and costs are simply too great.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

That changed this week with a pair of new watches from LG that marked a collaborative design effort with Google: the Watch Sport and the Watch Style. Google has announced that many more Wear 2.0 According to new published data from Boston Retail Partners, Apple Pay has garnered the largest percentage of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For instance, Google Play doesn’t operate in China, and Apple has had relatively few users until recently. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. I tried last night to make a reservation from Boston to San Francisco, and it told me that I had presented it with a first: There were no flights between those two cities.

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Select Investors: Google Ventures, Y Combinator, First Round Capital, SV Angel, BoxGroup, Bloomberg Beta, Founders Fund, Fenway Summer Ventures, 7Percent, Wells Fargo & Company. Circle Internet Financial. Zume Pizza.

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