PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Technology is the new norm for restaurant customers worldwide — especially if those customers happen to live in Asia or the Middle East. In another restaurant technology survey of U.S. consumers , 79 percent agreed that restaurant technology improves their guest experience. Customers want convenience. While the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Stripe, a technology company that allows businesses to make and receive online payments, has launched in five more European countries, the San Francisco firm announced Wednesday (May 27). Europe’s fast-growing online economy has been fueled by the shift to online purchases as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Isn’t Only for Big Brands. The technology, similar to that of Amazon Go stores, uses computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) to identify what customers take from the shelves. Zippin, a cashierless convenience store, launched last year, also in San Francisco, with the goal of reducing typically long lines.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Four temporary pop-ups have opened and are opening in New York, San Diego, San Francisco and in the Las Angeles suburb Santa Anita, CNBC reports. The rise of new 5G mobile network technology also promise to spark new deployments of virtual reality in the retail space. and Europe by 2022. VR is expected to generate $1.8

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Oakland, San Jose, San Francisco, Detroit, Austin, Boston and Chicago. They’re places where the company already has a presence and where resources and infrastructure could support a technology heavyweight like Amazon. In its first week owning Whole Foods, Amazon saw big victories, especially in terms of online ordering.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 11, 2020

No less than Sam’s Club, Starbucks and fashion high-flyer Zara have made adjustments to online ordering and purchasing. The announcement comes after Inditex saw a 95 percent surge in online sales for the month of April alone. The answer: fewer stores and a more concerted push online.”. The brand has about 15,000 U.S.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2020

DoorDash , the San Francisco-based prepared food delivery service, is planning to go public by year’s end, after filing confidentially in February. Goldman Sachs is pondering a $2 billion venture and growth fund that could boost its stature in the world of technology investing and help it court bigger investors and investments.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

In the age of Amazon, achieving success in this market takes dozens of fulfillment centers, advanced logistics and sophisticated enterprise technology. We now live in a world where consumers expect their online purchases to arrive at their doorstep almost instantaneously. “We

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Indeed, digital apparel sellers have been modifying their tactics to take a lot of the uncertainty out of online clothing purchases. For Chennai, India-based women’s fashion brand eShakti – to take one recent example – making it easier for customers to rectify fashion purchase errors (or avoid them in the first place) is a good start.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The digital-first shift means there are more options for smaller, direct-to-consumer brands, to find first-time customers from around the country or even the world. Here’s how some really creative D2C brands are using new tech to do that. But Sticky.io 13-14 Amazon Prime Day. Capitalizing On Direct To Consumer.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2016

Pixlee , a San Francisco-based startup, allows retailers or brands to market directly to customers by using their own photos through curating them from social media or having the customer directly submit them for use, which the company says leads to a more authentic and engaging shopping experience for consumers.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2019

In the digital age of shopping for clothes and accessories, modern-day consumers don’t want retailers to entertain them: Instead, they want these merchants to bring them an easy experience, offering seamless shopping in store and online. The technology has been made famous by Amazon through its checkout-free Amazon Go stores.

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PYMNTS

JULY 22, 2019

Much of the excitement surrounding automated retail — aka cashierless retail — has been driven by Amazon Go, but the enthusiasm for “just-walk-out” technology has been tempered by the stores’ limited locations. French retail giant Carrefour SA has also been testing camera and image-recognition technology in grocery stores.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 26, 2019

To help bring these options to more consumers, retailers and technology companies decided to join forces. It launched the expansion into San Francisco in January, with plans to extend the service into New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Chicago.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2019

Imgur , the community-powered entertainment platform, has announced a $20 million investment from Coil , the San Francisco-based startup designed to help creators monetize content and provide a premium experience to consumers. The theft targeted bitcoin tokens, impacting at least 4,000 victims in 12 countries.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs come across an emerging technology and find a new way to apply to it to everyday problems. ikonis, for instance, went on a trip to China and saw how they used WeChat for anything they do from ordering and paying for a taxi to making online purchases. A yellow hat will pop up, which represents its brand.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2016

In retail, and especially for personal beauty brands trying to navigate brick-and-mortar and online subscription spaces, this is doubly true. Dive deeper Sephora did when it followed up its Innovation Lab announcement with another explaining the first eight innovators invited to work on their projects at the San Francisco think tank.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2017

Many innovators end up in the business of commerce or technology because they are trying to solve a problem — usually their own. The pants in question were patchwork jeans, and purchased in a San Francisco vintage shop while Irish-national Kelly was on a world tour — a tour which included a final stop at Burning Man.

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PYMNTS

MAY 18, 2017

From responsive mobile websites to on-demand offerings, consumers are increasingly demanding that retailers, both online and in the real world, cater to their needs in the moment. . Yelp’s Eat24 is testing delivery via robot in a new partnership with Marble in select neighborhoods in San Francisco. On-Demand Days .

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

Through platforms such as Slice , small pizzerias can tap into technology that allows their customers to order pizza online for pickup or delivery — just like the larger national chains. By 2022, the projected value of the online delivery market is projected to reach $55 billion. That’s where Slice comes in.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2019

In a recent trend, eCommerce mattress brands have been moving into the world of brick-and-mortar retail by opening their own stores and pop-up shops to help let customers test-drive their products in real life. Then, in 2018, Pop-In@Nordstrom partnered with Casper to bring pop-up stores to select Nordstrom locations and online.

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PYMNTS

JULY 17, 2018

Israeli-based Datorama allows more than 3,000 global agencies and brands — including PepsiCo , Ticketmaster , Trivago , Unilever , Pernod Ricard and Foursquare — to optimize marketing campaigns, automate reporting and make data-driven decisions faster. 25-28 in San Francisco.

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PYMNTS

MAY 11, 2020

percent of those who purchased food from restaurants ordered it online, but that increased to 16.5 Grubhub has capped fees in Seattle and San Francisco, but they remain in effect in the rest of the U.S., And it’s a movement catching on with brands and entrepreneurs of all kids, trying variations on the model.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 18, 2016

That’s become pretty much gospel for brands, retailers and marketers alike. And one of the most valuable forms of data right now is behavioral data because it tells a retailer or brand where a customer or potential customer goes, does and spends their time and money on. Big Data is big business. Our whole history is mobile location.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2019

From Vengo Labs to Carvana , digital innovators in a variety of industries and spaces are reinventing the vending machine concepts with new technologies and features. And technology in the space is continuously evolving from the days of large, imposing machines. The machine also has a 21-inch screen that allows consumers to interact.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In 2019, it placed 64th on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America. Acima grew 2005 percent from 2018 to 2019. It was also tabbed by Utah Business magazine as the fastest-growing company in the state.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

Brands like TJX , Macy’s , craft and fabric retailer Joann , and Walmart ’s ModCloth are trying on smaller-format, off-brand and off-price destinations with features and experiences tailored for the digital-first generation. It does seem, however, that a focus on affordability is a core driver of new retail strategies for brands.

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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

JANUARY 23, 2019

Another one has bitten the dust when it comes to providing the vital last-mile delivery service for online consumers (especially the hungry ones). This news — part of an ongoing deal between the two companies — combines two well-known brands with a delivery service that has a fleet of couriers who are pretty much ready at all times.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Founded in 1990, Intertrust Technologies Corporation has a long history of providing computing products and services to global enterprises. Put simply, Personagraph offers agencies and brands audience intelligence gathered from 1.5 Personagraph offers solutions for brands and agencies seeking to precisely reach mobile audiences.”.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

That’s an axiom that Extole , a San Francisco-based company that offers a refer-a-friend platform for mobile and web devices, has built an entire company around. So, you wake up one day, and you’re this useful brand, and the youngest customer on your customer list is 28. And you’re like, ‘What the hell? Roche said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

“We wanted to help retailers access technology and tools to allow them to understand what is going on in their stores,” said Magnan-Saurin. If you compare this to the online competition, eRetailers already have these capabilities.”. The key piece of technology in the process is called the Fidbox. All of this data was lost.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

AI and chatbots have opened new commerce channels and ways for consumers to engage with brands. And we don’t just mean self-driving technology. This is why PYMNTS is introducing the Car Commerce Tracker — keeping tabs on the latest news, trends and developments in payments, commerce and technology as it relates to the car.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2017

Those who prophesied the death of brick-and-mortar retail in favor of online alternatives may have been premature. Sure, merchants without an online presence are largely sinking or already sunk. Hema’s 13 stores, based primarily in Shanghai and Beijing, operate on a hybrid online/offline model. Amazon has seen it.

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Fintech Labs Insights

JUNE 26, 2023

But what we will surely see is challenger banks dusting off their sweep features and emphasizing them in their marketing and branding. Online Digital Bank Savings & Treasury Accounts for Small Businesses (SMB) (June 2023) first appeared on Fintech Labs SMB Center. 1,900 reviews) – Trustpilot : 3.5 (613 613 reviews) 2.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Laka , a London-based community-driven insurance technology company, raised $4.7M Goodcover , a San Francisco-based insurtech, raised a $2M seed round led by Fuel Capital. Indonesian ride-hailing giant GoJek announced the official rollout of its online insurance offering, Go-Sure, that had been in beta since October 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 23, 2016

That means that, for every 100 push notifications a brand sends out, only about four to eight of them wind up being at all successful at enticing or engaging potential consumers. Consumers simply don’t engage with the average push notification that pops up on their phone. The Engage Commerce platform will take us a step closer to this vision.

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