PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2019

The floor of CES was once again flooded with smart devices, created to make everything from personal grooming to household management to the daily commute a smoother and more seamless experience for consumers through the power of connection. Google Goes Big.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

To reach consumers on the hunt for offerings that are “clean and natural,” the retail chain rolled out its Everspring household brand. Reportedly, Target research has shown that these consumers aren’t as loyal to specific brands as older shoppers. So-called Generation Z is also driving much of the innovation when it comes to retail.

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Gonzobanker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Instead, these players are focusing on specific niches, brand strategies and community connections to differentiate themselves. For these institutions, digital strategy should be focused on a disciplined allocation of resources and a management team obsessed with understanding performance, competition and the voice of the digital customer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2018

Only a diamond can cut a diamond, as the adage goes, and a bit of friction can help brands sharpen up. Earnings were strong — particularly in the services department — and the company managed to make it over the finish line and become America’s first trillion-dollar publicly listed firm. So, who got sharpened this week?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Google holds the best position to control the Android ecosystem, but only to the degree it can be controlled — with tens and possibly hundreds of thousands of different flavors of Android devices currently in the market. Think Android Pay and Samsung Pay. Thus, control is a relative concept.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

But then so is Amazon, which has gone from the internet’s favorite bookstore to everyone’s favorite everything store — and managed to knock Walmart from the top retailer perch when it comes to market cap. The law would also ban Amazon from selling its own branded goods on its site. It’s a little bit bigger now. households (51.3

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 31, 2016

The same goes for strategic buyers, who operate within an industry and have an interest in snapping up competitors, with an eye on bolting on new technologies or gleaning the expertise of certain management or development teams. Now, the space has fine-tuned a bit to embrace certain verticals, such as restaurants, for example, or retailers.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

As observed in the inaugural edition of the Digital Consumer Report , a PYMNTS and Samsung Pay collaboration, the underlying concept of AR/VR has been floating around for over a decade. Going forward, every Walmart Supercenter will have four, and every neighborhood market and discount store will have two.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2016

Walmart Pay released its six-month report card , with some pretty interesting stats: ubiquity at all 4,600+ stores, high usage, high repeat usage, rave reviews from their users and a growing crop of brand evangelists that, Walmart Pay execs say, have become an effective recruiting engine. Woot, woot! The workhorse?

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

This is the percentage of all Merchant Link orders that are for EMV terminals — a transition, said Carcillo, that “has really taken off in the market segments we serve, in retail and hospitality.”. He said the firm is seeing across-the-board adoption of EMV.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2019

And this isn’t a small or niche subset of consumers – according to the latest edition of the Digital Consumer Report , a PYMNTS/ Samsung Pay collaboration, 58 percent of consumers reported engaging in contextual commerce. And brands and technologists have to do a lot of work to build trust in these emerging forms, they noted.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Many of these machines are outfitted with electronic payments and not only the traditional debit and credit cards” but also alternative forms of payments, from Apple Pay to Samsung Pay, said Lawlor. Mobile purchases is one on the consumer side, he said, and mobile marketing is among the “next big thing[s]” on the corporate side.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Some buyers of the iPhone 8 reported that the brand new smartphone had cracked open due to battery expansion. The true pulse of Apple’s health as a company will not be revealed until the iPhone X hits the scene next month. Assault of Battery. The fake news went out from Dow Jones on Oct.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

There may only be 10 of those $200, 60-inch ultra-hi-def Samsung TVs the store advertised. Some brands have developed a reputation for periodic 40 percent off sales. One company that has managed to maintain price integrity while becoming an industry giant? Plus, they’ve gotten wise to fixed quantities in-store.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2016

The problem, which seems quite manageable by comparison, is the volume of transactions that are still manually reviewed and the number of false positives that still plague the good guy shoppers in the face of an ever-growing number of transactions happening online. The rub though is that those ads last for only 10 seconds.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Old Mutual Global Investors, Artemis Investment Management. Company Description: The UK-based financial services company runs sites such as Compare the Market, lesfurets.com, and Beagle Street, which let people compare insurance products. Select Investors: Clermonth Group, Coltrane Asset Management, Toscafund Asset Management.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. Sizzle of the Week (With A Side Of Fizzle): Samsung. Every once and awhile one of the players we review manages to split the decision between a sizzle and a fizzle, and this week that player is Samsung. Or at least Bixby will when available.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2016

With VocaLink added to its network assets, Mastercard has a way to spread its payments wings digitally, including enabling direct debit transactions, becoming the world’s interoperable faster payments and threading the regulatory needle in a market where interchange has been forced to pretty close to zero. The problem reported: speed.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In the world of asset management, the biggest players are now dedicated firms like Vanguard. Total assets under management (AUM) at the top asset managers now dwarfs total AUM at the top banks. The disruption of asset management. When Facebook went public in 2012, the stock fell 15% in its first few days on the market.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

And the cooling passion for rapidly replacing phones is paired with a waning enthusiasm for the highest end phones on the market, according to research from Gartner. I think the data in the global market attests to that,” Grant said. Customers are paying for features, not necessarily brand names, particularly in the developing world.

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NCR

JULY 11, 2016

This is true in both developed and emerging markets – and in fact, the most successful P2P services so far have been those in places such as Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, where they have become an integral part of the financial landscape. A primary option. Opportunities for banks.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

What we do know, however, is that efficiency-driving innovation will have its place, come whatever market environment,” Joshua Kempf, cofounder and CEO of online B2B industrial products distributor Gaveteiro.com.br , explained in his TechCrunch piece.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Product Management Software Startup Akeneo In $13M Series B. Managing product information is no small task for retailers, especially as catalogs, once solely a print-based medium, moved onto the web and, more recently, mobile channels. We know that the quality of the product information has a direct impact on sales,” he said. “A

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, stating the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. In developed markets, 4G will move to 5G with 15 percent of mobile phones connected, and to 5G five years from now.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 – and the birth of the apps ecosystem a year later in 2008 –inspired an entirely new class of innovators, starting the 2010s with a brand-new toolkit. In developed markets, 4G will move to 5G with 15 percent of mobile phones connected, and to 5G five years from now.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In a deal that aimed to open the Chinese coal markets, US heavy-equipment behemoth Caterpillar paid $677M in 2012 to acquire ERA Mining Machinery Ltd. The Chinese coal market is one of the biggest in the world and this deal looked like easy money. a leading producer of hydraulic coal-mine roof supports in China. Google and Motorola.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 30, 2017

Which means regardless of the ultimate fate of Samsung’s newest flagship phone — the Galaxy S8 — Samsung has already won a pretty major victory. The star of the show was the Galaxy 8 phone — and on the whole distinctly “Samsung” looking infinity edge, all curved side-design. inch screen. That was just the warm-up act.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

Whatley noted that the payment solution has enabled many charities to accept credit cards, including the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital, which uses DipJar in both a retail setting to collect money for itself and to collect money at events, and The Salvation Army, which uses branded DipJars for various campaigns.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 5, 2017

Product management is no small task for retailers. Frédéric de Gombert, CEO of software startup Akeneo, first noticed the problematic methods by which brands managed product inventory information while working at an IT company helping clients manage or maintain their transitions to eCommerce.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2018

in seed funding from Hengbang Capital, Hua He Capital Management, and Nanshan Chuangsai Fund. Advertising & marketing. Notify Brand Technology , a Paris-based marketing optimization startup, raised $1.2M Samsung prepares for 5G. Momenta is now valued at $1B. Cross-industry AI. from BPI France.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Apple Pay, Android Pay, Samsung Pay, Chase Pay, Walmart Pay, Kohl’s Pay, Citi Pay, CVS Pay, Amazon Pay – over the course of about 36 months, the world went from having no “Pays” (well, except for PayPal) to a Pay for every day of the week. For a minute, it seemed as though the proliferation of “Pays” was slowing down. percent of Target sales.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Not that long ago, the conventional wisdom was that mobile operating systems – iOS and Android – would rule, because mobile devices would remain the primary channel consumers used to manage relationships with all of the companies they interacted with.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 4, 2019

The idea that people could share valuable items — like cars — was borderline crazy then, Car Next Door Communications Manager Kate Trumbull told PYMNTS in an interview last March. Airbnb and Uber then entered the market, which made the concept of Car Next Door a bit more palatable. million listings were on Booking as of October 2018.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

After a period of relative quiet in the proliferation of mobile wallets on the digital market these days, a new “Pay” has popped up on the landscape, brought about by the largest U.S. The program, which was introduced in Columbus, Ohio, will be piloted in 10 markets before a nationwide rollout later in the year. grocery chain, Kroger.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 9, 2016

After reporting a string of declines in same-store sales, earlier this week, the company said that that measure was up 1 percent, and management stated that foot traffic was on the upswing. We have fallen short” — so said management on the latest earnings call, which may be classified as an understatement.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

In short, a lot of products come onto the market with big claims about changing the world. Having redefined the user experience in mobile, the iPhone was then the catalyst for a brand new ecosystem for apps, with the ability to charge accounts and bring hundreds of millions of consumer cards on file.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

They are a diverse group of players, ranging from automotive industry stalwarts to leading technology brands and telecommunications companies. A few of the companies or brands listed below belong to the same parent organization, but are detailed separately if they are operating distinct autonomous development programs.

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