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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. Between 2008 and 2019, the DVD rentals market dropped like a stone.

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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. And, according to close management software company FloQast , the technologies that are impacting the market are also continually evolving.

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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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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. That process is often slow and time-consuming.

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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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DECEMBER 15, 2019

Payments company Ixaris has teamed up with travel industry company Sabre to expand into new European markets, with plans to eventually reach the Americas and Asia Pacific markets, according to a press release.

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MAY 9, 2017

While none of the runners were successful, the marketing and product innovation centered around the event was one for the record books. This past weekend in Italy, Nike brought together a trio of legendary runners who attempted to break the 2-hour barrier for a full marathon run. million views on Facebook.

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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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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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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Macy’s , for example, is testing out pop-up stores in 10 cities in a concept called “The Market @ Macy’s.” 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.

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JANUARY 21, 2019

Innovation is good, but flexibility and agility count, too — as does striking while it’s hot. More broadly, Smith said for the Monday Conversation, the general healthcare market continues to grow, with “healthcare costs going up … and people are moving to more high-deductible plans. Broader Healthcare Appeal.

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JUNE 4, 2019

Lyric is not a firm looking to ask for forgiveness rather than permission when it comes to entering new markets in the way Uber and the various firms it inspired have. “We Particularly because Lyric’s ideas about entering the world of short-term rentals are quite different from the other sharing economy-type players that came before.

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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. They get more chances to win over new customers, helping those gyms and studios expand their markets, and bring in new revenue.

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

trillion market. This market is flourishing in part by a subset of luxury travelers who want their vacation to c arry a certain level of excitement. trillion luxury travel market and how innovative payment solutions could open the market to even more travelers. Among the findings outlined in the report: 13.6

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APRIL 24, 2019

As data security and transparency become greater concerns across a number of markets, some services are already working to confront the challenges. Putting this into practice would call into question whether or not Airbnb could operate in several state markets — a win for hotels. Around the Payments and the Platform Economy.

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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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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 29, 2020

(and a can-do spirit), a country that rewards ambition and innovation — and where individual success stories of, say Google and Amazon customers are folded into the testimony in efforts to show how tech can help smaller firms pivot and embrace the great digital shift. No one asked for AWS. More than 80 retailers in the U.S.

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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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MARCH 4, 2019

Airbnb and Uber then entered the market, which made the concept of Car Next Door a bit more palatable. 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. Approximately 3 million — or 2.9

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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.

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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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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

podcast , we interview Jon Bostock, best-selling author, innovator, co-founder and CEO of Truman’s and learn how brands that innovate will win in a rapidly changing digital-first economy. In a world where retail has changed and consumers remain at home, how do brands reimagine the task of getting products to customers?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Make this a standout year with the innovative strategies found in image.works’ 2019 Idea Book. It’s an eye-catching catalog designed to help your financial institution achieve your marketing goals.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Understanding the needs of both a patient and the provider when finding a doctor and booking an appointment is a head start on task and user story development. Knowing the difference between a payor and payer – if there is one – might be a head start on building a content strategy.

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

Consumers are beginning to express more preferences regarding their buying and selling experiences on online marketplaces, which are seeing an increased amount of competition in the market as they attempt to hold onto their customer bases. Some marketplaces are finding innovation in this space easier than others. About The Playbook.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2018

In the 1960s, Avis turned to its marketing agency in hopes of tackling a challenge: the car rental company wanted to keep pace with Hertz, which was the top brand for car rentals. Through its free mobile app, customers can book their rentals on their phones — a step up from waiting in line — and receive receipts via e-mail.

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JUNE 15, 2017

There’s no disputing that the pace of innovation in consumer payments over the last several years has been quick and its reach broad. There’s been an abundance of innovation in where consumers shop, what they use to pay when they buy and the devices they use to enable those payments.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

an examination of the market suggests legacy solutions remain commonplace. Jason Traff, president and co-founder of freight trucking company Shipwell , says these characteristics have created a highly fragmented market that, while large and lucrative, has seen little innovation. Ninety percent of trucking fleets in the U.S.

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JUNE 20, 2019

In this case of retail innovation, that comes down to a former Snap executive taking on Amazon with the launch of a new eCommerce platform. After two of the country’s biggest booksellers — Saraiva Livreiros SA and Livraria Cultura — filed for bankruptcy protection last year, Magazine Luiza saw room in the market. Retail Challenge.

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JUNE 22, 2016

From hackathons to startup pitches, startup accelerators and innovation labs, there are no shortage of ideas – and, it seems, the money to keep a steady stream of them flowing. McLaughlin shared that framework with the assembled crowd at the “ Matchmakers” book launch in New York last week. McLaughlin said.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

We issue a fresh, new Idea Book once a year. But our wheels are turning all year long at image.works, developing highly targeted strategies to meet our customers’ specific goals, creating can’t-miss new designs, sharing what we know has worked for others, and thinking of more innovative ways to maximize your marketing dollars.

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JUNE 30, 2020

In my last post, I shared the primary insights you need to pull together a Now/New/Next portfolio and get started on making sense of where you stand in the market. Or should we go the other way and invest in a risky but innovative direction? Innovating. Innovating experiences are the ones nobody is doing. The Approach.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Galbraith (1990) : ‘the extreme brevity of the financial memory’ makes financial markets susceptible to unstable euphoria. Greenspan (1997) : ‘regrettably, history is strewn with visions of such ‘new eras’ that, in the end, have proven to be a mirage.

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

Some entertainment innovators are also rolling out new subscription services. And retailers are offering innovative subscriptions for all sorts of products. And digital innovators are providing subscriptions as a means of discovery for consumers. Disney’s anticipated Disney+ , for instance, will reportedly launch on Nov.

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MAY 27, 2016

The “startup nation” is recognized for not just brimming with tech innovation, but also harboring more high-tech startups and a larger venture capital industry per capita than any other place in the world. companies partner with innovation from Israel that will give them a global competitive edge,” Mavor explained.

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