PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. Some spend much more in cities like Boston, New York and San Francisco. Consumer for the end user.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2018

It also explains why some innovations in payments have been met with open arms by consumers and others given the cold shoulder. And why innovations that introduce more intelligence into the digital versions of those accounts that require little to no change of the consumer are highly valued by consumers, merchants and issuers.

Innovation 109

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Café X Technologies. Cafe X is a robotic cafe in San Francisco that serves premium coffee using mobile ordering and automation technology. It’s the first cafe of its kind from Cafe X Technologies, which is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation. Total Disclosed Funding: $5.1M.

Maine 70

Maine Capital Rhode Island DC 70

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These brands are basically separate products that offer a digital-first experience to a certain demographic, but are closely tied to the main bank. The second type is a completely separate brand ring-fenced under a different technology stack, operating under the umbrella of the parent organization but effectively a separate entity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2021

At PYMNTS, we’ve long bemoaned that with all the technological advances making machines better at tasks we don’t really want to do ourselves, we still don’t have robot butlers to call our own. In it, a series of Boston Dynamics robots definitively answer the question: Do you love me, now that I can dance? Yes, we do.

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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. 23-25, 2020.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks , was the first NFL stadium to adopt the technology. But it’s not just payments where the NFL and other sports can shine when it comes to digital and mobile technologies. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! –

Payments 161

Payments social media Mobile Seattle 161

PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

Companies across the globe are innovating their mPOS solutions for faster, more secure services. In this month’s feature story, PYMNTS caught up with vendors from Boston and San Diego to explore how mPOS is becoming increasingly critical to winning business at Pride events. Around the Mobile Point-of-Sale World.

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San Diego Apple America Mobile 130

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. More likely than not, you will be on the couch eating pizza.

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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. More likely than not, you will be on the couch eating pizza.

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Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. Over the last nine years, it has been PYMNTS’ privilege to speak with some of the most innovative minds in payments and commerce.

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

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.

Retail 100

Retail Boston Community Branding 100

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

We all want to know what ‘it’ is it in our technology, our clothes and our personal lives.”. But despite the general interest in the area, the conversations around innovation and what’s next in technology isn’t always directed at women, or particularly tailored to their interests. And physical.

Groups 158

Groups Las Vegas Retail Branding 158

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Quick service restaurant (QSR) chain Boston Market is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. Rewards programs continue to be one of the restaurant industry’s favorite tools to retain customers, with several companies rolling out their first rewards offerings.

Branding 139

Branding Boston Mobile Online 139

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Many of the Main Street businesses, which were once options for consumers, have closed or operate with limited hours and inventory,” Webster noted. Before the pandemic, James Beard award-winning Boston wine bar haley.henry was an eatery known for small plates, tinned fish and all-natural, small-batch wines shipped from all over the world.

Retail 220

Retail Study Report Boston 220

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., Technology, however, is changing that. Keeping up with the competition .

Cards 100

Cards Payments Industry Mobile 100

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Yet, according to Fung Global Retail & Technology, 6,985 stores closed in 2017 , up 229 percent from 2016, and well above the number of stores which closed in the year that started physical retail’s death spiral: 2008. The average temperature in Boston in February is 37 degrees Fahrenheit, but on Saturday it was 52 degrees.

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Large banks and nonbanks, merchants and technology companies are pressing to solidify their inroads into the financial transaction business. Research and everyday observation show how consumers are increasingly using mobile technologies. It’s become a familiar story, usually with a new splash. Ed Bachelder, payments consultant.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

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.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. I recall three years ago at Innovation Project 2013 that a rather prescient panelist said that the payments system’s worst nightmare would be having the SWIFT network breached. You want to know what really sizzled this week? As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans.

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Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

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.

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Google Branding System Apple 190

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. .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2020

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. The field test comes early in Spot’s life.

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Boston Las Vegas Tools Examples 239

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

For third-party delivery apps, customer service is another area where omnichannel technology is in demand. Bridging the gap between restaurants and technology. However, 40 percent of table-service restaurant operators and 42 percent of independent restaurant operators consider their stores to be lagging in technology.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Almost 33 years ago, David Letterman introduced his singular innovation in stand-up comedy: the Top 10 List. CFO Adam DeWitt noted that a seven-year-old, Boston-based LevelUp serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. million users, up from 9.2

Branding 100

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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. 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

Often, these bankers rose to the occasion by employing tech solutions or other innovative approaches. Use technology to drive down costs. Adkins agrees that using technology to streamline backroom processes is a golden opportunity that’s not always seized. “I By Elizabeth Judd. Quick Stat.

Strategy 135

Strategy Community Bank Louisville Community 135

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

This small business is a really small business: a guy working out of a teeny tiny storefront in a little town north of Boston. But to remind all of us that payment innovations are only as good as the certainty those innovations deliver to their intended users. Or to buff up PayPal. Distress creates friction.

Payments 195

Payments Innovation Boston Branding 195

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. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. The main problem?

Data 134

Data Branding Boston Mobile 134

CB Insights

MARCH 27, 2019

is a Boston-based startup that verifies government-issued IDs for third-party businesses. Amazon may use that underlying technology in its smart home products — including smart speakers — for added layers of protection. Beyond patent activity, Facebook acquired four startups in 2018, one with a cybersecurity focus.

Google 76

Google Apple Security Data 76

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.

New York 177

New York social media Los Angeles Trends 177

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. This list is not intended to be exhaustive of corporations working on autonomous vehicle technology. Top initiatives: Filed patent in 2016 for autonomous lane-switching technology.

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System Technology Michigan California 78

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Again another financial wellness platform using machine learning technology. 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. Pretty good dashboard.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Although the company doesn’t support Apple Pay, its competitors or NFC-based technologies currently, it is not counting them out forever. With CVS’ Boston-based innovation lab working to push CVS in the direction of a cutting-edge health care company, there may be a lot more technology to come – and soon.

Mobile 100

Mobile Samsung Apple Payments 100

CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

The old guard of American dining are switching up their games to compete: McDonald’s is adding self-serve kiosks to many of its franchises, upping the ante with mobile order technology. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). Not to mention piloting autonomous pizza making and delivery.

San Francisco 69

San Francisco California United States CA 69

CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. State of Innovation Report. “The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.”

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 78