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

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Samsung’s global march added another stopping point this week, as Thailand became the latest nation to come online for Samsung Pay. That announcement comes as most of the global payments-watching community was watching Samsung Pay’s imminent foray into India. Samsung Pay In Thailand.

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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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William Mills

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. Fiserv & Samsung , fiserv.com @Fiserv @Samsung. Website: projectfinance.io. Twitter: @yourfinanceapp.

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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. Samsung enters the driverless race, tests driver assist technologies on roads. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

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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. via Beta Boston. Torris said Boo.com also spent too much on advertising and promotions and failed to keep pushing forward on technology innovations.

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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: Boston startup Besomebody, once featured on ‘Shark Tank,’ shuts down app. Product: Besomebody.

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