PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2020

By now, you’ve no doubt heard the story about how Isaac Newton turned quarantining during London’s outbreak of the Bubonic Plague between 1665 and 1667 into a time of great focus and innovation. That month, the Commerce Department reported that January sales at clothing stores had declined the most since 2009. And they never went back.

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PYMNTS

MAY 6, 2019

Déjà vu because it was 10 years ago, in May of 2009, that Facebook launched the alpha version of Facebook Credits. First stop on Facebook’s capital raising tour: The big guns with successful payments rails, loads of money and a demonstrable appetite to invest in innovation. It shut down in 2012, 15 months after its official launch.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2017

MobileBytes , the point of sale (POS) for iPad innovators, has released its next-generation software update for online ordering. Launched in 2009, MobileBytes is fully integrated into the POS system, and setting up the tool takes only minutes for most restaurants.

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CB Insights

JANUARY 6, 2019

One popular choice: retail innovation labs. Learn about the technologies, innovations, and strategies that retailers can leverage this holiday season. From supply chain and inventory improvements to new payment options, these brands are going all in on digital. Coca-Cola — Development and Innovation Lab.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 15, 2017

“We know what Banana Republic is capable of, and Mark’s ability to drive transformation and innovation will help revitalize the brand and position it to achieve its long-term potential.”. I’m looking forward to working with the Banana Republic team to build the brand for the future.”. and Abercrombie & Fitch. “I

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

This sort of placement has kept many luxury fashion brands away, even though Amazon has promised to not discount their items. The new platform will work similarly to the concession model in department and specialty stores, where a brand will run a mini-shop inside a store. Fashion Rentals.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Uber , Lyft , Fiverr , Airbnb , Postmates were the early names in the game, all founded between 2009 and 2011. The interesting question for the next decade is how, as the gig economy grows, it will continue to compete with and innovate against the world of wage work — and perhaps change it in the process. Some lasted; some did not.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The event was started in 2009 by then-Chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang. festival, with more than 200,000 brands participating, one million new products on offer and over 500 million users are expected to participate – about 100 million more than last year,” Alibaba said in a statement. brands this year,” Fan said. Think of 11.11

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009. That experience made him appreciate even more just how difficult it can be to move customers from one payment method to another without real innovation. Step back a bit first.

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PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2020

Aptos VP of Retail Innovation Nikki Baird was not surprised that chains like Dillard’s are working hard to get shoppers back into stores, even after the retail businesses has seen a dramatic shift toward digital during the pandemic. These brands are still comfortable with their investments,” she says.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2016

Such is the double-edged sword of a retail industry swept up in innovation. The retailer to earn the dubious distinction of first to bow out in 2016 was teen fashion brand — and staple store front of the American mall’s heyday — Wet Seal, which filed the appropriate documents on Jan. January — Wet Seal. May — Aéropostale.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 2, 2018

Randall’s strong background in helping major advertising brands move the bottom line and Shannon’s extensive experience in driving bank customer engagement will make them both instrumental players as we continue to help marketers execute more effective campaigns and financial intuitions increase customer loyalty.”.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

In 2009, Toys ‘R’ Us bought the brand, and it had about 40 stores across the country. Similar to FAO, Selfridges is an iconic retail brand that delivers amazing experience and theater to its customers, therefore this was the perfect place for us to be,” said Jan-Eric Kloth, COO at ThreeSixty Group.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Look back to 2009, when peerTransfer was just an idea at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We realized this is how people trust the way to pay,” he told Webster, stating that individuals trust the “brand name” of the universities and the payment options they present.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Starbucks mobile rewards were still new to the market — and though a veritable flood of mobile-based programs spun up offering similar points-based offers, at that time the firm was considered boldly innovative when its mobile order ahead system (combined with its points-based loyalty program) rolled out. A is For AI .

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Klarna is looking to strengthen its global brand in Europe — specifically in Germany —and BillPay gives them a better access point. BillPay first hit the scene in 2009 as one of several e-commerce clones from Berlin-based incubating factory Rocket Internet. Klarna was last valued at $2.25 billion in 2015. So which firm gets what?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If brands could do it themselves, it would encroach on Alibaba’s ecosystem. So, this way the company is preempting that and building their own VR mall to keep these brands in their ecosystem,” says Jack Chuang of OC&C Strategy Consultants. Or — as the spending figures actually indicate — a nice big present.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

That includes allowing customers to open accounts completely online,” says Charles Potts, ICBA’s senior vice president and chief innovation officer. IncredibleBank started as River Valley Bank’s digital-only web brand in 2009, back when its digital competitors were limited. A ‘big bang’ for digital account opening.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

As consumers continue to interact with brands in more ways than ever before, there’s an opportunity to create deep, lasting engagement within those relationships. Every day contact center agents interact with customers, and those customers are telling brands what they want (or don’t want) and need. But it takes the right approach.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 20, 2018

But here’s the rub: The guilty verdict was made on the basis of A&P’s use of supply chain innovations to lower prices to consumers. By 2009, A&P had shrunk in size and became a modestly sized regional chain. Its failure to keep innovating in the face of new players that did was A&P’s downfall. Lower prices.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2016

Anderson has a long and winding history with Best Buy , assuming the roles of president and chief operating officer from 1991 to 2002, when he moved a few rungs up the ladder to CEO, where he remained until 2009. Paul Business Journal explained. “It

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 5, 2019

That means not only going where the money is, but also using innovation to find the shortest path to the vulnerabilities to access those funds. Mobile Check Capture Circa 2009. In giving consumers this “anti-instant” option, he noted, the “direction of innovation is being pulled westward.”

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PYMNTS

MARCH 20, 2018

But the gift cards would make a quantum leap in 2009. Ever so the early mobile adopter, Starbucks continues to roll out new mobile ordering functionalities on its branded app as well as on third-party applications. Between Nov. The Future Is Wearable?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2020

It’s why recommendations are consistently ranked by consumers as one of the most important features a merchant can offer an online shopper, why merchants gladly oblige and why brands strive to make products that are consistently ranked high by consumers. Real estate deals for what were empty storefronts in February remain on ice.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In 2009, consumers first coined the term “Whole Paycheck” as a tongue-in-cheek way to describe the sticker shock many felt when looking at their receipts after a shopping trip to Whole Foods. Since then, Alexa has made her way into a slew of voice-activated devices — both Amazon- and third-party-branded devices. billion in June 2017.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2020

And as Karen Webster noted in a 2016 commentary: “The generation that made sriracha a food group and yoga pants a go-to corporate wardrobe staple … the generation that every brand is desperately trying to woo is, by and large, broke.”

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 10, 2016

PYMNTS: How does what you learn from people shape WePay’s innovation agenda? PYMNTS: Do you have any “formula” for innovation? They were much more interested in a mobile point of sale unit they could brand and we would white label. PYMNTS: What is the one thing that people underestimate about igniting payments innovations?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2020

It has often been said during the last several weeks that the world has seen several years’ worth of eCommerce innovations advance in about three months, due to the pressure and pivots created by the global health pandemic. Before that, it had taken roughly 10 years to grow from 6 percent in 2009 to 16 percent in 2019.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 2, 2017

And InContext has put together a fairly notable gallery of brands and retailers to which it seeks to bring its virtual insights: Nestle, Smucker’s, Kellogg’s, Anheuser-Busch and Walgreens have all experimented with InContext’s thus-far cloud-based VR solution for enterprise.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

We operate the only truly global luxury digital marketplace at scale, seamlessly connecting brands, retailers and consumers. We are redefining how fashion is bought and sold through technology, data and innovation.”. The reach is considerable, touching 335,000 stock keeping units (SKUs) across 3,200 brands.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 12, 2016

It’s another important milestone in the “Look, Ma, no countertop terminals needed to check out” experience that we’ve been talking about for some time and that other retail innovator — Starbucks — showed us was possible when it unveiled mobile order-ahead a little more than a year ago. Kinda misses the whole point.

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Retail Online Branding Innovation 100

CB Insights

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: May 21, 2009. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2018

And digital wallets face new risks to their model on the heels of the card brands’ recent embrace of browser-based, EMVCo-based online standards (Secure Remote Commerce, or SRC) that deliver a robust card-on-file solution experience for their issuers’ products inside a single “Pay” button. And two more things.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 13, 2019

From 2009 through 2018, tech-sector job growth in New York City has grown almost four times as quickly as the city’s overall private job growth, according to Parrott’s analysis. Alphabet also signed a lease earlier this year for 1.3 million square feet at a Hudson Square neighborhood and in two other buildings nearby.

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Gonzobanker

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The company’s market capitalization, which after declining to less than $600 million in the 2009 recession, has now grown to almost $3 billion. It is an innovator with tech (e.g., Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph said the leading trait of an innovator is identifying pain. Best of luck in the next chapter, Chris! Be their Yoda.”.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

I argued that making buying seamless inside of environments that consumers used regularly for other reasons would drive innovation for those environments —and for the third parties that enabled those new commerce experiences. This capability is as disruptive as it is innovative. Third on that list was “contextual commerce.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

where there are thousands of FIs and heavy competition between payments product innovators, it can be nearly impossible to achieve. In 2009, said Maoloni, the world started adopting mobile banking, and so did Interac. That’s why ubiquity is so desirable. But in an ecosystem like the one in the U.S.,

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