PYMNTS

APRIL 7, 2017

Amazon recently focused a bit of attention on smoothing out one of the rougher patches marring user experience and accessibility. Amazon recently fixed an early point of friction: the requirement that users enable Alexa’s skills via smartphone or web browser before they can use them. Perhaps “marring” is a bit hyperbolic.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 11, 2017

More recently, the online retail giant rolled out additional capabilities for third-party developers to create skills that leverage the voice-activated assistant’s location capabilities. Users can also request a less specific set of data, such as zip code, to provide local insights and services. and globally.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2019

The company is also growing its partnership with on-demand food delivery service company foodora Canada, which allows the firm to take Interac Debit payments via digital wallets with the inclusion of Google Pay and Apple Pay, according to an announcement. ” Interac Corp. ”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Stripe Powers Digital, In-Store Payments For Lightspeed Retail, Restaurant Customers. Lightspeed , the Canadian global point-of-sale (POS) and eCommerce company, is teaming up with Silicon Valley payments platform Stripe to advance in-store and online payments for retailers and restaurants in the U.S. and Canada.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The newly branded company aims to innovate the way travel merchants promote and sell across all digital channels. “I am very excited to unveil our new brand, which captures our ambition and capability as both FinTech and travel tech specialists. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution. .”

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2017

J.Crew — responding to years of declining retail sales and closing stores — is leaning heavily on online shopping channels as it attempts to reestablish itself with its customer base. The move comes as the retailer is closing even more physical locations than was previously been predicted. Gifts By J.Crew.”. “It

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2019

Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank had more to say about its recently reached “definitive agreement” with Walmart to acquire its co-branded, private-label credit card receivables “at an attractive price and terms” than he did about the earnings misses. Mastercard and Google Fend Off Fines. Mastercard got tagged with a $648.3

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In general, tokenization offers “added security, higher approval rates and, on top of that, [lifecycle] management, [which] leads to a better consumer experience.”. Mastercard will work with Adyen, Digital River, Stripe, Square, Worldpay and its own eponymous gateway services to bring tokens to retailers. Digital Commerce Umbrella.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s a game called “Beat the Intro,” which had already been seen on the App Store and Google Play. That night, the “name that tune”-style game was given the Alexa treatment, adding voice functionality to the user experience. This suggests that Google may not have too far to go to catch up to Alexa. 22, according to Wired.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 14, 2018

Amazon and its ever-expanding marketplace of goods presents a problem that looms large in retail: try to beat ’em or try to join them. It’s not impossible to compete, but Amazon’s most notable and intractable competitors are super-sized themselves: Walmart, Google, Target, Apple, etc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2017

Last week, Alphabet’s smart home brand, Nest, announced the launch of its line of products — like smoke and CO detectors, surveillance cameras and thermostats — in four new European markets. Also last week, Google bought up Fabric , a Twitter-owned business that creates software toolkits for mobile app developers, for an undisclosed sum.

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Google Software Mobile User Experience 100

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

All-digital, all-tech lending platforms that could deliver better user experiences and faster credit decisioning would become the new normal and take share from banks who were too big and cost-laden to keep — or catch — up. All tout an easy user experience via a mobile app that helps users track and monitor spend.

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Fintech blockchain Lending Digital Banking 183

Accenture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

It’s no secret that the big tech companies—especially the ‘GAFA’ of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple—are using data to personalise and target offers to customers, and getting better returns as a result. Subway has rebuilt its operating model to continuously run tests on customer experiences to optimise the journey of purchasing a sandwich.¹

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Gonzobanker

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Here are examples of how some organizations have made use of social media to achieve results: Increased brand awareness – Chime consistently posts a variety of content, and its Instagram profile, with the brand’s signature green theme and modern imagery, has amassed more than 933K followers. Yes, that’s a lot of Benjamins.

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William Mills

MAY 11, 2016

Portfolio outlooks, recommendation.Provide retail and advisory users the insight they need with Polly Portfolio. If you have a large retail investor base, and no resources to interact with them, then perhaps there some value? ^SR. Svyatoslav Ostrovsky (Head of Retail Digital Business). Retail for a piece.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

And that growing spend, apart from being visible by the numbers, is also visible in falling foot traffic to physical retailers, as consumers are increasingly preferring to shop (and browse and price compare) with their phones, as opposed to physically appearing at the mall. They then went on to basically ‘own’ it, along with Android/Google.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

However, when it comes to making purchases at the point of sale, mobile payments users of the world (and, more specifically, the U.S.) have divided into three main camps: Android (Google), Apple and, most recently, Samsung. Apple has taken the single-channel approach, driving the user experience primarily from its iOS.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

Disintermediating the established intermediaries has become something of an art form in payments and retail these days. Physical retail is being disintermediated by a host of new players using digital technologies and data that further erode their relevance. Take retail. See the Future — or Face the Inevitable. Yes, they do.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2017

From using virtual reality to overhauling the retail industry to shifting trends in cross-border payments, here are some of the highlights from our 2016 Trackers. Prpic and his team are hoping to use VR technology to transform luxury and high-end retail as we know it. DEVELOPER TRACKER.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But while many chatbots didn’t meet users’ high expectations, they haven’t entirely fallen short. Today, the bots are still being used across industries like fintech, healthcare, sales and CRM, retail, and even law — and they’re having important, though quiet, effects. Source: TechCrunch.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

By combining deep-learning and crowdsourcing methodologies, our platform collects and classifies user requests in real-time and then deploys the data back to all conversational channels, including Alexa, Google, FB Messenger, Phone and Texting. We license the technology to HW vendors and brands. I like their web-based UI.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2017

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. Google Trends data shows that both inbound and content marketing, at the time of Mint’s launch, had hardly been studied. The best apps retain about 70% of users after three days. visitors from Google every month.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Silver Fusion Retail Outlet: Where Snowbirds Shop”. Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Most PFM solutions come from a bank-oriented side; this seems to be taking the model from both the retailer and the banking side. What do people aspire to purchase?”

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Fintech Labs Insights

JULY 22, 2015

This means retailers need to be prepared to accept EMV transactions. It will showcase its REST API that allows technology companies to access turnkey global payout options while maintaining control of the user experience, making it easy for your users around the world to be paid.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I couldn’t think of a more relevant metaphor for the tectonic shifts that have influenced the direction of the payments, commerce and retail ecosystems over the last several years. There are eight such shifts now happening quietly and forcefully beneath the surface of what we define as payments, commerce and retail today.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2017

But why then, you might ask, are so many pure-play eTailers, whose target audience is the millennial — like The RealReal and Rent The Runway , new marketplaces like OfferUp , deal aggregators like Groupon , alt lenders like SoFi and alt lending platforms like LendingTree — buying pricey blocks of airtime on CNN and CNBC to promote their brands?

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CB Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In the process, these brands, spanning everything from detergent to sneakers, are radically changing consumer preferences and expectations. The 9 companies we’ll look at were born on the platforms that have dominated the post-dot-com internet—Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, Kickstarter. New Frontiers in Retail Tech.

Video 78

Video Branding Company Strategy 78

Lex Sokolin

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The media industry has been able to deploy a business model that uses the Internet to deliver a better user experience when bundled with the law. It is a worse user experience to avoid it. Just because content is user-generated, that does not mean it is peer-to-peer. What’s the Google of this world?

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