PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

And, as America found out what actually happens when the wrong name gets read on stage, PwC found out what happens when Twitter decides to rename your firm — as our CEO (and former PwC employee) Karen Webster told those assembled at the Innovation Project’s annual awards dinner last night. And the winners are… Best POS Innovation.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

The big day has finally arrived — no thanks to Mother Nature, who decided to throw a disruption of her own at the year’s biggest celebration of innovation in the shape of a blizzard named Stella. The fifth anniversary of Innovation Project in Harvard Square today being one extremely tenacious example.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2018

In meetings and calls with analysts last week, executives from top banks such as Bank of America , JPMorgan Chase and Citi — along with payment companies such as Visa — explained how they are leveraging technology to drive innovation. That’s costly to us,” Athanasia said. “So, Bank of America.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

This investment will help us to continue to innovate, developing new tech tools to support restaurants, to provide riders with more work and to extend choice for customers, bringing them the food they love from more restaurants than ever before,” Will Shu, Deliveroo founder and CEO, said in the announcement.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

Rinse has a solution for both, and thanks to a $14 million Series B funding round led by Partech, it’s taking that solution to two new cities: Boston and Chicago. It’s a naturally recurring experience,” Prakash said, “so if we do a great job the first few times, you’re with us forever.

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Perficient

AUGUST 25, 2020

Hiral Shah , lead technical consultant, recently shared her thoughts on advocating for your work with BuiltIn Boston and Laura Kenny , Talent Acquisition Coordinator , wrote about in the article How Perficient Employees Slay Impostor Syndrome , a topic that everyone has the potential to experience. Be Proactive.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. The second is the use of open APIs as the core foundation for digital-only banking models. Third-party developers then create value-added client-facing applications using the bank’s exposed API services.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Product Innovation — for demonstrating the ability to launch multiple innovative products. The second is the use of open APIs as the core foundation for digital-only banking models. Third-party developers then create value-added client-facing applications using the bank’s exposed API services.

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Innovation Lending Boston Trends 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2020

The Jetsons,” after all, promised us a bright future of flying cars and Rosey the Robot to make our meals, clean our messes, do our laundry and offer up snappy comebacks throughout the whole experience. Why don’t we have robot butlers, as the cartoons of the past promised us? Such robots aren’t cheap. Robotic Hotel Workers.

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Perficient

JULY 30, 2020

BuiltIn Boston , an online tech community, recently interviewed Hiral Shah , a lead technical consultant at Perficient, to discuss the importance for women to self-advocate and the benefits she has realized as a result. Go inside Life at Perficient and connect with us on LinkedIn , Twitter , and Instagram.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 27, 2018

The restaurant, Spyce , is set to open this spring in central Boston. While the Restaurant Readiness Index revealed that QSR industry adoption of innovation has been spotty, kiosks were the one area where the best-performing and worst-performing QSRs were making advances. An earlier version was opened at an MIT cafeteria.

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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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PYMNTS

MARCH 3, 2017

Technology innovation can happen at any place at any time. As rental prices for prime real estate in large cities continues to rise, startup companies and innovation centers look to the surrounding areas. This brings us back to the affordability of larger cities versus those surrounding areas.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

With blizzard Stella faded like Blanche Dubois’ southern charm, Boston still had its winter chill. But on the second day of Innovation Project 2017, eyes were beyond Beantown and cast toward the world at large. What would a discussion about payments, innovation, cybersecurity and all manner of commerce be without a few laughs?

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Celent Banking

APRIL 7, 2017

Many of us at Celent just came back from a busy and exciting week in Boston. Undoubtedly, the highlight was attending Celent's Innovation and Insight Day on April 4th, where we celebrated achievements of the Model Bank and Model Insurer award winners. Consumer Banking Channel Innovation. Product Innovation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As weaknesses in authorization systems can be exploited by online thieves, financial services firms are more vulnerable to hackers and get hit 300 times more often than other businesses, according to the Boston Consulting Group. Threat scan intuitively mimic fraudulent behavior and can be used in conjunction with tools already in place.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

One solution: in-house healthcare innovation labs. See how Google is using AI to transform the $3 trillion US healthcare system. 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. Founded: 2008. Start small.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Such has been the case for Boston wine bar haley.henry , an eatery known for small plates, tinned fish and all-natural, small-batch wines shipped from all over the world. The good thing for us was we started an import company for our tinned fish 2-1/2 years ago,” she said. “So But in some regards, the eatery was actually very lucky.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2020

PYMNTS explores these stories and others in this week’s Payment Rail Innovation Tracker. ” “Supporting real-time payments through the RTP network is an important step for us,” he continued. And when it comes to legacy rails, the U.S. Federal Reserve has introduced a new effort to combat payments fraud.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2018

Boston-based PreVeil did not disclose how much it raised in its Series A funding round, but it did note that Spark Capital provided the funding to support the company’s email and file security solution. Kenna said it plans to use the funds to expand its team, focus on sales and continue innovation efforts. Cybersecurity.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2021

In it, a series of Boston Dynamics robots definitively answer the question: Do you love me, now that I can dance? Which, according to Aaron Saunders , Boston Dynamics’ VP of engineering, is pretty much the point: introducing the world to the fun side of robotics. This one was definitely anchored in fun for us. Yes, we do.

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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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PYMNTS

MAY 23, 2018

the restaurant’s burgers will arrive in grocery stores such as Shaw’s , The Boston Globe has reported. It’s just a natural progression for us,” Donnie Wahlberg, who oversees the chain with his brother, Mark, told the Boston Globe. Through an agreement with beef supplier ARKK Food Co.,

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CB Insights

MARCH 13, 2019

From gaming to healthcare to pizza delivery, US-based startups which reached unicorn status in 2018 represent a diverse range of industries. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Nashville, among other cities, all played host to newly minted unicorns last year. FREE DOWNLOAD: THE COMPLETE LIST of 155+ US unicorns. Valuation: $3B.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 25, 2018

the restaurant’s burgers will arrive in grocery stores such as Shaw’s as early as this month, The Boston Globe reported. It’s just a natural progression for us,” Donnie Wahlberg, who oversees the chain with his brother, Mark, told the Boston Globe. Through an agreement with beef supplier ARKK Food Co.,

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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. The Dislike of the Unknown.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2019

Wayfair , for instance, opened a store at the Natick Mall in suburban Boston, where consumers can experience products firsthand before making a purchase, after debuting a pop-up shop there last year. The new location comes with a digital innovation, the Wayfair Home Bar, which helps customers visualize how Wayfair’s products fit into a room.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The collaboration is in seven cities: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, D.C., WeWork is no stranger to innovation. and Sweetgreen wants to facilitate 50 WeWork locations. As a company, we are focused on democratizing real food,” Sweetgreen Co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman said.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The benefits of utilizing e-commerce technology are readily apparent to us because they are personal: We find what we are looking for; we find it at a cheaper price; we can get it more quickly. One study by The Boston Consulting Group estimated that small and midsize U.S.

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Technology Boston Software Study 170

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Its abundance in payments and commerce is what inspires innovators to challenge a friction-filled status quo and create something new. But none rose to the level of the seriously friction-filled experiences that might motivate a would-be innovator to quit her day job and give up her life to solve for it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

” Founded in 2012, Boston-based DraftKings offers daily fantasy sports contests across 11 professional sports and in eight countries, including the U.S., “We look forward to collaborating with Caesars Entertainment on creating the most innovative and engaging sports and entertainment products, and events, for our customers.”

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

The Super Bowl may be a memory, but the somewhat improbable victory of the New England Patriots was still fresh in the minds of many at snow-jammed Boston during Innovation Project 2017. The great Alibaba was the one before us, and Snap was the one after us.”. For us, in four million locations in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2018

The new company will be based in Boston and will operate as an independent entity free from profit-making incentives and constraints. Its new CEO is a globally-renowned surgeon, writer and public health innovator. He is also founding executive director of the health systems innovation center, Ariadne Labs.

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Boston New York Resources Innovation 100

PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

The goal of the Wayfair worker is to work on “innovating better together,” becoming “fast fixers and builders” and to help customers to better “envision the spaces where they live their lives.”. It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Since about mid-December of 2018, checking out in the stores here in Boston has become even more of a hassle. Or the chatty person who strikes up a conversation with the only cashier on duty while the rest of us cool our heels. Innovation by Any Other Name. And then regulators are forced to backtrack. Back here in the U.S.,

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2020

She said rapid access to funds would be useful for those living on fixed incomes or paycheck to paycheck (about 60 percent of consumers, as estimated by PYMNTS’ research). But she added that such innovation has raised “fundamental questions” about legal and regulatory safeguards. FedNow Will Augment Private Systems, Not Replace Them .

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America Kansas City Payments Kansas 189

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Innovations in 3D and augmented reality (AR) eCommerce are leveling the playing field and bringing conversion-centered visual technology to any online retailer. Our survey of over 50 of the top 200 advertisers in the US shows that marketers recognize the opportunities in AR. Future tech is no longer the province of high-end retailers.

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