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’s a marketing initiative, a publicity generator and an Instagrammable moment all in one, Carder said. “I Some of them have chocolate chip cookies.

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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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JULY 30, 2019

The company has also expanded Starbucks Delivers with the help of Uber Eats, which is in more than 2,700 stores in 11 markets. 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. Mobile-Order Ahead.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Stephanie Meltzer-Paul, Dunkin’s vice president of digital and loyalty marketing, recently spoke with PYMNTS about how DD Perks entices mobile app customers to make return visits and how Dunkin’ leverages AI to assist both members and other customers. How DD Perks Works. “For We’re still early in that journey,” she said.

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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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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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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. and identified five or six influencer markets that we wanted to penetrate.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The eCommerce giant has reportedly been in talks with middle market pharmacy benefit managers to arrange a contract. The target market would be the uninsured and customers with high deductibles who pay cash for their prescription drugs. Consumers may also be able to “click and collect” beer from their local Whole Foods Market.

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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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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 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. But these days, Marc Raibert says the company has been testing how it can put its robots to work in more marketable ways.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At the same time, the market caps of the top 20 retailers have lost more than $230 billion over the last two years, and mall operators are sucking wind as overstocked anchor stores shutter underperforming locations, which delivers a death knell for the stores that depend on anchor store foot traffic to lure customers in. What Innovation?

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PYMNTS

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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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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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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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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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. The consumer spending share gap between Walmart, the biggest retailer by market cap, and the world’s largest digital retailer is being narrowed by three things.

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Fintech Labs Insights

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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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. Some consumers will take the bait, of course, but most won’t.

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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

In a post on the USV blog , the firm noted that Flip is a market specific network in which “closing the loop of a transaction” – in this case, the sale or sublet of a lease – unlocks a network effect of benefits for users (ostensibly by making the lease-exchange market more fluid and data-driven with each transaction).

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Katerina Frolovicheva (MD, Technologies Innovations). This is a leading bank in Russia, with a track record of fintech innovation. What’s the market strategy? David Carr (Innovation Manager). Showing a data segmentation manager on a map of the Boston area. Now a more “Google”-like dashboard.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

And, it should be noted, Samsung has great expectations for the Thai market and has set a goal of attracting 1 million users to the platform by the end of the year. And it is a 90 percent that Samsung will compete for unopposed, since neither Apple nor Android Pay have any immediate plans to take on the Thai market.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The nine or 10 years that smartphones and apps have existed is a digital lifetime in developed markets like the U.S. What worked in China for WeChat at a much different point in time in a much different market may not be the copy/paste solution for these markets. We take our weather very seriously in Boston. and the U.K.,

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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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AUGUST 18, 2016

The only two companies that can do this are Apple and Google. For those reasons and what we’re seeing in the market is that everyone sees it as kind of just being an inevitable thing they’re going to do. AK: With [Apple], it’s really a joint go-to-market-type thing. And they can do it for a few reasons.

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The companies were selected from a pool of 2,000+ startups based on several criteria, including investor profile, tech innovation, team strength, patent activity, mosaic score, funding history, valuation, and business model. The market map below categorizes the AI 100 companies based on their industry focus. MARKETING, SALES, CRM.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

How they describe their product/innovation: Project Finance is a personal finance application that shows users the future of their finances based on all the choices and decisions they’re making today. HQ: Boston, MA. In today’s world there is uncertainty around many things, your finances don’t have to be one of them. Key Executives.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. It then also became the first to test such technology on public streets in Boston, Massachusetts. Ford taps private markets for self-driving, partners with Domino’s & Postmates. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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CB Insights

JUNE 14, 2018

T echnology trends and market needs are pushing companies to set their sights on the residential real estate and construction industry. Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Retailers are leveraging technology, such as artificial intelligence and augmented reality, to enhance operational visibility and personalize their customer service, a new necessity in fast-changing and demanding consumer market. Kohl’s can move into smaller markets where a larger store may not fit. Turning grocery on its head.

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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. Galloway’s narrative asserts that “the four” — Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google — should be broken up. Their twins. Our really, really bad weather.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

But a few common threads do emerge, such as an inability to generate sustainable revenue, bad product-market fit, losing to competitors, and (of course) simply running out of money. via Beta Boston. As you’ll see below, the reasons for failure are varied. The Top 20 Reasons Startups Fail. Total disclosed funding: $185.3M.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

SourceDay noted it plans to use the new funding to focus on marketing and product development. company secured the funding from Underscore VC, Accomplice, Boston Seed Capital, Imagination Capital and Project 11 Ventures. will focus on hiring, product development and go-to-market efforts with the backing. Wise Systems.

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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. That makes it the most important year of the last decade. That’s not surprising.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Unfortunately, we were not able to find our place in the market. Around 4 p.m.,

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