PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Two hundred and seventy-four years later, those words are the perfect framework for understanding what will define the next decade of innovation in payments and any ecosystem that touches it. Sometimes those innovations disrupted old models and players; other times they made them better and more efficient. The Invisible Innovators .

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2018

But these restaurants are not innovating all that fast — even with all sorts of new technologies hitting the market. But customer adoption isn’t behind the slow adoption of QSR innovations — in fact, 62 percent of consumers said the availability of digital innovations would make them more likely to visit QSRs in the future.

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AUGUST 11, 2016

When Apple launched Apple Pay in 2014, it obtained advantageous terms for transactions, and banks seemed eager to be aligned with Apple’s brand. A bit of the shine is off Apple Pay today due to low usage numbers, and some banks are playing hardball– at least in Australia.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Amid great technological change, health and beauty retailers are developing strategies to drive innovation. And many retailers are heeding the call: According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 60 percent of health and beauty merchants are focusing on innovation. About the same share — or 60.9

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

At launch, the service was positioned as an innovative replacement for a well-entrenched standard considered not well-suited for a mobile and digital world. This, everyone, is the Apple Pay story, 20 months post-launch. . We now have observations every quarter since the launch of Apple Pay.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

A new Apple patent application outlines the way a truly independent smart home would function. According to Apple, the challenges of configuring a smart home are a myriad, such as getting the different brands of various items to all work together. Once inserted, the smart home would figure out what to do with them.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Apple is hoping its new 5G iPhones will help it bridge a gap in sales in China, where it has been beaten out by rivals like Huawei, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports. But in China, the phone wasn't seen on display at an Apple store in Shanghai. On Tuesday (Oct. in recent years.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It would be “odd” for Apple Inc. and not with Synchrony Financial, MoffettNathanson analyst Lisa Ellis said, since Synchrony dominates the market for co-brand offerings. Goldman must be offering Apple a very good deal,” Ellis said by email. to offer a jointly developed credit card with Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

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Bank Innovation

MARCH 24, 2016

Is the expansion of Apple Pay’s functionality to include website functionality enough to enable the tech company’s payments venture to top PayPal, the reigning king of mobile payments?

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 24, 2020

But no matter the case, music is a big part of the retail world, and is helping to create new harmonies of innovation and disruption. The first bar of this story should probably include the streaming wars, which involved many major Big Tech players, including Amazon and Apple. New Partnerships and Services.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 23, 2019

Innovations run the gamut from promo codes to coupons and quick-response (QR) scans in addition to other features such as delivery tracking. Overall, merchants in the $1 trillion accommodation and food services market see digital innovation as key for staying competitive in the space. percent — innovated to remain competitive.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 21, 2017

Really easy to work with, the company is the chosen system for many other innovative companies including Kickstarter and Apple Pay, and valued at almost $10 billion by the end of 2016. These companies have names like Zopa, Smartypig, Nutmeg, etoro and have fun branding and cool offices. Not bad for a six-year-old start-up.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) brands came in two flavors during 2020. The second flavor were the brands that had seen traction before the pandemic and flourished during it with innovative marketing, fresh business models and cool packaging. The seven-year-old D2C hybrid brand has received $4.7 That group is more exciting.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2020

The 2020 Credit Union Innovation Index , conducted in partnership with PSCU , found that over 20 percent of members would drop their current CU over lack of innovation. The share of CU members reporting they were willing to change primary FIs over insufficient innovation increased by 4.6 percent to 21.9 Competitive Threats.

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2020

“Given the seismic shift to digital, the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing retail to achieve innovation in three to six months that would otherwise have taken three to five years. The pandemic has brought uncertainty to many businesses, but at the same time, it has sparked innovation,” said Ro Bhatia , chief operating officer at sticky.io.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Months after Apple CEO Tim Cook said CVS would be accepting Apple Pay, the retailer has brought support for the mobile wallet to stores across the country. “Get your essentials in a flash,” Apple said in a marketing email, according to the outlet. locations to speed up shopping trips for its customers.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

PEX issues Visa -branded debit cards, paired with a spend management app, to small businesses (SMBs) that need a solution for the part of workforce spend that is anything but predictable — related to specific tasks and, by its very nature, usually ad hoc. However, Grant added, these days, that innovation needs a lot of scaling up.

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PYMNTS

JULY 3, 2020

Donahoe is putting one of the world’s leading brands on a completely new, completely digital track. brand, Boots, are finally playing hardball. Barra has also recently stuck a toe into the DTC space with the creation of Cadillac Live , a new “virtual showroom” for GM’s premium brand. Tim Cook, CEO, Apple.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The TV sets would be made by a third party, and sources said they might carry Walmart branding. Other tech companies' devices, including Apple 's Apple TV, Amazon 's Fire TV and Roku , have also entered this kind of agreement. Smart devices have become more inescapable as of late.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo and Apple Insider are reporting that Apple could be making new wireless over-the-ear headphones following the success of its in-ear AirPods. The new devices may be sold under Apple’s own brand, even though Apple owns the Beats headphone brand, TechCrunch reported.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

In a little over a week, the festivities will officially kick off in Cupertino’s Apple Park Headquarters as industry followers, Apple fans, tech enthusiasts and journalists crowd into the Steve Jobs Theater (or around their favorite live-streamed screen) for Apple’s annual fall event. billion in revenue as opposed to the $26.31

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 3, 2020

Throughout the six-plus-hour grilling, the stock prices of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google were all up — and stayed that way throughout the day. Between the close of business on Tuesday and end of day on Friday, though, Barron’s reported that Alphabet, Apple, Amazon and Facebook collectively added $370 billion to their market caps.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2019

Stripe rolled out chargeback protection, Apple rolled out its take on sign-in authentication , Mastercard launched an open banking platform and Visa and Western Union paired on a global push to card payments – and those are just the top headlines. There were plenty of introductions last week.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

However, many QSRs, from Dunkin’ Brands to Taco Bell , are tuning to these digital innovations. These are just some of the ways that these companies are bringing innovative ordering and payment options to consumers in the digital age. For Baskin’ Robins, he noted that the brand continues to expand its DoorDash partnership.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Much chatter has been swirling about why Apple seems to be having quite a few car-related conversations with some big name, specialty auto brands. Recently, The New York Times reported that Apple was in talks regarding an acquisition of San Francisco-based Lit Motors. Financial Times even published on the conversation.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

By integrating their personal stats and metrics with (or without) their Apple Watch and favorite music, Fitness+ users can do on-screen workouts alongside some of the world’s best trainers. Apple calls this animated celebration of your effort the “perfect blend of information and inspiration, right when you need it.”

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Vestager has said the injunctions would be more widely deployed as antitrust investigations continue into Google, Amazon and Apple, among others. “If The great digital shift has sent brands, en masse, to online conduits to get products, content and services to consumers (and other firms, in the B2B realm) with speed and ease.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This year will not only go down in history as “the year of the pandemic,” but for consumer packaged goods brands, it will also be known as “the year of direct to consumer.”. 1 reason cited involves loyalty to well-known brands. This suggests that D2C does well in areas where consumers have strong brand preferences.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The Apple Card’s Big Launch. Early accounts seem to indicate that the just-launched Apple -branded credit card is finding its way into customers’ hands, and into heavy use. According to issuer Goldman Sachs , they have opened up about $10 billion in credit lines in just over month for the Apple Card.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Brands like Panera Bread and Jimmy John’s positioned themselves well by being early adopters of Apple Pay and Google Pay. Guests feel safe, and the brands deliver an exceptional experience.”. A recent survey found that 68 percent of restaurateurs planned to boost their spending on innovative technologies in the next few years.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Apple is like a glamorous celebrity who seems to have it all together but, beneath the shimmering screen of makeup and high fashion, is actually falling apart. The true pulse of Apple’s health as a company will not be revealed until the iPhone X hits the scene next month. Assault of Battery. Two reports came out of the U.K.

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Perficient

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This was evident with innovative applications for underwriting, customer service, and claims management. It is no longer okay to simply be the industry leader in experience when consumer expectations are set by cross-industry experience leaders like Amazon, Apple, and Google.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The sale of shoes online has come a long way since the dawn of eCommerce – and footwear continues to help drive innovation in the retail space. Headquartered in Marche, Italy, Tod’s said it appointed Domizi as its chief digital and innovation officer in a bid to streamline the company’s ongoing digital transformation. Nike and Voice.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2019

There’s a new king of the mountain in the seemingly endless tussle between the world’s four largest companies – Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Apple. Google’s parent company, Alphabet, passed Apple and is in third place with about $747 billion. Think about how you can expose your brand,” the source told Reuters.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The notion of creating an everyday app ecosystem – à la WeChat and Alipay in China – is the ambition of every player, from Amazon to Apple to Facebook to PayPal … and Google. One big question is the balance between Google’s brand and role in all of this, and the role of participating FIs. Google’s Aim.

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PYMNTS

MAY 13, 2020

I was going through an airport about a week before everything started shutting down, and all I could think was, thank God I have Apple Pay so I don’t have to touch anything,” Michelle Tempesta, head of product at Paytronix , told PYMNTS in a recent conversation.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 14, 2019

Johnson will lead strategic marketing for PayPal and its associated brands, to help build on transformational work that the company says is already underway. PayPal has made strong progress over the past several years to advance our position as the leading digital payments platform and one of the most dynamic and valuable brands in the world.

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