PYMNTS

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Sheryl Sandberg, chief operations officer of Facebook, is pushing back against two antitrust lawsuits filed against the social media giant, CNBC reported on Friday (Dec. Some pundits have expressed concern that holding up mergers and acquisitions could stifle innovation. percent of proposed mergers from 2008 to 2016.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2017

Only 13 percent say they’re willing to jump on the innovation bandwagon. 70 percent of SMEs didn’t use tax software in 2016 , found Office Depot in its most recent Small Business Index survey. 24 percent of SMEs don’t use social media for their businesses , found the latest analysis from B2B ratings and reviews company Clutch.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2017

He also offers advice for how to innovate in the field. Here is an excerpt of the conversation: PYMNTS: How would you define your company’s approach to innovation? PYMNTS: Where do you look for innovative ideas, and why? PYMNTS: What is the most innovative thing you’ve ever done? JB: Innovation often means taking a risk.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

We are proud fintech nerds, and for five years we have marked the Coolest Brands in Banking on Bank Innovation based not on the type of sunglasses worn by a CEO, but on the Read More. When we think of cool, James Dean doesn’t immediately come to mind. The app Songsterr does.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 28, 2016

Bank Innovation INV, this blog’s fintech accelerator, is pleased to today to announce the six extraordinary startups that have been admitted to its inaugural class.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Up and coming in the category, however, is La Ligne (French for “The Line”), a fashion brand co-founded in 2016 by Molly Howard, former head of business development for rag & bone, and two former Vogue editors, Valerie Macaulay and Meredith Melling.

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Accenture

APRIL 26, 2017

Given that this trend is coinciding in with an ongoing shift by younger consumers towards more innovative channels—the likes of wearables, social media and instant messaging—it’s possible that the continued strong usage of branches is a transitory effect. But our study gives no indication of that.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Unsurprisingly, fast food patrons immediately began warring on social media about whether or not the results could be trusted. People on social media will engage in online debate for almost any reason — sometimes no reason at all. Chick-fil-A’s average sales per restaurant in 2016 were $4.4

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Bank Innovation

MAY 1, 2016

Robinhood: On Target Launched in December 2014, Robinhood is a zero-fee stock trading app that quickly gained popularity among financially ambitious millennials. Robinhood was paid the enormous compliment of having “cracked the millennial code” by none other than Jay Sidhu, CEO of Customers Bank and founder of BankMobile.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2017

One company that has received a fair share of media attention on the topic of chat commerce is social media giant Facebook. 2016 that it would be allowing the 30,000 and growing chatbots to accept payments. Potentially, the uprising of chat commerce may have the opportunity to entirely overtake the app economy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

For all the plaudits disruptive innovation gets, it is easy to overlook how hard it is to achieve. While it’s an exaggeration to say there is nothing new under the sun, it’s actually not that big of an exaggeration in the innovations realm. But, sometimes, the innovation just really whiffs. The iPhone 8 springs to mind.

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2018

It’s beginning to feel like two kids talking smack in a high school hallway — except, in this case, billions of dollars are involved, along with issues of privacy and innovation. technological might when it comes to social media, eCommerce and the digital world. Don’t worry, though — the Americans can give as good as they get.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Social media is a terrific breeding ground for travel envy — there is no faster way to find yourself wishing you were in a more exotic, warmer and more pleasant climate than to view someone else’s social media images of already being there. In 2016 China opened the world’s highest and longest glass platform.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We know almost US$1 billion was invested in PSD2-enabled services in 2016, up 200 percent from the year before¹. Based on this survey of over 2,000 consumers, it’s clear that online retailers, tech firms and social-media players face an uphill battle to convince consumers to allow them access to their financial data. So why not?

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Bank Innovation

MAY 9, 2016

We can all agree Credit Karma, Chase Mobile, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PayPal aren’t leaving the Top Ten on App Annie anytime soon. But ratings and rankings aren’t everything — there’s also the cool factor. How easy is the app to use? Does it makes us feel good (even Read More.

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Bank Innovation

APRIL 18, 2018

We spent last year and most of 2016 scaling and on the workings of the product,” Purdue told Bank Innovation. EXCLUSIVE - With over 100,000 signups to date, Ollie Purdue, CEO of digital current accounts Loot will turn his focus on generating revenues this year. “We This year, we look at revenues.” Launched back in 2014, […].

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PYMNTS

JULY 30, 2019

One of the biggest retail stories as we head into 2020 is how India is a battlefield of digital commerce, along with a hotbed of retail innovation. The company was founded in 2016. As it stands, the company rolled out Prime services in the country in 2016.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Meet Shark Wheel, a company that has literally invented a wheel that’s not round and added some innovation to the eCommerce space by partnering with a new one-click checkout system. In fact, while other companies are looking for VC money to grow and innovate, Shark Wheel is funded by the National Science Foundation.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

In tech, innovation is everything. In innovation, intellectual property is, well, almost everything — it can be the hardware, the software, the processes that come from creative endeavor. The overall pace, seen globally, has been up quite a bit, as measured against the 134 patents worldwide seen in 2016. And patents?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 21, 2019

The small business card has an annual fee of $199, reports noted, and offers 3x points for spend on Southwest flights, hotel or car rental partners, and 2x points on search engine advertising, social media advertising, cable, internet and phone services used by the small business.

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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 24, 2016

According to Deloitte Global and North America Sourcing and Procurement Lead Brian Umbenhauer, the 2016 survey of trends among the chief procurement officers of the world is one of reflection. The verdict: Surprisingly, procurement seems to be back on track for going digital.

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Bank Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

New York was rocking the fintech this week, from Next Money and BBVA Open Talent to Finovate Fall. Tune in to Brett King and company below to hear the fintech insider perspective.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

That’s not the only strategy the social media giant plans to deploy, though. It has recently started processing charitable donations, extended an olive branch to record labels and is apparently looking for office space in China where it can work on its Building 8 hardware innovation projects. But it’s not all good news.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2016

Yesterday (March 24), the CardLinx Association released new data from the 2016 Annual Card-Linking Industry Survey showing that 50 percent of respondents (consisting of merchants, payment companies, publishers and card-linked technology companies) reported a 50 percent growth in card-linking transactions over the last 12 months.

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Accenture

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nowadays, communication is dominated by e-mail, texts and social media posts in volumes that dwarf those of the past using paper. They may endure for many more years, but as an innovation of the 1960s, they are inefficient, expensive and fraud-prone, unsuited to the atomized payments landscape. Precedent and Implications.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Messaging apps are eating the world — and in the case of WeChat, even the payments world. Texting plans in China are quite expensive, so messaging apps play a more important role there in simply communicating than elsewhere. WeChat, developed by the corporation Tencent, numbers more than 650 million users Read More.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 30, 2016

Kohl’s Chief Technology Officer Ratnakar Lavu recently gave Fortune a tour of its Milpitas, California, “Digital Center” — or the top-secret location where all of the soon-to-be revealed tech innovations are being tested behind closed doors. Once we have that, then it’s about driving the right in-store experiences.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Americans, especially millennials, are hungry for restaurant innovation. According to the Technomic survey , consumers are particularly hungry for innovation in fast-food and fast-casual settings, with 89 percent of respondents saying they wanted more payment options at those businesses. Dining’s brave new table technology future.

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PYMNTS

MAY 14, 2018

There was more executive turnover in 2016, which saw Bob Rosenblatt taking over as CEO. In some senses, it wanted to be known as “the cool one,” or, at least the one with the most current look, style and approach to social media. “We Evine is getting ready to expand.

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NCR

DECEMBER 28, 2015

But 2016 is here, so let’s go for it. In 2016, there’s not going to be one technology that replaces all others, and the market won’t see a sudden spike while traditional forms of payment get discarded. However, innovation seems to be running far ahead of adoption. So let’s refine our expectations this time around.

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Bank Innovation

AUGUST 15, 2018

National Australia Bank set up its own alternative lending arm called QuickBiz Loans back in 2016. Large banks, e-commerce moguls like Amazon and eBay and tech firms are likely to enter the alternative lending space, and soon, according to Eden Amirav, co-founder, and CEO of startup LendingExpress. Over the […].

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2019

Among the most anticipated are IPOs that will impact the mobility-as-a-service and ride-hailing ecosystems, social media, and data analytics. Even if one or more of them fail to materialize, talk will continue about these IPOs, which itself will help guide the thinking and moves of industry peers, competitors and innovators.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2016

The eCommerce giant will be supporting EGX and parent company Gamer Network with marketing initiatives on its website, mobile platforms and social media outlet, and it will also create a dedicated content source on its gamer-centric Twitch livestreaming site.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 13, 2019

As far back as 2016, the company ran a summer promotion that he described as a sort of “proto-loyalty” program designed to reward their most frequent customers. According to CTO Curt Garner, a loyalty offering has been the most highly and consistently requested item from customers for some time.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

Snap Inc, the parent company of the teen-beloved social media service, has finally made it official and filed. This means that we are willing to take risks in an attempt to create innovative and different camera products that are better able to reflect and improve our life experiences.”. What do we know so far? Is that enough?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

According the to 2016 Purse String Survey done by Valassis earlier this year, more than 70 percent of consumers say they have looked for coupons or offers while in-store via their mobile device. About the same number plan on prioritizing social media apps such as Instagram and Snapchat.

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