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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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APRIL 23, 2019

In technology, especially when it comes to consumer-focused technology, Apple is viewed as a disruptive force. but Apple has made itself indispensable across many verticals. The digital card will be linked to Apple Pay. Apple Card is set to be available starting this summer. A New Normal? The Incentives Question.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Video games are helping to drive retail innovation and growth, and that includes the hot area of subscription commerce. This is only part of the innovation trend stemming from video games. As that happens, video games continue to attract big money, which will lead to more retail innovation.

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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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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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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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The Financial Brand

MAY 22, 2024

This article Overheard at the Forum: How Apple FCU Gives Innovation a Nudge appeared first on The Financial Brand. People often think innovation means inventing the next iPhone. This article Overheard at the Forum: How Apple FCU Gives Innovation a Nudge appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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

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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

How to Get Disruptive Innovation at its Best – American Banker. Apple Pay Brings Advancements to Mobile Payments, but Still Faces Barriers – Barlow Research. Banking Vs. Google, Apple and Amazon – Forbes.com. Growing Demand for Mobile Banking Hurts Small Institutions - The Financial Brand.

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The Financial Brand

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This article Is CFPB’s Mobile Payments Salvo at Apple & Google Good for the Industry? appeared first on The Financial Brand. As the use of tap-to-pay with smartphones grows, the CFPB contends innovation and consumer choice in payments is being stifled by the tech giants. appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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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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NOVEMBER 29, 2016

billion deal went through, shareholders and the public are learning more about what will come of the 30 brands and more than 5,700 properties. But throughout these changes and costs, many question what will happen to two companies’ 30 brands. But the luxury brands in particular, which have typically competed, will stay separate.

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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 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

MARCH 11, 2016

After a bit of a bumpy start to the year, what has become a now multi-week debacle with the FBI over that phone and a solid month of share prices below $100, it has been a while since Apple has managed a whole week of headlines that were, more or less, positive and even hopeful about innovation in the offing.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. Consumers can subscribe to Disney+ via numerous devices and platforms, with the inclusion of iOS and Apple TV, Android and Sony PlayStation 4. The move by Disney is reportedly an effort to tackle rivals with original content like Amazon, Apple and Netflix.

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PYMNTS

MAY 26, 2017

Vivek Agrawal, executive vice president of technology solutions provider Skava , joined PYMNTS for the latest segment of the Commander in Chief series to speak to why innovation isn’t just about creating new, exciting products. VG: Our innovation goals are very well bound by our vision and strategy.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

We suspect that the team at Apple this year is hoping for the latter but worrying a lot about the former. But temperate climates aside — after almost a decade of nearly bulletproof results, Apple has had a taste of the dog days of summer. Seems like the hardware-first/everything else-second lessons of Apple Pay remain unlearned.

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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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AUGUST 9, 2017

Will the ability to make phone calls with the next Apple Watch be enough to boost its sales? The tech world is divided, with many saying this will be the move to notch the Apple Watch above the rest, even as others decry the upgrade — and the wearables category as a whole — as superfluous and doomed.

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JULY 4, 2017

Ming-Chi Kuo, a KGI analyst who is often given kudos for his insider information on the movements on Apple and its iPhones, published a new report on the upcoming lineup of iPhones , saying the company is gearing up to release the iPhone 8 with a home button that is hidden under the screen.

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JULY 8, 2019

But it has also sought to innovate by blending matcha with other functional ingredients such as collagen or mushroom powders. Through eCommerce subscription options and product innovations, direct-to-consumer (DTC) matcha tea brands are aiming to provide convenience and caffeine to consumers as an alternative to coffee or energy drinks.

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