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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Social-Commerce-as-a-Service app PowerBuy has rolled out its Multi Product PowerBuy group buying functionality, which is now available via the Shopify app store. Retailers on Shopify can now add social group purchasing to their eCommerce storefronts, according to a Wednesday (Oct. 21) announcement.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

BuzzFeed is planning to open a toy store in New York City later this fall. New York Post reported that the store, called “Camp,” will be located in an 11,000-square-foot space in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. In fact, Rachel Shechtman, STORY’s founder, is an advisor on the BuzzFeed retail project.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

It is, called by its proper name, the Winky Lux pop-up shop in New York’s SoHo neighborhood – and by all accounts it is the concept shop that has blown the internet’s collective mind. “No one seems excited to go to traditional retail,” said Winky Lux’s Co-founder Natalie Mackey.

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JULY 29, 2019

The Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) weighed in on a dispute after a German online fashion retailer was accused of violating EU law by embedding a “Like” plugin. A consumer association in Germany said the plugin allowed the social media company to collect data on the site’s users, the news outlet said.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Over the course of years, Facebook reportedly enabled some of the world’s biggest tech companies to access the personal data of users — which amounted to the social media giant exempting some businesses from the privacy rules its customers thought they were protected under.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The latest earnings reports from Big Tech giants and social media platforms show that advertising spend is through the roof at present, after basically falling off the roof earlier this year. billion, according to data provided by FactSet,” The New York Times reported this week. billion in revenue and profits of $5.53

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

25, an Amazon Web Services outage affected the digital presence and operations of dozens of companies. We have restored all traffic to Kinesis Data Streams via all endpoints and it is now operating normally. All other services are operating normally. On Wednesday Nov.

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MAY 14, 2018

It made a largely unreported acquisition of a firm called STARTEK earlier this year, and although it may sound like an acquisition more appropriate for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space exploration firm, the business is a call center operator and engagement outsourcing specialist. Plus, Evine might be something of a difficult acquisition target.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 17, 2021

The paper cited interviews and social media posts by customers who said the bikes they had been promised were weeks or even months behind schedule — often with no notice until the day they were scheduled to arrive or even later. All companies need to figure out how to grow into their hype. Peloton executives have been apologetic.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2019

Millennials could be helping to bring new life to call center commerce. That’s reportedly the case when it comes to luxury retail brand Gucci. The Gucci call center effort comes at a time of change for luxury retail and call center commerce. The change in behavior is due, in part, to social media sites such as Instagram.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

New York officials, however, recently delivered good news to victims of a magazine scam that Orbital Publishing Group oversaw. Attorney General Letitia James said her office won more than $16 million in restitution and penalties for 68,000 victims and shuttered the scammers’ New York and Oregon operations.

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Bank Innovation

JUNE 27, 2018

PREMIUM - If you walk into HSBC's flagship New York branch, the chances that you will be greeted by a robot are pretty high. The bank's innovation team, which unveiled its SoftBank Robotics-run robot Pepper yesterday, hopes that this will draw more traffic into the branch, and thus increase business.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2019

Visa said Monday evening at a New York gathering in anticipation of the launch that events through a year-long campaign will include interactive workshops, tailored on a community-by-community basis. 30 kickoff in Atlanta will include access to experts from Visa and entrepreneurs operating both nationally and globally.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2019

Call Blue Apron what you will: a struggling retailer, a comeback kid, a prime example of hype in the online world, a respectable survivor. Once they made their Blue Apron meals, he says they couldn’t stop talking about it and sharing photos of what they made on social media.” Back to 2012.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 2, 2016

She took to social media this past week to state that the continued use (and pursuit) by Wells to deal with its legal issues in arbitration renders the stated goals of making things right with customers basically a moot point. percent less according to the National Retail Federation. Elizabeth Warren. Questrom noted.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Currently, the American department store chain’s main Chinese digital representation is a storefront on Tmall Global, a web shopping site for imported products operated by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Macy’s launched on Tmall last November.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2018

Talk about kicking the tires: JPMorgan is reportedly helping Cars.com to explore “strategic options, including a possible sale of the company,” according to the New York Post. The news represents the latest development in the quickly evolving ties between the digital world and car vehicle sales and service.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Currently exiting beta in New York City, Fahmy’s new company, DineVite, claims to put the discounts back where they belong — with the restaurant owners. The model for the DineVite online and mobile app is actually similar to social media. The operative word is control. “I

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PYMNTS

JUNE 8, 2020

And people have gone on social media and attempted to make their pets partake in athletic competitions — usually resulting in minimal success, but adorable videos of failure. Thus, the season is already over for Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Golden State, Minnesota and New York.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2018

And while bargain retailers charge vanishingly small amounts for their goods, all of those little sales add up to some pretty amazingly large figures for bargain-hunting consumers. “We Part of it is a savvy social media-based distribution model through WeChat. on New York City’s Fifth Avenue.

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PYMNTS

MAY 31, 2019

Speaking at an investors conference in New York, the executive said he was “not convinced” that faster payments “are going to take off like crazy. More of today’s consumers are looking to the car as a smart guide to parking or safe driving, as a way to interact with social media and, most importantly, as a way to shop.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

company-operated transactions, the company said in its financial report. Borrowing from the strategy of fast food restaurants, Dine Brands is working on a new order-ahead technology. Through an app, diners can order their food ahead of time and then pay their bill electronically, the New York Post reported.

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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. Introduced in 2014 alongside a handful of other experimental services, Uber Eats operates worldwide in 29 countries. A Pizza Button.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

It freed up the company from having to operate warehouses or figure out complex shipping logistics in its earliest days. That will hopefully translate into a sticky appeal for influencers and those with large public and social media followings. The hope is to bring on more influencers and to continue growing through many U.S.

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Bobsguide

MARCH 28, 2022

Dubai, UAE, London, UK, New York, US – March 28, 2022 – Finastra today published a market assessment report: ‘Banking as a Service: Outlook 2022 | Paving the way for Embedded Finance’. Key findings include: • More than 80% of regulated financial services providers expect the overall BaaS market to grow.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Would you rather travel from New York to Los Angeles, hyperloop style , in half the time of flying, knowing that your safety is not assured, or sit aboard a conventional flight for 7 hours, knowing that you have chosen a statistically safer, though significantly slower, means of travel. IBM RegTech Innovations. Riddle me this?

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PYMNTS

MAY 4, 2019

The drive-thru window, for example, first met the market in 1947 when it was introduced to the world by Sheldon “Red” Chaney, operator of Red’s Giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri. The concept was invented by a Guatemalan McDonald’s franchise operator, Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, in the mid-70s.

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South State Correspondent

MAY 1, 2024

Leveraging social media, Gentle Monster started to get traction. These striking designs paid for themselves in media exposure. Many went viral on social media, which then captured the attention of A-list celebrities such as Beyonce, which further brought the brand to new heights.

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Insights on Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Would you rather travel from New York to Los Angeles, hyperloop style , in half the time of flying, knowing that your safety is not assured, or sit aboard a conventional flight for 7 hours, knowing that you have chosen a statistically safer, though significantly slower, means of travel. IBM RegTech Innovations. Riddle me this?

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PYMNTS

MAY 9, 2017

It is no longer quite a mom-and-pop operation anymore — in 2015 Cha sold a controlling interest in the company to Richmond-based Boxwood Capital Partners. Flash forward eight years, and sweetFrog has been hopping along pretty busily — there are now 350 sweetFrog locations spread across the U.S.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2016

We were thrilled to report that the health of those businesses that line the side streets and main streets of Any Town, USA are not only healthy and growing but making the local economies in which they operate healthy, too. And, that’s not all the good news. Operating a business in a profitable manner — what a quaint idea.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

The impending “death of retail” has been projected for decades. But, in an increasingly digital world, brick-and-mortar retail shops are embracing new ways to disrupt the system and get an edge on customer attention. One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Get the 54-page retail report.

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CB Insights

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The wellness trends is affecting everything from the way gyms operate to how retailers design clothing to how smart cities are designed. Brands are leveraging social media to advertise “aspirational lifestyles,” making it easier than ever to buy into the wellness mentality. But gyms are not giving up just yet.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

So I showed her the expired building pass for CHYP Tower in New York. Here I am engaged in a heated debate with a noted retail banker over the likely future identity and verification ecosystem. She remained unmoved and demanded photo ID. I decided to seek out more controversial opinions. Pretty impressive.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

After heavy speculation that not all was proceeding smoothly in the deal to put one-half of Amazon’s second headquarters in Long Island City, New York, Amazon announced via a blog post that the deal is indeed off. The Crystal City, Virginia HQ2 plans are still underway, as are plans for a new operations hub in Nashville.

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Tomorrow's Transactions

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

So I showed her the expired building pass for CHYP Tower in New York. Here I am engaged in a heated debate with a noted retail banker over the likely future identity and verification ecosystem. She remained unmoved and demanded photo ID. I decided to seek out more controversial opinions. Pretty impressive.

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