PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. The Mushroom Market. The market for mushrooms is just so strong, especially local mushrooms,” DeMartino said, adding that beautiful exotic fungi have good margins.

New York 122

New York Marketing New York City Study 122

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. Select VC Investors: Breakaway Innovation Group.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But luckily, where there is a problem, there is typically an innovative entrepreneur selling a solution – and in the case of sleep, there are a lot of solutions out there. The mattress market alone is worth a whopping $15 billion. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. billion globally by 2020. But does it really work?

Boston 145

Boston Study Maine social media 145

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. Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services.

San Diego 130

San Diego Apple America Mobile 130

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Its abundance in payments and commerce is what inspires innovators to challenge a friction-filled status quo and create something new. But none rose to the level of the seriously friction-filled experiences that might motivate a would-be innovator to quit her day job and give up her life to solve for it.

Boston 124

Boston Regulation Innovation Study 124

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. These brands are basically separate products that offer a digital-first experience to a certain demographic, but are closely tied to the main bank. Customer experience initiatives are typically the most numerous.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Branding Boston Innovation 100

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can see it in how investors are putting money to work in both consumer-facing and B2B startups, and how startups and incumbents are forging new partnerships to move innovation faster to market. And since iPhone users skew more to the affluent, it also denied those innovators the opportunity to monetize their spend.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Innovation by Any Other Name. Back here in the U.S.,

Regulation 181

Regulation Boston Cards Innovation 181

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, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

Super Bowl LI is less than 24 hours away from kicking off and deciding once and for all which city is better — Atlanta or Boston (though obviously it’s Boston — since the global headquarters for PYMNTS.com is located here). And then there’s Tom Brady.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

restaurant market. Many restaurants are realizing, however, that they need to provide their customers with delivery options to tap into the market’s full revenue potential, and are partnering with third-party delivery services to give customers the option to order their favorite meals, while raking in extra revenue.

Branding 139

Branding Boston Mobile Online 139

PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

These teams are looking to mobile apps to innovate payments in a way that will revitalize purchases and the game experience. Revenue for the online sports betting market is predicted to reach $150 billion, making it likely that even more states will follow suit with regulations of their own.

Payments 161

Payments social media Mobile Seattle 161

Tefkin

JUNE 3, 2014

On the “Beta” end of the scale, ETFs are steadily becoming one of the most successful innovation in recent decades. By automatically tracking indexes, they offer investors the possibility to obtain market performance at a lower cost than a typical managed funds. Scrutiny on Performance. Commoditization of Analysis.

Industry 42

Industry Management Innovation Analysis 42

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. What Innovation?

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. Produce marketer Avocados From Mexico said that avocado demand hit new highs this year ahead of the Super Bowl, increasing 20 percent from last year to 242 million pounds. “We We are mostly kidding about that.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The weather is turning such that Boston has already had its first snow, and eating outdoors at restaurants is losing its appeal in the northern United States. marketing director, told the Huffington Post. “We And perhaps most critically, do the dishes when we’re done.). And on that front, PYMNTS can offer few solutions.

United States 178

United States Boston US Apple 178

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

If you can do it better than what’s out there — the whole world can be your market. Innovators — particularly payments innovators — love this particular bon mot and spend a lot of time trying to build that new payments mousetrap, in the hopes that the world will beat a path to its door. So what will the pair-up mean?

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Innovation Boston 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 16, 2016

Sharon Klapka, Adore Me’s vice president of business and brand development, appeared at the eTail East conference in Boston on Monday (Aug. Since its founding, Adore Me has grown into a business that saw $43 million in sales in 2015 alone, 6.5 million users who visit its website, over 1 million Facebook followers and over $11.5

Data 100

Data Retail Industry Boston 100

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

PYMNTS recently caught up with Ben Morris, founder and chief pedicab officer at Coaster Pedicab, which owns and operates bicycle taxi companies in more than a dozen cities, including Boston, Chicago and Washington, D.C., Morris said modern payment technology can have a similar impact on the pedicab market.

Cards 100

Cards Payments Industry Mobile 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Emma Nutt, born in 1860 in a small town in Maine, was hired by Alexander Graham Bell in 1878 to be the world’s first female telephone switchboard operator. She stayed with Bell and the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company for more than 30 years until her retirement. At the end of her three-decade-plus career, about 25 percent of the U.S.

Google 190

Google Branding System Apple 190

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. Mexico and the Philippines — two of the world’s top remittance corridors — are the first two markets out of the gate. The company won’t receive any proceeds from the IPO, which implies a market capitalization of 7.1

Branding 100

Branding Cards Fraud Marketing 100

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.” Except, of course, it didn’t – and it is now in the crowded graveyard of payments innovations that sounded too good to be true.

Bitcoin 100

Bitcoin blockchain Video Apple 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

For a startup that’s done some pretty heavy lifting to successfully recruit merchants to join an innovative new eCommerce platform, being front page news lauding its accomplishments is always great news. And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. .

Comparison 100

Comparison Retail Boston Online 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2020

market in the last several years. Robots – specifically the Boston Dynamics robotic dog, Spot – have a future as frontline medical responders, it seems. These days, Spot, now modified with a tablet for a “face,” can be found roaming the halls of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Still, the hope for robots remained eternal.

Boston 239

Boston Las Vegas Tools Examples 239

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. 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.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Given the still nascent state of consumer adoption of mobile payments technology, time and opportunities for growth and innovation in the mobile arena at the community bank level still exist, banking technology experts say. Typically the younger segments are more innovative and are looking for new ways to do things,” Brown offers.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

Recent market research performed by the NPD Group revealed that delivery traffic outside of pizza has expanded by 33 percent since 2012. The main obstacles preventing them from evolving into omnichannel merchants? Flour, a Boston-based bakery with multiple locations across the city, is among the eateries Favor users can order from.

Resources 102

Resources Operations Technology Boston 102

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

I found that even the early adopters of that strategy, like Target, have seen their market share plateau. In the words of Dave Loggins , who crooned his famous ballad, “please come to Boston for the springtime and even for the wintertime, now that you have tasted what it’s like to have snow in the winter.”.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

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. Law” or “CSI” or reading The Boston Globe or The Wall Street Journal all more or less liked the same things. trillion searches a year.

Google 121

Google Data social media Branding 121

Independent Banker

JULY 31, 2022

In 2022, things changed with whiplash speed, as the Fed hiked interest rates to quell inflation, the mortgage refinance market dried up and the effects of macro changes, from the Russian invasion of Ukraine to a talent shortage, began to be felt keenly. But with a handful of branches in a market, you can accomplish quite a bit.”. ?

Strategy 135

Strategy Community Bank Louisville Community 135

Celent Banking

MARCH 14, 2017

Until we announce all winners publicly on April 4 at our 2017 Innovation & Insight Day in Boston, we’re unable to say too much more – very frustrating! First, the entries this year reinforce how hard it is for any single bank to come up with a cutting edge product innovation in payments.

Case Study 100

Case Study Payments Innovation Boston 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The Paytronix platform, used by more than 400 restaurants and other types of merchants to personally engage with customers, collaborated with PYMNTS on a recent deep dive into restaurant innovation and trends. restaurant market. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards.

Data 134

Data Branding Boston Mobile 134

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

Its market cap seemed unaffected until July 2018, when Facebook lost around 20% of its value in one day off of news of slowing user growth. is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Table of contents. In the last few years, Facebook has been in the spotlight for a myriad of controversies.

Google 76

Google Apple Security Data 76

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Twenty-six million strong, employing 50 percent of the workforce and creating 65 percent of all new jobs, SMBs and storefronts that line the side streets and main streets of our cities and towns are the fuel that keeps our economic engines humming, roughly 100 million Americans employed and what feeds a thriving middle class. economy pumping.

Retail 134

Retail Innovation Maine Community 134

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Bonus points to the influencer who can find a way to combine all of those design elements into a single outfit – the team at PYMNTS just can’t wait to see that conglomeration on the streets of Boston this spring. There was even the usual wash of celebrity appearances and stunt casting. Or at least it did.

New York 177

New York social media Los Angeles Trends 177

PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

Branding 100

Branding Payments Los Angeles Innovation 100