PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Caesars Entertainment announced that it has reached an agreement to offer DraftKings , the leading sports-tech entertainment brand in the country, providing market access for its online gaming products. The access is exclusive to Caesars locations across select states where the company operates casino properties. and Australia. .

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

7) the national expansion of Instacart Pickup, a new grocery click-and-collect service. “In our house, sometimes the ritual of going to the grocery store is inspiring and helps us meal plan for the week. Other times, we’re busy and can’t get to the store, so delivery makes life easier for us. ”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 24, 2019

It’s that’s time of year again – football season is upon us. As new PYMNTS research documents, over the past year, 18 Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL) and Major League Soccer (MLS) arenas have deployed biometric solutions by CLEAR.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

With direct marketing hit by robocall abuse and the National Do Not Call Registry , direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands and other not-so-usual suspects are looking into and in some cases reinstating door-to-door sales. We just started a month or two ago, and we’re now getting comments that will allow us to make an assessment.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2020

That’s what PYMNTS surveys tell us, anyway. As it turns out, we as a nation have simply reached our limits with our own cooking. 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.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But somehow, we are a nation of chronically under-rested people. The mattress market alone is worth a whopping $15 billion. 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. Boston Med has offered Sleepio since 2016.

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Abrigo

AUGUST 6, 2019

Blanco discussed the organization’s active approach toward addressing the top financial threats to our financial system, our national security, and our communities and families. According to Director Blanco, this is “incredibly valuable information that helps keep us all safe.” Contact us. Our Advisory Services team can help.

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PYMNTS

JULY 21, 2018

When planning a large-scale marketing push or publicity stunt, it can be easy to overlook the fact that getting attention is hard, and getting positive attention is even harder. And the summer of 2018 has already featured two flashy mass-market promotions that aimed for it, missed and got to watch things go spectacularly awry.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Which is why Munich-based Freeletics is trying to disrupt the fitness market with a customizable training app that requires no equipment. Sports teams, including the San Francisco 49ers and the Boston Celtics, also invested. “We This new round will enable us to once again intensify our strategy for global growth,” said Sobhani.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Currently offered in a session subscription payment method, Handstand is available in Los Angeles and Orange County; the plan is to roll it out to Boston, New York, San Francisco and Chicago. PYMNTS: Give us the background on Handstand. We’re launching New York and Boston soon. Also, the quality of our trainers.

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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. Luckily, for those of us who didn’t snag a ticket, the concession stand is also known as the kitchen, and snacks can be kept flowing to the central watching area. We are mostly kidding about that. Snack Time.

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FICO

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

So, while the average FICO® Score is increasing over time at the national level, what about at the state or city level? While 31 states (and the District of Columbia) have an average score higher than the national average of 706, we generally see that the Midwest and New England states have the highest average FICO® Scores.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Think of us as kind of like a LendingTree for payments processing, kind of like a mini-RFP for the payments sector.”. We work with merchants across the nation. The great thing about this service is payment processing can be provided by a processor in Boston to a merchant in Florida,” Taylor noted. Payments are complex.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2017

In this case , “a bit” goes back as long ago as January 2016, when it came out that beginning in the third quarter of 2015, Uber began to displace rental cars, at that point only in Boston. Uber is the heavyweight ridesharing company here, with 55 percent of the market, and Lyft held 8 percent, said Certify.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

Peloton, for example, took the market by storm with its connected fitness bikes that allow members of the greater community to tap into live classes and pre-recorded content with fellow riders from around the world. Even for firms that were already in that business to start with. Digital Fitness Firms Thriving.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

“Of all the retailers, Tradesy is the one that has the most data, has had the closest look at what we’re doing, and they’re now expanding to a longer-term relationship with us.”. In 2017, Sobie said Happy Returns is working to grow the national footprint of its Return Bars.

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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. billion in annual revenue, has a stock market valuation of $10 billion and an employee headcount that is expected to surpass 10,000 by the end of 2018. For us, it’s a primary focus,” Niraj Shah said in an interview.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Some interesting finalists would be: M&T and People’s United Old National and First Midwest Webster and Sterling Columbia Bank and Umpqua. For the past four-plus years, Chesler has guided Glacier through continued growth and successful acquisitions across the West, all while staying true to Glacier’s local market culture.

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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 billion chicken wings Americans are expected to eat this weekend according to the (honest to goodness) National Chicken Council. Winner: Pizza

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Jeff For Banks

APRIL 10, 2015

By this time, we have all had enough of the cold, the polar vortex, the snow, the freezing rain, the ice, and the potholes that are left on our roadways to harass and frustrate us. At least we are not in Boston. A New Year of Volatility 2015 ushered in a whole new season of volatility in the bond and stock markets.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

MoneyGram and Visa announced in late-July that they will deliver real-time digital disbursements to MoneyGram’s remittance customers using Visa push payments platform, Visa Direct, this fall. Mexico and the Philippines — two of the world’s top remittance corridors — are the first two markets out of the gate. Grubhub Buys LevelUp.

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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. . This round will help us really drive awareness. And, because Drizly aims to be a true marketplace, consumers have the ability to custom ize their choices.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2019

Customers download the app through the Apple App Store or Google Play and sign up for the service and choose the market that suits them. At the same time, Tortora noted the technology has been adopted by farmers markets nationally (the company white labels its product as well). The Products and Vendors.

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PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2016

So what fun in the sun can the nation’s retailers expect this year? The Good … The really good news about summer for retailers is that the temperature is their ally — well, at least for those retailers in the Northeast, assuming that it warms back up again in Boston (from 92 to 62 in 24 hours is a bit much …).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2016

1 school in the nation doesn’t much care about the SAT. “It helps us calibrate a student’s grades.” Unknown at this point , but black markets being what they are , also certainly in the billions. Marilyn McGrath , the h ead of undergraduate admissions at Harvard , famously noted that the No.

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CB Insights

APRIL 17, 2018

We used CB Insights data gathered via our machine learning technology (dubbed The Cruncher ) and from thousands of submissions we received from VC partners and firms via The Editor. 2018 VC Report: AI FUNDING LEPT 29% IN US. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s a tall order for a Boston-based furniture company – but Wayfair has always thought big, even when it was very, very small. So small, in fact, that when it first started in 2002, the entire operation fit easily into the spare bedroom of Co-founder Steve Conine’s Boston home. For us, it’s a primary focus,” Shah said.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 8, 2018

In a recent interview with PYMNTS, Donovan explained how the company works to replace good ol’ transit tickets in 30 global markets. Using Masabi’s platform, commuters are never more than a tap of their smartphones away from their transit tickets — and just as close to buying new tickets or renewing expired ones.

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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. And, it should be noted, Samsung has great expectations for the Thai market and has set a goal of attracting 1 million users to the platform by the end of the year. Apple’s Adding Merchants.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

Instead, new millennial-inspired and tech-infused dining trends have been emerging across the US and internationally. In 2017, the National Restaurant Association reported annual sales of $799B — close to 48% of the total amount that Americans spent on food. Vegan fast casual: By Chloe (NYC, Boston, LA, Providence, London).

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

When anyone talks about two-sided markets, two-sided networks, platforms or the sharing economy, they are really talking about multisided businesses. Their platform just isn’t creating enough value — solving a big enough market friction — to get any momentum. They all follow the same principles and face the same challenges.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Small businesses are also risky businesses, and the Small Business Administration tells us that 60 percent of them won’t make it past their first birthday, never mind reaching their second, third or magic five-year milestones. No small businesses in those areas means no SMB jobs in those markets. But maybe that’s the good news.

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CB Insights

MARCH 26, 2019

. “Cereal used to be the only breakfast option, [but] there’s a lot more to choose from than there ever used to be,” says Andrew Shripka, Kellogg’s associate director of brand marketing. Savvy marketers at struggling cereal brands may be able to reverse their fortunes with the millennial set.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 29, 2021

I chose five years because banks that focus on year over year returns tend to cut strategic investments come budget time, which hurts their market position, earnings power, and future relevance than those that make those investments. MCBS, with a market cap of $705 million, and LTM revenues (net interest income plus fee income) of $125.5

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CB Insights

APRIL 24, 2018

Foot Locker is closing 110 stores, Abercrombie & Fitch is closing 60 stores, department store Bon-Ton is possibly headed toward liquidation, and Toys R’ Us has shut down completely. The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February.

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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. As of now, the Audi A8 with self-driving features has only been approved for release and made street-legal in Europe, not in the US.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

I’ve participated in every US event except one as well as Finovate Europe last year. HQ: Boston, MA. Stephen Butler (General Manager), Sid Probstein (CTO & VP Professional Services), Alan Swahn (VP Marketing), Percy Johnson (VP Solutions), Alex Levi (VP Sales). HQ: Boston, MA. Website: projectfinance.io.

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