PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Taziki’s Mediterranean Café , for instance, has seen its online and to-go orders increase by 200 percent over the past three years. These are just some of the ways that QSRs have recently sought to reinvent their mobile and online ordering experiences to encourage diners skip the line and order ahead: The total number of U.K.

Los Angeles 158

Los Angeles San Francisco Mobile DC 158

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Selling furniture online isn’t easy work — though the team at Boston-based Wayfair might make it appear otherwise. The Boston-based firm has just come off another quarterly earnings report with a big jump in revenue — up 52 percent in Q3 — after a year of consistently beating analysts’ expectations. Navigate Widely.

Boston 100

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PYMNTS

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.

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

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

Retail 100

Retail Boston Community Branding 100

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. The app, which was released in May, is available in Apple’s App Store and on Google Play. The projected value of the global POS software market by 2024 is said to be $30.9

Innovation 126

Innovation Retail Mobile Massachusetts 126

PYMNTS

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 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.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

PYMNTS

APRIL 16, 2018

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. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. That’s not the case with Google Search. billion searches a day or some 1.2

Google 121

Google Data social media Branding 121

PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Customers download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play and sign up for the service and choose the market that suits them. At the same time, Tortora noted the technology has been adopted by farmers markets nationally (the company white labels its product as well). The Products and Vendors.

Rhode Island 122

Rhode Island Marketing Online New Hampshire 122

Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Numerous applications, including card processing, online banking and bill pay, are overwhelmingly being outsourced. Industry-specific tech talent is consolidating and migrating to programmer and megabank community hotspots in San Jose, Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, Raleigh, Charlotte, Atlanta and Phoenix.

Data 63

Data How To San Jose San Francisco 63

PYMNTS

JUNE 2, 2017

If you hadn’t heard the news about Dunkin’ Donuts accepting Masterpass as a payment method in-store, in their mobile app and online — it’s quite possible that you may have already started seeing the ads. This is more than IT or payments, it is marketing, it is training, it is operations, it is design layout and looking at flows of the store.

Mobile 100

Mobile Operations Boston Payments 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Get the 47-page google in healthcare report. See how Google is using AI to transform the $3 trillion US healthcare system. Innovation centers across the globe in Boston, London, California, and Shanghai serve as regional hubs that can connect with local entrepreneurs, scientists, and technologies. Alphabet (Google) — Verily.

Innovation 73

Innovation Cleveland New York New York City 73

CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Brian Singerman started his career as a Software Engineer for 3D online virtual-world company, There Inc. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

San Francisco 71

San Francisco CA Capital Operations 71

Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The company is an aggressive online marketer attracting nearly 300,000 visits via paid marketing across 740 publishers vs. 80,000 via organic search according to SEMrush (Aug 2021). in assets and 32 branches in the Boston suburbs. Google Cloud ($3k credit; though it says $300 on Google’s website).

Boston 15

Boston Cards ATM Community Bank 15

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

According to Andrea Boetti, vice president of global business development at Fortumo, although Asia has the highest growth in online content consumption, digital merchants often have difficulty collecting payments because many consumers do not have a credit card. Carrier billing allows uses to make online payments. But In the U.S.,

Mobile 100

Mobile Payments Apple Samsung 100

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

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

And before the dot com crash, Goldman Sachs’ IPOs did tend to jump an average of 293% from their starting price through their first Friday on the market — compared to 26% for the bank Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and 78% for Merrill Lynch. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

Management 78

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Chip card reader for when customers are shopping online to improve security. Integrate with any online merchant site. Customers can store all of their online profiles in one secure location to improve user experience. What’s the market strategy? Showing a data segmentation manager on a map of the Boston area.

Video 40

Video Mobile social media Analytics 40

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. 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. Apple’s Adding Merchants.

Samsung 100

Samsung Apple Mobile National 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

PYMNTS: So, in your opinion, where is the future of the payments industry headed, and will retailers ever be able to figure out the $4 trillion online cart abandonment issue ? AK: The next two years in the world of payments is going to be unlike anything you have seen in the world of online payments in the last 10 or so years.

Apple 100

Apple Payments Retail Online 100

PYMNTS

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.,

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Apple Google 100

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.

San Francisco 77

San Francisco Company US California 77

NCR

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

With smartphones now saturating the market and people all over the world regarding their handset as their primary, if not only, computing device, there’s no excuse for not providing a high-quality, full-featured service on this platform. Mobile banking everywhere, payments less so.

Mobile 72

Mobile US Payments Study 72

CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

E-commerce sales growth is pulling ahead of total retail sales ( 17% vs. 6% for year-over-year in Q4’17), and Amazon is controlling upwards of 40% of online sales in the US, according to the US Department of Commerce and Slice Intelligence, respectively. ” — Alistair Davidson, CFO, Ikea. Its membership fee revenue grew 12.6%

Retail 59

Retail Trends Technology Branding 59

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. Stephen Butler (General Manager), Sid Probstein (CTO & VP Professional Services), Alan Swahn (VP Marketing), Percy Johnson (VP Solutions), Alex Levi (VP Sales). Info: Covered Security acts as a personal security assistant looking out for your online life. Website: projectfinance.io. Twitter: @yourfinanceapp.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

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.

System 78

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

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

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.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Existing partners of the FI including Coinbase and online lending platform Affirm. 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. Wise Systems.

Analytics 176

Analytics Data Capital Software 176

CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Google’s X research center is where some of their biggest projects happen. 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.

Innovation 74

Innovation San Francisco Georgia Technology 74

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Twenty-eight percent of all consumers owned a voice-activated speaker – and that was before this holiday season, when Amazon and Google reported millions more. Google, with Google Assistant, recognizes this shift, too, and is making its own moves in the space with branded devices and integrations with consumer product brands.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That market power gave the merchant guilds who organized trade inside the Bazaar license to set the rules of engagement for the merchants who wanted to be part of it. Having lost its position of market power and influence, the Grand Bazaar was forced to reboot, and sellers had to adjust. That worked well. Until it didn’t.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

That market power gave the merchant guilds who organized trade inside the Bazaar license to set the rules of engagement for the merchants who wanted to be part of it. Having lost its position of market power and influence, the Grand Bazaar was forced to reboot, and sellers had to adjust. That worked well. Until it didn’t.

Online 112

Online Google Branding Retail 112

CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Fresco’s head of community marketing, Johnathan Hamiter, began sending employees private Slack messages saying funding seemed “pretty bleak” and encouraging them to look for other jobs. Raptr, the online optimization platform founded by former pro gamer Dennis “Thresh” Fong a decade ago, is about to be shuttered.

Company 78

Company US San Francisco Capital 78