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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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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Uber is testing out a service through Uber Eats that will allow customers to book culinary classes, Forbes reported. The rideshare giant introduced the experiment — called Uber Moments — in an email sent to its San Francisco customers, explaining that they can book an experience for the next month, scheduled until Nov.17.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

How do you think it will change the way financial services organizations operate? MM: Favorite book? MM: Favorite brands? Also, Prince (yes, I consider it a brand!), Being where I am now, I feel like I have a significant amount of resources to help support financial clients across the board. MM: Let’s go back to crypto.

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OCTOBER 27, 2019

Uber is testing out a service through Uber Eats that will allow customers to book culinary classes, Forbes reported. The rideshare giant introduced the experiment — called Uber Moments — in an email sent to its San Francisco customers, explaining that they can book an experience for the next month, scheduled until Nov.17.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

You’re Constellation Brands. One of your leading brands is Corona beer. And to top it off, you have a major product extension on the books with millions in media behind it. Two: Corona is going full speed ahead with the launch of its hard seltzer brand extension. Someday this will be a marketing case study.

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JUNE 5, 2018

However, for SSENSE (pronounced essence), at its first retail location, the Canadian eCommerce brand turned physical retailer has opted for a slightly different flavor. That approach has followed the brand into its physical hub in Montreal, where buyers are likely to see streetwear-brands like A-COLD-WALL* alongside Givenchy wear.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Does this online brand have a chance at overtaking Victoria’s Secret? s Top 5,000 list in 2015 overall and took the number two ranking for top retail brands. But besides a wide selection and inclusive mindset, what’s the secret to the brand’s success? We booked about 50 appointments during those three days.”

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AUGUST 10, 2020

“The lodging industry continues to be profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 global pandemic and the current operating environment remains quite challenging,” Marriott CEO and President Arne Sorenson said on the company’s earnings call. The company reported net liquidity of roughly $4.4 billion, comprised of $2.3 billion in revenue.

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JULY 26, 2018

For instance, Venmo recently said it was getting into payment cards — specifically, a Mastercard -branded debit card. 31 closing of would-be rival Snapcash, the peer-to-peer payment service operated by Snapchat. Zelle began operations just more than a year ago, and has since processed 320 million transactions worth $94 billion.

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JULY 7, 2020

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. Once they find a company with sufficient reliability, brands can begin to focus on what they stand to gain from outsourcing. How To Successfully Outsource.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

is now live, featuring products in 15 different categories including books, consumer electronics, sports, outdoor, tools and more. Expansion into Turkey is just the latest in Amazon’s efforts to be operational across the globe. In a press release , Amazon said Amazon.com.tr

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

"Customers can shop tens of thousands of eligible products from a variety of categories, such as home and kitchen, grocery, beauty and grooming, pet supplies, toys and games, electronics, jewelry, books and more," the news release states. brand owners and artisans that are small businesses.". “In

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APRIL 8, 2020

Add to those challenges the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and the mass embrace of working from home — itself a logistics and operational challenge for financial institutions (FIs) — and complexity becomes exponential, even daunting. In other words, the experts are off premises, at home, perhaps not as accessible as they once were.

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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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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. They can route in a single step part of the payment to the delivery person, part of it to Uber Eats, and part of it to any other operator.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

The new year is here, and the grocery business gets to finally close the book on a difficult and complicated 2020. Wholesale clubs and Trader Joe’s themselves have proven there is a huge market for brands that don’t check all of the boxes for a standard supermarket trip. The goal in Asia, as in the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The companies said in a statement that in addition to the investment, they will both “explore partnership opportunities in service operations, logistics and digital retailing.”. In January, the company launched a fleet services brand called Pivet to handle services like in-fleeting, de-fleeting, cleaning, detailing, maintenance and charging.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

The company offers FDIC-insured bank accounts and a Visa -branded payment cards for teens (aged 13-18) with budgeting features and other financial education tools built in. On one hand, Step is looking to create a brand that's young, modern, hip and cool such that it appeals to those 13- to 18-year-old users. Creating A Balance.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The newly branded company aims to innovate the way travel merchants promote and sell across all digital channels. “I am very excited to unveil our new brand, which captures our ambition and capability as both FinTech and travel tech specialists. We started out with a radical, mobile-first solution.

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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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JANUARY 15, 2021

Porch is anticipating approximate revenue of $72 million when it closes the books on 2020 in March. HOA is licensed in 31 states but currently operates in just six. Combining both companies' core strengths will bring “compelling products to brands” and positions the company “to win in mover marketing.”.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

15), a product that allows companies to create customized artificial intelligence (AI) assistants to match their “brand personality” and meet their clients' needs, according to an announcement. It has already started making the roadmap for the build-out of an intelligent assistant under its brand to be used in some vehicles. “Our

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MARCH 25, 2019

Jeff Bezos launched Amazon in 1995 as an online seller of books for one reason: Everyone bought them. It seemed like a no-brainer to me – an opportunity for Amazon users and restaurant brands to create the order-ahead and delivery experience without having to download a branded restaurant app or use an aggregator. Time flies.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Groupon is teaming up with travel supplier and distributor connector DerbySoft to work with more hotels and grow instant booking. Booking is an important portion of the voucherless initiative of Groupon, the company said.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Youth-oriented shoe and apparel brand Vans has found the intersection of both, as seen in its most recent store opening this past week in Los Angeles. The brand is well-known for using its community of skateboarders for design ideas and marketing. The brand has also partnered with Goodwill and Chrysalis to access underserved employees.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Subscription commerce has come a long way since book-of-the-month clubs and those record and cassette retailers that tempted teenagers with seeming impossible introductory deals. In fact, “new verticals” are adopting or considering the subscription model to squeeze more value from their businesses and build brand awareness, Clark said.

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

When it comes to delivering a personalized, pleasant experience, the goals of consumers and hospitality operators are completely aligned. Operators – from hotel chains to bars and restaurants to sports arenas – want them to have that great experience, for that reason. ” And that’s the problem. “Our Finding The Data.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

By the numbers, America’s largest mall operator reported net income for the second quarter at $254.2 Funds from operations (FFO) was $746.5 As expected, both domestic and international operations were hit hard by reduced lease income and ancillary property revenues as a result of the pandemic. million compared to $495.3

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Bots can order a personal pizza , book a flight to anywhere , stir up a cocktail recipe, ship last-minute holiday gifts , memorialize dead relatives and bring back infamous “Friends” characters, register voters to vote or get a new driver’s license and help check your bank account. Chatbots have had quite the year.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

The platform allows travel operators to offer digital lending options as a seamless part of making the travel reservation. Travel is complex, and customers want to be able to research, book and pay all within the same experience. Uplift, a B2B payments platform, was created to fill that innovation gap. The Upfront Buying Experience.

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MARCH 4, 2019

At the same time, however, these platforms are facilitating a more traditional sales need: They have to engage buyers and sellers as they operate in the digital world of connectivity. Faced with this up-and-coming generation, retailers and brands, as well as payment providers, are already preparing for the arrival of Gen Z as adult consumers.

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JUNE 29, 2020

Under that activity, the paper reported, money would leave Wirecard’s bank owned in Germany, “show its face on the balance sheet of a dormant subsidiary in Hong Kong, depart to sit momentarily in the books of an external ‘customer,’” then travel back to Wirecard’s India operations to be booked as revenue.

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MAY 31, 2019

The company saw the need for the best of both worlds and, to tackle this challenge, it is “evolving into a 21st-century tech-enabled hospitality brand,” DePinto told PYMNTS in an interview. When it comes to booking the units, the company takes a multichannel approach. “We We meet the guest where they’re most comfortable,” DePinto said.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

When Amazon launched in 1995, it looked to most as a one-trick eTailer that sold books online. A quarter-century later, that online bookstore has profoundly changed the retail landscape and every player operating within it. The trouble with existential threats is they very rarely show up and announce themselves.

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APRIL 20, 2018

Travel was one of the first verticals the internet disrupted, and today there are not only countless platforms aggregating hotel rooms, cruises and flights; there are also an almost equally countless number of platforms that aggregate other travel platforms to make sure the customer can get the best value for their holiday booking.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2018

But his properties will be similar to some higher-end hotels when it comes to linens, pillows and toiletries, which will be provided by an upscale brand. ( This drive for innovation extends to the company, which doesn’t run like a traditional hotel brand. But the biggest difference is after travelers book their rooms.

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MAY 11, 2020

billion in April and brought in $920 million in additional liquidity via amendments to its co-brand credit card agreements in May. As the coronavirus pandemic moved throughout the world, Marriott International Inc. reported that revenue per available room (RevPAR) plummeted by 22.5 percent globally. The company also issued senior notes of $1.6

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