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SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as of the end of July. In the book, he freely admits that his formula might not work for every company. I Don’t Want To, But I Have To’.

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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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JANUARY 15, 2019

The financial services company American Express today acquired the Japanese restaurant-booking app Pocket Concierge for an undisclosed amount. The startup is a graduate of 500 Startups Japan. Over the past two years, there has been a developing rapport between restaurant/food services companies and the payments industry.

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APRIL 6, 2018

He turned to the internet, but he couldn’t find a place to book spaces online. As a result, he came to understand the experience of booking meeting spaces offline: It’s hardly a hassle-free experience and can involve calling an individual property. That’s hardly the easiest or safest way to book a space for an event.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

Often, this all comes to a head at the end of every month or quarter when businesses must close the books. The cloud is hardly the only innovation disrupting the accounting space, however. Feinstein mused on the other technological developments and FinTech innovations likely to affect the close process in the near future.

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JULY 11, 2019

Innovation takes many flavors and paths, and that’s especially true when it comes to merchants who sell retail products and companies that sell retail services. Innovation Role. But that doesn’t mean innovation is impossible for those service providers, of course. Innovation can come in various forms for service providers.

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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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JULY 17, 2019

In other words, digital innovation has been slow to arrive in the service world, a point demonstrated by recent PYMNTS research in collaboration with AEVI, and a new PYMNTS interview with Nicky Koopman, SVP of content and value-added services at AEVI. They might not feel like it’s something that relates to them,” she noted. Calls vs. Emails.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

That option is not always available with the traditional suspects for business travel booking, like travel agents or online travel agencies (OTAs). As a result, Avi Meir sought to build a better business travel booking experience when he helped found Travelperk. “We That process is often slow and time-consuming.

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OCTOBER 4, 2018

Google Assistant can now help users book a car from Uber , Lyft , Ola , Grab , GO-JEK and other ridesharing services. Once you decide which company to go with, Google Assistant will then transfer you to that rideshare’s mobile app to complete the booking.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2018

FlitWays Technology , a company enabling ground transportation booking, is expanding its B2B offering across Europe. 22) said FlitWays is launching its business travel booking tool in London, Milan, Berlin, Paris and Barcelona to address businesses’ ground transportation management and expense management needs in these markets.

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JULY 11, 2017

FlitWays, a B2B company that helps businesses book ground travel and streamline expense management processes, has enhanced its services and added new features, the company said Monday (July 10). We provide ease of booking for travel managers, employee preferences and many more.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Short-term business housing is, in general, not renowned for its beauty or excitement — which is likely why Airbnb’s investment in Lyric last month seemed like something of an outside entry path into the hotel industry the firm was launched to disrupt.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Sironi’s hot off the press elevator pitch as a global thought leader, is “I sell the finest FinTech Furniture, FinTech Fashion and FinTech Food” Extract from FinTech #Furniture, #Fashion and #Food George Orwell said that “one would write a book only if driven by a demon whom one can neither resist nor understand” Paolo (..)

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

According to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , 85 percent believe they need to innovate to stay competitive. And among large retailers, 82 percent said innovation is necessary for continued success. Books and music stores had an average index score of 18.9.

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JANUARY 21, 2020

Once categories like auto sales, gasoline and restaurants are stripped from the total retail sales numbers and retail segments, like books and toys and sporting goods, are examined, those numbers begin to look very different. The latter is innovative; the former is, well, just a tweak. Testing Innovation .

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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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AUGUST 13, 2020

HRS said the deal comes on the heels of many years of providing travel savings to companies through payment as well as bill reconciliation technologies, “continuously innovative” offerings and wide but focused content selections. 13) announcement from HRS.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. WEX said Halo Travel will be the first app to allow people to book hotels and flights via voice commands. Those are among the factors that drove the recent acquisition of Discovery Benefits, Inc. That is not all on Smith’s plate.

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2019

These companies are most interested in payments acceptance, digital receipts and customer satisfaction rankings when it comes to features offered by consumer applications, according to the most recent PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index. And tech companies are already working with retailers on payments innovation.

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Adherence to corporate travel booking policies is slipping. At the same time, a younger workforce is advancing, while technology is enabling the sharing economy to proliferate – and enabling travelers to book itineraries across devices and platforms. “More millennials are coming into the workforce and are self-sufficient. .

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JULY 31, 2019

The image stems from about two or three centuries ago, when medieval superstitions were being seriously challenged by empirical thought, and the view has been reinforced countless times — even into the early 21st century if you look hard enough — by books, movies, TV shows and other methods of cultural communication. FinTech Partnerships.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

ClassPass enables what it views as a seamless booking and paying experience online or via mobile devices, and helps its partners get rid of their excess inventory while, perhaps, gaining new customers. Plans now range from $9 per month, for four credits to book one class, to $159 per month, for 100 credits to book up to 37 classes.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

It’s also about the client experience — from before any service is booked, to their experience within the salon itself, and through to payment and rebooking. That means sitting seamlessly within the customer interaction from booking, through to payment and repeat booking. Wookey told Karen Webster in a recent interview.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Sterling Bancorp announced that it has launched its new Innovation Finance Group , and has tapped veteran technology bankers John Hoesley and Josh Roberts to lead it. Before joining Sterling, Hoesley was at CIBC Bank USA with Josh Roberts, where the two established the Innovation Banking group in 2014.

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MARCH 4, 2019

million listings were on Booking as of October 2018. The news came after Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing notched $500 million in funding from Booking Holdings. In addition, Didi customers were to book hotels through Booking.com and Agoda , its sister site. million bookable online listings at the time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Innovation in the accounts payable (AP) space continues to expand, with FinTechs looking to capture their piece of a growing market driven by businesses’ desire to digitize their operations. Below, PYMNTS rounds up the latest examples of how AP innovators pull suppliers’ accounts receivable processes into the fold. billion valuation.

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JULY 13, 2022

Customers could finally ditch their check books and stop licking stamps. As the 21st century began, banks revolutionized bill payments by introducing online bill pay. They simply had to log on, enter their biller information and make payments electronically.

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APRIL 13, 2020

Consumers are turning to their smartphones for everything from retail purchases to booking air travel and hotels to requesting refunds and other disbursements from online merchants. B2B Payment Innovation Struggles. The Mobile Disbursements Landscape. consumers now use mobile payment apps.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

PYMNTS research finds many travelers are interested in innovative payment solutions that could make it easier to pay for vacations, enable multiple participants to contribute and include features like automated recurring payments, tracking capabilities and desktop- and mobile-friendly interfaces. Among the findings outlined in the report: 13.6

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MARCH 17, 2016

The biggest question around Amazon’s Seattle brick-and-mortar bookstore — as well as the upcoming second location in San Diego — remains a philosophical one: Why would an online retailer that already sells books need to put up with the hassle of running a physical store? Of course, it can, but that’s asking the wrong question.

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MARCH 15, 2017

The big day has finally arrived — no thanks to Mother Nature, who decided to throw a disruption of her own at the year’s biggest celebration of innovation in the shape of a blizzard named Stella. The fifth anniversary of Innovation Project in Harvard Square today being one extremely tenacious example.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Hong Kong’s travel and leisure booking platform Klook has closed a $200 million Series E funding round led by Aspex Management , with participation by Sequoia Capital China , SoftBank Vision Fund, Matrix Partners China and Boyu Capital , according to a press release.

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JULY 10, 2018

If there is one way to describe Umpqua Bank’s innovation plans it would be “digital human,” according to the bank’s new CEO, Cort O’Haver. Digital human, as O’Haver explained, is the marriage of digital innovation with the physical retail banking experience. Coincidentally, it’s also the title of a Chris Skinner book.)

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PYMNTS

JULY 27, 2016

This comes on the heels of Lufthansa’s announcement last week that its advanced bookings had declined, particularly bookings to European destinations, which the company attributed to “repeated terrorist attacks in Europe and to greater political and economic uncertainty since the original forecast was made in March.”.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In a bid to increase loyalty, merchants are driving innovations in their stores. The clothing retailer is hardly alone, as 85 percent of merchants say that they innovate to stay competitive, according to the PYMNTS Retail Innovation Readiness Index , while 77 percent say they use it to drive sales.

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