PYMNTS

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Online betting company DraftKings is merging with two other companies and going public, according to a report by the Boston Business Journal. Jason Robins, the co-founder and CEO of DraftKings, is going to run the new company, which will be incorporated in Nevada and keep its headquarters in Boston.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

While innovation in financial services infrastructure can facilitate high-value cross-border transactions to complete within a day or two, in today’s ecosystem of B2B trade, there is growing pressure for payments to complete in a matter of hours, not days. Accelerating PPE Procurement.

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Boston Payments Security Massachusetts 204

PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

Not to be outdone, famed chef Daniel Boulud is opening his own tech-centric QSR with four Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates. The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston. An earlier version was opened at an MIT cafeteria. Judged by size, smaller QSRs did a better job at embracing kiosks.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub. The 350,000-square-foot facility is planned for Westborough, Massachusetts, a community roughly 35 miles west of Boston. Amazon’s Big Robotics Investment .

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2020

Anyone who has ever driven North on Route 1 from Boston, Massachusetts, has seen Kowloon Restaurant. Not one to rest on his innovations, third-generation owner Bob Wong recently had two ideas as he was assessing ways to generate revenue amid the Massachusetts state-ordered lockdown and subsequent indoor dining restrictions.

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Massachusetts United States Boston Innovation 230

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Massachusetts locations. The finding was reported by Boston Retail Partners in its 20th annual POS/Customer Engagement Benchmark Survey. And retailers are integrating new POS solutions into their brick-and-mortar stores: Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions recently announced that its TCx 300 system would arrive in all of Roche Bros.’

Innovation 126

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Celent Banking

JANUARY 20, 2017

Ongoing innovation in banking technology is clearly beginning to pay off, and we’ve been privileged to learn an immense amount from all of the financial institutions that took the time to tell us about their how they’ve been using technology and innovation to serve customers better, become more efficient, and mitigate risk.

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Case Study Boston Innovation Massachusetts 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. We put together a list of healthcare innovation labs from new entries to the field, as well as some of the oldest — and most familiar — names in health. Sometimes corporate innovation goes wrong , and we’ve written about corporate innovation theater before.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2020

Diners want such innovations, too, and are turning so sharply to mobile food orders that the global food delivery mobile app market could rise to $16.6 Clover started with one food truck and it now has 12 restaurant locations throughout the greater Boston area. billion by 2023 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 27.9

Technology 130

Technology Massachusetts Mobile Boston 130

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Our team is dedicated to continuing 7-Eleven’s legacy of innovation with industry-leading digital solutions. Beyond 7-Eleven, Retail Business Services (RBS), the services company of Ahold Delhaize , announced in November that it was experimenting with a new frictionless store technology at its Massachusetts office.

Retail 143

Retail Dallas Massachusetts Technology 143

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

This year’s newest innovation? According to Recode , AmazonFresh customers in parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, California, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia have received the notices. Seasonal sales, twinkling lights and Santas for photo-ops everywhere you turn.

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Los Angeles New York City Delaware New Jersey 105

PYMNTS

JANUARY 10, 2018

Mastercard’s “Grow Your Biz” contest for SMBs in Boston, Massachusetts, concluded in December. The purpose was to identify SMB owners who were planning to use innovative tactics to grow, then provide financial support as well as expert guidance to drive that growth. “We

Boston 100

Boston America Resources Massachusetts 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.

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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.

Boston 100

Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

CFPB Monitor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Members of Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Financial Services group recently participated in the American Bar Association Business Law Section Annual Meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Meeting Regulation Massachusetts Boston 60

CB Insights

DECEMBER 13, 2016

With products ranging from ingestible sensors to track medication intake to practice management solutions, startups continue to innovate within the digital health space. And as the ecosystem grows, funding is keeping up. Global funding to the industry reached over $3.5B in the … Continued.

New York 28

New York Boston Innovation Industry 28

PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

Apple 100

Apple Houston Boston Mobile 100

Fintech Labs Insights

AUGUST 10, 2015

Recently featured in a review of Boston-area startups , Kensho was named to OnFinance’s “50 Companies to Watch” roster in April. Founded out of MIT and Harvard in 2013 and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Kensho demoed Warren at FinovateEurope 2014 in London.

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Innovation Massachusetts Boston Analysis 12

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Select Investors: CAA Ventures, Greycroft Partners, GVR Fund, Samsung NEXT, Sony Innovation Fund. Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. Series A eSports Companies to Watch. Headquarters: Cupertino, California. Disclosed Funding: $16M. Dojo Madness. Headquarters: Berlin, Germany. Look for eSports in the Collections tab.

California 49

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

Early April saw Staples announce a partnership with Workbar that will see parts of three of the office supply retailer’s Massachusetts stores converted into communal workspaces available for on-demand rental.

Retail 100

Retail Las Vegas Millennials Conference 100

PYMNTS

JULY 2, 2016

But here in Boston, where PYMNTS world headquarters makes its home, we have a problem. It’s the same problem we have in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts every single year, this same time of the year. Okay, well people of the Massachusetts Bay Colony didn’t actually invent paper money. However the innovation stayed in China.

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Fintech Labs Insights

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

With the launch of its new, end-to-end biometric authentication solution – VeridiumID – the security innovator that demoed its technology at FinovateFall 2014 as Hoyos Labs is now Veridium. Oxford and London), as well as in Boston, Massachusetts; and Timisoara, Romania. The company also has offices in the U.K.

New York City 12

New York City Massachusetts Boston New York 12

PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

To reach more consumers, Massachusetts-based restaurant chain Wahlburgers is taking its hamburgers to the grocery aisle. the restaurant’s burgers will arrive in grocery stores such as Shaw’s as early as this month, The Boston Globe reported. We know that with our name on it, we may get a curiosity try,” Wahlberg told the Boston Globe.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The Federal Reserve , as has been reported, and more specifically its Boston branch, has been working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore the tech and platforms needed for such digital coinage. Stablecoins, he said, can be used as part of innovative payment solutions.

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Bitcoin cryptocurrency Massachusetts Boston 208

PYMNTS

JUNE 14, 2017

Panera’s CEO Ron Shaich and President Blaine Hurst spent hundreds of hours observing bottlenecks at a Massachusetts Panera location to pinpoint the source of the issue. Trials at the Boston-area restaurant showed how each adjustment would affect the rest of the assembly line.

Massachusetts 134

Massachusetts Boston Mobile System 134

PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

Northeastern cities like New York and Boston with an incredible and nearly unexpected force, a bit like a tsunami that surged and almost overnight washed away the entire cultural practice of eating out. And, he noted, the challenges only go on from there, as this week they can reopen their Boston-based Sip Wine Bar for outside seating.

How To 132

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Fintech Labs Insights

MARCH 28, 2016

In total, there were 13 fintech startups (or 15 by the Bank Innovations definition ), 12% of the total YC W16 class of 109. HQ: Boston, Massachusetts. The number of deals was inflated somewhat by the six new fintech companies launched at YC’s demo day that we had not previously covered. Source: Crunchbase.

Company 12

Company Fintech San Francisco New York City 12

CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. Company Description: Circle Internet Financial is a Boston-based cryptocurrency company offering a crypto exchange platform, money transfers, and investment services. Circle Internet Financial. Valuation: $3B.

San Francisco 77

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Market share is simply shifting away from big chains that haven’t successfully innovated, flowing instead to new models for creating and selling food to customers. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London). Community initiatives: Loom (Massachusetts). table of contents. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe.

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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. Read more: The Guardian , Reuters , Bloomberg , The Guardian , Wall Street Journal. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

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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. It was a genuinely innovative insight into allocating capital, dressed up as a 2×2.

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 78

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. An entirely remote workforce seems unlikely for most companies, with an office providing intangible benefits such as social connection, collaboration, and innovation.

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

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. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205