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EarningsLyft Looks To New App And Offerings To Gain Profitability
Lyft is looking to new membership plans, new price points and even more scooter service to gain more traction in the ridesharing...
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RetailBlue Apron’s Financials Sour With Shifting Meal Kit Industry
The third quarter of 2019 saw decreased revenue for meal kit subscription service Blue Apron, a company that is trying to gain...
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RetailCurating Greeting Cards In A Digital World
Brothers Ross and Jesse Harding were best friends growing up in Omaha, but they ended up growing apart when life took them...
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EarningsDunkin’ Doubles Down On Digital With Rewards, Ordering
With digital initiatives in multi-tender rewards and mobile guest checkout, Dunkin’ ended the third quarter with over 12 million loyalty members contributing approximately...
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Payment MethodsSubscription Commerce May Be Saturated, But New Entrants Emerge
With meal kits, streaming services and food delivery apps all vying for consumer attention, it’s easy to declare the subscription commerce market...
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B2B PaymentsFleet Spend’s Opportunity Beyond Driver Transaction Data
The fleet management space is a hotbed for technological innovation, thanks to solutions like Internet of Things (IoT) connected cars, autonomous vehicles...
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B2B PaymentsDeluxe’s CEO On Bringing The Legacy Lockbox Into The Digital Age
In the flurry of payments innovation, it can be difficult to remember that legacy tools remain commonplace, especially in corporate payments. Take...
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EarningsApple Embraces Paying On Installment
iPhone growth continues to look sluggish, but Apple’s earnings report was a mostly story about growth once one got away from the...
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EarningsFacebook’s MAUs Top 2 Billion, Eyes Q4 Deceleration
Facebook’s third quarter results topped expectations on the heels of advertising growth, adding tens of millions of new users in the period...
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EarningsStarbucks US Rewards Membership Tops 17.6M
As Starbucks continues to pursue new opportunities to expand digital customer relationships, the quick-service coffee chain reported growth in the ranks of its...
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MastercardMastercard: It’s The End Of Rewards Points As We Know It
Consumers are awash in points. Starbucks gives them Stars, airlines give them frequent flier miles, Bee Built has Swarm Swag and Pixi...
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B2B PaymentsFiserv: Optimizing Both Sides Of A B2B Transaction
Billing and payments are processes that touch the financial lives of every consumer and business. With FinTech innovation yielding more choices than...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsWhy It’s Time To Reboot The ISO’s Value Proposition
Just a few weeks left in 2019, and it will go down in history as the year of the payments mega-merger. The...
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VISAVisa: How Mass Transit Is Driving Contactless Payments’ Global Future
Seven years ago, when Visa first started working on bringing contactless payments to London’s Mass Transit system, the landscape for tap and...
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EarningsYum Takes Hit From Grubhub And Names New Digital Leadership
Ties to Grubhub drove down investor confidence in Yum! Brands on Wednesday (Oct. 30) even as the quick-service restaurant (QSR) operator — which...
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RetailFixing Meal Delivery By Ditching The Subscriptions
When Blue Apron announces earnings tomorrow on Halloween, the current speculation is that it will be something of a scary experience for...
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RetailAs Year Winds Down, Retailers Get Ready For 5G Revolution
The 5G mobile network technology revolution is on, and you can bet that retail will be one of the places where this...
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EarningsMondelēz Touts Q3 eCommerce Growth, Strives For Smaller-Portion Options
With strong eCommerce growth and improvements on its return on digital investment, Mondelēz International, Inc. posted better-than-expected third-quarter results. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
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Artificial IntelligenceHow AI Can Help Automate Expense Management
When field-based workers like truck drivers or cleaning service contractors encounter work-related expenses on the job, they might reconsider the purchase if...
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B2B PaymentsHow Smaller Grocers Are Keeping Pace With Big Food Industry Changes
Food is big business. Industry conglomerates like Kroger, Walmart and Amazon are driving innovation in the grocery space, embracing eCommerce and diving...
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Faster PaymentsWhy Slow Payments Aren’t Necessarily Safer Payments
As of late 2019, there are few people left who need to be talked into the “why” of instant payments — that...
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B2B PaymentsCiti Explores The Real-Time User Experience
The payments industry has been riding the wave of shifting consumer habits and demands, placing the end-user experience at the forefront of...
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RetailWalmart’s Daniel Eckert On Why TailFin Is Retail’s Next Big Thing
Worlds are colliding when it comes to payments and commerce. One of the most recent examples of that movement comes from Walmart,...
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BlockchainCommunism For The Digital Age, Via Blockchain
Workers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your blockchains. Marx makes his mark, then, in the digital age....
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DeliveryWaymo Gains Speed With Self-Driving Taxis And Deliveries
The self-driving future is not exactly here yet, but it’s coming quickly, at least based on some of the most recent moves...
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EarningsMastercard Sees 17 Pct X-Border Volume Growth; B2B A Key Market
Mastercard posted results Tuesday (Oct. 29) that showed continued traction in new payment flows, especially B2B, core debit and credit spending. In...
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RetailRoyl Aims To Be The Antidote To Athleisure
The rise of leggings, and the tidal wave of athleisure clothing unleashed upon the market over the last five years, has not...
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RetailGrubhub Crushed By Food Delivery Competition
Online food delivery is an increasingly competitive space for commerce, and the newest evidence comes from Grubhub. Its shares were tanking early...
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RetailVintage Brings Unique Customization To Subscription Boxes
To connect consumers with a selection of vintage clothing chosen with their preferences in mind, eCommerce innovators are putting a new spin...
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Payment MethodsInstant Payment Adoption Soars Year Over Year
Instant payments are having a moment. Released last week, Zelle’s Q3 results show that its year-over-year payment values rose by 58 percent,...
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B2B PaymentsHow B2C FinTech Can Support Real Estate’s B2B Innovation Journey
The real estate industry is a popular target for FinTech innovators, particularly when it comes to new services and products that target...
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B2B PaymentsRTP, Blockchain Gain Traction In Business Payments
The Clearing House’s (TCH) Real-Time Payments (RTP) network received multiple shows of support from B2B FinTechs this week as service providers embrace...
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VISAVisa’s Kereere: eComm Firms Say X-Border Growth Critical — But Daunting
A new study from Visa finds 87 percent of eCommerce execs see cross-border growth as critical for their top lines — but,...
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DataStardog On Data Management’s ‘Useful Fictions’
Data across any organization tends to be siloed and far-flung, spanning departments within a firm, continents and supply chains. Monetizing data is...
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EarningsThe Three A’s Of Alphabet’s Q3: Advertising, AI And Ambient Computing
The penultimate quarter of 2019 has been difficult for Google’s parent firm Alphabet. Like many names in big tech, it finds itself...
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B2B PaymentsWEX: Getting To B2B Payments’ Innovation Core — And Beyond Legacy Systems
The pace of payments innovation continues to accelerate, and corporate payments are no longer an exception to this trend. But to understand...
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RidesharingEven With Fair’s Job Cuts, Car-Sharing Keeps Racing Forward
Every journey tends to have speedbumps, and that appears to be the case when it comes to the efforts to bring more...
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Apple PayFor Apple Pay, A Tale Of Two Data Sets
Looking at data can be a bit like watching the famous Japanese samurai film “Rashomon.” Different interpretations, different stories abound. And when...
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Payments InnovationUber Money Wants To Be The Bank Account For Uber Drivers
During the Middle Ages, payday was a yearly event wherein the local landlords and their peasant workers settled up for the previous...
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RetailSock Subscriptions To Simplify Office Outfit Coordination
When Southern Scholar Socks Founder Kevin Wohlman started working full-time after college, he noticed that almost everyone in the office had something in common....
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RetailConnected Vehicles Steer Retail To New Innovations
As a new decade approaches, retail is driving hard toward its future thanks to connected vehicles. And big players in commerce and...
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Next-Gen Sales TaxDeep Dive: Wayfair’s Complex, Ongoing And Unexpected Effects On Retailers
The 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair ruling is reshaping the business landscape, forcing companies to consider its long-term effects. Wayfair’s case enabled...
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eCommerceWho Pays A Higher Price For Online Sales Tax?
The 2018 South Dakota v. Wayfair case that allowed states and individual cities to launch tax policies aimed at remote sellers and...
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B2B PaymentsReverse Factoring Intensifies The B2B Late Payments Debate
The Big Four auditing firms — EY, Deloitte, KPMG and PwC — have recently requested that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)...
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Mobile Order AheadHow FanFood Brings Mobile Ordering To Sports And Concerts
Sports arenas are embracing mobile ordering to help consumers skip long concession lines, and avoid missing out on the action. Yet, offering...
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Digital PaymentsWhere Are Buy Now, Pay Later Solutions Headed Next?
Sorry, Halloween — you offer so much fun and so much decadence. But these days, at least when it comes to payments...
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VISAVisa, Marqeta Team To Boost FinTech Expansion Across Asia Pacific
Visa and Marqeta are teaming to ease global expansion of FinTech firms and digital card issuance in Asia-Pacific. Matt Dill, Visa’s global...
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Payments InnovationWhy Super Apps Could Have Superpowers
It’s what WeChat and Alipay already are in China, and what LINE is in Japan. Rappi follows suit in Latin America. It’s...
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Voice ActivationWhy Voice Is Connected Commerce’s Killer App
Consumers have experienced the convenience of shopping with their voices, and they cannot get enough. The share of consumers who own voice-activated...
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CommerceThe Modern-Day Cost Of The Excalibur Sword — And Other Holy Grail Treasures
How much would you pay for the Sword of Excalibur? That, of course, is the legendary sword used by the legendary King...
