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Partnering Helped Restaurants Meet Demands During Pandemic

PYMNTS

Business survival amid the global pandemic has been a challenge but some brands were able to leverage the situation by tapping technology and turning lemons into lemonade. Elote Mexican Kitchen and Oliva Italian Eatery, both in Texas, used the platform for online ordering and email marketing.

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Conversable Launches Social Commerce Platform

PYMNTS

Conversable , a Texas-based startup, is challenging how consumers shop on their mobile phones with its bot-based ordering platform. “Bots are easy; conversations are hard,” says its brand’s unique selling point. For me, as a consumer, my experience with a brand just gets better and better as I can do more.”.

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We analyzed 7 of the fastest-growing personal finance apps of all time to figure out the secrets to their success — here’s what we learned

CB Insights

An explosion of new consumer finance brands is transforming how people save, spend, and manage their money. At the time of acquisition, it had 700,000 users and had processed about $12 billion in transactions since its launch in 2013. It can burden users with excessive information and friction that ruins the user experience.

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Finovate Fall 2016 Live Blog – Day 1

William Mills

Integrated with major retailer API’s like Amazon, eBay, Best Buy and several other aspirational brands. Another Texas-based payment tech company. Besides Georgia, Texas seems to be a hot area for FinTech companies. Swych’s headquarters are in Plano, Texas with offices in San Francisco, CA. Om Kundu and Mark Krofchik.

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