PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The new combined company “will compete for consumers at all price points, and customers including prepaid and Lifeline will have access to the same 5G network and services,” a report from Zachs Equity Research said of the T-Mobile and Sprint merger. Interactive “ magic mirrors ” can recognize the products someone tries on through an RFID tag.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The products are from the top categories across all of Amazon.com, with featured categories in the Massachusetts location including “Most-Wished-For Books on Amazon.com,” “Tailgating Essentials,” “Picks from Amazon’s Top 100 Toys” and a local twist, “Trending Around Boston,” according to WCVB.

eCommerce 69

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PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2019

Data from Wealth-X ‘s World Ultra Wealth Report 2018 found that the number of ultra high-net-worth individuals increased by nearly 13 percent in 2017, with combined wealth jumping more than 16 percent to a combined $31.5 trillion. “There is a specific need for these families,” she told PYMNTS in a recent interview.

Corporate Finance 61

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 12, 2019

The Sursy Founder and CEO Lauren Richardson, for instance, traveled quite a bit for work. She ended up getting the coffee table book from the hotel after asking for permission. The idea led to her experiential hospitality startup, The Sursy, which offers consumers shoppable stays in a Denver home share. (A The Market.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Anthony Soohoo, SVP and group general manager of the home group for Walmart U.S. eCommerce, said it’s been about a year since Walmart revamped its website in an aim to entice customers to shop from their homes. We also have other exclusive collections in the works that I can’t wait to reveal in the coming months,” he said.

eCommerce 46

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Amazon has opened its first pop-up store in Spain, selling everything from electronic goods to video games to clothing. Products will be made up of some of the most popular categories on Amazon, including devices, electronics, kitchen, home, toys, books and games. Interestingly, though, there are no price tags.

eCommerce 59

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

This year’s activation includes a curated Fashion Week of “essential” products from all female-founded brands. The shop will feature products from Appointed , Baggu , Lingua Franca and Sold Out NYC , as well as other “on-the-go” necessities from Kitsch , Rebecca Minkoff and Rhino Parade. With better tracking?

Retail 76

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MAY 26, 2020

Half of recent graduates were unable to find work when they left school during the recession, and the millennials’ formal unemployment rate ranged up to as high as 20 percent or 30 percent. Particularly for millennials like Aviv Russ, who graduated from Emerson College in 2009 right into the worst of the Great Recession.

Economics 61

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 6, 2019

The startup has also received interest in its engineering team from Thumbtack. Launched in San Francisco as an on-demand storage company that would pick up and tag items from your home, then store them in a warehouse, it eventually started to expand into other cities. The news comes as Omni has been struggling.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 14, 2020

The global fitness industry is worth roughly $100 billion a year, $27 billion of which comes from U.S The next best thing, however, hasn’t exactly been easy to provide, given the vast swath of consumers who in a massive wave have set about re-arranging their fitness routines around home-based workouts. Digital Fitness Firms Thriving.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 18, 2020

The pain started to become very evident on Wednesday (March 18), as the trade group that represents mall owners asked for a government bailout and big retail names started to put a price tag on the revenue losses they expected to incur. Home Depot says the adjusted hours will enable them to restock shelves and clean.

Retail 64

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PYMNTS

APRIL 22, 2020

That connectivity allows users to, remotely, conduct many more tasks and much more work along different processes than a typical video solution,” Steil said. Now, with work from home, that same access and connectivity has to be done from the adviser’s own personal setup. Measuring The Returns.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Gartner forecasts that global spending on security and risk management will exceed US$150 billion in 2021 adding cloud adoption and remote working to the mix of reasons for the spend. What are the different types of remote work threats targeting executives, including CFOs and CEOs? Sim Beng Hai.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Online marketplace eBay has launched a new service in partnership with Google , according to news from Chain Store Age on Wednesday (Nov. Through the collaboration, Google Assistant users can now shop on eBay by saying “Ask eBay…” The command will launch a search through the eBay Shopping Assistant on Google Home devices.

eCommerce 43

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

The pop-up will feature exclusive Cubcoats characters such as Kali The Kitty, Sao The Sloth and Uki The Unicorn from their Signature Series and Hello Kitty, Spider Man and Frozen from the Licensed Collection. Digital price tags alongside every product show the Prime price and list price.

eCommerce 40

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Ghana says it plans to eliminate paper from most services and transactions by next year as it aims to become Africa’s most digitalized economy. The government claims that it will have “electronically tagged” every home, including informal housing in slums, via GPS by early 2020.

Leverage 42

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 9, 2020

For the first few years it was out there, consumers complained that getting money from a machine instead of a teller felt too impersonal. Time, and a big assist from the blizzard of 1978, eventually turned consumer preferences around. particularly in the grocery market. adoption,” Jackson explained to Webster.

Retail 53

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2021

And the options this year were myriad, ranging from flying cars to soft-serve ice cream served up Keurig style and ready to roll on your Kitsch Counter. million colors to choose from to customize the color of the lights. And while GM is the latest making a big splash with its aero-taxi plans, it's not alone in the game.

Technology 81

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PYMNTS

MAY 29, 2020

With SMBs facing greater pressure to modernize, investment in technology — everything from cutting-edge machinery to new laptops — is a must. But the price tag is rarely painless. Financing Modernization. “Now, more than ever, cash reserves are important,” said Jones. ”

Finance 67

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PYMNTS

APRIL 24, 2018

To meet this, more providers are now rolling out security solutions for use cases spanning from supply chain fulfillment to predictive maintenance. We can just remap your robots, give them different areas to be in and they’ll take on the new work you have.”. Despite the security risks, the popularity of IoT seems unlikely to abate.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With Mastercard putting a 49 percent tag on the eCommerce spike for the holidays, this year will be the toughest on record for handling what is a resource- and capital-intensive task. Vitarello has seen some of his clients move from discouraging returns to embracing them.

Retail 86

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2016

Long before in-home robotics were anything but the filler material of science fiction, the KISS mantra helped product developers stick to the basics of design and implementation. However, other than a few standouts, it’s proven hard, so far, for the growing spate of in-home automated personal assistants to keep anything simple.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 27, 2019

Today’s shoppers can find eCommerce niches for just about anything for which they are hunting, whether they are searching for the lowest price tags or products with ecofriendly missions. It is set to rapidly expand over the coming years, too, climbing from a valuation of $24 billion in 2018 to $51 billion by 2023.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 27, 2016

While trendy meal kit options from services such as Blue Apron or Plated may be attractive, a new study by NPD finds that the convenience of that factor may actually be more expensive. A new survey from NPD tells us that an average meal kit on demand costs about $10 to $12. Two out of three all folded for lack of funding.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 16, 2019

From a customer perspective, interior designers are our fastest growing user group. We’ve done a lot of work internally to revamp our site to make it more interesting and intriguing for them as buyers — and that has paid off,” Brockway told Webster. The Lessons That Can (And Can’t) Be Learned From High-End Fashion.

eCommerce 56

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PYMNTS

MARCH 17, 2017

Research published in The Harvard Business Review in September 2016 predicted that this ability to “reshape retail” would power as much as $30 billion in AR and VR investments from retailers by the end of the decade. Already, retailers like Converse, De Beers and Wayfair, among other big brands, have embraced the new technology.

Retail 41

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 24, 2017

And then, of course, there are the oft-parodied but somehow still existent over-zealous perfume sprayers working department store aisles — the types who ask if one wants to try the latest designer scent, usually approximately one second after having blasted the shopper in the face with it. In fact, the term he used was “awful.”. “I

eCommerce 40

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 27, 2017

Jiobit, a technology startup based out of Chicago, makes something that seems like every parent, from those expecting to empty nesters, will want or wish they’d had. The startup has developed a location-tracking smart tag and accompanying mobile app that sends alerts to parents when their child has gone outside a preset range.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nope, Google went big, rolling out its fancy new phone (with an accompanying fancy price-tag), its VR entry and its Echo competitor. But that is a choice that has to be from the outset because, also like iPhones, the Pixel doesn’t have a microSD slot that makes storage easier to upgrade on the back end. megapixel camera.

Entertainment 55

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Wayfair got out of the gate early coming out of Apple’s product event yesterday with the announcement that the online home furnishings shop will be supporting Apple Pay going forward. have seen Apple Pay for web tagged as “coming this fall.” have seen Apple Pay for web tagged as “coming this fall.”

Marketing 40

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MAY 24, 2017

With the standalone app, users can get full Assistant functionality through Allo, including asking questions and controlling smart home devices, without having to type queries and commands into the chat app. Plus, the Home can now offer voice computing on more entertainment services, including Spotify, HBO Now, Hulu, Soundcloud, and Deezer.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Through the partnership between ToneTag and First Abu Dhabi Bank, customers of the bank are able to pay using their PayIt app and make the payments from their mobile phone. Even in the movement away from cash transactions and toward contactless payments (notably in ToneTag’s home market of India), constraints emerge.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

The exact price tag on the deal has not been confirmed by any of the three principle firms in involved, though early reports indicate the price clocked at £60 million ($75 million). Wonga is retreating from prior plans to move from loans to payments, a pivot that it tried to make possible by buying up BillPay itself a few years ago. “We

Leverage 40

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

So, users can leverage all the same functions on their headphones that they could have gotten by asking their phones or Google Homes — what’s the big deal? To improve the consistency of its mobile user experience, Apple has switched its default web search provider from Bing to Google. Another Bite Of The Apple. Friends Or Frenemies?

Leverage 46

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Location, in fact, is one of the major themes of those enduring if not-quite-honest HGTV home-buying and property-renovation shows, is it not?). Data from that report tell a story that would seem to support the latest Instagram mobile and digital commerce push, or similar efforts. Mobile Bridges. Instagram Role.

eCommerce 65

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PYMNTS

MARCH 16, 2017

Alphabet is expected to report its Q1 2017 earnings in just over a month, which will set the tone for the coming months and work to hone the spread of projections through the end of the year. percent from Tuesday’s close, but still well up for the week and prior. At the time of writing, one GOOG share was worth $843.12, down 0.30

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APRIL 16, 2020

The COVID-19 outbreak, Kakkar noted, has more or less strapped a rocket onto that growth, as consumers have rerouted their commerce, working and social lives onto digital channels as they ride out social distancing in their homes. It takes that long to get feedback from consumers on credit card fraud.

Risk Analysis 68

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