PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In an interview with PYMNTS’ Karen Webster, Mike Lawlor, chief services officer of USA Technologies, dove into the innovations that have marked the unattended retail space. In one noticeable move, Webster noted that there have always been branded kiosks for vending machines (with Coca-Cola a flagship example of that).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

In the last month, a host of tech giants ranging from Uber to Samsung partnered with emerging payment solutions to get a foot up on the competition. UPI’s partnership with one of the most popular ridesharing services in India and worldwide is a major step toward building its nascent brand. The latest in the PaaS world.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

21) that it is launching a new destination for electronics products to feature Certified Refurbished products, not from its sellers but from brands like De'Longhi, Dirt Devil, Hoover, Makita, Philips and Razer, which will sell exclusively on the eBay platform. The reCommerce trend continues to gain momentum. eBay announced on Wednesday (Oct.

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PYMNTS

MAY 25, 2016

. “This investment will also help us to more quickly add new retailers and brands who want to use eyeQ to reinvent the in-store shopping experience.”. With fresh funding under its belt, the company is now also adding Lisa Harris, managing partner of Align Capital, to its board of directors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

Much of the 5G focus at CES will indeed revolved around connected cars, which is understandable, given how the mobile and automotive industry are on course to become very close siblings in the coming years, enabling more seamless forms of payments and retailing. The robots aren’t just coming — they are, of course, already here.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

Existing investors include Cisco Investments, Samsung, BHLP, Atomico, Dawn Capital and Advance Vixeid Partners. The company noted that during the past 12 months it inked partnerships with global packaging companies Avery Dennison Retail Branding and Information Solutions (RBIS), Crown Holdings and WestRock.

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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. Intelligent Toilet retails for $7,000 and reportedly responds to voice commands. The Numi 2.0

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Sizzle Of The Week: AR/VR’s Retail Gains. Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have spent much of 2018 generating buzz as a potential tool for retailers looking to bridge the digital/physical gap and deliver an all-encompassing, omnichannel shopping experience. AR/VR technology itself is not all that new.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

But let’s not forget the role of the teenager in digital retail, financial services and transactions. According to the report, the Pixpay app “will help with spending and saving management, providing real-time purchase notifications and analysis of where money goes, along with offers on popular brands.” Retail and Teenagers.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Think Android Pay and Samsung Pay. Android Pay has been around longer; Samsung Pay has nearly twice its adoption rate, according to the PYMNTS/InfoScout Mobile Wallet Usage figures. Historical landmarks get brief bios; storefronts yield hours of retail operation and contact data.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2019

Four years off of displacing Sears as the nation’s largest retailer, Walmart generated $88.7 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. It’s a little bit bigger now.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

There are the weeks leading up to Black Friday , during which retailers start announcing deals and many begin to offer discounts: the pre-season. alarms, parking lot wars, and stampedes at retailers’ doors. For retailers, however, the game may be nigh impossible to win. This weekend can be tough on consumers. There are 3:00 a.m.

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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

JANUARY 24, 2019

Like its $310 million purchase of Bonobos, buying Blue Apron would repeat Walmart’s playbook of acquiring a branded eCommerce startup with a more premium product to its core offerings,” said Matthew Trusz, equity research analyst of Gabelli & Company, to investors. Two years later, Google unloaded Motorola to Lenovo for $2.9 billion.

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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. When the amount retailers pay in card fees “gets out of alignment, as we believe it is now, we don’t believe we have a choice but to use whatever mechanism possible to get it back in alignment.”. So, who got sharpened this week?

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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

JANUARY 17, 2018

As such, when consumers do connect with a customer care agent, the calls are more meaningful and complex, according to Gary Praznik, senior vice president and chief operating officer of call center manager iQor. Calls made to contact centers today aren’t just getting more complicated.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2017

And still others are blaming carriers for offering less exciting retail promotions for the iPhone 8 than they did for last year’s iPhone 7. Some buyers of the iPhone 8 reported that the brand new smartphone had cracked open due to battery expansion. Others point to the looming launch of the hyped-up X edition stealing its thunder.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2017

Try being Samsung this past week, which had both a sizzle and a fizzle. Gymboree may be proved to be another retail fail, as the company is rumored to be prepping for bankruptcy amid a debt repayment scenario. Sizzle of the Week (With A Side Of Fizzle): Samsung. Not the type of news that warrants a stiff upper lip.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2016

Mastercard started with week with an announcement of how its Mastercard Send product would extend the reach and the speed of Early Warning’s clearXchange P2P network for bank customers with a Mastercard branded debit product. The networks are happy because they are the proud recipients of tons of brand new transaction volume.

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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.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The shift in consumer preference is not surprising, LG Electronics Senior Manager Angel Grant told PYMNTS in a conversation, because of how advanced smartphone technology has become. Customers are paying for features, not necessarily brand names, particularly in the developing world. Going Big on New Features: the Foldable Samsung.

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

Our Actionable Intelligence Management solutions help banks and mortgage companies streamline and automate manual processes, seize new business opportunities and manage compliance, all while transforming the customer experience. Fiserv & Samsung , fiserv.com @Fiserv @Samsung. Product Demoed: Agile Mortgages.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

As an official Olympic partner , Airbnb is able to offer an “alternative accommodation” through its listings (nearly 40,000 and counting) spread out across the city, including neighborhoods that are not typically tourist destinations, Airbnb Brazil Manager Leo Tristao told CNNMoney. It looks like it’s no harm, no foul for Apple.

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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. There are Pays courtesy of mobile operating systems, like iOS/Apple and Android/Google and Samsung.

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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. Task management platform Asana went public via DPO in September 2020.

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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. There are Pays courtesy of mobile operating systems, like iOS/Apple and Android/Google and Samsung.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

The data digs into the likes, dislikes and habits of Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay mobile payments users. Retailers looked at in the study are capable of enabling an NFC payment and include drug/grocery/QSR and some retail. Android and Samsung Pay Users For Debit, Apple for Credit.

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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 29, 2018

For Google’s part, it kept releasing its own branded phones under the Nexus brand, partnering with Samsung, Asus, and LG to manufacture these devices, and further eroding the value of the Motorola acquisition. When you’re a powerhouse brand, it can be hard to see that the times are changing. eBay and Skype.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 19, 2018

in seed funding from Hengbang Capital, Hua He Capital Management, and Nanshan Chuangsai Fund. Notify Brand Technology , a Paris-based marketing optimization startup, raised $1.2M Samsung prepares for 5G. Samsung acquired AI-based network and service analytics startup Zhilabs in preparation for the “5G era.”

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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. Faced with this up-and-coming generation, retailers and brands, as well as payment providers, are already preparing for the arrival of Gen Z as adult consumers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 12, 2018

Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, we know how that story played out: Apple Pay and the wave of other Pays it touched off (Android Pay/Google Wallets, Samsung Pay, Walmart Pay, Chase Pay, Kohl’s Pay…) generated a lot of buzz, but not a lot of traction. ” And thus began the era of mobile phone as retail line-buster.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The coin will not be for retail customers, and is currently being tested for internal use by institutional customers looking to move large sums of money. The surprising part of the announcement is perhaps the timing – two years ago, when everyone in retail and payments was pushing their own version of “Pay,” the news would have fit right in.

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