PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Facebook is getting big, and we don’t just mean popular: the social media giant has gotten bigger than its britches in more places than one, with new offices cropping up across the U.S. San Francisco, California. The social media giant said in August that it had more than 20,600 employees. Chicago, Illinois.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Scooters are so retro that they are almost brand new. The news came on the same day that the San Francisco-based scooter-sharing company launched a pilot program in Tacoma, Washington, and less than one month after a 24-year-old Dallas, Texas man fell off the scooter he was riding and died from blunt force injuries to his head.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2019

A yellow hat will pop up, which represents its brand. Alternatively, they can enter a more specific request into the platform — for example, they can ask for a one-way trip from New York to San Francisco on a particular date. These consumers use social media heavily and are chat app users. Social Media.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The move will bring 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores — just in time for the holiday shopping season. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s. “The

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Beyond New York, the retailer is planning to extend that experiential approach to partner locations, “offering the world that one-of-a-kind toy retail experience the brand is known for,” according to an announcement from the company, which is owned by ThreeSixty Brands. In Other Brick and Mortar News.

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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 I see a multitude of products like that,” Bogosian said. “So,

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PYMNTS

APRIL 19, 2016

But setting up shop on the edge of the festival and hawking blatantly branded products is a little too gauche for Coachella attendees who want to preserve the festival’s sanctity (whether it ever existed or not), which leads more than a few companies to turn to social media and the tricks of contextual commerce.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2018

In a 4-3 decision on Monday (July 1), the California Supreme Court ruled that Yelp is not responsible for a one-star review left on its site about San Francisco lawyer Dawn Hassell. The case could also influence how much responsibility third-party platforms have when consumers complain about goods and services.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 29, 2018

That sense of purpose, paired with a savvy presence on social media, brought the business a large and devoted following — and has seen the firm expand from shoes to other environmentally sound and charitably oriented accessories like bags, hats and sunglasses. Social Entrepreneurship Done Right. And study it again.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2018

With platforms such as Slice, pizzeria owners can compete with the larger players through a mobile-optimized website and tools that enable customers to place orders through social media channels. Large urban centers such as New York, Chicago or San Francisco have many options for pizza. A Pizza Button.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. As the year rolls on he expects to launch in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Boston and Miami. They decide how to extend selected discounts, when to offer them and who to offer them to.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Finally, Mercedes-Benz busted Amazon for selling three sets of counterfeit branded wheel caps, which were listed on the platform and marked as “ships from and sold by Amazon.com.” The social media giant is once again taking on Snapchat in a quest to win over younger users. The urban-style campus will introduce 3.6

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Insights on Business

JANUARY 31, 2019

Coffee chains continuously evolve their branding, in-store design and the way they deliver their offerings to not just keep “the coffee experience” fresh, but also to appeal to the next generation of consumers. Serving coffee will never be the same. The manager went back to her business dispirited and discouraged.

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William Mills

APRIL 27, 2017

Headquartered in San Francisco, Capsilon serves many of the mortgage industry’s most innovative companies, including two of the 10 largest residential mortgage lenders in the United States. Insights on social media, financial services and more are shared on their blog , or follow them on Twitter at @beyondthearc or on Google+ ^SR .

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NCR

AUGUST 29, 2016

Many businesses are already using the game as a medium through which they can capture the attention of potential customers, which could serve to improve brand identity and loyalty. Pokémon, Pokémon Go and other related brand names are trademarks of Nintendo. Google Play, Android, Google are registered trademarks of Google Inc.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2019

Ultimately, 117 of the cars were produced, initially made available to drivers by lease-only agreements in the cities of Los Angeles, Phoenix and Tucson, before expanding into San Francisco. Now if it could just get all of those backorders filled. The Famicom Console.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

CPG corporates like PepsiCo, Coca Cola, Kellogg’s, and Campbell, for example, have invested in and acquired a number of brands focused on healthy snacking , while personal care incumbents like P&G and Unilever have backed natural and organic beauty brands. As consumer demand rises, businesses are buying into the trend.

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William Mills

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The company provides services under the financial institution’s brand and enables them to offer a loan in 30 seconds in-branch or on a mobile, smart device or computer, and complete the loan with e-sign in under five minutes. RCGILTNER Services, Inc. 9spokes.com. www.sizeup.com.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Last week, the Vikings became the latest pro sports organization to sign with GameOn Technology , a San Francisco-based conversational commerce company that has taken chat to a new level. Likewise, social media content and engagement have become more important than ever. Working with GameOn made perfect sense for us.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The new shops will feature 100 popular small businesses and digital brands on Facebook and Instagram into retail stores, and will be housed in The Market @ Macy’s. The Market @ Macy’s helps both emerging and established brands reach new audiences by showcasing them in a physical space inside Macy’s.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Believe in something, even if it costs you everything … Just Do It,” were the dozen words, and the picture was of former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Some people cheered loudly and lauded Nike for embracing Kaepernick, the controversy surrounding the former NFL quarterback and the social position he represents.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Now showing how Avoka can integrate with a ton of apps in a matter of days with your company’s brand. From their web site: Based in San Francisco, MarketX was founded by a group of experienced professionals from finance, legal, and technology backgrounds. I like what they are doing and I think they could be very big.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

There’s a (slowly) growing push among retailers, brands and even politicians to make advertising campaigns as true and transparent as possible. Aerie asks its customers to post their untouched and unaltered photos and videos wearing their products on its social media accounts, too. It could even soon become a federal law.

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CB Insights

JULY 17, 2018

New restaurant concepts are redefining how we think about food, pushing established brands to reinvent themselves, spurring entrepreneurs to be creative with visual platforms like Instagram and recipes like pea-based protein, and paving a new way forward for the idea of casual dining itself. Automatic food: Cafe X (San Francisco).

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CB Insights

MARCH 6, 2019

Three months later, Amazon contributed to a $50M funding round earmarked for promoting the Pets.com brand. Soon after, the firm attempted to make up ground by selling merchandise featuring its popular sock puppet mascot and relocating a call center from San Francisco to Indiana. By the time Pets.com went public with an $82.5M

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

The marketplace blended crowdsourcing and social media to create hype around new inventions; help inventors find partners, funding, and manufacturing resources; and sell their gadgets to major nationwide retailers such as Home Depot and Target. — Ben Kaufman, founder, Quirky. This would be Munchery’s downfall.

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CB Insights

JULY 20, 2017

San Francisco-based Yes To , which sells skin and hair products based on fruits and vegetables, raised a $56M Series B in June from Viking Global Investors. Colorescience , a chemical-free skin care brand, ranked third with a $15M investment. Within branded cosmetics, startups focused on skincare have attracted the most deals.

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CB Insights

JUNE 5, 2019

While it is popular from a business perspective, some observers consider the technology controversial from a civil liberties standpoint — for example, San Francisco recently banned the use of facial recognition for law enforcement purposes. Beauty brands are letting customers try on makeup virtually.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Let’s face it, data analysis can be a costly and time-consuming affair and can sometimes take weeks or months of scouring through troves and troves of data from a number of channels, like sales, surveys, customer reviews and social media, to even interpret how consumers might be responding to a certain brand or product.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Social media is also helping campers discover new places to visit, then share their experiences with others: 30% of millennials said that they picked a camping spot after seeing someone else go there. As with many industries in today’s information economy, millennial travel trends are strongly influenced by social media.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Under Stuart’s leadership over the past 17 years, OnPoint has gone from under $2 billion in assets to knocking on the door of $10 billion, all while becoming the most recognized financial brand in the Portland market and achieving some of the industry’s best profitability in 2023. Oh, and along the way, OnPoint will provide an amazing $2.5

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William Mills

MAY 9, 2018

We license the technology to HW vendors and brands. These folks are based in San Francisco and have received more than million in funding. He has personally advised more than 300 chief executives on marketing strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, company branding and public relations.

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William Mills

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. From their web site: Swych’s patent pending mobile gifting platform enables users to send “Swychable” gifts from their mobile device that can be instantly redeemed for electronic gift cards of more than 90 popular brands.

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CB Insights

MAY 1, 2018

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. While still in operation, Google+ is hardly anybody’s favorite social network. Crystal Pepsi, Pepsi (1992). Bikes, Smith and Wesson (2002).

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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. These well-positioned startups are not just competing with some of the biggest retail brands in mattresses, razors, shoes, and more, by launching their own brands.

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