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JUNE 6, 2019

June brings colorful, high-energy LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations to cities across the nation. Skirting Cash Shortages at Boston Pride. Boston’s pride celebration is one of the season’s biggest events for Mandy Roberge, the owner and artist behind Wicked Good Henna.

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MARCH 15, 2018

The two firms have jointly announced the rollout of mobile voice ordering via Google Assistant, according to recent reports. To get started, users need to type — or speak — the phrase “talk to Dunkin’ Donuts,” and the Dunkin’ mobile ordering bot will take command of the feature from there and begin steering.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

After successful test runs in Boston, Philadelphia and Tampa, the CVS membership program CarePass will expand nationally with free delivery for an annual fee, CNBC reported on Monday (Aug. Membership is $5 per month or $48 a year, which allows users to access free two-day delivery of store products and prescriptions.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

We want restaurants to work so badly that we are willing to lie to ourselves,” Heather Mojer, co-owner and beverage director at Boston-based Big Dipper Hospitality Group , operator of the Café Du Pays, Mamaleh’s Delicatessen and State Park restaurants, wrote in an Instagram post. “We

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That’s why the always resourceful restaurant sector went all-in on mobile order-ahead (MOA) and kept the nation fed while industry players looked for their next move. cities, including Boston, Chicago, New York and Washington, D.C.”. Mobile Is Making It Work.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

But somehow, we are a nation of chronically under-rested people. The pods set up shop in places where the nap-needing tend to gather – university campuses and office spaces being their two main sweet spots – and offer the chance to book a 20-minute to two-hour nap online or on mobile with a few clicks or taps. But does it really work?

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JUNE 1, 2020

Not surprisingly, to make consumers more comfortable shopping and checking out in their stores, retailers have rushed to enable a “ contactless ” payment experience. Part of that includes reminding consumers to use their contactless cards when they check out in their stores (if they have one) or their mobile wallets (if they choose).

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JULY 25, 2018

Turns out the online and mobile food ordering business has some hefty tailwinds in place. Beyond the quarter’s results, the firm stated it has acquired LevelUp for $390 million in cash, a deal which will spur further integrations with the nation’s top restaurant brands, with additional channels in place to attract new diners.

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MARCH 11, 2016

According to its survey of 507 vendors of merchant processing systems, Apple Pay is the most requested mobile digital payments service among retailers. According to the recently released figures, 44 percent of those vendors’ customers are using, or have asked about using, mobile digital payment systems.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card offers users the option to gain 3 percent cash back when paying for Apple products and services and for purchases with Uber, Uber Eats, T-Mobile, Walgreens and Duane Reade. According to reports last week, Amazon will soon be heading to Boston to construct a $40 million state-of-the-art robotics innovation hub.

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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.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2018

And Grubhub has been in expansion mode , gobbling up Boston-based Foodler, Groupon’s OrderUp and Yelp’s Eat24 in 2017. At the same time, former retail rivals (now partners) Grubhub and Yelp agreed to a five-year alliance that includes the integration of Grubhub ordering into Yelp’s listings. “So

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JULY 21, 2018

The addition of delivery will now also be part of the IHOP ‘N Go mobile app, home to the brand’s order-ahead capability. The DoorDash delivery addition will include 300 IHOP restaurants across the nation – a much bigger change for the chain than the temporary embracing of a newish name – and the addition of burgers to the menu.

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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. The Dog Bowl.

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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. This round will help us really drive awareness.

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MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. You’ve no doubt heard of mobile ordering ahead, and it’s not just a Starbucks phenomenon. Beware the Ides of March, warned Shakespeare.

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MARCH 16, 2017

And indeed, the middle of this month has been nothing if not gusty, but daunted not the gutsy — who trekked by the hundreds to Boston for the opening of the annual Innovation Project. You’ve no doubt heard of mobile ordering ahead, and it’s not just a Starbucks phenomenon. Beware the Ides of March, warned Shakespeare.

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APRIL 17, 2018

He received his MBA in 1993 from UT Austin before joining Credit Suisse First Boston as an Equity Research Analyst, where he focused on computer hardware and software. Jeff began his post-graduate career as a Management Consultant with The Boston Consulting Group. PROFILES OF THE TOP 20 VENTURE CAPITAL PARTNERS. BILL GURLEY.

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MARCH 14, 2016

They provide physical or virtual platforms (like a shopping mall) for multiple groups (like retailers and shoppers) to get together. Put yourselves in the shoes of the Revolution Money team back in 2007, pitching its platform to retailers and consumers. Why New Mobile and IoT Operating Systems Will Mainly Fizzle.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

million in tokens for DENT, a mobile data ICO; and over $1.1 CFO Adam DeWitt noted that a seven-year-old, Boston-based LevelUp serves 200 regional and national brands, with a point-of-sale (POS) approach that seeks to replicate each brand’s experience online. They also stole $13.8 million from Tron, a project from China.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As mobile payments continue their race into the mainstream, land grab expansion seems to have become the name of the game. Summed up in a single word, the theme of the week in mobile was “more” for many of the major mobile movers — more territory, more devices and more merchants. Speaking of watching — and watches….

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APRIL 24, 2018

Research BRIEFING: Surviving the Retail Apocalypse. How are brick-and-mortar retailers surviving and adapting in the world of digital commerce? The retail apocalypse has claimed many victims , with almost 7,000 stores closing in the US in 2017. And that’s just since February. However, this isn’t the whole story.

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DECEMBER 17, 2018

Producers (or importers) sell to distributors, distributors sell to retailers and retailers sell to customers. Only retailers can sell to customers, and only distributors can buy from producers (except in the state of Washington). We don’t do any delivery – never have.

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JUNE 17, 2019

At the same time, Tortora noted the technology has been adopted by farmers markets nationally (the company white labels its product as well). The company recently launched its service in Boston, where producers have to be able to drive to the city within two hours. There is not a lot of noise like in Boston and New York.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2017

have a retail crisis — or a small business crisis? Which is why “fixing” retail must include giving SMB merchants the tools they need to compete in the very dynamic environment that now defines Retail U.S.A. So, what does this all have to do with retail? Here’s a question: Does the U.S. Here’s an answer. We have both.

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JULY 17, 2018

The old guard of American dining are switching up their games to compete: McDonald’s is adding self-serve kiosks to many of its franchises, upping the ante with mobile order technology. In 2017, the National Restaurant Association reported annual sales of $799B — close to 48% of the total amount that Americans spent on food.

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MAY 9, 2018

HQ: Boston, MA. Now showing a combo consumer/mobile and platform on the CSR side. Fiserv is highly regarded for its leadership and innovation, and award-winning solutions for mobile and online banking, payments, risk management, data analytics and core account processing. HQ: Boston, MA. Website: projectfinance.io.

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MARCH 26, 2019

GET THE 54-PAGE RETAIL TRENDS REPORT. Not all in-store retailers have fallen out of favor with millennials the way department stores have. 70% of millennials say that they shop at off-price retailers like TJ Maxx and Marshalls. Between 2006 and 2015, off-price retail sales went from $18B to $35B — a jump of 94%.

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JUNE 14, 2018

We can use mobile apps and voice commands to control our lighting, temperature, and home security. Asimov predicted the exploding population would cause US cities like Boston and New York to converge along the coast into combined super-urban bodies, while suburban communities would have to expand downwards, building subterranean homes.

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JULY 23, 2020

Companies will have to look to guidelines from local and national authorities for each office location. By using Wifi, LTE, or Bluetooth, the latest mobile solutions can unlock doors while still in a bag or pocket. Many updated solutions leverage existing mobile phones and their Bluetooth, Wifi, and LTE capabilities to enable access.

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JULY 19, 2017

Retail/Consumer Goods. Products from these labs include HeartSense and AkTrac (“wellness apps for activity detection and physiological sensing using mobile phones and wearables”), a mobile phone digital stethoscope, and RehabBox, a “Kinect-based telerehab system for post stroke patients.”. This post is broken up into sections.

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Indeed, co-founder Alejandro Resnik, the CEO, told the WSJ in 2015 that it was looking to raise a “monster round” of $300 million at a $2 billion valuation to fuel its national expansion. He believed Powa would set down mobile payments infrastructure that would be just as revolutionary. via Beta Boston. via TechCrunch.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

But overpriced, over-hyped hardware products weren’t the only “innovations” we said goodbye to: we also recently witnessed the deaths of startups working in mobile AR, e-commerce, digital media, and more. Title: My Mobile AR Start-Up Died So Yours Doesn’t Have To. Product: Blin.gy App. Product: Mobeam.

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MAY 12, 2017

May flowers did not appear for retail earnings, unless you consider a bouquet of stinkweed a blanket of blossoms. And given the fact that last year Chinese tourists traveling abroad spent $261 billion (according to the United Nations World Tourism Organization), a fair slice of that spend could wind up in U.S. businesses’ coffers.

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JULY 6, 2020

Still, New York leads the nation in the number of COVID-19 deaths at 32,206, followed by New Jersey with 15,211 and Massachusetts with 8,183. In New England, Kowloon Restaurant, a 50-year-old establishment on Route 1 north of Boston, is adapting to the new rules around indoor dining. and asked that he wear a mask.

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