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Why Health And Beauty Retailers Are Driving Digital Innovation

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Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. In some cases, retailers are using social media tools such as Instagram to post promotions and product tutorials — or interact openly with consumers about their offerings. About the same share — or 60.9

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Tech Center: Boston Steps Up Its Tech Game

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Known for its Irish roots and sports teams, the city of Boston has significantly stepped up its technology game over the past few years. With 35 higher education institutions in the Boston area pumping out innovative tech startup companies left and right, the city has attracted big-time players in the industry. billion in 2015.

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Football Season To Kick Off New Payments Plays

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These teams are looking to mobile apps to innovate payments in a way that will revitalize purchases and the game experience. Bundled sports broadcast packages, social media and high-definition televisions allow them to enjoy games from the comfort of their living rooms. Attendance at NFL games declined from approximately 17.8

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The Big Bucks Behind Sleep (Or Lack Thereof)

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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. It feels a lot more like play than work,” Lisa Kelly-Croswell, the chief human resources officer at Boston Medical Center, noted of the program.

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Data Enablers: Spreadshirt, Data-Driven T-Shirts

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Germany- and Boston-based Spreadshirt uses data, analytics and even social media information to build a product and spread news among communities while printing more than 3.6 Globally, the company has more than 500 employees spread between Leipzig; Boston; Henderson, Nev.; million items last year. “[Our Greensburg, Penn.;

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The Week In Very Weird Commerce

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However, the last few weeks of action in payments and commerce has convenience of a plausible other explanation: He didn’t live long enough to see retail reinvention in the digital age. Some of it works; disruptive innovation depends on thinking a little bit differently. Everyone wants to build the best consumer experience.

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What Everyone Missed About Facebook

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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.

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