PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The main expansion of 3D is being seen in its dual usage for consumers and retailers. By blending the physical and digital worlds and enabling users to actively shape their experiences, AR offers unique ways for marketers to interact with consumers,” says a recent report from Boston Consulting Group.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

Some were already investors in the startup, which is headquartered in New York City and will use the funding to expand into Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Other participants in the round of fundraising included CoVenture, Y Combinator, TIA Ventures, Bionic Fund, Cocoon Ignite Ventures and FJ Labs.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 6, 2018

Boston-based agricultural tech company Freight Farms , for example, grows produce inside of shipping containers. The Mushroom Market. The market for mushrooms is just so strong, especially local mushrooms,” DeMartino said, adding that beautiful exotic fungi have good margins.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Cava has around 30 restaurants in the DC, LA, and NYC markets, and its packaged dips and spreads are sold in more than 200 Whole Foods Market stores. MiniLuxe is a nail and beauty lifestyle lounge with locations in Dallas, Rhode Island, Los Angeles, and Boston. sweetgreen. Total Disclosed Funding: $122M. Treebo Hotels.

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Abrigo

OCTOBER 7, 2016

One study by The Boston Consulting Group estimated that small and midsize U.S. Leaders reap multifaceted benefits from the technology tools they adopt.” - The Boston Consulting Group Some of the ways technology is specifically helping valuation firms grow include the following: - Providing flexibility.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In addition, the Pennsylvania-based retailer brought in a new board of directors with members from Boston Consulting Group and Oaktree. David’s plans to use the new money to roll out improved marketing and match up the eCommerce pricing with the stores, said Marcum. Its rivals are “very good at the service level,” he continued.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) advisory firm Equiteq announced that it advised The Shelby Group , an eProcurement transformation and optimization consulting firm, on a recent growth investment from Boston-based private equity firm WestView Capital Partners , according to a press release.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

According to McKinsey , if you take the approximate value of all the sleep swag on the market as of 2018 –think luxury pajamas , high-end bed linens , cuddling robots , DTC mattresses and odd gadgets – it generates somewhere between $30 billion and $45 billion annually in revenue worldwide. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Its benefits can also be used when shopping at Joss & Main, AllModern and Birch Lane. We are always looking for new ways to enhance the shopping experience and bring even more value to our customers,” Ed Macri, chief product and marketing officer for Wayfair, said in a press release. The Boston-based company generated $5.7

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Eat Your Coffee CEO and Co-founder Johnny Fayad was in college in Boston when he helped come up with the idea to make energy bars. Although students still enjoy the bars, the target market has evolved to include young professionals and fitness enthusiasts. As typical busy students, they didn’t have time to make breakfast or coffee.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2019

More than 70 percent of QSR managers see these as the main benefits of implementing technology, according to the PYMNTS Restaurant Readiness Index. Mobile ordering is available at the chain’s Denver, Boston and Houston locations, with more markets said to be in the works for this year. More than six in 10 – or 65.3

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

While some markets may be seeing relatively slower adoption of mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) than others, there’s no denying that the overall popularity of mobile and contactless payments are growing fast among consumers. In markets like the U.S., percent between 2017 and 2026. Deep Dive: The State of mPOS in North America.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

When small business (SMB) investment marketplace MainVest announced a $3 million Seed funding round last week, it did something that many Main Street SMBs cannot do. For instance, for the small business, turning toward the community for investment not only means access to capital, but supports marketing and customer acquisition.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

More than two-thirds of marketers are still failing to capitalize on this outreach method, however, spotlighting a massive missed opportunity. Research shows that 98 percent of consumers open and read their text messages, which means that mobile channels can offer merchants a unique opportunity to reach their customers and encourage sales.

Online 272

Online Report Customer Experience Analytics 272

PYMNTS

JULY 5, 2017

Before Uber in Boston, where I live, trying to get a taxi reliably was not only friction-filled, it was infuriating much of the time — something that a study conducted by the city of Boston in 2013 on the taxi industry bore out. That was on a day without bad weather, something Boston never has.

Boston 124

Boston Regulation Innovation Study 124

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.

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Boston San Francisco Houston Georgia 100

MyBankTracker

MAY 7, 2021

John Hancock, also known as The John Hancock Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1862 with operations based mainly in Boston, Massachusetts. Once the request is received, an assistant to their licensed insurance representatives will call you from the Boston headquarters. Background on John Hancock.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 6, 2018

Boston and the areas surrounding New York didn’t get quite as lucky and were actually buried under more than a foot of snow, but the damage was done. The storm affected 60 million people in 15 different states stretching from Maine to Florida, with 13 million people in the direct path of the blizzard warnings.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

restaurant market. Many restaurants are realizing, however, that they need to provide their customers with delivery options to tap into the market’s full revenue potential, and are partnering with third-party delivery services to give customers the option to order their favorite meals, while raking in extra revenue.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2017

Boston-based athletic company New Balance has a simple mission: to become the world’s best running brand. It’s a multi-pronged attack that is leveraging both gadgets and a big reboot of the in-store experience that the Boston-based firm is betting big on. and identified five or six influencer markets that we wanted to penetrate.

Retail 100

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PYMNTS

APRIL 26, 2019

With so many mobile order-ahead apps on the market, customers have never been so spoiled when picking somewhere to eat. According to Brent Feldman, chief marketing officer for Boston-based fast-casual eatery B.GOOD , the best way to figure out what customers wanted out of its app was to listen to them.

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Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While this makes the category more difficult to judge, it offers immense insight into what’s happening in the market. These brands are basically separate products that offer a digital-first experience to a certain demographic, but are closely tied to the main bank. Customer experience initiatives are typically the most numerous.

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Customer Experience Branding Boston Innovation 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2016

ImageSurge, a Boston-based unattended retail service provider, is looking to change the way consumers window shop. “We believe that integration of digital marketing technologies into the physical space will play a big part in that change. Fellow micro-market provider Avanti Markets, Inc. to accept mobile payments.

Retail 100

Retail Boston Mobile Technology 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2019

And while San Francisco’s housing market is legendary for its many rental horror stories, other cities are less extreme but still quite high: roughly $2,850 a month in New York, $2,670 in Washington, D.C., 2,420 in Boston and $2,300 in Seattle for a no-frills one-bedroom, probably a walk-up.

San Francisco 156

San Francisco Millennials New York Wichita 156

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. This newfound friction is the result of the City of Boston passing a bill that bans plastic bags and gives merchants the right to charge for ones made of paper. Because when they do, consumers can get hurt.

Regulation 181

Regulation Boston Cards Innovation 181

PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2018

In the latest Mobile Point-of-Sale Tracker , PYMNTS reports on how mPOS solutions are entering new markets around the globe, and how players in the space are working to make sure they also become more secure as they become increasingly popular. Around the mPOS World. Adopting mPOS for a Smoother Commute. About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Everyone knows retailers are in trouble — at this point, the whole market knows it. But that potential is not all that easy to tap into, particularly for the largest and most established players in the market. “If And retailers also know they have a problem,” said Arish Ali, CEO of Skava. There’s a big disconnect.”.

Retail 116

Retail Mobile Miami Marketing 116

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

Josh Glover, EVP of the Americas at banking technology provider nCino, said that when it comes to corporate banking and lending, the end-user experience is just as much of a focus for traditional banks engaging in digital transformation as it is in the consumer banking market.

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blockchain Lending User Experience Mobile 171

PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

Meanwhile, Boston-based international payments and receivables solution Flywire recently announced a collaboration with PayPal to process payments from students and patients using the Flywire platform. With the new partnerships, dLocal, which already has a presence in the U.S.,

Report 161

Report Boston Trends Payments 161

PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

RI and YG: We see our main competition as, simply put, convenience stores. market, with additional plans to expand internationally. market every month, cut down delivery times and become a household name for on-demand convenience store delivery. PYMNTS: Who does goPuff see as its competition, if any, and why?

Tucson 150

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

Revenue for the online sports betting market is predicted to reach $150 billion, making it likely that even more states will follow suit with regulations of their own. For the 2019 NFL season – PYMNTS is based in Boston, so Go Pats! – we can also expect more voice-assistant retail as part of the games.

Payments 161

Payments social media Mobile Seattle 161

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Sanford said that 10 percent of card payments are now done via tap instead of dip or swipe, and half of all cards in the New York market are now contactless-enabled, with the other half of cards fully expected to be online by the end of the year. So, when is it coming to Boston?” That is not the norm in the rest of the U.S.

New York 167

New York US Payments Training 167

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

The game will be the main event for most people, particularly for fans in Boston and Philadelphia, as both cities are known for being ever so slightly fanatical about their sports teams. [GO Offered in conjunction with Postmates, the service will be available in the 40 metro markets in which Postmates currently operates.

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Minneapolis Minnesota Philadelphia Boston 101

PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

And Boston Dynamics is working on their own robotic delivery system, which it showed off at this past April’s TED 2017 conference. Meanwhile, a pair of companies are working on taking deliveries out of the hands of human couriers. Bringing Online to the Real World .

Report 109

Report San Francisco Retail United States 109

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

As PYMNTS is Boston-based, the company is, of course, excited to see Tom Brady take a shot at that sixth Super Bowl ring. Produce marketer Avocados From Mexico said that avocado demand hit new highs this year ahead of the Super Bowl, increasing 20 percent from last year to 242 million pounds. “We We are mostly kidding about that.

Boston 150

Boston Retail Branding Payments 150

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

The weather is turning such that Boston has already had its first snow, and eating outdoors at restaurants is losing its appeal in the northern United States. marketing director, told the Huffington Post. “We And perhaps most critically, do the dishes when we’re done.). And on that front, PYMNTS can offer few solutions.

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