PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

It started as a simple online form: Users would fill out their destinations, the number of travelers in their group, their dates of travel and a bit of information on what they are like. After reviewing the information, Tate would pair each person with another traveler who was visiting the same destination. The Platform.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 18, 2019

One of the latest developments comes from a company called Pawscout. Its main mission is to update those analog lost-pet posters via a a Bluetooth-enabled tag that not only helps pet owners find their wayward pets, but also gives them access to other digital and mobile services. Better Pet Tag.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 18, 2019

Drivers for ridesharing app Uber — among other members of the gig economy — are requesting that the company share data with the drivers themselves. Citing GDPR, the drivers want to see the data that the company collects on them, including location information and the times they have logged in and out of the app.

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PYMNTS

JULY 4, 2019

Thanks to eCommerce and digital payments, the global travel industry is undergoing significant disruption. Those consumers — given their travel habits, and relatively high sense of adventure — are looking for seamless experiences that go beyond the price tag. Travel Partnerships.

Manufacturing 57

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Packaged goods often reach consumers’ hands after traveling across oceans and being shipped between manufacturers, distributors and retailers. Additionally, companies are looking to use smart packaging to engage with consumers in new, more compelling ways. Consumers interact with product packaging on a daily basis.

Retail 62

Retail Manufacturing Communication Technology 62

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Microsoft is rolling out a new corporate expense management solution designed for iOS devices, the company announced on Thursday (Oct. Purchases can be categorized as business or personal spend, while users can also add custom tags to purchases. The platform also supports photo capture of receipts to include with expense reports.

Healthcare 55

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Simply Treasury

JUNE 3, 2021

The 2021 EACT survey, as it has become a tradition, attempts early this year to determine what the treasury trends and priorities for multinational companies will be in the next 12 to 24 months. The forced reduction of travel and telecommuting during COVID certainly helped the treasurer to contribute to this. Treasury top priorities.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

With the right connectivity in place, he said, online remote support can help companies function smoothly and navigate any number of challenges. There are hundreds of use cases across all industries,” that can benefit from such enhanced connectivity, “but there are often only a limited number of companies that have done this,” he said.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Enterprise spend management solution provider Coupa is expanding its offering with new features and a partnership with American Express, the companies said Wednesday (Nov. Coupa also announced the launch of Coupa Contract Lifecycle Management Advanced within its BSM platform, the result of its acquisition of Exari.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 26, 2017

Facebook, Alphabet, IBM, Microsoft, Amazon and other major companies are all working on AI projects, along with numerous tech startups. The company currently has 39 employees and closed a $30 million Series B funding round in the fall. There has to be an independent company,” Zeiler said.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 15, 2018

Electronic price tags enable the retailer to keep prices current. In a two-month pilot, the company reported that more than one in five customers chose to pay through Scan & Go, while more than 50 percent of customers chose online ordering, Scan & Go or self-checkout.

Retail 40

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 30, 2016

Deutsche Bahn , a German railway company, announced plans to abandon its mobile ticketing payment scheme, known as Touch&Travel, due to low adoption and the continuing use of paper tickets. The company plans to work towards implementing location-based tickets instead to calculate fares.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 29, 2020

Fluffy and Spot travel the plant and gather data that can be synthesized into improvements in the production process, according to The Economist. That’s a big price tag, but it’s not so bad when one considers that doing that using humans to perform that kind of plant surveying work would cost roughly $300,000.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 25, 2020

That price tag would be divvied up between Tokyo, the aforementioned organizing committee and the central government. billion reportedly spent by businesses for sponsorships (the roster of sponsors includes names like Coca-Cola and Airbnb ), and it becomes apparent that the delay leaves a long road to travel before those costs are recouped.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

New Zealand’s Auckland Airport recently introduced mobile self-service kiosks to its international terminal, which will allow travelers to check in for flights and print boarding passes and baggage tags. . And it isn’t just retailers who are embracing unattended and self-service solutions.

Retail 51

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Travelers may face a dilemma when they explore a city: they might want to see the sights, but they have luggage that they can’t store in a vacation rental. That customer will, in turn, take a photograph of a unique code on the tag that identifies his or her bags and also use as a token when he or she picks up the bag.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Instead, married women are to travel to their family home to bring their parents pig trotter noodles , which reportedly bring both good health and good luck. Through its app, Dunkin is offering loyalty members four times the usual loyalty points for buying anything during leap day, as are Sheetz and Noodles & Company.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2019

With abundant choices in many aspects of their lives, consumers expect a range of options when it comes to online shopping, ranging from picking out clothes to making travel plans. The company previously raised $111 million in venture funding from Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, Square Peg Capital, Qumra Capital and others.

Communication 63

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2019

Flights after the holidays are usually packed, and passengers may find themselves uncomfortably squished between other tired travelers. PYMNTS recently caught up with Eswee Vorster, head of IT and innovation for FlySafair’s parent company Safair, to discuss the South African airline’s mPOS solution for in-flight purchases.

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PYMNTS

JULY 6, 2018

Michael Klein, director of industry strategy, retail, travel and CPG (consumer packaged goods) at Adobe Systems , believes Intelligence of Things (IoT) may provide a stronger solution yet. for an RFID tag to go onto a product that only costs $1 or $2, that could blow up the whole profit margin structure,” he noted. If it costs $0.04

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When a company realizes it’s time to improve its corporate travel and expense (T&E) management strategy, there are a few items on the list of must-haves: Spend control, transparency and analytics are probably high on that list. “For nonprofits, that’s very valuable data.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The adoption comes, he said, as sound — which travels at 767 miles per hour (MPH) — effectively addresses these challenges associated with QR codes and NFC. ToneTag, being a B2B company, does not have direct interaction with [end] customers,” he said.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

continues to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations – same-day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said – as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Costco Wholesale Corp. A Challenging Time.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

It’s estimated that nearly 9,000 travelers used Chicago Airbnb rentals during that time, a spike that is usually only experienced during Lollapalooza, the city’s annual music festival, the Chicago Tribune reported. It’s pretty rare to see a huge surge of travelers into October, November.”.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In a podcast interview with Karen Webster, Dr. Akli Adjaoute, CEO of Brighterion , a Mastercard company, pointed out that the legacy machine learning and AI currently powering digital assistants like Alexa, Siri and Cortana lack both adaptability and the ability to determine context. Easier said than done. It’s all about context.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 17, 2018

Here are just a few of the expenses that festivalgoers are tacking on to their weekend price tag (and who’s making money off it). One person told local news source The Desert Sun that he raked in $1,000 a weekend during Coachella — $300 more than he would ordinarily charge a student or traveling nurse to rent the space for an entire month.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2019

continue to grow its eCommerce and grocery operations — same day grocery delivery is now available to most of the store’s members, the company recently said — as the merchant continues to bask in the glow of besting Amazon in an important customer satisfaction index. Costco Wholesale Corp. The store is located in the Shanghai area.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It’s been described as a “fancy price tag,” particularly for an eCommerce up-and-comer most people have never heard of. According to Revolve, the company tracks more than 60 attributes for each product on the site and, depending on results, uses the guidance on consumer preferences to make its selections for what goes up.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Which is why retail marketers — along with marketers of financial services, travel and other B2C verticals — are signing on with SmarterHQ ‘s multi-channel behavioral marketing platform. Since then, Osborne said, SmarterHQ has made a number of enhancements to its services. The partnership works to solve the following.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 4, 2016

The expense management company says that employees that fudge the numbers on their expense reports to get reimbursed are hitting their employers hard. the price tag for buying its competitor was $36 million, the firms said. Asset-based lending was the second most common form of financing sought by these companies.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 25, 2018

For businesses, “when you have vehicles that are all over the state and are traveling hither and yon, the ability to know from a computer or from the laptap or tablet that you can update registration without having to physically touch the vehicle is huge. The company recently raised $11.1 million in financing. “As

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PYMNTS

JUNE 4, 2018

The tech company is reportedly letting third-party developers have full-access to the near-field communications (NFC) chip in the iPhone with iOS 12. In addition, Chase is ending the ability to earn extra rewards on the $300 annual travel credit. Apple Opens up NFC. This would be a first. Uber Rebuffs Buffett.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Among the segments affected by the pandemic, air travel remains near the top of the list when it comes to industries that have been hard hit. Using the digital identity system, consumers can print their own bag tags and use a scanner and match tablet within the airport to move touchless through the system.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

More than 75% of brands have a dedicated budget for influencer marketing, from Coca Cola’s #ThisOnesFor campaign in collaboration with fashion and travel influencers, to Dior’s award-winning 67 Shades campaign in which the brand partnered with diverse influencers to promote its Forever Foundation product line. I looked so bad! 1 for 40 years!

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

And I’ve been investing in a lot of computer companies over the years. And I actually finished my PhD in ’99, but I started a company in late ‘96, early ‘97. And I was kind of doing the company and the thesis at the same time, which wasn’t great for either, and also wasn’t great for our marriage. WENGER: No.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 25, 2018

With the help of travel experts, hotels can tap into a new channel to drive online bookings: Travelers can be inspired to book a reservation after seeing a photo or recommendation from a knowledgeable explorer. In addition, the company uses Core ML to translate the images that users interact with and extracts tags from those images.

Accounting 76

Accounting Retail 76

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

TripActions, meanwhile, is introducing a card solution to provide an end-to-end corporate travel management and payments offering. Corporate Spending Innovations (CSI) and Conferma announced this week they’re teaming up to connect CSI’s corporate customers to Conferma Pay virtual card solutions to facilitate corporate travel payments.

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