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MAY 23, 2019

has joined the ranks of companies and brands setting up innovation labs. Innovation labs and technology and business incubators are nothing new, of course, but the rise of eCommerce, omnichannel retail, digital payments and other such efforts has provided fresh fuel and motivation to that trend. In other words, PepsiCo Inc.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2020

“We look at it as a conversation that drives action, which has a consequence for everything from a purchase to a loyalty program,” Mike Herrick , SVP of technology at customer engagement platform Airship , told PYMNTS. It can drive user attention effectively, and it personalizes the way our technology works.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

Brands keeps rolling out delivery and technology for its quick service restaurant (QSR) brands, but that didn’t save it from disappointing investors early Wednesday (May 1) when it released its financial results for the first quarter of 2019. Overall, Yum reported Q1 revenue of $1.25

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South State Correspondent

DECEMBER 8, 2023

In recent years, product selection, advisory, technology, and a commitment to help support growth have jumped up in importance. Investment in Small Business Banking Technology One common debate at the conference is whether bankers should support the bank’s technology or if the bank’s technology should support its bankers.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The company says it will put the investment proceeds toward its technology platform to meet the evolving needs of the restaurant space. Toast’s revenue, for its part, rose 109 percent over the course of last year as “tens of thousands of new restaurants joined the Toast community” per the company.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2017

Artificial intelligence (AI)–assisted technologies have been on the rise over the past few years. While AI certainly makes consumers’ lives easier, it’s also working in nearly every industry to help streamline operations. Yes, we can all thank AI for our Netflix addiction.

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South State Correspondent

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Of course, the situation gets worse as most banks, other than real estate, don’t invest with a ten-year or longer horizon. Research & development, product design, human capital and brand building is usually a next year item when it should be a next decade exercise. These banks have all taken a longer view.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Now more than ever, we see it as our mission to give today’s businesses the touchless technology needed to keep the kiosk experience safe and empower businesses to continue thriving.’’. The interface needs no trigger word and operates without personally identifying the user’s voice or face. “Touchless.ai Bad trail maps. No trail maps.

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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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PYMNTS

JANUARY 20, 2021

On a conference call with analysts , P&G Vice Chairman, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer Jon Moeller said the mid- to long-term impacts of the pandemic are accelerating top and bottom-line growth as the quality and relevance of its many brands resonates with consumers. “We Constructive Disruption.

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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

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

brand to enter HelloFresh’s portfolio: HelloFresh, EveryPlate and Green Chef are the other three. We have four high-growth food brands in our group, all benefiting from our strong growth engine, technology and supply chain infrastructure.”. CPG brand Nestlé announced that it has closed a deal to acquire Freshly , a U.S.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2021

Whether businesses were establishing their modernization roadmaps for the first time or simply accelerating the plans they already had in place, the COVID-19 crisis drove organizations to embrace technology at unprecedented levels in order to manage a remote workforce, supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 26, 2020

As Davis noted, larger banks, including regional players, tend to have their own technology platforms — and direct integrations into their own networks — to enable mobile and contactless payments. They are not always fast followers of newly introduced products and services from their larger banking brethren who operate on a national scale.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

It’s advanced enough (even if still in early stages) that one can see how cars and trucks outfitted with the latest software, integrated with the latest payment and commerce tools (including voice-assistant technology), can one day become actual extensions of consumers’ homes, which are also getting smarter. The Role of Voice.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It comes a day after the Telecom Infra Project (TIP) adopted technologies from Plume and other companies to develop an open-source software platform that will allow Internet of Things (IoT) devices from third parties to co-exist. As TIP explains it, most residential Wi-Fi networks operate independently.

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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

MARCH 19, 2020

The transition to a digital, online commerce business model, he said, can help usher in a new economic system in the age of unanticipated events (such as, of course, the coronavirus ). Said Kilcoyne, firms “that do not look at their business in those terms will be made aware of the frailties of their choices.”. Moving Toward Automation.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

In technology, especially when it comes to consumer-focused technology, Apple is viewed as a disruptive force. Apple gets its shine from the fact that, per BV, it “makes innovation accessible, and uses its brand to viscerally connect with its consumers and establish a new normal.

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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. The dream might be familiar, but it certainly bears repeating, as this ideal will set the course for so many attempts at innovation and disruption in the coming decade. But don’t take our word for it.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

In the February 2020 Order to Eat Tracker ®, a PYMNTS and Paytronix collaboration, we explore the radical transformation that order-to-eat commerce is delivering to the restaurant sector, as well as the technology firms catering to it. At its heart, mobile ordering and delivery is part of a consistent, positive brand experience,” he noted.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2019

“We’ve been humbled by investor support over the course of our current fundraising round as they have truly shown confidence in our long-term vision of powering the next phase of technology-enabled growth in Southeast Asia,” said Go-Jek President Andre Soelistyo.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 12, 2019

It was a good day for Jumia Technologies on Friday (April 12) — and that’s a good signal about the future prospects of eCommerce in Africa, home to some 1.3 Jumia operates in 14 African countries, including Ghana, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Morocco and Egypt. Of course, wishing something to be true does not make it true, to put it mildly.

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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. Years later, memories of cramming can make us cringe or induce a nostalgic celebratory attitude: “Hey, I actually managed to do it!

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PYMNTS

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. As of today, Amazon’s virtual assistant is now capable of controlling above 85,000 smart home products from more than 9,500 brands.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Retail technology is undergoing big changes in the restaurant world, and that includes the drive-thru. Some brands like McDonald’s are turning to voice recognition technology to keep orders moving. Some brands like McDonald’s are turning to voice recognition technology to keep orders moving. Role of Cameras.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2019

Amazon , of course, is a big part of the brick-and-mortar trend, if you want to call it that, via its Whole Foods acquisition and its Amazon Go cashless store effort. That’s been recently demonstrated by China-based Alibaba and its reported desire to buy a stake in the Chinese wholesale operations of Germany-based Metro AG.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2019

One example in retail and payments is tech incubators — specifically, those run by specific companies and brands, a trend that shows signs of growing even more in the 2020s (which, let us remind you, are only a few months away). He added that “our customers buy our product because we offer advantages over the technologies mentioned here.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2019

Trulioo said it is teaming with Refinitiv — operator of the World-Check Risk Intelligence database — to promote global financial inclusion and fight fraud. The technology helps to ensure compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and other compliance regulations, and Refinitiv is among the biggest players in this space.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

For B2B payments, this summer was a season of technological progress. Both buyers and suppliers say they are looking forward to adopting technology that can tackle their biggest accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable pain points, with PYMNTS’ July Payables Friction Playbook , a collaboration with Corcentric, finding that 42.6

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South State Correspondent

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Instead of trying to “Wow” your customer, in this article, we present the “time-on-task metric” (and its companion, the Customer Effort Score (CES) framework) and detail not only why it matters but why it can change the course of your bank. Of course, some banks do define customer service and do measure it.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Analysts expect another jump in overall revenue, which is par for the course this year for Walmart and Amazon – but outside of the actual numbers, there are several trends and initiatives that will be addressed within the earnings announcement and subsequent analyst call. According to eMarketer , brands will spend $17.37

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Despite the rise of e-commerce and mobile, the physical channel still plays an important role in consumer experience — and retailers are increasingly leveraging technologies to stay afloat. Cashier-less technology is one of the latest trends to dominate conversation. The technologies supporting a cashier-less environment.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In an interview with Karen Webster, Maeve McKenna Duska, senior vice president at USA Technologies , said that a few years ago, moving to digital payments was a leading way for businesses to grow organically. Of course, underpinning unattended retail – no matter the setting or the products being sold – is the convenience factor. “You

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For those who haven’t seen the news earlier this week, here’s what happened: Amazon reported that its online B2B operation , which launched in 2015 and is officially called Amazon Business, has achieved more than $10 billion in annualized sales — with more than half of those sales coming from third-party sellers using the company’s platform.

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APRIL 24, 2018

According to Bloomberg , the automakers join around 100 brands with which Alibaba has partnered. Labs is working on further integrating the AliGenie platform into vehicles’ operating software. With our technology, our innovation, our partners — 10 million small business sellers — they can compete with Microsoft and IBM.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2019

Online liquidation is nothing new, of course, but it’s gaining force and taking new forms, as the YouTube videos demonstrate. Fueling much of this activity are the liberal return policies of Amazon and other eCommerce operators, polices shaped by fierce competition. But the opportunities are real. Investor Attention. Groupon Move?

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