PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also the start of another football gambling season — one that involves mobile commerce and digital payments, and companies trying to innovate their way to success in this growing field of transactions. Payments, of course, are a vital part of the whole legal betting process. More Innovation. Some 15 percent of the U.S.

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MAY 4, 2019

The realm of quick service restaurants (QSRs) is and actually always has been a pretty innovative space. The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The Rocky Mountain High Cheeseburger.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Luxury style and quality brands, offered at a more middle-class price point and sold directly to consumers, is increasingly crowded terrain in apparel retail. La Ligne’s main area of focus, according to Howard, is building their brand cautiously – and with an eye toward being profitable and scalable. We’re listening.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Some brands like McDonald’s are turning to voice recognition technology to keep orders moving. The acquisition aims to help McDonald’s improve order-taking operations in its drive-thru facilities by implementing voice-recognition technology to help customers navigate increasingly complex quick-service restaurant (QSR) menus.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

Luxury fitness brand Equinox is set next month to open its first hotel in New York City, “with more on the horizon in Seattle, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, Calif.,” As well, the furnishings brand RH, formerly known as Restoration Hardware, plans to open RH Guesthouse in New York in the fall. Unattended Retail.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 24, 2020

To integrate payments in the most efficient way, it, of course, helps to define what integrated payments actually mean, across a constantly shifting payments ecosystem. Uber, after all, may have dozens of people staffing the payments side of the operations, but smaller firms simply do not have comparable resources.

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Perficient

DECEMBER 15, 2020

I sat down with Tom Hogan , chief operating officer, and Andrea Lampert , vice president of people, to discuss the program in more detail. Tom Hogan, Chief Operating Officer, Perficient. Andrea: Participants can expect to attend a full-time software engineering course where they will learn Python in 10-14 weeks.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Brands , moves that serve as a good reflection of overall trends in the quick service restaurant (QSR) space. Yum operates the Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC chains, and the company’s fourth-quarter results, released Thursday (Feb. Kiosks, too, are another area of innovation targeted by Yum in 2019. The goal for Yum?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

However, for SSENSE (pronounced essence), at its first retail location, the Canadian eCommerce brand turned physical retailer has opted for a slightly different flavor. That approach has followed the brand into its physical hub in Montreal, where buyers are likely to see streetwear-brands like A-COLD-WALL* alongside Givenchy wear.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 20, 2019

In this case of retail innovation, that comes down to a former Snap executive taking on Amazon with the launch of a new eCommerce platform. Not only that, but “Verishop is launching with roughly 150 brands — and growing — already signed on.” The challenge, of course, is significant. The company generated about $3.3

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Long before innovators began talking about the power of ecosystems to transform commerce, scientists spent centuries studying them under microscopes in their labs. Decomposer for innovator large or small, established or emerging. An Ecosystem By Any Other Name. Substitute producer for buyer or supplier. Consumer for the end user.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

In the early days of the Internet, brands and businesses knew they wanted to get online, but they just weren’t quite sure why, or how best to do it. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. In the early days, brand sites were ugly, clunky and not terribly useful. Coming Customization.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

Payments, of course, have always been important, but the new decade promises to be something else entirely. As you can imagine, digital disbursements stand as one of the main areas of innovation and disruption for the practice of payments going forward. But in fairness, it’s going to be a big one, at least from all the signs.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. They saw a greenfield waiting to be planted.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2020

Never to be outdone when it comes to innovation, Chipotle is testing a new concept that lets OTE customers pick up their orders at a convenient window without entering the location. It’s not just a change in consumption patterns that restaurant operators are struggling with – it’s a change in perception. The Shape of Eats to Come.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

The topic of conversation was the inevitable consolidation of the payments sector, as scale becomes critical to optimizing the payments experience and innovating new payments flows. Today, restaurant operators are dealing with their own version of the so-called “Amazon experience.” Guess what? Wait, was that four years ago already?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The voice commerce category continues to find ways to be innovative. The interface needs no trigger word and operates without personally identifying the user’s voice or face. The solution is adaptable to all web-based apps used at kiosks and plans in the future to accommodate iOS and Android operating systems. “We No trail maps.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Not to mention, all those late nights desperately striving to absorb all the information we should have learned over the course of weeks instead of hours, had we the good sense to keep pace with the work. Now, they are doing all this digital innovation, and it’s really moving the needle,” he said. Heck, yeah!”. Digital Progress.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 21, 2018

There is no word on how much the retailer — which connects nearly 900 boutiques and luxury brands to 2 million affluent and luxury-enthused consumers — plans to raise, but it placed a $100 million marker in the filing. Of course, that could change. percent increase over 2016, and its operating profit was $136.9 million in 2017.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Many in the banking industry have recently highlighted Africa as a part of the world that has huge untapped potential for the development of innovative financial services products. Keeping up with the pace of innovation. Tanzania, for example, has permitted this for three years. However, other nations still ban the practice.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2017

Media companies, in the meantime, shoveled tens of millions into Snap in the hopes of selling to a generation whose brand loyalty is about as fleeting as Zsa Zsa Gabor’s affection for each of her nine husbands. This comScore chart shows that audience breakdown and made the tech press and event circuit rounds in force. Survival of the Fittest.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

"It's about digitizing how the whole business operates.". Of course, the digital transformation leaders this year were the organizations that prioritized technology from the onset. Treasurers also quickly became leaders for their firms, exploring how to adjust business models in response to dramatic changes in the market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

The world of retail is never for the faint-hearted, given its fierce competition, constant innovation and disruption – not to mention the ongoing shift to digital. Perhaps the most unexpected development to emerge during this past summer of retail was the frenzy sparked by the introduction of meatless menu items by fast-food operators.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

While AI certainly makes consumers’ lives easier, it’s also working in nearly every industry to help streamline operations. PYMNTS spoke with Dole Packaged Foods Asia VP of Marketing and Innovation Ashvin Subramanyam and Albert CEO Or Shani about this campaign and learned what AI is doing for the retail space.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

As PYMNTS readers know, the QSR space is not only an area of payments and commerce where massive innovation and disruption is taking place — much of it centered around mobile and loyalty — but a place of fierce competition. Consider the daily or near-daily coffee run to the same QSR operation for more evidence of that point.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 25, 2020

Of course, that was before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19. Carrefour and Google announced plans to jointly launch a voice-activated grocery shopping service in France, one of the 30 countries in which Carrefour operates. PYMNTS readers looking for similar innovation closer to home can check out Walmart.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

So we are seeing a lot of innovation around what’s on the menu and how it is packaged — they are providing a lot of nuances in the delivery and takeout experience.”. The largest group, he noted, will use some kind of hybrid model in an effort to build their brand and diversify it across channels and tracks.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2017

B8ta’s goal is to give technology makers with big innovations (and small ones, of course) access to a physical channel when they are too still small for the biggest stores. What it would look like is a store that is currently doubling its footprint — and hoping to operate coast to coast. What would that look like?”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Call it the curse of innovation, perhaps. Trulioo said it is teaming with Refinitiv — operator of the World-Check Risk Intelligence database — to promote global financial inclusion and fight fraud. Everyone trusts the brand.”. Of course, big challenges remain for the growth of digital ID technology and processes.

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PYMNTS

JULY 9, 2018

As car manufacturers, software providers, payments and commerce players and others build the connected vehicle ecosystem, there is increasing experimentation and competition in regards to the best operating systems to install. billion, with robust growth expected in the coming years as car brands increase their connected car offerings.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2019

Not to mention, all those late nights desperately striving to absorb all the information we should have learned over the course of weeks instead of hours, had we the good sense to keep pace with the work. Now, they are doing all this digital innovation, and it’s really moving the needle,” he said. Heck, yeah!”. Digital Progress.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

As TIP explains it, most residential Wi-Fi networks operate independently. For example, a Comcast Wi-Fi network would not currently be able to integrate a separate network that operates a home security system or a smart refrigerator that connects to a phone app. The world has been permanently changed,” said the company in a statement.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Will future generations perhaps end up associating the Atari brand with hotels? When creating this brand-new hotel concept, we knew that Atari would be the perfect way to give guests the ‘nostalgic and retro meets modern’ look and feel we were going for,” said Smith. Yeah, that’s a real question. Can Nostalgia Carry the Day?

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APRIL 23, 2019

Tick down the list of offerings spanning decades (the Mac, the iPhone, the iPod, iTunes, the iOS operating system/ecosystem), and one can find that the ways we communicate, listen, stream and, indeed, interact with technology have all shifted. Wrap even modest rewards in a digital wrapper and, perhaps, demand will follow.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The voice activation may come back with one brand or a few, as well as suggested websites or stores. Or would she prefer to visit the store (mask required, of course) for a custom fitting? With ReplyBuy, we'll operate in two-way conversations into that experience. Suppose a college student is in the market for new running shoes.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

Of course, taking a break is a relative term when it comes to the race for the consumer’s whole paycheck — Walmart, according to most reports , is running barn-burner deals that rival Black Friday savings. Big News of the Week: The Next Round of Voice Innovation . Tom Ward, senior vice president of digital operations for Walmart U.S.,

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