PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The latest figures from the National Restaurant Association paint a promising picture for the U.S. Quick service restaurant (QSR) chain Boston Market is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. The chain recently debuted its Rotisserie Rewards loyalty program through its mobile app.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2020

That’s why the always resourceful restaurant sector went all-in on mobile order-ahead (MOA) and kept the nation fed while industry players looked for their next move. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”. Mobile Is Making It Work.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card offers users the option to gain 3 percent cash back when paying for Apple products and services and for purchases with Uber, Uber Eats, T-Mobile, Walgreens and Duane Reade. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But somehow, we are a nation of chronically under-rested people. 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. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016. But does it really work?

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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.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. Innovation, implying the change that is the only constant when it comes to how people and businesses interact and transact. “At and panels. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Klarna will power H&M’s Club payment program with the deal, give customers a streamlined post-purchase service as part of H&M’s mobile app, provide an omnichannel customer payment offering, and bring out other services that are yet to be announced. The expected size of the digital payments industry by 2027 is $2.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. Innovation, implying the change that is the only constant when it comes to how people and businesses interact and transact. “At and panels. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 10, 2018

Nouchi noted his transit system is marked by density of population and high use — and has the fifth-highest ridership in the nation, taking its place alongside New York, San Francisco and Boston, for example. Notably, he said, some of those transit-innovating peers are on their second or third generation of smart cards.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose). One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. But given the absence of contactless card penetration in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017. While Kitchen United hasn’t nailed down which markets it might want to enter, it is having conversations with national restaurant partners who will help the company choose new cities.

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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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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

MAY 18, 2018

Or just to boo the Yankees (Boston-based baseball fans, mostly). Baseball is a game, a beloved game adored by a nation whose citizens have been going to the park in one capacity or other since at least 1791. Why not tie all of that together inside the same mobile app?” John asked. Just ask Amex.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

The National Restaurant Association’s “ Restaurant Technology Survey 2016, ” recently revealed that 80 percent of restaurant operators are aware that technology can increase sales, boost productivity and give them a competitive advantage.

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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. million in tokens for DENT, a mobile data ICO; and over $1.1 The good news for both firms, according to eMarketer is that P2P mobile payment products will on the whole be on the rise — up 30 percent in 2018 to encompass 82.5

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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. Ridgely spoke with PYMNTS as the latest figures from the National Restaurant Association paint a promising picture for the U.S.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As mobile payments continue their race into the mainstream, land grab expansion seems to have become the name of the game. Summed up in a single word, the theme of the week in mobile was “more” for many of the major mobile movers — more territory, more devices and more merchants. Speaking of watching — and watches….

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

The drop-off has pushed The Salvation Army into the digital age, and toward mobile solutions for customers who want to donate, but don’t have a dollar to put into the kettle. Early Innovations in Crowdfunding. In some ways, it’s a challenge that is forcing the organization back to its roots. Salvation Army v1.0:

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The signature innovation of Drizly – founded in Boston in 2012 – has been to more or less bypass the three-tiered structure in enabling alcohol eCommerce. Drizly neither sells nor delivers alcohol, though in its early days, it was often called the “Uber of alcohol.”. We don’t do any delivery – never have.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The percentage of sales lost by those physical store franchises can be seen not only in the pretty charts and graphs that we produce and share on a regular basis but the ongoing drumbeat of the national and regional store closings for those brands that can no longer keep up. There weren’t easy ways to innovate retail business models.

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MAY 9, 2018

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. Now showing a combo consumer/mobile and platform on the CSR side. Website: projectfinance.io. Key Executives.

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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. In 2017, the National Restaurant Association reported annual sales of $799B — close to 48% of the total amount that Americans spent on food.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The demo vehicle, known as the e-Palette, was designed as a multi-function, autonomous minivan to move goods, people, or even a mobile office. Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. Read more: The Guardian , Reuters , Bloomberg , The Guardian , Wall Street Journal.

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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

In the 1950s and 1960s, the biggest innovations in breakfast were Eggo Waffles and Pop-Tarts. Thanks to innovative new rental models, ownership is no longer essential. This trend presents a lot of opportunity for innovation. GET THE 61-PAGE MOBILITY TRENDS REPORT. 2019 LUXURY TRENDS TO WATCH.

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CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Companies will have to look to guidelines from local and national authorities for each office location. A completely remote workforce seems unlikely, given the intangible benefits of social connection, collaboration, and innovation that in-person working provides. Challenges: unproven studies and inconvenience .

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JUNE 14, 2018

We can use mobile apps and voice commands to control our lighting, temperature, and home security. Forward-thinking startups and large tech companies like Facebook and Google are focused on innovation in single-family and multi-family residential construction. Technology companies have infiltrated the home. Home prices rose 6.2%

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. He believed Powa would set down mobile payments infrastructure that would be just as revolutionary. via Beta Boston. via TechCrunch.

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Currently, customers in New York City and San Francisco are able to leverage experienced TaskRabbit workers to assemble furniture; the service will be expanded to stores in Los Angeles, Miami, Houston, Boston, and more this year. To keep prices low, Five Below leverages private labels. Automation beyond cashier-less checkout.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Title: My Mobile AR Start-Up Died So Yours Doesn’t Have To. Product: Blin.gy App. Product: Mobeam.

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