PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

In fact, in its founding days back in 2002, Wayfair fit comfortably in the spare bedroom of Conine’s Boston-area home. As of now, the firm is looking to branch out from its Copley Place headquarters in downtown Boston and into a neighboring building that reportedly has enough space to accommodate it. Doubling Down On Tech.

Boston 100

Boston Online Data Retail 100

MyBankTracker

MAY 7, 2021

The company’s core product offerings revolve around insurance and operates as a subsidiary of a Canadian-based company called Manulife. John Hancock, also known as The John Hancock Life Insurance Company, was founded in 1862 with operations based mainly in Boston, Massachusetts. No easy online quoting tool.

Policies 52

Policies Boston Tools Maine 52

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The digital transformation of the commerce ecosystem, which had been underway long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, flipped into overdrive overnight, as consumers were forced to change their habits and shift almost everything they once did in real life to an online substitute. The Power of Persistence.

Retail 220

Retail Study Report Boston 220

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

And you can see it in the hustle by retailers and brands large and small to pivot their businesses and business models — and the disclaimers on just about every retail site starting a week or more ago that orders placed online might not make it in time for Christmas. Take PayPal, for example. She thanked me profusely for shopping small.

Apple 227

Apple Study Innovation Survey 227

PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

Many Main Street SMBs, local restaurants and designer boutiques are doing it for the first time. One of the best things that happened last week was the reopening of hair salons in Boston. And that will become this salon’s standard operating procedure going forward. Gas stations are encouraging it. So what is ‘it’? population.

Cards 147

Cards Study Maine Payments 147

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

That was one of the main messages from a recent PYMNTS discussion featuring Karen Webster and Vaduvur Bharghavan (who goes by VB), the president and CEO of Ondot Systems. Amazon has opened an online store , establishing a presence on Chinese online shopping site Pinduoduo. The marketplace said Monday (Nov. for $4 billion.

Google 129

Google Mobile Data Capital 129

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For Main Street businesses, to say 2020 was challenging is an understatement. According to PYMNTS data, more than 60 percent of Main Street firms have at least three channels operating to drive sales: online, at physical stores and mobile.

Maine 169

Maine Philadelphia Community Boston 169

Celent Banking

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

These brands are basically separate products that offer a digital-first experience to a certain demographic, but are closely tied to the main bank. The second type is a completely separate brand ring-fenced under a different technology stack, operating under the umbrella of the parent organization but effectively a separate entity.

Customer Experience 100

Customer Experience Branding Boston Innovation 100

PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2016

The Index is based on two key components: whether a merchant adds value through a mobile app or website, and how consistent online and in-store experiences are for consumers. To compile the index, researchers in Boston; Chicago; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Seattle shopped merchants across three channels: web, app, and in-store.

Virginia 102

Virginia Resources Seattle Mobile 102

PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2018

According to a recent survey from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), profits among the world’s corporate banking institutions is significantly declining – but digitization could halt that trend. Online lenders and alternative players were a wake-up call to banks,” explained Glover.

blockchain 171

blockchain Lending User Experience Mobile 171

PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

RI and YG: While attending Drexel a couple years ago, we found it unbelievable that there wasn’t an online alternative to running around, store after store, cab after cab, to get the supplies and products students and young professionals needed daily. RI and YG: We see our main competition as, simply put, convenience stores.

Tucson 150

Tucson Columbus Portland Phoenix 150

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

who each week walk into one of those physical stores, in addition to the 100 million who are said to shop one of the retailer’s online channels. That curiosity was piqued by my walks to the office when I am in town (I live in Beacon Hill in Boston) and my mental counts of the number of Amazon boxes I see out on trash day.

Retail 167

Retail Online Branding Analysis 167

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

At the same time, the market caps of the top 20 retailers have lost more than $230 billion over the last two years, and mall operators are sucking wind as overstocked anchor stores shutter underperforming locations, which delivers a death knell for the stores that depend on anchor store foot traffic to lure customers in.

Big Data 135

Big Data Data Retail Marketing 135

PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2016

These programs — which include apps like GrubHub, Foodler, Favor, Seamless and DoorDash – operate independently of merchants, acting as middlemen between in-home consumers and various eateries. Also, Mintel’s Foodservice Trends 2016 report found that 77 percent of Americans said they would use online food delivery services.

Resources 102

Resources Operations Technology Boston 102

CB Insights

AUGUST 8, 2017

Headquarters: Boston, Massachusetts. MATTERNET is developing an automated delivery system built on a network of autonomously-operating Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Propeller ‘s platform automatically processes photos from drones into maps, models, and data, available online in near-real time. Teal Drone. Dronesmith.

Company 70

Company Nevada Utah Los Angeles 70

PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

And Boston-based D rizly ’s news yesterday of its $15 million in Series B funding was a noteworthy milestone, for sure. . Most local liquor store retailers don’t have websites, which means that they don’t have online product catalogues for starters. Th ere’s a reason there isn’t a lot of a lcohol sold online.” .

Comparison 100

Comparison Retail Boston Online 100

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

The traditional gift for a ninth anniversary is pottery, and our offices are in Boston – but, you know, no pressure.). But then, we had a feeling that something like this might be about to happen in a world suddenly able to be online and on the go at all times – it’s why we were founded in 2009. That is no longer the case today.).

Innovation 177

Innovation Payments Cards Retail 177

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

The weather in Boston – and it’s about darn time. Overall, according to the Global Fraud Attack Index that we do with Forter every quarter, fraud attempts are up 217 percent, putting nearly $5 of every online sale at risk. You want to know what really sizzled this week? As for payments, here are this week’s picks and pans.

Bitcoin 109

Bitcoin Fraud Mobile Apple 109

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For those charged with managing the consumer’s trust and safety when transacting online, and in the midst of increasingly clever cybercrooks, being comfortable going against the status quo flow has become much more important than ever before, he said. It can’t do that, certainly not as well, without collecting lots of data.

Cards 169

Cards Course Study New York 169

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Uber rode the tailwinds of smartphone adoption, app stores, well-developed technologies like GPS and (at launch) well-established mapping software provided by Google to blend the online and offline worlds around a consumer experience that before lacked certainty and reliability. But that’s just one side of the Uber ecosystem.

Innovation 146

Innovation Cards Payments San Francisco 146

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Unfortunately, the operative word in the quote is “better,” not “build.” The new feature is already online at quick-service restaurants in Boston and will be rolled out across the country over the coming months. The mousetrap has to be actually and demonstrably better. So why the move into QSR from Chase?

Payments 100

Payments Mobile Innovation Boston 100

Independent Banker

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Consumer studies the Boston firm has conducted indicate increasing mobile-banking adoption and awareness and use of mobile remote-deposit capture applications. But, overwhelmingly, consumers who pay for goods and services online, including over mobile channels, do so with a credit card. Today’s mobile options.

Mobile 105

Mobile Community Bank Community Technology 105

Independent Banker

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Building trust in your institution has a lot to do with technology, from implementing strong data security practices to humanizing your online customer interactions. In early 2021, a customer approached a teller at Kennebec Savings Bank in Augusta, Maine, and asked to withdraw $20,000. Illustration by Ahoy There.

Community 139

Community Community Bank social media Security 139

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Fast food and quick-service restaurants (QSRs) are much more about mass production than customization, no matter how many personalized options those operations offer hungry consumers. Boston Market, for instance, is among the restaurant brands making their first forays into loyalty rewards. The main problem? Granular View.

Data 134

Data Branding Boston Mobile 134

PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

And while most might despair at the knowledge that it is almost impossible to know with certainty if that expensive dog food is actually worth the cost, Ollie Co-Founder Gabby Slome responded by creating her own premium dog food firm online to offer preservative-free, fresh and homemade dog food. within two days for ground shipping.

Oklahoma 139

Oklahoma Oklahoma City New Jersey Philadelphia 139

CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While the rules against prop trading have more recently been loosened, the restriction has still changed how investment banks operate. Even as the regulation pendulum swings back toward more limited oversight, how investment banks operate is fundamentally changing. Table of contents. The disruption of the IPO.

Management 78

Management Capital Company Marketing 78

PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Online retailers will be where we shop. Shift Number One | The Shift To Buying Online. We’ve been watching online sales now grow — even double — year over year, for many years now, but it’s still tiny, overall. Who in the world ever thought that there’d come a day when groceries would be bought online ?

Payments 100

Payments Online Mobile Retail 100

CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs. Top initiatives: First company to test self-driving tech on the streets of Singapore, and later in Boston. Aptiv hits the road for testing.

System 78

System Technology Michigan California 78

CB Insights

MAY 10, 2018

Before Bruce Doolin Henderson opened the doors of Boston Consulting Group on July 1, 1963, the concept of “competition” barely existed in American business culture, let alone the concept of strategy. Expertise: An experienced operator’s perspective on a problem and the different ways that it can be solved.

Strategy 78

Strategy Management Analytics Tools 78

PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

What we will say is that fun times with family, the dazzling display of fireworks and the perfunctory cookouts and beach time, truly and totally make this upcoming weekend one very big sizzle wrapped around what appears to be in Boston, at least, abundant doses of sunshine. Seriously a Sizzle! Like stuff.

New York 100

New York Lending Cards Retail 100

William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. Presenter Profile: How they describe themselves: AI Foundry uses AI and user-guided machine learning to transform enterprise operations by integrating information, people and processes. Info: Covered Security acts as a personal security assistant looking out for your online life. Website: projectfinance.io.

Security 40

Security Samsung Strategy San Jose 40

CB Insights

JULY 23, 2020

Higher-tech solutions have also appeared, including foot-operated elevators in Thai malls to minimize contact with buttons, as well as an ultraviolet sanitation solution from Ashla Systems that uses hospital-grade UVC rays to kill pathogens in empty elevators. Source: KCDC/CDC. Challenges: Privacy, security, and managing the learning curve.

Meeting 101

Meeting Tools Survey Company 101

CB Insights

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Australian music streaming company Guvera has reportedly stopped operating, with its co-founder and biggest financial backer walking away from the project. and a dearth of people with technical, operational experience running energy facilities. The lack of people with real operational experience “hurt KiOR a lot,” says O’Connor.

Capital 78

Capital Company San Francisco Operations 78

PYMNTS

MARCH 19, 2018

In the last few months alone, we’ve seen snow in Rome and three powerful nor’easters in Boston in the space of two and a half weeks — with some forecasts predicting a fourth this week. A Google search directed me to an online merchant that sent them to me (from Italy) four days later.

Google 148

Google Apple Retail Millennials 148

PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

Paying for things will happen online for pickup in the store later. The Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston, by contrast, gets me far less excited, even though I use it a lot. Roughly 55,000 vehicles use it to get in and out of Boston every day. Checkout lines will soon become passé, and checkout will become a non-event.

Mobile 205

Mobile Innovation Apple Study 205

PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Had I been in town, I might have used Google to find a store near me in Boston that carried the brand I wanted so I could try before I bought. Main Street merchants banded together in the early 1890s to complain to lawmakers about the impact of department stores on their own businesses. Sound familiar?

Innovation 170

Innovation US Maine Google 170

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2017

The first commerce intermediary to operate at scale was Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar , which opened for business in 1460. It also standardized pricing and hours of operation. Commerce intermediaries are nothing new. In fact, they are at least 557 years old. Less inventory means fewer things for buyers to buy — and ultimately fewer buyers.

Online 128

Online Google Branding Retail 128