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1.8KB2B PaymentsChegg CFO: How Existing FinTech Partners Bolster Digital Transformation
November 20, 2020The name of the game is digitization for organizations across all industries, thanks to the "new normal" of working from home amid...
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1.8KGoogleGoogle Moves Expedition VR Tool To Culture App For Home Learning
November 13, 2020Google is integrating its Expedition 360 virtual reality (VR) tools to Google Arts & Culture app to allow teachers to keep offering...
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2.6KPayments InnovationReport: Strategic Payment Investments Give FIs, FinTechs Innovative Payment Options
November 12, 2020There is no denying that the COVID-19 pandemic has rapidly accelerated the global shift toward digital commerce. Safety-minded consumers the world over...
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1.8KRetailRetail Partnership Brings Ulta Beauty To Target Stores
November 10, 2020Retail giant Target is collaborating with Ulta Beauty in a strategic partnership that will bring a shop-in-shop concept to 100 Target locations across...
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2.2KRetailAugmented Reality Adds 3D Technology To Boost Retail Conversions
November 10, 2020Nothing counters disruption like another disruption. Take weddings, for example. Before the pandemic, the fitting for the bride and bridesmaids was a...
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2.4KB2B PaymentsWells Fargo Accelerator Adds Biz Card Startup Extend
November 05, 2020Extend and Oliver have joined the ranks of Wells Fargo's Startup Accelerator, which a press release stated will afford them education, mentorship...
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1.9KHealthcarePandemic Converts Telemedicine Skeptics Into Users
November 03, 2020Digital-medicine company Teladoc Health recently turned to a trio of descriptives to characterize the current state of its business, which saw a third...
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1.3KInnovationMonneo: Going Completely Online As 'The New Normal'
October 27, 2020When COVID-19 disrupted the business world, Monneo already had all of its processes online, which gave them a jump-start on working remotely...
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3.2KCryptocurrencyPayPal Becomes Latest Big Tech Firm To Hop On The Crypto Bandwagon
October 21, 2020PayPal has announced that it is jumping into the wild world of cryptocurrency, making it possible for wallet holders to buy, sell and...
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4.2KRetailSaving Main Street From Its Downward Pandemic Spiral
October 19, 2020Consumers crave certainty, and they work pretty hard to minimize the risk of making a bad choice. That’s why once consumers find...
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5.3KB2B PaymentsHow Transforming Treasury Banks Helps Corporates Transform, Too
October 13, 2020There’s a maxim in the investment world that goes something like this: You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes...
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2.3KRetailAugmented Reality Expands Its Applications Amid The Pandemic
October 08, 2020Augmented reality (AR) is finding some killer applications during the pandemic, most notably in the cosmetics and automotive businesses. Recent developments in...
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2.9KSecurity & FraudThe Problem With How Most Banks Use IP Address Checks To Fight Fraud
October 08, 2020The growing cost of online fraud – and finding ways to detect it – has long been a costly concern of financial...
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4.6KB2B PaymentsCrafting The Better B2B ‘Customer’ Experience
October 06, 2020“April is the cruelest month,” wrote TS Eliot. His calendar was bit off. At least insofar as 2020 has shaped up, and...
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2.6KRetailCDC’s New Guidance Will Do Little To Boost Brick-and-Mortar Holiday Shopping
September 30, 2020The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines when it comes to celebrating and preparing for the COVID era’s holiday shopping...
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4.5KCommerce ConnectedUsing 5G To Build Tomorrow’s Smart Cities, Today
September 29, 2020Smart cities powered by 5G networks have long been forecast as coming soon to major metros all over the world. But actual...
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2.2KRetailThe Metaverse Sets Up Real Opportunities For Retail
September 28, 2020Back before social distancing, when people used to have cocktail parties, “metaverse” would have been a cocktail party word. After all, it's...
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2.4KCommerce ConnectedCrate And Barrel On Weathering The Pandemic-Driven Push To Omnichannel
September 18, 2020With brick-and-mortar retailers reopening worldwide, consumers are heading back to stores — and they’re taking their newfound digital shopping and payment habits...
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1.7KFacebookFacebook Reality Labs Says AR Glasses Still Years Away
September 17, 2020A day after Facebook generated headlines with twin announcements about smart glasses and upcoming work on wearable augmented reality, the company’s chief scientist...
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1.6KFacebookFacebook Plans To Launch Smart Glasses In 2021
September 16, 2020Facebook and French eyewear giant EssilorLuxottica are collaborating on the development of smart glasses, and plan to launch their first product, Ray-Ban branded...
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1.3KMerchant InnovationShark Tank’s Daymond John Adds Star Power To Lowe’s SMB Competition
September 15, 2020Daymond John of Shark Tank is lending his star power to the Lowe’s Cos. Inc. initiative to infuse $55 million in small...
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6.7KPayments InnovationWhat Innovators Can Learn From Netflix
September 14, 2020Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million...
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2.8KInnovationVirtual Roar Of The Crowd Enough For ‘Virtual’ Fandom Amid Pandemic?
September 11, 2020Now if only they could recreate the smell of the hotdogs, the taste of the flat overpriced beer — or pipe in...
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3.2KInternet of ThingsBig Tech’s Zigbee Alliance Eyes 2021 ‘Smart Home’ Standard
September 08, 2020We’re all doing, well, everything from home, so it makes sense that home should be a bit easier to deal with. In...
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4.5KInnovationLabor Day Weekend 2020: Where The Kentucky Derby, Dragon Con And Burning Man Go Virtual
September 05, 2020Every year, Americans cap off the summer with a collective mini-vacation called Labor Day — an event marked with barbecues, trips to the...
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6.6KDeliveryChowbus CEO: Building A Food-Delivery Platform For Mom-And-Pop Restaurants
September 03, 2020The difficulties restaurants face with big delivery platforms like Grubhub or Uber Eats have been extensively cataloged. Critics claim the platforms take...
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4.9KRetailRetail Designers Innovate Despite Pandemic
September 03, 2020Many retailers are in survival mode and focused strictly on revenue due to the pandemic’s effect on brick-and-mortar foot traffic. But that...
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3.0KRetailPerfect Corp. Unveils Contactless Makeup Try-On Features
September 01, 2020To help beauty brands stay on pace with consumers' current expectations, Perfect Corp. has unveiled four new contactless makeup try-on functions. The...
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3.6KEventsLondon’s Notting Hill Carnival Moves Online
August 28, 2020One of Europe’s largest and oldest annual street festivals will still go on this year, but it will be virtual. Starting Saturday...
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2.1KOmnicommerceThree Emerging Trends Defining Multichannel Commerce
August 27, 2020Gone are the simpler times of retailing and paying for purchases. Ready or not, it’s now a post-pandemic multichannel world, and businesses...
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3.8KBuy Now Pay LaterAfterpay: What Retailers Are Now Learning To Do Differently
August 27, 2020The retail world has been forced to radically rethink almost everything it does amid COVID-19. Melissa Davis, Afterpay’s North American division head,...
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2.0KAppleApple To Bring Augmented Reality To Apple TV+
August 26, 2020Apple TV+ subscribers will get more for their $4.99 monthly subscription. Bloomberg News reported Apple Inc. will introduce augmented reality (AR) next...
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2.6KRetailTech Reboots For Back-To-School Sales
August 26, 2020The category that will make or break the back-to-school season this year is showing signs of life. Electronics — which has been...
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3.7KeCommerceAR’s Role In eCommerce Is Growing (And Will Likely Outlast The Pandemic)
August 25, 2020As consumers increasingly move to digital commerce in the wake of COVID-19, augmented reality (AR) technology is appearing in various applications as...
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1.8KOmnicommerceCase Study: Interior Define On Leveraging The D2C Digital Shift
August 25, 2020The D2C market has undergone rapid evolution in recent years. The lines between “digital natives” and conventional brands have blurred, with the...
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2.5KRetailThe Big Tech Tracker: Google And Apple Go To The Head Of The Class
August 13, 2020In alphabetical order, they’re Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. They go by a few handles. One is “the companies that testified before...
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3.1KMerchant InnovationDraftKings: Why Sportsbook Is The Ticket To The Everywhere Fan Experience
August 12, 2020With live sports and entertainment still mostly on hold, fans are getting their sports fix by betting on it. Dan Hannigan-Daley, director...
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4.1KB2B PaymentsMaintaining Control When Employee Spend Looks More Like Procurement
August 05, 2020The expense report has come a long way since the days of paper spreadsheets and stapled receipts. In the last decade, automation...
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2.9KRetailWith 2Q Sales Down 19 Pct YOY, L'Oreal Plans New Product Launches
July 30, 2020Beauty powerhouse L’Oréal is planning to launch an array of new products and advertisements to compete in a market that has been reshaped...
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4.7KRetailShopify’s 2Q Earnings Illustrate Growing Digital Shift For Merchants, Shoppers
July 29, 2020Shopify reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday (July 29) that demonstrated the growing digital shift for consumers, with the company recording a dramatic...
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4.0KFinancial InclusionMastercard’s Head Of Innovation: How The Microsoft Partnership Will Boost Digital Commerce Globally
July 29, 2020Payments and commerce players are used to rapidly changing landscapes. One of the defining characteristics of the past decade or so has...
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2.2KAccounts PayableHigh Tech, Low-Touch Streamlines AP
July 23, 2020People and business owners – pretty much everyone – is confronting the reality that the world has changed in ways that we...
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2.7KEarningsSnapchat User Growth Slows In Q2
July 21, 2020Snap Inc., the parent company of Snapchat, has announced its second-quarter financial results, including an operating cash flow increase by $29 million...
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10.6KPayments InnovationWhat A 90-Year-Old Essay Tells Us About 2020’s Great Digital Shift
July 20, 2020“We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism.” That is the first sentence of a roughly 4,000-word essay...
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4.7KSecurity & FraudTwitter Hackers Took Personal Data From Celebrity Accounts
July 19, 2020Twitter has provided a glimpse into its investigation of last week’s security breach, the worst in its 14-year history, as hackers commandeered...
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2.0KReal EstateHomebuilding Exec: Wellness Concerns Could Drive Consumers To Buy New Homes
July 17, 2020Health is driving consumer decisioning, with the chief executive of one homebuilder noting that wellness – along with the need for more...
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2.6KSecurity & FraudTwitter Hack Of Kardashian, Obama And 130+ Other A-Listers Invites FBI Probe
July 17, 2020The FBI is investigating the worst security breach in Twitter’s 14-year history, as hackers commandeered more than 100 high-profile accounts, The Wall...
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2.7KRetailAppointment-Based Shopping Attracts Tech Providers
July 16, 2020It’s “health concerns first” for retailers during the pandemic. Knowing this, retailers from Apple to Best Buy and beyond have opened up...
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3.6KRetailVirtual Mall Platform Finds Traction
July 15, 2020There were more dire predictions for the mall sector this week, as some states had to revisit their lockdown mandates due to...
