PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

Last year, Amazon participated in a $530 million funding round for autonomous technology firm Aurora Innovation. If it closes, the deal would represent Amazon’s second-biggest acquisition since the 2009 purchase of online shoe retailer Zappos for $1.2 Last month, PYMNTS reported Amazon was in talks to buy Zoox. We believe $1.1

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Bank Innovation

JANUARY 10, 2018

Alkami, which provides white-labeled solutions for banks and credit unions to implement across their digital and mobile platforms, was started in 2009 because there “wasn’t a lot of innovation that was happening in the digital banking space,” […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2018

More important, perhaps, than the innovations they made on behalf of their more famous lead players, was how their contributions accelerated those innovations’ time to market. Innovation in payments and commerce has an unsung hero, too. And who will influence how innovation happens. From Betty Crocker to Boxed.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2016

If one were to ask the average person if 2009 feels like it was a very, very long time ago, odds are the answer you would get is “no.” It used to be: “Why are you so focused on innovation and what’s next? The iPhone 3G was the top-selling phone of 2009, and it was the only pure, touchscreen-only smartphone on the market.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Sales of counterfeit goods, particularly on third-party sites that facilitate transactions between individual buyers and sellers, have skyrocketed with the advent of online shopping. Online Luxury and the Importance of Authentication. trillion by 2020.

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Bank Innovation

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Alibaba Group created Singles Day back in 2009 as an annual shopping bonanza with various sales and offers. China’s Alibaba Group experienced its best Singles Day shopping event to date last week. The event, which is annually held on November 11 each year, processed nearly 1.5 billion transactions on that day, reports say. It is […].

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 22, 2016

If one were to ask the average person if 2009 feel like it was a very, very long time ago – odds are the answer you would get is “no.” It used to be: “Why are you so focused on innovation and what’s next? The iPhone 3G was the top selling phone of 2009 – and it was the only pure, touchscreen only smartphone on the market.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2018

On this day in history in the year 2009, the world of payments and commerce was changed forever. No, we’re not talking about the launch of Square – that was in February of 2009. We always want to talk to innovators and those who understand them best. Well, that’s how we remember it, anyway. In The Beginning.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

In the May Digital-First Banking Tracker® , PYMNTS explores the latest in the world of digital-first banking, including the challenges facing deployment of APIs amid the COVID-19 pandemic, new online initiatives from nationwide FI chains and community banks and the security challenges that are plaguing digital banking programs.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 29, 2017

The business of helping people look and feel their best is bigger than ever, and consumers young and old are now heading online to get their fitness fix. NutraClick is one such player delivering on changing consumer expectations, both online and in retail stores. Building up Strength Online and in the Physical World.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2019

recently fell to the lowest rate since the 2007-2009 financial crisis, but a new product launch from JPMorgan Chase & Co. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the percentage of unbanked Americans fell to its lowest level since the 2007-2009 financial crisis. The percentage of unbanked people in the U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009). percent/30 cents per chip/swiped transaction, and higher for online payments. Morgan seems to be banking on speed as a selling point to gain traction with smaller firms. percent/10 cents and 2.9

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 22, 2018

The online marketplace has disrupted any number of verticals, changing the way we shop and spend, and where we grab must-have items — from books to rugs to lamps, and sometimes from across international borders. We are redefining how fashion is bought and sold through technology, data and innovation.”. Within that, how much is online?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2019

The real trick is to tie engaging consumer experiences to those cards, which is critical, as prepaid and reloadable cards continue to evolve — moving from plastic cards to mobile accounts that can adapt to an expanding portfolio of use cases, including payroll, online gambling or even consumer and business lending. Step back a bit first.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

million in sales on the first event in 2009. When we talk about new retail, we strongly believe that online commercial world and offline brick mortars are not separate worlds. It’s all about how to innovate online and offline to a whole digitalized commercial world,” Zhang told CNBC.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2020

Innovators with better tech will appear and — literally overnight — snatch your customers out of your calcified incumbent arms and build scale, they say. Especially if any of those innovations touched the physical world. These innovations would usher in digital’s 2.0 shift, starting in about 2009 and 2010. Digital’s 2.0

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The baby unicorn—Slack was founded in 2009 and Read More. But unlike the host of other companies, which have chosen to launch on the chatbot-heavy Facebook Messenger platform, PayPal’s bot will be hosted on Slack.

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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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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. We’ve assembled a list of innovation labs from some of the most recognizable names in retail looking to disrupt their industries. CVS — Digital Innovation Lab.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

’s latest numbers on the topic revealing the lowest level of underbanked individuals since the survey began in 2009. He added that open banking appears to be an “inevitability” as the broader financial services market continues to innovate worldwide. The good news is that the size of the U.S. ”

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As businesses and consumers become more comfortable using credit cards online, the proportion of US commerce that takes place online has steadily increased over the last 20 years. Specifically, the Collisons aimed to more seamlessly connect online businesses and payment processors, allowing more businesses to accept online payments.

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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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CB Insights

JULY 19, 2017

Corporate innovation is critical for established companies looking to stay relevant in the face of disruption from up-and-coming startups. With industries being unbundled left and right ( supermarkets , banking , cars — just to name a few) more companies are opening up in-house innovation labs every day. Innovation Lab Name: HP Labs.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

It’s all the fashion these days to battle it out online for more market share when it comes to selling clothes to consumers. Amazon’s new platform will give brands complete control over the look and feel of their online spaces and which products they sell. Part of the reason is changing consumer desires.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The event was started in 2009 by then-Chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang. It is now the biggest online shopping event in the world, rivaling that of Cyber Monday and Black Friday. Some of the most innovative marketing campaigns and new product launches are coming from U.S. About 24 percent of U.S. brands this year,” Fan said. “I

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2018

B2B payments innovators and Warren Buffet have something in common: They are both obsessed with rails. Warren Buffet made rails sexy again when he bought a railroad in 2009. Today, a host of innovators are making B2B payments rails sexy again too. Topic Two: Banks — sure, they’re boring as all get out, but they are innovating.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Basketball is one of the most popular sports – if not the most popular sport – in China, but there’s a little less NBA available today for online shoppers in that country, according to reports. Tencent has been the digital media partner of the NBA in China since 2009. The move comes after the general manager of that U.S.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2016

percent last year, according to Market Watch, but the company began putting more items on sale to combat its losses – although its online business does not seem to be mitigating its losses at this point. percent last year, its worst sales drop since 2009. Pier 1 said that its sales dropped more than 2.5

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The iPhone was years away, online video streaming remained a novel concept and the idea of skipping the commercials had only reached the hands of TiVo’s newest customers. In response to this decade of change, innovators are stepping in to bridge that divide. Cash Flow Bottlenecks.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

In the age of Amazon, people tend to forget about the terror that the Walmart effect instilled, notes Isaac Marcushamer, chief innovation partner and partner in the Business Reorganization practice group at Berger Singerman law firm. Well, Borders didn’t have a plan because they thought buying books online was a fad. Borders did not.

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Independent Banker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Offering the ability to open an account online can be one way to reach customers who are unable to join your community bank in person. That includes allowing customers to open accounts completely online,” says Charles Potts, ICBA’s senior vice president and chief innovation officer. Photo by Anchiy/Getty Images.

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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. And if it is like 2009 it will have years’ worth of repercussions for how consumers see retailers and price.”.

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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. annual growth rate over the last four years, Amazon is now the largest online seller of auto parts in the U.S. But it’s not just online anymore.

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Retail Online Analysis Data 198

PYMNTS

JUNE 28, 2017

Developing a Healthy Online Business. Mobile technology is also helping to spur some healthy growth in the online wellness industry. Launched in 2009, NutraClick began as a direct-to-consumer company with a single supplement offering. To read the latest headlines from around the space, download the Tracker. . About the Tracker.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2020

In 2009, the last recent year with a comparably large output contraction in developed markets, remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean fell 15 percent,” Fitch said in the report. The median Fitch-rated country in the region receives the equivalent of 10 percent of GDP from remittances.

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