PYMNTS

OCTOBER 14, 2018

European Union lawmakers have proposed new regulations aimed at stopping an online marketplace such as Amazon from using data from merchants’ product sales to boost sales of their own branded products. According to Reuters, the rules target app stores, search engines, eCommerce sites, and hotel booking websites.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Goldman Sachs booked a 4 percent year-over-year revenue increase for the third quarter of 2018, with that growth powered in part by increased lending through its Marcus by Goldman Sachs online consumer savings and lending platform. earnings per share booked for the third quarter of 2018. percent higher than the $5.02

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PYMNTS

JULY 18, 2018

Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing has received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings. Instead, according to reports , Booking — formerly known as Priceline — will offer Didi’s on-demand car services through its Booking.com apps via an integration.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

BB : In 1992, I discovered these online bulletin boards, where you could communicate with people all around the world. MM: So, you started at City National Bank, and was the bank online before you got there? MM: Favorite book? MM: Favorite brands? Also, Prince (yes, I consider it a brand!), MM: What happened next?

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

In a recent conversation with Karen Webster, Bhanusali — who’s also founder of the AIRE SkinStore platform for dermatologists and their patients — noted that cosmetic appointments in his New York City office are already booked out through January. Bhanusali is both known for his medical expertise as well as his work as a technologist.

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PYMNTS

MAY 12, 2020

Online grocery sales saw a 110 percent increase in activity in April, according to Adobe’s Digital Economy Index (DEI), numbers spurred by the coronavirus ‘s push toward people avoiding human contact. Online sales as a whole continue to dwarf physical retail, the DEI stated. That category isn’t an anomaly.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 2, 2019

The company received $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings, with a plan to expand globally. Booking, which used to be called Priceline, teamed up with the company to enable Didi customers to book hotels through Booking.com and its sister site, Agoda.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 13, 2020

Attendees will receive a calendar of daily events, browse exhibitors by category and book appointments for virtual demos and chats. It is not known whether the events will use Balluun’s new online “pop-up exhibition” called FlashEX. It is not known whether the events will use Balluun’s new online “pop-up exhibition” called FlashEX.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2020

GM was the first company to let drivers use touchscreens to do things like order food, pay for gas or book hotels. Goldman will likely pay a slight premium, intending to make up any losses by selling its own products to GM cardholders, such as online savings accounts, personal loans and investment products.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

He needed a name for the company and liked the book. Clavell laid out exquisite details of life in feudal Japan so that the readers could live it as well as read it, according to The New York Times’ review of the book. A new Shogun was born. Or you could find a tool like ours and customize and optimize on your own.”.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

7) as the Ikea brand continues to shift itself to digital, according to published reports. Published reports indicate that in the past year, Ikea has seen online sales increase by 45 percent. The chain plans to commemorate it with a book due out next autumn. Do catalogs work for every brand?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 5, 2018

When most people consider a “buy online, pick up in store” arrangement, they’ve already made the purchase when they arrive to collect their item. However, for SSENSE (pronounced essence), at its first retail location, the Canadian eCommerce brand turned physical retailer has opted for a slightly different flavor.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 19, 2020

Because not everybody uses everything in the book,” he noted. . Companies offering online subscriptions enjoy higher margins, as service revenues jump even as hardware sales are flat (as is the case with Apple). They don’t have to deal with four, five or 10 different subscriptions,” noted Bogosian. showed, 45 percent of U.S.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

is now live, featuring products in 15 different categories including books, consumer electronics, sports, outdoor, tools and more. Our mission at Amazon is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, at great prices.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV) , the incubator that relaunched Pier 1 Imports and Dressbarn in 2020, noted that the migration to eCommerce in addition to trends such as the “quest for comfort at home” fueled formidable sales at the two brands, according to an announcement. And like Jeff Bezos did, they start with low-risk items.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The rewards points increase when the credit card is used on meals, booking a trip, shopping online or hailing an Uber ride. The Wall Street Journal reported in July that Lyft was gearing up to launch its own branded credit card, although no specifics or timing of the launch were available.

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PYMNTS

JULY 7, 2020

Online merchants should focus their internal resources on their core business applications, sticky.io As Huang noted, brands and merchants always want to remain in full control of their consumer-facing experiences, so developing these web workflows in-house is not a bad investment. “But

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2017

Alternative payment options stand to fuel acceptance as they alleviate customers’ fears surrounding credit cards and fraud, and domestic online marketplaces are beginning to take root. But Amazon won’t get to enjoy its status as the only major online marketplace in the region for long. There are, however, positive trends afoot.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 13, 2020

Such payment tools are table stakes for younger consumers accustomed to using connected devices, but they tend to gravitate toward services that provide the same convenience and ease when booking accommodations. Hotels and travel firms must first understand what drives millennials’ interest and brand loyalties.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The card bridges companies in the eCommerce space, including online brands and eRetailers, to 60-day payment terms, interest-free financing and no foreign transaction fees. The solution also offers tailored rewards, including partnerships with providers of eCommerce solutions. “Brex sees the world differently.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Even more customers will online shop when it comes to the holiday shopping season this year. According to the latest holiday sales forecasts from Visa , nearly half (47 percent) of consumers will shop online during the holidays and 33 percent of those will shop from their mobile devices.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In the latest installment of The Matchmaker Is In, PYMNTS’ Karen Webster and David Evans sat down (virtually, of course) to discuss the ways companies can sell across several marketplaces online with RevCascade CEO Josh Wexler. The marketplace is not separate from the actual business that is online, said the executive.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 21, 2021

Southeastern Grocers , the parent company of brands such as Winn-Dixie, HAS unveiled a rollout of an initial public offering (IPO) of 8.9 LLC and BofA Securities are serving as joint lead book-running managers and representatives of the underwriters for the deal. 21) announcement. Goldman Sachs & Co. PYMNTS research shows that 22.7

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Online mattress firm Casper appears to be the latest startup taking the brick-and-mortar plunge and launching 15 pop-up shop locations nationwide, according to reports from retail news source Chain Store Age. The first stop on the retail tour was Ponce City Market in Atlanta, Georgia, the Wednesday (Oct. 25) article said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

Booking Holding Inc., Unfortunately, as a result of the crisis, we, like so many other travel companies, need to take the extremely difficult step to reduce our global workforce,” Booking told the news service in an email, saying up to 25 percent of its global employee base would be impacted. On Thursday (Aug.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 1, 2020

They’ve seen it since they started working on the ground in Africa in 2006 to develop an online booking system for a small Kenyan airline looking to make themselves more appealing to foreign customers. No one calls this eCommerce.,” Feinstein said. But the potential, he said, is there. We don’t need to build new technology to do that.

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PYMNTS

JULY 31, 2017

Why should merchants be the only ones who get to leverage the speed, convenience and low-friction environment of the online marketplace? The big box retailer has been investing heavily in its online marketplace, and recently invited international vendors onto its platform. As it turns out, they aren’t. TakeLessons.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 6, 2020

That’s allowed small merchants to start accepting things like different card brands and new digital options like mobile wallets. “It It also wants to integrate the experiences of customers’ online and in-store shopping and tie all of that into merchants’ back-end fulfillment and logistics.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2020

small businesses that are official "partners" of the company will get $10 discounts while shopping on Prime Day, the online giant stated on Monday (Oct. Small businesses eligible for this promotion are based in the country in which the promotion is taking place, and are registered with Brand Registry or participate in the Handmade program.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 30, 2019

Though Avon in some ways the great-grandfather of every direct-to-consumer brand out there today, when the company got its start in 1836 the original goal wasn’t even to sell cosmetics or beauty products at all. In 1929 the firm officially switched its name and branding to Avon — and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Jeff For Banks

JULY 28, 2021

As many of my readers know, I wrote a book, Squared Away-How Can Bankers Succeed as Economic First Responders. If you don't know, it's because I'm not particularly good at getting the word out to the book's target audience: bankers and the professionals that serve them. Pretty niche group, so you think my targeting would be spot-on.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In some cases, retailers are dedicating small spaces to brands inside their brick-and-mortar stores. With the small store concept, shoppers can access personal stylists and on-site tailoring, and customers can tap into omnichannel features such as buy online, pick up in-store.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

That, Daie said, is exactly what the Fevo service does – in essence, it makes it easy for groups of adults to book together for a shared event by paying separately, and even reorganizing the plan and its participants on the fly. The Yankees are an internationally recognized brand, so why would we try to pull them to Fevo’s app?”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Reports from Seattle and California say the company is adding a new format and expanding beyond its Amazon Go and Whole Foods brands. Although Amazon hasn’t commented, the strategy seems to be aimed at getting Amazon aligned with a more mass market customer segment than its other retail brands. And the antagonist, per usual, is Amazon.

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PYMNTS

MAY 1, 2019

As the second decade of the 21 st century is drawing to a close, it is almost unimaginable that booking a flight or finding the right hotel room would present as a challenge. They effectively created ways in which they booked tickets that effectively captured the consumer experience,” he said. Moreover, travel is full of risk.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 17, 2020

. “The pace of growth for emerging eCommerce brands is staggering, especially right now,” he said. “With the complexities of selling online across multiple warehouses, and with inventory tracking and management capabilities becoming critical to success in eCommerce, ERP becomes essential.”

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The most transformative innovations in payments and commerce over the last decade are mostly the result of innovators making what was once visible, invisible: payments, stores, merchants, brands, issuers, even card networks. They influenced those choices by changing the consumer’s path to purchase and payment.

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