PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

While some markets may be seeing relatively slower adoption of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) than others, there’s no denying that the overall popularity of mobile and contactless payments are growing fast among consumers. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World. percent between 2017 and 2026.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

While mint chocolate chip ice-cream might be the way to a foodie’s heart, MintChip digital currency is not the way to a millennial’s mobile wallet, apparently — at least not in Liberty Village, Toronto. South Korea Is Mega Mobile. Korean consumers see no evil in mobile payments. is that Android mobile users in the U.K.

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

Delivery is not the only way that QSRs are trying to reach more consumers, of course — especially younger consumers married to their mobile devices and who all but take for granted the availability of ever more robust digital consumer experiences. Mobile represents roughly 60 percent of all digital restaurant orders today. McDonald’s.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

3D photo tech available from several smaller suppliers as well as Apple and Google gives consumers the opportunity to shoot a product before buying. Second, time on site: According to Google, the average eCommerce site visit last 1:50 seconds. The main expansion of 3D is being seen in its dual usage for consumers and retailers.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

According to the PYMNTS Mobile Order-Ahead Tracker , the company seeks to maintain its momentum through a way to reward orders made through its mobile app (and in its stores.) Papa John’s locations that will support a new mobile ordering app is said to be 400. In November, Papa John’s said that it rolled out a new mobile app.

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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…. Miscellaneous. That’s just to name a few. Probably not long at all.

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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., Other participants in the round of fundraising included CoVenture, Y Combinator, TIA Ventures, Bionic Fund, Cocoon Ignite Ventures and FJ Labs.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In some cases, brands like Loblaw and Nike are letting shoppers use their mobile phones to pay for their purchases at their physical stores. Last year, Dollar General rolled out a new mobile app that enables customers to scan and pay for items in the store using their smartphones. From Dollar General to Roche Bros.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Burger chain Shake Shack opened its first cashless kiosk store in New York City’s Astor Place last autumn, where consumers either order and pay by in-store kiosk or with their mobile phone. The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston. The technology was also being used in its mobile apps.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Kaspersky noticed in June a Google calendar scheme that aimed to trick users into giving away personal information. Among the nonprofits working to feed local communities this holiday season is the Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB), which offers food services to 190 cities and towns in the eastern Massachusetts region.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. According to the recently released figures, 44 percent of those vendors’ customers are using, or have asked about using, mobile digital payment systems.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2017

Jim Harper, CEO of Sonde Health in Boston, which is working on voice tests to monitor for postpartum depression, Parkinson’s and dementia, was quoted as saying: “We’re trying to make this ubiquitous and universal by engineering a technology that allows our software to operate on mobile phones and a range of other voice-enabled devices.”.

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PYMNTS

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. Canada’s favorite donut shop has rolled out its mobile order-ahead function in its mobile app – after what has been an approximately four-month delay.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

The Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion has estimated 63 percent of retailers in the country are willing to adopt cashless payments — up from 31 percent prior to implementation of demonetization last year — in part as mobile phones are wielded by 84 percent of consumers. Google brought a payments app to the country in September.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

And it’s why mobile wallets – except for a few noteworthy examples such as Walmart and Starbucks, that each have ubiquity across all of its stores – have struggled to get any meaningful traction despite this inconsistent EMV checkout experience. It’s also why mobile order ahead has seen such speedy growth.

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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. Not even 20 years ago, before digital, mobile and the always-on world in which we all live today, there were newspapers and television. That’s not the case with Google Search. Take Facebook.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Alphabet (Google’s parent company) is currently trying to develop self-driving cars and has been historically interested in robotics. However, that interest has been waning in recent months, as Boston Dynamics in now up for sale. Toyota is not alone in this race. Cars are everywhere.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2016

I never did get the answer to what I thought was a simple question on Saturday afternoon: “What’s the weather going to be on Monday, April 18, for the Boston Marathon?” Consumers love mobile. If you want all the scoop on the massive move to mobile, read this piece by MPD Founder David S. In the U.S., Consumers also love apps.

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NCR

APRIL 26, 2018

While contactless payment cards – which are becoming ubiquitous in the UK – make up the majority of transactions, the use of mobile apps – such as Apple Pay and Google Pay – is also on the rise.

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PYMNTS

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

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.

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NCR

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

According to new research by Google and Boston Consulting Group , the value of digital transactions in the world’s second-biggest nation is expected to reach $500 billion by 2020 – ten times the level seen today. Mobile bridging the gap. India set for a digital boom.

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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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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? Here’s why….

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

Maybe it is the umpteenth attempt by Google to insert itself into payments. Ask Google Video. It included the Internet giants of the day like Google, which launched Google Video, and Yahoo with Yahoo Video. Why New Mobile and IoT Operating Systems Will Mainly Fizzle. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.

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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. After 4 years with the company, Brian joined Google as a Software Engineer and inevitably rose to become an Engineering Manager. BILL GURLEY. JEFF JORDAN.

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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.

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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 12, 2018

The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees. But the internet, mobile apps, smartphones and advances in network capacity have changed the definition of output and the business models that drive the exchange of value between suppliers and consumers in some cases.

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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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Gonzobanker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

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. Now, fintech vendors are retooling their apps to go even further to the cloud using Amazon, Microsoft and Google server-less functions.

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CB Insights

AUGUST 25, 2017

July 2017 saw the two largest-ever restaurant tech deals: a $151M private equity investment by Vista Equity Partners to Providence-based Upserve , and a $101M Series C (with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Generation Investment Management, and Lead Edge Capital) to Boston-based Toast.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. By combining deep-learning and crowdsourcing methodologies, our platform collects and classifies user requests in real-time and then deploys the data back to all conversational channels, including Alexa, Google, FB Messenger, Phone and Texting. Now showing a combo consumer/mobile and platform on the CSR side.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Uber rode the tailwinds of smartphone adoption, app stores, well-developed technologies like GPS and (at launch) well-established mapping software provided by Google to blend the online and offline worlds around a consumer experience that before lacked certainty and reliability. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

And Walgreens, the nationwide chain of drugstores, said its mobile wallet payments had doubled since Apple Pay came out. From Apple Pay brings significant increase in mobile payments to retailers like Whole Foods and McDonald’s, increases awareness of Google Wallet and… | Killer Apps TV ]. assault, G.O.O.G.L.E Final Chapter!

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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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